RoboCup 2000 brought the fourth Robot Soccer World Cup to the Melbourne
Exhibition Centre. I competed in the 2D Simulation League with RoboLog
Koblenz. Our team description paper,
RoboLog Koblenz 2000 (External link), was written
by Jan Murray, Oliver Obst, and Frieder Stolzenburg.
Through on goal difference
The Group 5 scores were wonderfully lopsided. RoboLog lost 0–20 to FC
Portugal, the team that went on to become world champion, then drew 0–0
with Zeng00 and beat the Finnish team Oulu2000 39–0.
That left RoboLog and Zeng00 on four points each. The head-to-head match had
been a draw, but RoboLog’s aggregate of 39–20 gave us a goal difference of
+19, against Zeng00’s +3 from 21–18. We therefore finished second and
progressed to the double-elimination finals. Zeng00’s
team paper (External link) lists my friend Tomomi
Kawarabayashi among its authors.
Sharif Arvand beat RoboLog 5–0 in Round 1A. The second loss, 5–0 against
Wright Eagle in Round 1B, ended our tournament. FC Portugal later defeated
Karlsruhe 1–0 in the final.
Preserved competition record
Every recorded game
All eight group tables and every double-elimination result from the contemporary RoboLog page. Group 5 is opened first; the remaining groups stay compact until selected.
Group 1
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
ATT-CMU |
· |
1:0 |
13:0 |
× |
6:0 |
9 |
20:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
Open Zeng |
0:1 |
· |
9:0 |
× |
4:2 |
6 |
13:3 |
2 |
| 3 |
A-Team |
0:13 |
0:9 |
· |
× |
0:16 |
0 |
0:38 |
— |
| 4 |
AKU |
× |
× |
× |
· |
× |
0 |
0:0 |
— |
| 5 |
Virtual Werder |
0:6 |
2:4 |
16:0 |
× |
· |
3 |
18:10 |
— |
Group 2
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
CMU99 |
· |
2:0 |
8:0 |
4:0 |
9 |
14:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
Gemini |
0:2 |
· |
4:0 |
1:0 |
6 |
5:2 |
2 |
| 3 |
Sharif II |
0:8 |
0:4 |
· |
1:0 |
3 |
1:12 |
— |
| 4 |
SBC |
0:4 |
0:1 |
0:1 |
· |
0 |
0:6 |
— |
Group 3
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
Magma Freiburg |
· |
3:0 |
× |
14:0 |
25:0 |
9 |
42:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
TakAI |
0:3 |
· |
× |
4:0 |
21:0 |
6 |
25:3 |
2 |
| 3 |
Airg Sibui |
× |
× |
· |
× |
× |
0 |
0:0 |
— |
| 4 |
Gnez |
0:14 |
0:4 |
× |
· |
5:0 |
3 |
5:18 |
— |
| 5 |
Paso Team |
0:25 |
0:21 |
× |
0:5 |
· |
0 |
0:51 |
— |
Group 4
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
Essex |
· |
10:0 |
0:0 |
7:0 |
16:0 |
10 |
33:0 |
2 |
| 2 |
Headless Chickens IV |
0:10 |
· |
0:18 |
0:11 |
1:1 |
1 |
1:40 |
— |
| 3 |
Sharif Arvand |
0:0 |
18:0 |
· |
3:0 |
18:0 |
10 |
39:0 |
1 |
| 4 |
Spatial Timer |
0:7 |
11:0 |
0:3 |
· |
3:0 |
6 |
14:10 |
— |
| 5 |
KU-Yam |
0:16 |
1:1 |
0:18 |
0:3 |
· |
1 |
1:38 |
— |
Group 5RoboLog’s group
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
FC Portugal |
· |
20:0 |
18:0 |
33:0 |
9 |
71:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
RoboLog |
0:20 |
· |
0:0 |
39:0 |
4 |
39:20 |
2 |
| 3 |
Zeng00 |
0:18 |
0:0 |
· |
21:0 |
4 |
