Robot Fighting League Standards

The RFL is working on standards in many areas of the sport. The first areas of attention are arena descriptions and event results.

Arena Ratings

RFL arena nomenclature for describing arenas: formal rating of arenas requires testing and inspection currently beyond the resources of the RFL. The arena ratings are intended to provide a consistent means for EOs to describe their arenas, based on their knowledge and experience.
- D: No protection (no robots that can send stuff flying allowed, and observers and drivers could get hit by a robot) example: parking lot fights]
- C: Little Protection (curb, but no polycarbonate, no robots that can send stuff flying) example: most 'street fights']
- B: Good Protection (no robots that require pre-approval, roughly 1/4" polycarbonate or better all around)
- A: Better Protection (no limitations, but pre-approval required over certain limits) [example: the COMBOTS arena]
- This letter rating plus a max weight rating and an ICE note, this way an event like COMBOTS would rate themselves 'A-440-ICE' (440lbs includes the walker bonus.) Whereas SACBOTS would also be an A rated arena but only for 3 pounds and no gas engines and would look like this... 'A-6' (also including the walker bonus)
- Note that an arena receives a rating based on its 'worst' element. If it has A rated sides, but no roof, it is rated a C.

All member organization have agreed to submit their event results to a central RFL database. Instructions for submitting the results are here.
This database can be used to generate rankings league wide or a per event/category basis.
The database can be queried and/or downloaded here.

The RFL has developed a Standard Extensible Rule Set that is used by all member events, and is working on Standard Match Rules and other standardized procedures for use at Robot Combat events. Rules are on the Rules page.