Matt Hall Joins Strike Fighter League SFL Expert Analyst
From the Cockpit to the Commentary Box July 2026 | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Matt Hall has joined the Strike Fighter League as an expert analyst on its broadcast team, calling the action on OTS-2 alongside hosts Justin Walters and Sibley Scoles. Before the broadcast, the Red Bull Air Race World Champion flew the league’s three qualifying trials himself.
The Strike Fighter League is a new competitive aviation league built on high-fidelity flight simulation. Pilots fly the same missions to the same rules, and every run is scored on telemetry alone — gate times, altitude, rounds expended — with no human judgement involved. Qualifying is decided across three trials: Speed, a gate-to-gate time trial; Precision, a live target task; and Accuracy, which rewards the pilot who needs the fewest rounds to bring down three progressively smaller airborne targets. The leading pilots then meet in a knockout dogfight bracket that decides the championship.
Matt joined the broadcast team for OTS-2, the league’s second online tournament series, as an expert analyst. His job was to translate what viewers were seeing — the three trial replays, run by run — before returning for the final championship dogfight to break down the two finalists and call a winner.
“Strike Fighter League is precision under time pressure, energy management, geometric calculation and split-second decision-making,” Matt said. “The pilots need the same mental sharpness, physical agility and instinct that’s essential in a racing or air combat cockpit, which is what makes this competition so compelling.”
Ahead of the broadcast he flew the trials himself. On 9 July he spent an afternoon in the VR motion simulators at Fighter World, the RAAF Williamtown Aviation Heritage Centre, running the same Speed, Precision and Accuracy missions the competitors had flown to qualify. “That is so realistic,” was his verdict on the first run.
The OTS-2 broadcast went live on 25 July and ran for around three hours. It was headlined by ESPN and ACC Network host Justin Walters and Emmy-winning journalist and host Sibley Scoles, with Matt on analysis alongside former F/A-18 squadron commander Rob “DAHIGI” Tomlinson.
The league also produced a feature film on Matt — his flying, his mindset and how he got here — which premiered inside the broadcast and is now on the SFL’s channel.
HOW TO WATCH
The OTS-2 replay and the Matt Hall feature are on the Strike Fighter League’s YouTube channel. More on the league, its rules and the three trials at the-sfl.com.
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