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April 2025

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Registration Process RC2025
by David Brand 27 Apr '25

27 Apr '25

Hello, As many have perhaps already seen, the invitation mails for the registration have already been sent out. In case that your team has not received an email and has expected one, please reach out to the [SSL OC](rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org) and we will look into it and get back to you as soon as possible. If you need to withdraw from the competition, please decline the Invitation via the button in the email and send the OC an email as well, since we are not sure whether we will be notified of the declined invitations and need to adapt the tournament schedule. Regarding the registration schedule, the deadline for the early registration is May 16th and the regular registration ends on June 13. After that comes the Late registration until June 30, in which you cannot register teams any longer and only can add additional team members. The confirmation for the paid registration as announced in the preliminary qualification email, is not needed any longer, since we were able to offer each qualified team a slot at the tournament. Nonetheless, it would be great to get notices about withdrawals rather soon, since changes to team numbers could have a rather big impact on the tournament structure and schedule. If you need an invitation letter for your visa, these will only be sent out, after you registered your team. Therefore, especially for the teams needing a visa, please register as soon as possible, so that you have enough time to acquire the needed visa. In case you want to know, whether you need a visa or not, have a look at the following document written by our three LOCs this year: https://silly-snowman-187.notion.site/Tips-for-RoboCup-2025-1760464cbae080c… In there you can also find additional information to the [RoboCup 2025](https://2025.robocup.org/) homepage regarding import regulations, accommodations and much more. In case you have any additional questions, feel free to contact the OC or our three LOC members [Pedro Pizzaro](pedro.gpizarro(a)gmail.com), [Joao Victor Aguiar](jv628911(a)gmail.com), [Joao Guilherme Oliveira Carvalho de Melo](jgocm(a)cin.ufpe.br) directly. Thank you, David (on behalf of the SSL Committees)

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Technical challenges
by Carla Cosenza 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

Hello! We are sorry about the delayed announcement of the technical challenges. We were trying to finish our goals and long term roadmap in order to align them but did not manage to. Due to that, we have opted for continuing one of the challenges from last year and having a DivB only challenge. Passing challenge The passing challenge from last year will be repeated. This year's rules will be the same as last year and can be found at https://robocup-ssl.github.io/technical-challenge-rules/2024-ssl-teams-vs-t…. The only difference this year will be the ranking system. In short, a team's ranking will not be determined by the total amount of passes made over all matches. It will be determined by relative strength over the opposing teams. A more detailed motivation and explanation can be found here https://github.com/emielsteerneman/passing_challenge_scoring. For any questions regarding this technical challenge, please reach out to TC member Emiel Steerneman. Obstacle avoidance challenge - DivB only 2025 is going to feature a DivB only technical challenge focussed on avoiding obstacles. To make sure that teams with faster robots do not win by default, the speed of the robots is limited to stop speed. Detailed rules are to come, but the most important points are below. * A team will control one robot at stop speed (1.5 m/s), with the objective to quickly reach the destination without touching the obstacles. * Obstacles can either be static, or also slow moving obstacles (significantly slower than the 1.5 m/s stop speed). * Expect robot-shaped, line-shaped or triangle-shaped obstacles. * The challenge will take place on half a div-B field. * To avoid pre-calculating the shortest path, the exact scenarios will be kept secret until shortly before the challenge takes place. * There will be multiple trials per scenario, and touching an obstacle ends a trial [so touching an obstacle has to be avoided at all cost]. * A (not used) example scenario will be published in May. Thank you Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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