Dear Humanoid League Teams,

The Technical Committee wishes all of you a happy new year! We all really hope it will be one where we will be able to physically get together and compete again.

In this newsletter, I will cover news regarding the RoboCup world championship in Bangkok, updates of the rule book as well as a reminder to apply for RCF-Funded projects.

LOC Survey ----------

The 2022 Bangkok LOC has created a survey to better understand potential challanges and requirements of teams who applied to participate in RoboCup 2022. The survey has been distributed to team leaders today and is due January 31st, 2022. Please take the time and fill it out to help the LOC to prepare for the competition.

Save the date: "Pre-RoboCup 2022" Seminar -----------------------------------------

The RoboCup LOC is planning a Pre-RoboCup 2022 seminar to be held virtuall from 27 - 29 January 2022, 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bangkog time (12:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC). During the seminar, every league will present itself and their rules and answer questions from participants. The Humanoid League talk is scheduled for January 28th at 08:00 pm Bangkok time and all teams and interested public audience members are invited to participate. More information as well as the link to the Zoom meeting will follow shortly.

Reminder: Special offers ------------------------

If you have applied to participate in RoboCup 2022 in Thailand, we would like to remind you that you have the possibility to use special offers to buy hardware from Rhoban, Bordeaux University, RobotShop inc. as well as ROBOTIS. You can find details about the special offers here: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-2022/special-offers/

Reminder: Rule discussion & voting period -----------------------------------------

We would like to remind you that the discussion period for rule changes is still open in the Humanoid League forum until January 21st. The current topics are summarized here: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/2022-rule-discussion/541

After the end of the rule discussion period, the Technical Committee will prepare the online rule voting, which will then take place between February 7th and 13th. Please have a look at the discussion in the forum if you haven't done already and look out for an e-mail with further instructions on the rule voting in the beginning of February.

Reminder: RCF-funded projects -----------------------------

The RoboCup Federation is supporting activities to promote the development of RoboCup leagues again! Deatils about this funding opportunity can be found here: http://robocup.org/news/146 The submission deadline for proposals is January 30th.

Humanoid League - Virtual Season ---------------------------------

The first two game days have already been played and you can find the results as well as the next stream days announced on our website: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/humanoid-league-virtual-season-2021-2...

The next stream will happen on our Twitch channel this coming Sunday, January 23rd at 3:00pm CET.

Cheers, Maike (for the Humanoid League Technical Committee)