# National Havoc Robot League

- Canonical: https://robot-fighting-championship.com/leagues/nhrl
- Record family: leagues
- Stable ID: nhrl
- Data snapshot: 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Data source: fixture

## Direct answer

National Havoc Robot League is an active combat-robot competition for non-humanoid machines. It is not a humanoid league and shares no Project H performance ranking with bipedal formats.

## Classification

- **Record status**: Active non-humanoid league
- **Entity kind**: sports-league
- **Field role**: adjacent
- **Competition class**: Wheeled combat robotics · non-humanoid adjacent field
- **Control mode**: Remote control
- **Hardware field**: Open / class-defined field

## History

Founded in 2018, NHRL is an established US combat-robot competition.

## Format

Its weight classes, arena and destructive-combat rules belong to conventional combat robotics rather than humanoid sport.

## Broadcast

NHRL operates its own live and video ecosystem.

## Verification boundary

Identity and active status are confirmed; inclusion exists solely for search and category disambiguation.

## Rules status

**Separate non-humanoid rules field.** NHRL rules must be read on its official surface and are not projected onto humanoid competitions.

- **Field**: Non-humanoid combat robots — Excluded from humanoid rankings

## Evidence claims

No published records.

## Events

No published records.

## Fights

No published records.

## Robots

No published records.

## Teams

No published records.

## People

No published records.

## Rules

No published records.

## Relationships

- org:nhrl-org operates league:nhrl — confidence high

## Media

- image: National Havoc Robot League identity artwork; source https://www.nhrl.io/images/meta.png; credit National Havoc Robot League; rights prototype-only
- logo: NHRL official competition mark; source https://www.nhrl.io/; credit National Havoc Robot League; rights prototype-only

## Primary sources

- [Official site — NHRL](https://www.nhrl.io/): Identity and current competition.
- [Official site — NHRL](https://www.nhrl.io/): Competition-owned surface.

## Citation boundary

Use the canonical HTML page for visible evidence state, context, corrections and source relationships. This Markdown representation is generated from the same published Project H record and contains no draft or private fields.