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<P>Dear all,</P>
<P>Did you note that....</P>
<P>The teams in the FIFA WorldCup group D are: Mexico, Iran, Angola and Portugal.</P>
<P>In the same group (D) of the SSL are teams from: Mexico, Iran and Portugal too.</P>
<P>It´s only a curiosity, but it´s so nice :)</P>
<P>Best regards,</P>
<P>David Sotelo</P>
<P>Former Eagle Knights team member.</P>
<P>ITAM, Mexico<BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>Tim Laue <timlaue@tzi.de></I><BR>To: <I>robocup-small@cc.gatech.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>[robocup-small] Groups for Preliminary Round</I><BR>Date: <I>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:26:16 +0200</I><BR>>Hi RoboCuppers,<BR>><BR>>did you ever wonder against which teams you will play at RoboCup <BR>>2006?<BR>><BR>>Here is the answer:<BR>><BR>><BR>>Group A:<BR>> FU-Fighters (Germany)<BR>> Toin Albatross (Japan)<BR>> ZjuNlict (China)<BR>> Sharif CESR (Iran)<BR>> Skuba (Thailand)<BR>><BR>>Group B:<BR>>
Field Ranger (Singapore)<BR>> B-Smart (Germany)<BR>> Plasma-Z (Thailand)<BR>> KIKS (Japan)<BR>> RFC Cambridge (USA)<BR>><BR>>Group C:<BR>> CMDragons (USA)<BR>> Vienna Cubes (Austria)<BR>> Revenger (Thailand)<BR>> Botnia (Finland)<BR>> Strive2006 (China)<BR>><BR>>Group D:<BR>> RoboDragons (Japan)<BR>> 5dpo
(Portugal)<BR>> Eagle Knights (Mexico)<BR>> CoolRUNners (Germany)<BR>> ParsianRobotic (Iran)<BR>><BR>><BR>>These groups have been made in the following way:<BR>>The organizing committee classified all participating teams into <BR>>five different tiers (Last year's top four, newcomers, ...) based on <BR>>their previous results in RoboCup competitions.<BR>>A program randomly chose one team from every tier per group. The <BR>>only constraint was to avoid having teams from the same country in <BR>>one group.<BR>><BR>>See you in Bremen! :-)<BR>><BR>>Tim<BR>><BR>>------------------------------------------------------------<BR>>Dipl.-Inf. Tim
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