[robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call for participation RoboCup 2020 Bordeaux 3D Soccer Simulation

[Klaus Dorer]

Hello all,

please find below the 2nd and final call for the 3D Soccer Simulation 
competition to be held in Bordeaux in June 2020.
Qualification deadline is next week Monday!
Appologies, if you received multiple copies.

Greetings
RoboCup 2020 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee

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Call for Participation
RoboCup 2020 Soccer Simulation 3D League
June 23 – June 29, 2020 (Bordeaux, France)
https://2020.robocup.org/
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The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great 
opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for 
investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting using 
different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated 
environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the 
league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot 
coordination methodologies.

We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2020 Soccer 
Simulation League 3D competition, which will take place from June 23 – 
June 29, 2020, in Bordeaux, France. If you are interested in 
participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as 
outlined below.

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3D Soccer Simulation League Website
https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/
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Important Dates
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Feb 10, 2020 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline:
Feb 22, 2020: Qualified Teams Announcement
Jun 23 – 29: Competition


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Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
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The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team 
fee for the 2020 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the 
major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and all of whose team 
members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup 
competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply 
any waiver of fees for team members.


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Pre-Registration
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No Pre-Registration required this year.


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Qualification
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Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous 
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas 
in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list and development of the 
simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams.
In RoboCup 2020, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer 
Simulation competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2019 (UT Austin 
Villa, MagmaOffenburg, WrightOcean) are automatically qualified after 
submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).
The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

The qualification deadline is February 10, 2020.

Qualification material consists of:

1. Team Description Paper (TDP)
The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the 
team.
It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in 
addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others' 
efforts (including, but not limited to, any source code released by 
other teams or their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be 
judged based on their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of 
others could result in an immediate disqualification. The length of the 
TDP must be at least four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) 
pages in Springer LNCS Style: 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. 
Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team 
in the filename, i.e.  Teamname_TDP.pdf .


2. A List of Publications and Achievements on previous RoboCup Symposia 
and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do 
not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please 
also include your team's achievements in RoboCup and related events of 
previous years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also 
include references to relevant research done by your team that shows its 
potential. Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with 
the name of your team in the filename, i.e. Teamname_list.pdf .


3. Binary
All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use 
these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the 
simulator used during the 2018 competitions. These rules can be found 
at: https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-rules/

Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

- Two scripts should be included: a startup script, called start.sh, to 
run a
full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all 
agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can 
be found at the rules page given above.

- All necessary external libraries should be included and be used 
locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra 
libraries on the qualification systems. A Java runtime can be assumed to 
be available.

- The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard 
output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used.

- The binary should be compiled for 64 bit systems and should work on a 
modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 16.04. You may also send 
32-bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs 
correctly on 64-bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32-bit 
libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. To summarize: the 
binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system 
in a restricted sandbox environment with the simulation server 
(possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix 
errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified 
and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, 
create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4mmaCIj4Kps3Hn1J4JuZ1te0CDO16UtS9oA-nh7RYCdFk1g/viewform?usp=sf_link 

You should upload only one file including all your qualification 
materials. If everything works fine you will receive a confirmation. If 
you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact 
the Organizing Committee.

If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials please 
don't hesitate to contact the OC.

Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in 
this CfP. The following general qualification limitations will also be 
considered:

- One-Third-Rule: The so-called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up 
to 1/3 of the participants in a competition may be from the same country.

- One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states 
that only one team from each university or research institute is allowed 
to participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different 
teams from the same institute to participate in different competitions, 
e.g. 2D and 3D soccer.

Best Regards,
RoboCup 2020 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee