Explained
How ROBO-ONE’s Three-Year Ranking Rewards Recent Results
A practical explanation of which tournament results count, how recency affects their importance and what the leading robots receive at their next event.
Readers should read the ranking as a three-year, recency-weighted record of preliminary and final results, while the top 3 in each division receive a fee waiver and finals access regardless of preliminary-round results at the next tournament they enter when it has preliminaries.
Both preliminary and final results from the past three years count. A separate scoring-method excerpt says recent tournament scores carry greater weight and the weighting decreases for older tournaments. The supplied material does not include the exact point values or weighting ratios, so it supports this relative interpretation but not a reconstruction of the full calculation.
For preliminary-round points, the published rule determines the order with seeded competitors included and says those competitors should participate in the preliminaries. The page also records a historical limit: the system began in fiscal 2014, so data from fiscal 2013 and earlier is not used.