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RoboCupJunior SoccerSim World Championship 2024

RoboCupJunior World Championship 2024 will be held in July in Eindhoven, Netherlands. After last year’s success, we would like to continue with the organization of the SoccerSim challenge this year as well. The competition will be held virtually, but again in an "offline" mode, since most of the committee members will be located at the physical RCJ in Eindhoven.

Competition overview

SoccerSim challenge this year includes:

  • Simulation of matches
  • Presentation of team description papers
  • Solving Technical Challenges (To be decided)

As usual, teams will be asked to submit the code of their robot players. We have frozen the rcj-soccersim software which is available as a tagged release at our GitHub. This release will be used for simulating the matches.

In order to spread the knowledge, we ask teams to provide team description papers. These might contain descriptions of team members’ roles, various approaches you have tried while implementing the code for simulated robots as well as anything you consider worth mentioning. For inspiration, feel free to check previous year's papers out!

If the committee has enough time while preparing for international event, there will be at most two technical challenges. rcj-soccersim software will be updated appropriately for these challenges. There will be several days reserved for you to implement your solution and submit a recorded video. The committee will then review it and evaluate each team on a rubric.

Rules

The rules are based on the regular RoboCupJunior Soccer rules, adapted to the simulation environment.

You can find them at GitHub

Documentation

We now have two full fledged documentation articles that can help you get started programming your robots:

If you feel like there is something missing in the documentation, do not hesitate to suggest a change -- Pull Requests are very much welcome!

Schedule

Unless otherwise specified, all dates use the Anywhere on Earth timezone

  • June 1st: Open Tournament Registration Form
  • Tournament Registration Deadline
    • Extended to June 30th
  • July 12th Tournament Submission Deadline
  • July 16th: Team Description Paper Deadline
  • End of July Publishing Tournament Results

Registration

Registration form: https://forms.gle/YjdszddbPTJ5XDgr9