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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Hereby the call for participation for the European Open.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Several European SPL teams have already indicated that they were interested to participate in the SPL games in Eindhoven, now that there is no German Open this
year. The intention is to make this more than a Dutch Open, it will be a supra-regional event with a clear international flavour with a high attractively to public and sponsors;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Arnoud Visser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Local SPL chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">[Apologies for multiple postings]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">European Open Eindhoven 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date: March 29<sup>th</sup> – April 3<sup>rd</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Evoluon Eindhoven<span style="color:black"> (The Netherlands)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.robocupeuropeanopen.org/en"><span lang="NL">http://www.robocupeuropeanopen.org/</span></a>
</span></b><b><span lang="NL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About European Open 2016
<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The European Open 2016 will be held in Evoluon, Eindhoven. We will host several senior and junior leagues:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RoboCup Soccer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Middle Size League <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Small Size League <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Standard Platform League<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RoboCup@Home<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">RoboCup <span style="color:black">
J</span>unior<span style="color:black">:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Soccer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rescue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">o</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CoSpace</span><span lang="ES" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="ES" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Registration will be possible
<a href="http://www.robocupeuropeanopen.org/en/participants/registration">here</a> till February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2016</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The organization is the same as that of the successful RoboCup 2013. Just like then, the European Open 2016 will be a lively event with great
competitions, great technology promotion, a large general audience<span style="color:black">.</span>.. and perhaps even a party at the end ;-)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The table below shows the tournament schedule briefly:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 29<sup>th</sup>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Setup day + friendly matches
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width="308" valign="top" style="width:231.05pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 30<sup>th</sup>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">March 31<sup>st</sup>
<span style="color:black">up to and including</span> April 3<sup>rd</sup> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Accommodations
<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Eindhoven and its surroundings have a wide variety of accommodation ranging from hotels, hostels, bed and breakfast, holiday parks etc. A list
of accommodations can be found <a href="http://www.robocupeuropeanopen.org/en/participants/accommodation">
here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contact
<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For questions regarding RoboCup European Open 2016, please contact the following mail address:
<a href="mailto:competitions@reo2016.org">competitions@reo2016.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Towards the 2016 competitions we will send regular newsletters to keep you informed regarding the organization and details that are important
for the various leagues and teams. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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