Tournaments & Playing With Friends

Create a Robot Fighter is mostly a solo game — each player builds on their own plot — but two design choices make it social: 8-player servers and server-wide tournaments. This page covers what is confirmed about both, plus the honest answer on playing with friends.

Eight-player servers

The official listing reports a server size of 8, and every server sampled on 2026-10-23 was full at 8/8. In practice that means:

• your plot shares a place with up to seven other builders
• tournaments can realistically field a handful of entrants
• the lobby is small enough that you will recognise the same players between sessions

Eight is a deliberate choice for this genre. Compare it with the 20-30 player servers common in larger simulators: fewer players means a tournament can actually finish.

No private servers

The game’s official API reports that VIP servers are disabled (createVipServersAllowed: false). So there is no paid private lobby and no way to lock a server to your group. That removes the usual workaround for playing with friends, which is why the next section matters.

How tournaments run

Tournaments are the one player-versus-player layer. Based on verified gameplay:

1. The server opens a tournament entry
2. Each player brings their own robot to the fight floor
3. Robots fight one-on-one, knockout style, until one champion remains
4. In the recorded session only two players entered, and the higher-level robot won with a single punch

The ring waves you grind for cash are always bots, not players. Do not confuse the two: waves pay money, tournaments pay standing.

Winning a tournament

Three things decide a tournament in practice:

• Level — the level gap dominated the recorded match; a max-trained robot one-shot the opponent
• Entry readiness — your robot must be powered on. A player in verified footage lost an entry because the robot was still off after a part swap (see the charging bed guide)
• Being present — the entry window is short. If you are deep in a fight or training menu you can miss it

Because the lobby is only eight players, a strong robot often faces a small field. That makes tournaments a “show up trained” event rather than a bracket grind.

Playing with friends

There is no server browser and no private server, so joining the same lobby is not officially supported. What you can do:

• Join at the same time. Roblox assigns servers on join; joining together improves the odds but does not guarantee the same one.
• Use the server list. If one of you lands in a lobby, the other can try joining through that server entry from Roblox’s server list, if the lobby is not full.
• Trade information, not items. There is no trading system in the game, so “team up” means comparing builds and entering the same tournament, not pooling resources.

Note that the third point is a factual absence: no trading UI or trade mechanic appears in the official description or in verified gameplay. If a trading system ships later, this page will be updated.