RMIT United is a team of RMIT University staff and students who research, design and build robots and
software systems to compete in the annual "RoboCup" World Soccer Games. We first competed in
Nagoya, Japan in 1997 at the inaugural RoboCup Soccer competition. In 1998 the team competed in
Paris and then again in Stockholm in 1999 were we won our first game. For RMIT United our most
important games are in August 2000 where we will compete against 30 other Formula 2000 teams in our
home city of Melbourne (28 August - 3 September, Melbourne Exhibition Centre). This site contains information about the RMIT United team, the people involved,
the research effort, the technology, our SBV robots and our sponsors.
The RoboCup Federation is the
organising body for the RoboCup games and associated events. The
official Melbourne 2000
event
site provides information about the August event, a list of teams, the
schedule, the results and related information. RMIT United competes in the
F2000 league and complies
with these rules.
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On our first day we dominated winning 3 games against CoPS Stuttgart (Germany) 2:0, KIRC (Japan) 8:1 and NP Lions (Singapore) 8:0.
On Tuesday we won against NAIST 2000 (Japan) 7:0. Due to the draw our next 3 games in the preliminaries were against teams ranked 1, 2 and 3 in last years competition. The Golem team (Italy) won against us 3:5 with their amazing tri-wheel based omnidirectional robot. Unfortunately we scored two of their five goals for them.
On Wednesday we played Freiburg CS (Germany) and Sharrif CE (Iran) and lost these games with scores of 0:3 and 1:3.
At this stage we were ranked fourth in our group. The team was still motivated going into the finals, as we always knew that these three teams are the best in the competition. It seemed that the finals were almost in our hands if we could win our elimination game against the Trackies (Japan). Unfortunately we lost this game 0:2 and were eliminated. It was the worst game we had played. Many bad calls were made by the referee and RMIT United protested the result which was upheld.
Although we didn't get into the grand final, the RMIT United team has established itself as a powerful contender in this competition, finally getting off the bottom of the ladder.
The final results put Freiburg CS first, Goelem second, Sharrif CE third and the Trackie fourth.
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