[robocup-legged] 2007 RoboCup Qualification

[Andrew Williams]

Hello,
The SpelBots request participation as a Technical Challenge Only team.

-- Andrew

Spelman College SpelBots, Coach
Atlanta, GA

On 3/2/07, Michael Quinlan <michael.quinlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   In 2007 we again had many applicants for the legged league. The
> standard of all applicants was quite high but unfortunately we only
> have 24 places available. However we extend an invitation to *all*
> teams that applied to participate in the challenges.
>
> The list of qualified teams is:
> Pre-qualified:
>
> NUbots
> Microsoft Hellhounds
> German Team
> Wright Eagle
> Dutch AIBO
> Cerberus
> Asura
> SPRQ + IsoRob
>
> Chosen by committee (Alphabetical order):
>
> ARAIBO
> Baby Tigers
> Ceres
> CMU
> DEN-INU
> Eagle Knights
> FCTwaves
> Impossibles
> Jolly Pochie
> LTU Blue Devils
> Metrobots
> Northern Bites
> SharPKUngfu
> TJArk
> UChile
> UT-Austin
>
>
> Some insight for teams that were not selected:
>
> All other things being equal:
>   - The committee preferred teams that demonstrated soccer ability.
> Some teams submitted excellent videos in support of their application.
> We could not stress how nice it is to actually *see* the robot
> performing the algorithms/tasks described in the written application.
>   - The committee also considered the scientific contributions made by a team.
>   - The committee tended not to choose teams that hadn't improved for
> a number of years (i.e. 2nd year is easier to qualify, 3rd year is
> harder). We instead preferred to give the opportunity to a new team
> who had not competed before.
>   - If "all other things are equal" then the committee preferred teams
> that had done their own work. This point requires some clarification,
> because an important part of science is building on the work of
> others. The committee doesn't see much scientific interest in
> hand-tuning a new soccer behaviour or creating a few new kicks,
> especially when the base code is over 2 years old. It can strongly be
> argued that a code base more than 2 years old should have undergone
> substantial modification in most modules.
>
> Please direct any queries to: legged_tech at tzi.de and once again we
> thank all the teams for the effort that went into the applications.
>
> Thanks,
>   Michael
> >
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