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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:Arial;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:Arial;font-weight:400">As RoboCup is getting closer and closer, we would like to give a few updates regarding the competition! </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:Arial;font-weight:700">Hardware and Technical Challenges Time Slot Deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">In previous emails, we asked teams to sign up for time slots to complete the hardware and technical challenges
</span><a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/selfsched?sstoken=UUlnbU4wcWczZTZRfGRlZmF1bHR8NzUxMTNlNmVkYzlhMzA3NDQyOGIxMzFjMGJhYjI4NWQ"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">via
this link</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">. We would like to ask all teams that desire to participate in these events to
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">sign up by June 13th, 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">. You can integrate the calendar with your own with this
</span><a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_6jnjg7ej19rts02q3mf8gcb2lo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">file</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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:Arial;font-weight:700">Open-Source Award Submission Deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">This year we will be having the open source award as we had in previous years. In order to participate, teams must submit information
to the league (for more information on this, please visit </span><a href="https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2021-awards/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">our
website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">). The deadline for the submission for this year is</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700"> June 21st, 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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:Arial;font-weight:700">Servers for the Virtual Tournament are ready</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">As you may already have seen on Discord, the servers for the virtual tournament are already set up and ready for use. You can
access them through this link: </span><a href="https://virtual.ssl.robocup.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">https://virtual.ssl.robocup.org/</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">As described in the previous mail, once you have submitted your container image, your team name and your robot specs to the
</span><a href="https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-simulation-setup"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">setup repository</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">,
you can book time slots to test the setup on one of the four fields.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">It is also a good chance to test your software against the autoRefs, which are both running in majority mode.</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:Arial;font-weight:700">Hardware Challenge 1 - Small Changes on two Scenarios</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">There were two small issues in the scenarios of challenge 1. The defenders were too close to the ball. We
</span><a href="https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-hardware-challenge-rules/pull/5/files"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">fixed that</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"> and
updated the rules.</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:Arial;font-weight:700">Team Logos for the Status-Board</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">The
</span><a href="https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-status-board"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">ssl-status-board</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"> shows
your team's logo. If you have not yet provided a logo and do not want to see a generic one, please submit a pull request with your logo or send us one.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">The logos are stored here:
</span><a href="https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-status-board/tree/master/src/assets/logos"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-status-board/tree/master/src/assets/logos</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">The logo must be in PNG format and about 512x512px in size.</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:Arial;font-weight:400">For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us by mail or on
</span><a href="https://discord.gg/t724m8c"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">Discord</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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:Arial;font-weight:400">Thank you!</span></p>
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