RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League
| Founded | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Region | International |
| Current champions |  WrightEagle (5th title) |
| Most successful team(s) | WrightEagle (5 titles) |
| Website | www |
| Tournaments | |
|---|---|
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.
Contents
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) [1].
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 |
– |  |
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 |
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 |
1 (2014) | 2 (2012) | ||
| Everest |
1 (2002) | 1 (2003) | ||
 Oxsy |
3 (2009, 2010, 2014) | 1 (2011) | ||
 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 |
7 | 7 | 50% |
 Germany |
4 | 5 | 44.4% |
 Japan |
2 | 3 | 40% |
 United States |
2 | 0 | 100% |
 Netherlands |
1 | 0 | 100% |
 Russia |
1 | 0 | 100% |
 Portugal |
1 | 0 | 100% |
 Australia |
0 | 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 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 |
