[robocup-small] Ideas for 2007 Rules

[Tim Laue]

Hi,

> I liked the ball that Tim Laue brought to RoboCup last year.  Perhaps we 
> should commit to some exposition games using that ball, and try to get 
> them distributed to a few teams (Tim, is there a place where can we buy 
> them?).  The only problem I foresee with that is the following: to slow 

at the RoboCup, we made a demonstration with three different balls and 
different kicking robots. There should be a video which gives a good 
impression of the different attributes of the balls. We hope to put it 
on a web page soon. I should have taken care of that earlier :-(

In advance, I will give you some information about the balls:

* A street hockey ball
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22Street+Hockey+Ball%22&btnG=Search+Froogle&lmode=online&sa=N&start=10

* An anti-stress ball
I don't know where to get such a ball. As far as I know, someone from 
Portugal brought many of them.

* A ball for some kind of beach ball
I think this is the one which Jim meant. Is has a size similar to a golf 
ball and absorbs much energy. Since these balls do not seem to have an 
official name, it was quite hard to find the correct set of words which 
made Google show these balls ;-) I quite sure that our balls are similar 
to these:
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22Beach+Paddle+Set%22&btnG=Search
In Germany, you can buy these balls without the paddles :-)

Some comments on other rule changes will follow.

Best regards,

Tim

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