# Robot Combat League (Syfy TV)

- Canonical: https://robot-fighting-championship.com/leagues/rcl-2013
- Record family: leagues
- Stable ID: rcl-2013
- Data snapshot: 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Data source: fixture

## Direct answer

Robot Combat League was a 2013 Syfy television series using large human-controlled machines. It is defunct and unrelated to similarly named current competitions.

## Classification

- **Record status**: Defunct television series
- **Entity kind**: television-series
- **Field role**: historical
- **Competition class**: 2013 Syfy television competition · non-humanoid
- **Control mode**: Exoskeleton control
- **Hardware field**: Open / class-defined field

## History

The single-season television property aired in 2013 and is preserved as a historical disambiguation record.

## Format

Human operators controlled large fighting machines for a produced television tournament.

## Broadcast

Broadcast is intrinsic to the entity: this was a television series, not an independently governed sports league.

## Verification boundary

The Syfy identity is an operator mark, not a dedicated league logo. No current status or continuity is implied.

## Rules status

**Historical TV format.** Project H has not imported a primary, complete sporting rulebook for the series.

- **Status**: Defunct — 2013 television record

## 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:syfy operates league:rcl-2013 — confidence high

## Media

- logo: Syfy operator identity; source https://www.syfy.com/; credit Syfy; rights prototype-only

## Primary sources

- [Broadcaster — Syfy](https://www.syfy.com/): Operator identity only; not a current league site.

## 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.