Dear RoboCuppers, We are pleased to announce that RoboCup JapanOpen 2021 will be held online on 09-17, March, 2022 as follows:

RoboCup JapanOpen 2021 -- Call for Participations -- https://www.robocup.or.jp/japanopen2021/english.html

It is too dificult to physically hold the conventional RoboCup JapanOpen due to COVID-19. But we would like to keep the RoboCup JapanOpen2021 as online contests. We plan to have the following leagues: - RoboCupSoccer simulation league, online, (15-17, March) - RoboCupRescue simulation league, online, (15-17, March) - RoboCup@Home DPSL at Tokyo Big Sight, (09-12, March) - RoboCup@Home OPL, TDB - RoboCup@Home EDUCATION, online, (14, March) - RoboCupLogistics league at Ryukoku University, (11-13, March)

Organizer: RoboCup Japan Regional Committee

More details will be announced by each league organizer.

= Important Dates Registration Deadline: 11 February, 2022 Payment Deadline : 18 February, 2022 (Please contact to each league orgnizer)

= Registration Fees * Free registration for new team to JapanOpen * We allow only one team from one affiliation (except Japanese teams). * We possibly limit the number of teams in the case of overstepping our prepared computer resources. * Due to the limited computational and human resources, there is a possibility to limit the number of teams. Please contact the league organizers for more details. Faculty (non-member of RoboCup Japan): 22,000 JPY Faculty (member of RoboCup Japan): 15,000 JPY Student (>= 18 years old): 5,000 JPY Student (< 18 years old): 2,000 JPY

= Contact Secretary office of The Robocup Japanese Regional Committee office[at]robocup.or.jp

= League Organizers Soccer 2D : Hidehisa Akiyama (hidehisa.akiyama[at]gmail.com) Rescue Agent: Nobuhiro Ito (n-ito[at]aitech.ac.jp) Logistics : Wataru Uemura (wataru[at]rins.ryukoku.ac.jp)

--- Best regards, Wataru

==================== Wataru UEMURA, Dr. Eng. Associate Professor, Ryukoku University Executive Director, RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee http://friede.elec.ryukoku.ac.jp/~wataru ====================