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GORE_2 - Call for Participation
by Patrick Göttsch 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

*Call for Participation*- *GORE_2* 3rd of February till 6th of February 2022 (Remote) RoboCup is an international initiative that fosters research and education in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence through a variety of competitions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCupJunior) involving mostly multi-robot systems. RoboCup currently includes a number of different robot soccer leagues that focus on different research challenges. In addition to the SPL RoboCup events in 2022, we would like to offer GORE_2. GORE started as an replacement event for the cancelled GermanOpen in 2021 and focuses on 5 vs. 5 game play in two remote arenas in Europe. To maximize the number of played games, we use a modified version of the swiss tournament system. All human members of the teams stay at home or in their lab but only the robots will travel to one of the hosting arenas. The former rules for GORE 2021 can be found in this document: https://collaborating.tuhh.de/HULKs/gore/-/blob/master/GORe-Rules.pdf. For the GORE_2 event the new rules will be based on the once from 2021 but integrate the rule changes for RoboCup 2022 being drafted at the moment. The RoboCup rules have been modified regarding robot safety and standardization to make it easier for hosting teams to manage robots. We will update you as soon as they are out and we adapted to them. The website https://gore-event.netlify.app/ will also be updated soon. Here you find all key dates for GORE_2. 2021-12-01 Rules for GORE_2 2021-12-15Commitment to participate 2021-12-15 Commitment to host an arena 2021-12-20Confirmation for participants and hosting arenas 2022-01-24Submission of credentials for arena access 2022-01-24Arena network access contact 2022-01-24Sending robots to hosting arenas 2022-01-24Fill out robot id data 2022-02-03field_dimensions.json available 2022-02-03Upload images of the field 2022-02-03Welcome, Setup Day 2022-02-04Competition Day 1 2022-02-05Competition Day 2 2022-02-06Competition Day 3 2022-02-08Return robots back to teams If you have further questions or remarks, please let us know. Registration We plan to register 8 teams, four for each arena. All interested teams must submit an application for participation as team or as hosting team via email. Please include the following information into your email: 1. Team Name 2. Contact person name and email 3. Commitment to participate 4. Can and do you want to provide a host arena? 5. How many V6 NAOs (at least 4) do you sent to a hosting arena?* 6. Do you comply to the Code of Honor? 7. Providing a return address for robots * If you cannot sent or you are not allowed to sent your robots unattended, you could ask another team or teams to provide more robots, to enable your participation. Submission and Evaluation All applications must be submitted by* 15th of December 2021*, by email to gore.organisation(a)gmail.com Applications will be evaluated and a variety of components will be considered. Qualification decisions, including alternate lists, will be announced by *20th of December 2021*. Arne Moos and Patrick Göttsch Organisers of GORE_2

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First Draft of the 2022 SPL Rules
by Patrick Göttsch 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Dear SPL teams, today, we published the first draft of the SPL 2022 rules. You can find them under - https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/ or - https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/Rules We published also a PDF Version of the diff, to give you an overview of the changes since 2019. We kindly ask you to review the draft version of the rules. On the upcoming RoHOW 2022 in the beginning of December we will have a session to discuss the proposed draft. Please sent us your comments and remarks via email or as github issue until the 10th of December. The TC will than review your comments and create a 2nd draft until the end of this year. Thanks a lot and have a good day Patrick (On the behalf of the TC)

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vRoHOW 2021 - Call for participation
by Patrick Göttsch 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Dear fellow RoboCup teams, This is the Call for participation of the virtual Robotic Hamburg Open Workshop (vRoHOW) 2021. The event will take place over the weekend from 3rd to 5th of December. As last year, the event will be driven by contributions in the form of talks, presentations and workshops. Discord will be our venue with multiple rooms and areas prepared. Combined with additional tools and your participation we will bring the virtual RoHOW to life. For participation do the following: Send a message to hulks(a)tuhh.de until the 15th of November 2021 expressing your interest in participation. This message should include your team name and a contact person. There will be no participation fee! We are looking forward to see you during the event! Keep safe and stay healthy Team HULKs

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