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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">Virtual competition schedule</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 OCs and TCs have put together a draft schedule for the virtual competition. This schedule only englobes the Round Robin,
as the schedule for the next part of the competition will depend on what position the teams are in. We would like to remind everyone that this is a draft, and may be subject to changes. With all the different time zones, we cannot guarantee that the matches
will happen at the time they are planned. The stated times are in the UTC time zone.</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"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:624px;height:380px"><img width="624" height="380" style="margin-top:0px" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tGIIUvi1w2ON1DOYCNCwyfDj3x2Dx2mTEflFVcSN_GHRF33CNmXUnc62HCtgjYWRWdwNnX2x7TqVYAhk54QCTeTONRYAwyOq4W512ew1Af4AZ2X0ewJTZjpK1PdfEHfFETByeEsW"></span></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">The overall structure of the virtual tournament is as follows:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">The winner of each group proceeds to the upper tournament, while the last placed team proceeds to the lower tournament. 2nd and 3rd place play Lucky Loser matches, A vs D and C vs B (four
games, LL1: A3/D2, LL2: A2/D3, LL3: B2/C3 and LL4: B3/C2). The winner of these matches proceeds to the upper tournament, the losers to the lower tournament. Both, the upper and the lower tournament, follow
</span><a href="https://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/8teamDoubleSeeded.pdf"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">a normal double elimination structure</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">,
using the following seeds (please note that these seeds do not contain any advantage / disadvantage apart from being 1-4 compared to 5-8, but are listed here so everyone can reconstruct the identical schedule):</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;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">Upper Tournament seeds:</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">1: 1st place in group A</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">2: 1st place in group D</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">3: 1st place in group B</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">4: 1st place in group C</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">5: Winner LL1</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">6: Winner LL2</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">7: Winner LL4</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">8: Winner LL3</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;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none">Lower Tournament seeds:</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">1: Loser LL1</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">2: Loser LL3</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">3: Loser LL4</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">4: Loser LL2</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">5: 4th place in group C</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">6: 4th place in group D</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">7: 4th place in group A</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">8: 4th place in group B</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">Poster session</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 stated before, we will host a poster session during the competition week. Teams should have a visual presentation about
their robots and software to share with the rest of the league. This presentation should be in PDF and sent to the OCs by email until
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">June 20th, 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">. The PDF file can have up to 4 pages with any size. We will soon open up three poster sessions, teams
will sign up for whichever time slot is best for them.</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">Please direct all inquiries to the Small Size League Organizing Committee:
</span><a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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:Arial;font-weight:400">Thank you!</span></p>
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