Dear Humanoid League Teams,

for the 2022 competition, we are planning to play with the rule book that was prepared for the 2020 competition and merge it together with the rule book that we used for the virtual competition in 2021.

This year the rules will be updated according to the following schedule:

* Dec 23rd to Jan 21st: Rules ideas are proposed and discussed on the forum by the whole league * Feb 7th to 13th: All teams who participated in RoboCup 2019 or RoboCup 2021 and are registered for the 2022 competition can vote on rule changes * Feb 18th: A rule draft including the rules voted is published (teams can then provide feedback) * March 4th: The final RuleBook for RoboCup 2020 is published

The topics currently discussed are the following: * Reducing robot handler interventions: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-reducing-robot-handler-interventio... * Update of Technical Challenges: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-update-of-technical-challenges/537... * Announcement of code and hardware usage: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-announcement-of-code-and-hardware-... * Merge of physical and virtual rule book: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-merge-of-physical-and-virtual-rule... * Ball holding: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-ball-holding/540/2

Please feel free to add other topics you would like to discuss to the forum as well.

Cheers, Maike (for the Humanoid League Technical Committee)