REK 2

About this event

Billed by the Japanese press as America's first six-foot-class robot fight (アメリカ史上初の6フィート級ロボット戦). Both finalists drove league-supplied T800 humanoids of roughly 180cm, by handheld controller, in an octagonal cage over two-minute rounds on a best-of-two format with a 30-second extra round available. Won by the Japanese pilot Hiroyuki Osone (大曽根宏幸), who beat a pilot competing as SUSLIKE in the final. Neither had driven a T800 before the event. Osone reached the final on a one-second reprieve: drawn first round, lost second, and with a second left in the third he put his opponent down for the point. His second REK title in two months — he won REK Tokyo in Akihabara in July. The bracket size, the undercard and REK's own result sheet for the night have not been published.