RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League

RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League

Founded	1997
Region	International
Current champions	WrightEagle (6th title)
Most successful team(s)	WrightEagle (6 titles)
Website	www.robocup.org

Tournaments
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

2D Soccer Simulation Screenshot

The RoboCup 2D Simulated Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation Leagues. It consists of a number of competitions with computer simulated soccer matches as the main event.

There are no physical robots in this league but spectators can watch the action on a large screen, which looks like a giant computer game. Each simulated robot player may have its own play strategy and characteristic and every simulated team actually consists of a collection of programs. Many computers are networked together in order for this competition to take place.

Rules

In the 2D Simulation League, two teams of eleven autonomous software programs (called agents) each play soccer in a two-dimensional virtual soccer stadium represented by a central server, called SoccerServer. This server knows everything about the game, i.e. the current position of all players and the ball, the physics and so on. The game further relies on the communication between the server and each agent. On the one hand each player receives relative and noisy input of his virtual sensors (visual, acoustic and physical) and may on the other hand perform some basic commands (like dashing, turning or kicking) in order to influence its environment.

The big challenge in the Simulation League is to conclude from all possible world states (derived from the sensor input by calculating a sight on the world as absolute and noise-free as possible) to the best possible action to execute. As a game is divided into 6000 cycles this task has to be accomplished in time slot of 100 ms (the length of each cycle) .

Results

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
1997 Details	Nagoya		AT-Humboldt	11–2	Andhill		ISIS	2–1	CMUnited		29
1998 Details	Paris		CMUnited	3–0	AT-Humboldt		Windmill Wanderers	–	ISIS		36
1999 Details	Stockholm		CMUnited	7–0	magmaFreiburg		Essex Wizards	–	11 Monkeys		24
2000 Details	Melbourne		FCPortugal	1–0	Brainstormers		ATT-CMUnited	–	CMUnited		24
2001 Details	Seattle		TsinghuAeolus	1–0	Brainstormers		FCPortugal	–	UvA Trilearn		24
2002 Details	Fukuoka		TsinghuAeolus	7–0	Everest		Brainstormers	–	FCPortugal		24
2003 Details	Padova		UvA Trilearn	4-3	TsinghuAeolus		Brainstormers	2–1	Everest		24
2004 Details	Lisbon		STEP	8-1	Brainstormers		Mersad	1-0	TsinghuAeolus		24
2005 Details	Osaka		Brainstormers	3-0	WrightEagle		TokyoTechSFC	–	STEP		17
2006 Details	Bremen		WrightEagle	2-1	Brainstormers		Ri-one	–	TokyoTech		16
2007 Details	Atlanta		Brainstormers	3-0	WrightEagle		HELIOS	2-1	OPU_hana_2D		15
2008 Details	Suzhou		Brainstormers	4–3	WrightEagle		HELIOS	–	AmoyNQ		15
2009 Details	Graz		WrightEagle	2–1	HELIOS		Oxsy	1–0	Brainstormers		19
2010 Details	Singapore		HELIOS	2–1	WrightEagle		Oxsy	–	ESKILAS		20
2011 Details	Istanbul		WrightEagle	3–2	HELIOS		MarliK	3–2	Oxsy		19
2012 Details	Mexico City		HELIOS	4–1	WrightEagle		MarliK	1-0	Gliders		19
2013 Details	Eindhoven		WrightEagle	2–0	HELIOS		YuShan	–	Axiom		20
2014 Details	João Pessoa		WrightEagle	3–2	Gliders		Oxsy	2-1	HELIOS		15
2015 Details	Hefei		WrightEagle	4–0	HELIOS		Gliders	–	Oxsy		19

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
WrightEagle	6 (2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)	5 (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Brainstormers	3 (2005, 2007, 2008)	4 (2000, 2001, 2004, 2006)	2 (2002, 2003)	1 (2009)
HELIOS	2 (2010, 2012)	4 (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)	2 (2007, 2008)	1 (2014)
TsinghuAeolus	2 (2001, 2002)	1 (2003)		1 (2004)
CMUnited	2 (1998, 1999)			2 (1997, 2000)
AT-Humboldt	1 (1997)	1 (1998)		1 (2006)
FCPortugal	1 (2000)		1 (2001)	1 (2002)
Uva Trilearn	1 (2003)			1 (2001)
STEP	1 (2004)			1 (2005)
Gliders		2 (2014)	1 (2015)	2 (2012)
Everest		1 (2002)		1 (2003)
Oxsy			3 (2009, 2010, 2014)	2 (2011, 2015)
MarliK			2 (2011, 2012)
ISIS			1 (1997)	1 (1998)
YuShan			1 (2013)
Ri-one			1 (2006)
TokyoTechSFC			1 (2005)
Mersad			1 (2004)
ATT-CMUnited			1 (2000)
Essex Wizards			1 (1999)
Windmill Wanderers			1 (1998)
Axiom				1 (2013)
ESKILAS				1 (2010)
OPU_hana_2D				1 (2007)
11 Monkeys				1 (1999)

Titles per country

Country	Titles	Runners-up	%
China	8	7	50%
Germany	4	5	44.4%
Japan	2	5	40%
United States	2	0	100%
Netherlands	1	0	100%
Russia	1	0	100%
Portugal	1	0	100%
Australia	1	1	0%
Iran	0	0	–%
India	0	0	–%
United Kingdom	0	0	–%
Romania	0	0	–%

Teams

Country	Team(s)	University/Institute/School
Brazil	GPR2D ITAndroids UFSJ2D Warthog2D Expertinos Robotbulls	Parana Federal Technological University Aeronautics Technological Institute Federal University of São João del-Rei University of São Paulo Federal University of Itajubá National Institute of Telecomunications
China	AUA2D Apollo2D Everest HfutEngine TsinghuAeolus WrightEagle YuShan GDUT_TiJi	Anhui University of Architecture Beijing Institute of Technology Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Tsinghua University University of Science and Technology of China Guangdong University of Technology
Germany	FRA-UNIted	Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Iran	MasterPiece 051 Armik AUT Parsian Axiom CYRUS Shiraz HERMES Nexus2D Riton Soccereus AbouAliSina ESKILAS LegenDary MarliK NADCO-2D Genius	Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) Shiraz University Of Technology AbouAliSina HighSchool Allame Helli High School University of Guilan, Shahid Beheshti University University Of Guilan, UGM-LaB Islamic Azad University, NADCO Educational Robotics Corporation Ghazal High School
Japan	HELIOS RaiC Ri-one	Fukuoka University, AIST, Osaka Prefecture University Fukui National College of Technology Ritsumeikan University
Portugal	FCPortugal	Aveiro University, Porto University
Australia	Gliders	CSIRO Computational Informatics
India	InfoGraphics	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Romania	Oxsy	Compa-IT

See also

• RoboCup
• RoboCup Simulation League
• RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation League

External links

• RoboCup Soccer Simulation League Wiki
• RoboCup Soccer Simulator Wiki
• Team Assistant for 3D Visualisation
• RoboCup Historical Data Repository (Log Files, Team Binaries...)
• The WrightEagle Team
• The Helios Team
• The Oxsy Team
• The Brainstormers Team
• The CMUnited Team
• The Gliders Team