<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Small Size League RoboCuppers,</span></p>

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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After considerable deliberation, the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">SSL</span> TC and OC are proposing a number of changes, outlined and discussed in detail in the following shared document:</span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1155cc" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap"><u><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dWVp6YsmMobFK_3xJPcjzd1ZiNS-TatUl0iJr7C4BdQ/pub">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dWVp6YsmMobFK_3xJPcjzd1ZiNS-TatUl0iJr7C4BdQ/pub</a></u></span></font><br>

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</span></font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We request all the teams to go through the proposed rules changes and provide feedback using the following survey form by January 21st, 2014:<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal;white-space:normal"><br>

</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#1155cc" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap"><u><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16qy1b6mcGP7JIm4r4tWyny5eQJalNaDLAIqL57GGb4w/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16qy1b6mcGP7JIm4r4tWyny5eQJalNaDLAIqL57GGb4w/viewform</a></u></span></font><br>

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</span></font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Here are the proposed rules change topics. Please see the shared document for details.</span></font></span></p>

<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ol><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Change of field size to the double-sized field.</span></font></li>

<li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Restriction on chip-kicks crossing the midline.</span></font></li>

<li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Fair multiple-defender rule.</span></font></li><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px">

<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Penalizing collisions and unsporting gameplay.</span></font></li><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px">

<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Robot speed limit during stoppage of gameplay.</span></font></li><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px">

<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Change of tournament format.</span></font></li><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Technical Challenges, including:</span></font></li>

<ol><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Double-sized field test (compulsory if not adopted in RC2014)</span></font></li>

<li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Auto-Referee</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Standardized radio server communication</span></font></li>

</ol></ol><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Regards,</span></p>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">The Technical and Organization Committees of the RoboCup <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">SSL</span>, 2014.</span></p>

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