Hello RoboCuppers,<div><br></div><div>I know some of you have already declared your interest in participation, but we realized we have not made an official announcement!</div><div><br></div><div>We now call upon all Robocup SSL teams to declare their intent on participating on the 2012 Games for pre-registration. Please s<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ubmit by e-mail to the organizing committee (cc'd here) with </span><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">your intent to participate in RoboCup by </span><strong style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">January 31st, 2012</strong><span style="text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. The e-mail subject should be: 2012 Participation Intent (YourTeamName).</span> Please also include you team name, country of origin, university, name of your main contact, email of your main contact and your website if you have one. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Following this preregistration, qualifications will due </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>February 28th, 2012 (11.59 PM, GMT+1). </b>Please look to </font></span><a href="http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/robocup2012:qualification">http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/robocup2012:qualification</a> for details. Please note the following:</div>
<div><ul><li>Top 8 teams need to also satisfy the EDTP requirements</li><li>There are new requirements for any teams that forfeited multiple games or failed to compete at an adequate standard in Robocup 2011. This was in response to the rules posted last year that any team that registered and failed to compete properly would have consequences. These rules were in place to help there be maximized fair game play in each round robin group. </li>
</ul></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We will update the status of your qualification at </font>
<a href="http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/robocup2012:teams">http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/robocup2012:teams</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope all of you had good winter holidays/festivities/a break from studying/research! </div>
<div><br></div><div>Best Regards,<br><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div>Amanda Li</div><div>On Behalf of the RoboCup 2012 Small Sized League Organizing Committee</div></span><br>
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