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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">Hello!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">The Small Size League committee is glad to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2020! Below you can
find important information about the competition and qualification. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 700">Location and dates</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">RoboCup 2020</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">Small Size League</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">Bordeaux, France - June 23 - 29, 2020</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><a href="https://2020.robocup.org/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none">https://2020.robocup.org</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 700">About RoboCup</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent
robots. When established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable of winning against the human soccer World Cup champions by 2050.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 700">About the Small Size League</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">The RoboCup Small Size League is a part of the RoboCup Research Federation focused on multi-agent coordination
and control. Teams currently compete in 11 vs. 11 soccer matches (6 vs. 6 in Div. B). The robots must fit within an 18 cm diameter circle and must be no higher than 15 cm. The robots play soccer with an orange golf ball on a green carpeted field that is about
12 m long by 9 m wide.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 700">About the qualification</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">To qualify for the competition, each team must submit a Team Description Paper and a video by
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 700">January 21, 2020</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">More information on the qualification requirements and processes are located on the
</span><a href="https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2020-qualification/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none">website</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">Please direct all inquiries to the Small Size League Organizing Committee:
</span><a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none">rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">Thank you!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: 400">Carla Cosenza</span></p>
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