Friday’s Women’s State of Origin rugby league game between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues marked the second time the two states had faced off in this new rivalry match, and the first time across all of women’s sports that GPS-based statistics had been live broadcast to fans watching at home.
Catapult Sports, the National Rugby League, and Australia’s Channel Nine have been providing live GPS data for the Men’s State of Origin series since 2017. The men’s three-game series dates back to 1982. The rivalry between New South Wales and Queensland has grown to encompass not only the women’s games, but a range of youth and lower level contests pitting state against state, too.