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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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