Eugene Chung: the pilot on three humanoid fighting line-ups in one week

Most fighters in this sport belong to one promotion. Eugene Chung, on the record this site keeps, appears on the line-ups of at least four, and in the first nine days of October he was named on three of them.

Start with the one result that is published. REK, the San Francisco promotion, lists every event it has held on rek.com/fights, and that record has Chung winning REK America, the tour that ran from 11 to 25 November 2025 through Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Austin and New York. That is REK's own account; no second source is attached to it here.

Then the week. On Saturday 3 October, Shadow Combat League's New Dawn card in Kuala Lumpur listed him as the only United States entrant and as a TECHNICIAN-class pilot. He had first been announced as the NETRUNNER title challenger with no opponent named. When SCL cut the card to the version it sold, the NETRUNNER belt went to two former athletes, a footballer and a badminton player, and Chung moved to a preliminary against Yuan Teng. SCL's post-event release of 8 October says Yuan Teng won. That is SCL's claim alone, so this record carries it as "per SCL" and does not count it in any standings.

Four days later, on Wednesday 7 October, ARC named Chung among its pilots at *SCAPE in Singapore, alongside Sham Raaj, Lukas Leasure and Eric Lofstedt. ARC's pilots wear full-body motion-capture suits and the robot copies them. ARC did not name an overall winner, and published no result for Chung.

Two days after that, on Friday 9 October, AICON's published line-up for its Robot Fighting Championship showcase named him again, with content creator Jaze Phua and streamer Amie. Those robots were EngineAI T800s driven from VR headsets, a different control system from ARC's. The line-up was published in advance; this record has no result from the showcase and has not seen a second source confirming who fought.

What the sequence shows is a skill that travels. The same person has been named for a tele-operated league in Malaysia, a motion-capture league in Singapore and a headset-driven showcase in the same city, and has a published win on REK's headset-driven circuit. The control systems differ enough that the leagues themselves insist they are not the same sport. Chung is evidence that the pilots are not sorting themselves by league yet.

What is not known: Chung's result at ARC or at the RFC showcase, whether any of the three appearances will repeat, and which of these promotions will announce a date next. The pages for each league on this site carry their next dates when they publish them: see Shadow Combat League and ARC under /competitions, and the full list of fixtures on /schedule.