REK 2.1 on 20 November: what REK has said, and what it has not published, six days out
REK's simulator playoffs closed on 7 November. As of 14 November, REK's Steam feed carries no leaderboard, venue, time or card for 20 November.
REK, the San Francisco promotion that lets players fight humanoid robots from a simulator, has said that "REK 2.1" happens on 20 November. Six days before that date, the public record is still thin, and it is worth separating what REK has said from what it has not.
WHAT REK HAS SAID
In a YouTube short on its own channel, REK announced "REK 2.1 on Nov 20" with the line "Win the sim, control a real robot!" On Steam, REK's announcements describe a two-week playoff played in REK Sim: "Week 2 of 2 - Nov 6 8PM PST to Nov 7 8PM PST. The top 6 players on the leaderboard each week advance to the next stage, for a total of 12 players across 2 weeks. Play on your preferred platform: PC, Meta Quest, or iOS via TestFlight." The 30 October version of that post is headed "Win and Pilot a real robot."
Week 1 ran from 30 to 31 October and week 2 from 6 to 7 November, Pacific time. Both weeks have now closed. If REK's wording is read literally, up to 12 players have qualified.
WHAT REK HAS NOT PUBLISHED, AS FAR AS WE CAN SEE
On 14 November, the newest item in REK's Steam news feed is still the 7 November playoff post. It has no leaderboard, no names of the advancing players and no description of "the next stage". Neither the Steam feed nor the YouTube short gives a venue, a start time, a stream channel, a fight card or a rule set for 20 November. Nothing we read says whether the 20 November date is a live fight, a software release, a final in the simulator, or a combination.
rek.com loads in a browser but returned no readable text to us, and we did not read REK's X account or Discord, so we cannot say that the information does not exist there. We can only say that we could not find it in the places we could read.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR VIEWERS
The playoffs were played in REK Sim, which is a game. Winning one does not mean remote-controlling a real robot in that moment; REK's promise is that winners get to pilot a real one later. Until REK names a place and a time, Roboxing does not list 20 November as a scheduled fight, and the schedule will carry it as soon as the promoter publishes a date and venue. If you plan around the date, check REK's channels on the day.
SOURCES
REK on Steam (app 4600200): "Rek 2.1 Playoffs." (7 November 2026), "Rek 2.1 Playoffs" (30 October 2026). REK on YouTube (@REKrobots): "Announcing REK 2.1 on Nov 20. Win the sim, control a real robot!"