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Round 3 of NHRL’s 2025 Open World Championship Season will be live all day long starting at 9am Eastern on our NHRL BrettZone YouTube Channel.
At 7 pm Eastern, switch over to our main NHRL Channel for our Prime Time coverage.
HAVOC 101
Here at NHRL, we fight robots in three different weight classes: 3lb, 12lb, and 30lb.
The goal of each fight is to disable your opponent. If a robot can't move for 10 seconds, it is knocked out. Competitors may also tap out if they want to stop the fight.
Fights run a maximum of 3 minutes. After that, the winner is decided by a panel of judges, who score based on the criteria of Damage, Control, and Aggression.
The top 4 bots of each weight class qualify for our World Championship event in December. And the champion of each weight class takes home a $1,000 prize, and the coveted NHRL Golden Dumpster!
PRELIMINARY STAGE
We start at 9 am Eastern with the preliminary stage, where builders battle their ways to earn a spot into the Bracket.
Win two fights, and you’re in. Lose two, and you are eliminated.
BRETTZONE
We run fights in multiple cages simultaneously, so we can't show every single fight on our YouTube livestream. But you can still watch them!
Head over to BrettZone where each and every camera angle from inside the cage is available to view.
WHO'S COMPETING?
We split all bots into groups of up to 8 bots during the preliminary stage. Look for your favorite bot here.
3LB BOTS
Group A: Mako (#1 seed), Accelerato, A Hairy Thing, Buzz Fightyear, Scottie's Scrambler, Felix the Bot
Group B: TurboFIEND (#2 seed), Almond Spicy, Diphoon, Roblot, Bean Supreme: Refried, Trash Bot, Ghastly, Rotatinator
Group C: Comet (#3 seed), Why Ti Harder?, Melon Baller, Drum Gun, Gh-Astley, Chubby UniCODE, Stress Concentration, Anomalv
Group D: Caldera (#4 seed), Juxtaposition, Bad Luck, Underdawg, Fe Fan, Hax et Lux, Reign-X, Lobotomizer Prime
Group E: Basics (#5 seed), The Kraken, power on, Midnight Chill, YEETUS, Strikepoint, usawgi, Send IT!!!
Group F: The Throngler (#6 seed), Voyager, Wildcat Destroyer, Dreign, Anubis, Crumplestiltskin, Double Stuffed, Impulse
Group G: Drumder Child (#7 seed), Blue Viper, Reign, Venture, Till Death, Ouroboros, Chippy, Gallo 12
Group H: Prince (#8 seed), Dysfunction, Frogspawn, Cosmic Crisis, MCB - Master Control Bot, Systematic Chaos, Uch Funt, Fried
Group I: Chainsaw Kitty (#9 seed), Flamenwurfer, Orcas, Hurt Caboose Classic, Blunder, SpinnyBoi3000, Sir Slicey, Meringue
Group J: Scab Armour (#10 seed), Titanium Hwhite's Cousins, Cold Lightning, Captain Jackpot, Money Shot, Big-G, Tri-Harder, Uh... oh
Group K: TBD Today (#11 seed), Rorschach, Event Horizon, 0-0, Sting Operation, Widget, Temporal Terror, Tau Kappa Omicron
Group L: Hurt Caboose (#12 seed), Crazy Frog, Wreck Creation, T-Bone, Sea Dragon's Roar, Brainfreeze, Godspeed, Flashfreeze
12LB BOTS
Group M: Void (#1 seed), THWACK!, Desserts, Mareep, Killer Queen, Robo-Cat, Galaxi
Group N: Caldera 12 (#2 seed), Sievert, Shaka, BudgetBoi, Hockii, Michael, Powerball
Group O: Night Crawler (#3 seed), Target Practice, Frycopath, Marshmallow, Downpour, Big-ish, Cherri, Scramble
Group P: Torrent (#4 seed), La Machina, Traiano, Murder Burger, Minun and Plusle, Hyperion, Carolina Reaper, FlashBang
30LB BOTS
Group Q: GHOUL (#1 seed), KRATOS, Barracuda, Tsunamii, Termigator
Group R: Anxietii (#2 seed), Alan, Lil Lash, Emperor, Peschto
TRUE FINALS
Want to see results for every fight? Head over to our True Finals pages.
Starting at 3:30 pm Eastern, every weight class enters the Bracket. The Bracket is single elimination, so from this point forward if you lose, you’re OUT.
Don't forget, you can watch all the action during the day here.
The Bracket progresses until 5:30 pm Eastern. At that point, there are only 8 bots left in each weight class, so the competition takes a break.
During the break, builders begin preparing for PRIME TIME, LIVE at 7 pm Eastern where we show one fight at a time until there is one bot remaining in each weight class.
Who will be crowned Champion, earn their $1,000 prize, and raise their Golden Dumpster?
Who will qualify and punch their ticket to the NHRL 2025 World Championships in December?
Tune in to find out!