Discussion lead: Maike Paetzel
Note taker: Ludovic Hofer
Number participants: 32
Input from the league
- Question: Can Junior teams participate?
- TC response: Yes
- Comment from SPL team member
- Open Challenge: Quite some success, internal from the league
- Inviting external peoples: other events parallel usually
- Having only the demonstration slot might not be enough
- Maike’s question to SPL: Would it be interesting for you to participate? If not, why not?
- Personal observations from one team member
- He doesn’t see a reason why it would not be interesting
- All robots are using NAO, so there would be no variations in hardware
- Difference of what is interesting for the public and to other teams - something impressive for expert might not be interesting for the general public
- Certain tasks like collaborative behavior would require the SPL field for demonstration
- Each team only has little time at RoboCup, so it might be a problem to squeeze in one more thing (they had the same problem for the open challenge in SPL)
- If one really wants to push teams to showcase something, challenges need to become mandatory
- Personal observations from one team member
- Comment: Referee duty could be delegated to teams, without the competitive aspect there is no need for participating teams to actually try their best
- Jacky is opposed to voting because it is too subjective
- Even in the SPL open competition there were many complains, here contributions are even more diverse
- Ludovic: quite a burden for referees to have even more duties, too
- Interesting for teams to know what’s happening research-wise and very helpful for the soccer teams to get these ideas
- Suggestion: pre-qualification before the event, since simple registration is not enough to keep out low-level entries out
- Maike: There is already a review process, so not all applicants will be able to showcase