RoboRugby Competition
The main RoboRugby 2010 competition is scheduled for the evening of
Monday 19 April 2010, starting at 7pm. We encourage all
competitors to
invite friends and relatives to watch this competition, which will take
place in the Clinton Auditorium in UCD, in front of a large audience.
The Clinton Auditorium is building 30 in grid square B9 on the
UCD Belfield campus map
- just beside the Engineering building.
Nineteen unique autonomous robots, designed by teams of
students, will compete against each other in a series of short
matches, to determine the winner of RoboRugby 2010. To save
time, some of the first matches in the tournament may be played
earlier in the day. Thanks to
generous sponsorship from Siemens, valuable cash prizes will provide
some extra incentive for the competitors.
Matches
In a RoboRugby match, two robots compete against each other
on a playing table with 15 balls.
The picture shows the table layout that will be used this year.
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.
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 which 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.
Some time before the main competition, there is a ranking round,
where each robot is tested without opposition to determine its seeding or ranking for
the tournament.
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