preRoboCup-96

preRoboCup-96 was the first robotic soccer competition of any sort. It was held on November 5-7, 1996 in Osaka, Japan [2]. In conjunction with the IROS-96 conference, Pre-RoboCup-96 was meant as an informal, small-scale competition to test the RoboCup soccerserver in preparation for RoboCup-97. 5 of the 7 entrants were from the Tokyo region. The other 2 were from Ch'ng at RMIT and Stone and Veloso from CMU.

The winning teams were entered by:

1.

Ogawara (Tokyo University)

2.

Sekine (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

3.

Inoue (Waseda University)

4.

Stone and Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University)

In this tournament, team strategies were generally quite straightforward. Most of the teams kept players in fixed locations, only moving them towards the ball when it was nearby.