RoboRugby Competition
The RoboRugby competition was held on
Monday 19 April 2010, in the Clinton Auditorium in
UCD. The 19 robots played 37 short matches to decide the winner of
RoboRugby 2010.
The competition was sponsored by Siemens.
Matches
In a RoboRugby match, two robots compete against each other
on a playing table with 15 balls.
The picture shows the table layout for 2010.
Each robot aims to score points by moving balls into the scoring areas
at the ends of the table, while perhaps trying to prevent the opposing robot
from scoring points. Each match lasts for 60 seconds, and the
position of the balls at the end of the match determines the score.
For more details, see the competition rules.
Ranking
The ranking round was held on Wednesday 7 April. Each robot
was tested without opposition to determine its seeding or ranking
for the tournament. This produced some impressive displays,
with the top three robots level on 30 points each - we had to resort
to the tie-break rules to rank them! Scores like that would
easily win a match, but of course, the robots had no opposition in
the ranking round - the competition may produce very different
results.
The final ranking is in the table below. The tie-break
rules were stretched a few times to separate the lower teams. The details are available here.
Video of the action is available on the video
page.
| Ranking |
Team Name |
Score |
Team Number |
| 1 | Shining Delusion | 30 | 5 |
| 2 | T1TAN | 30 | 1 |
| 3 | D.A.V.E. | 30 | 7 |
| 4 | Richie McCaw | 13 | 21 |
| 5 | Team Aaron Doyle | 12 | 17 |
| 6 | deadmau5 | 8 | 8 |
| 7 | Ramirez | 7 | 18 |
| 8 | PIE | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | M.O.N.T.E. | 3 | 13 |
| 10 | Are you calling me a Flanker? | 2 | 20 |
| 11 | The Majestic Turkey | 2 | 9 |
| 12 | Where's Sean? | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | F.E.M. Bot | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Rubber Bandits | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | I Love Bill | 0 | 16 |
| 16 | Stop-Start | 0 | 10 |
| 17 | Failbot | 0 | 19 |
| 18 | Easy Does It | 0 | 12 |
| 19 | Anne-Droid | -8 | 15 |
Tournament
The competition takes the form of a double-elimination
tournament. Two robots compete in each match, and the winner
proceeds to play the winner of another match as usual.
However, a robot that loses a match gets a second chance - it goes
on to play against other robots in a similar position, and can
eventually fight its way back to victory. A robot is only eliminated from the tournament after losing two
matches. The tournament ends when only one robot remains, and that
robot is the winner.
The diagram below shows the results of all the matches in
RoboRugby 2010
(printable version).
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