21:18 |
— |
| 4 |
Oulu2000 |
0:33 |
0:39 |
0:21 |
· |
0 |
0:93 |
— |
Group 6
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
Karlsruhe |
· |
10:0 |
18:0 |
1:0 |
9 |
29:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
Mainz |
0:10 |
· |
7:0 |
0:7 |
3 |
7:17 |
— |
| 3 |
Kaitsubata |
0:18 |
0:7 |
· |
0:8 |
0 |
0:33 |
— |
| 4 |
Wright Eagle |
0:1 |
7:0 |
8:0 |
· |
6 |
15:1 |
2 |
Group 7
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
YowAI |
· |
4:0 |
28:0 |
18:0 |
6:0 |
12 |
56:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
Cyberoos |
0:4 |
· |
27:0 |
13:0 |
3:0 |
9 |
43:4 |
2 |
| 3 |
GSP |
0:28 |
0:27 |
· |
0:12 |
0:16 |
0 |
0:83 |
— |
| 4 |
Lucky Lubeck |
0:18 |
0:13 |
12:0 |
· |
1:0 |
6 |
13:31 |
— |
| 5 |
Polytech 100 |
0:6 |
0:3 |
16:0 |
0:1 |
· |
3 |
16:10 |
— |
Group 8
| # |
Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Pts |
Goals |
Rank |
| 1 |
11 Monkeys |
· |
4:0 |
13:0 |
10:0 |
9 |
27:0 |
1 |
| 2 |
AT Humbolt |
0:4 |
· |
9:0 |
5:0 |
6 |
14:4 |
2 |
| 3 |
Harmony |
0:13 |
0:9 |
· |
0:3 |
0 |
0:25 |
— |
| 4 |
PSI |
0:10 |
0:5 |
3:0 |
· |
3 |
3:15 |
— |
Finals
Double elimination
Round 1A
| Fixture |
Score |
| ATT-CMU -- AT Humboldt 2000 |
4 - 0 |
| CMU99 -- Cyberoos 2000 |
1 - 0 (OT) |
| Magma Fr. -- Wright Eagle |
1 - 0 (OT) |
| Sharif Arvand -- RoboLog |
5 - 0 |
| FC Portugal -- Essex |
7 - 0 |
| Karlsruhe -- TakAI |
7 - 0 |
| YowAI -- Gemini |
2 - 0 |
| 11 Monkeys -- Open Zeng |
0 - 1 |
Round 1B
| Fixture |
Score |
| AT Humboldt 2000 -- Cyberoos 2000 |
0 - 1 (OT) |
| Gemini -- 11 Monkeys |
3 - 0 |
| Wright Eagle -- RoboLog |
5 - 0 |
| Essex -- TakAI |
7 - 0 |
Round 2A
| Fixture |
Score |
| ATT-CMU -- CMU99 |
1 - 0 (OT) |
| Magma Freiburg -- Sharif Arvand |
0(+) - 0 (coin toss) |
| FC Portugal - Karlsruhe |
3 - 0 |
| YowAI -- Open Zeng |
1 - 0 (OT) |
Round 2B
| Fixture |
Score |
| Cyberoos 2000 -- Sharif Arvand |
0 - 2 |
| Gemini -- Karlsruhe |
0 - 7 |
| Wright Eagle -- CMU99 |
0 - 1 (OT) |
| Essex -- Open Zeng |
4 - 0 |
Round 2C
| Fixture |
Score |
| Sharif Arvand -- Karlsruhe |
0 - 2 |
| CMU99 -- Essex |
2 - 1 (OT) |
Round 3A
| Fixture |
Score |
| ATT-CMU -- Magma Freiburg |
1 - 0 |
| FC Portugal -- YowAI |
6 - 0 |
Round 3B
| Fixture |
Score |
| Karlsruhe -- Magma Freiburg |
2 - 0 |
| YowAI -- CMU99 |
0 - 1 |
Round 4A
| Fixture |
Score |
| FC Portugal -- ATT-CMU |
6 - 0 |
Round 4B
| Fixture |
Score |
| Karlsruhe -- CMU-99 |
4 - 0 |
Round 4C
| Fixture |
Score |
| Karlsruhe -- ATT-CMU |
5 - 0 |
Final
| Fixture |
Score |
| FC Portugal -- Karlsruhe |
1 - 0 |
The recovered photographs
I was able to recover some of the original 86 photographs. All 73 surviving
files are stored with this page, organised into
session 1, session 2,
session 3, and session 4.
Sixty-one survive at their original camera resolution, mostly 1024 × 768, and
twelve survive only as 150-pixel previews. Original modification times are
preserved where they survived in an archive header; capture times are retained
for preview-only files.
