Malaysia has a humanoid fighting league, and its second card is on 3 October

Shadow Combat League is a Malaysian promotion staging fights between bipedal humanoid robots driven in real time by human pilots wearing motion capture. Its machines are called Shadows, and the name is the format: a pilot moves, the robot mirrors it one-to-one, and the fight is between two people expressed through two machines.

That makes it a different thing from most of this record. URKL and the Iron Fist King tournaments are moving towards autonomy; the World Humanoid Robot Games score machines. SCL is explicitly teleoperated and explicitly entertainment. It calls itself Southeast Asia's first live teleoperated humanoid combat league, a claim worth attributing rather than repeating — "first" in this sport has now been claimed by four organisations on three continents.

The league is based in Ipoh, Perak, and ran its opening event from Kuala Lumpur at 9am Malaysian time on 23 May. First Light: The Dawn of Robotic Combat was free and went out on the league's own site, YouTube, X and Kick. Results are circulating for its three bouts, but they rest on a single aggregator with no established editorial record and the league published no result sheet of its own, so this site does not carry them.

New Dawn MY is the second event: 3 October, at the Pavilion Arena in Pavilion Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur. Seven bouts across three hours — four preliminaries and three main-card championship fights. A bout runs up to 15 minutes, or until a machine stops getting back up.

The three titles are split by who the pilot is rather than by weight. ICON is for celebrities and entertainers, GLADIATOR for fighters and martial artists, NETRUNNER for technologists, gamers and corporate entrants. Five pilots have been named: former Malaysia international footballer Safee Sali, former badminton doubles player Koo Kien Keat, the actors Daniella Sya and Daniel Fung, and the Tajikistani singer Abdu Rozik.

What has not been published is the part a reader actually needs. There are no pairings — the league's ticket page says the full card will be announced in the lead-up. There is no start time. And nothing announced so far names a broadcaster, which is conspicuous rather than routine for a promotion whose first event was built entirely around a livestream.