**RCJ General Rules 2025 Released**

Hello RoboCup Community,

We have just released the 2025 General Rules for your perusal: RoboCupJunior General Rules – RoboCupJunior

We have spent the time going through each league rules and standardising the rules across all the leagues, including posters, power management and the new addition of Technical Description Videos!

Most excitingly, after many years of hard work as junior, we have updated 3. Robot Communication! We hope this will lead to much innovation and help you build new and amazing concepts in 2025 and beyond.

You may also see some changes to the website in the coming months as we start to finally modernise our website. If you would like to be involved or provide feedback as to what should feature on our website, please get in touch!

Good luck with your RoboCup off-season development and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Margaux on behalf of the RCJ Execs

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Hello
Thank you for the announcement of the release of the General Rules 2025.
I have a question about the new General Rules.

3.3 Component Communication: Communication between components of the same robot is permitted under the general guidelines.

What are “general guidelines” ?
and where can they be found?

Best Regards
MASA

Hi @MASA - this was a wording error that has now been corrected, with a new reformatted General Rules page

Good luck for your 2025 preparations!

Margaux

Hello @M.Edwards

I read the new General Rules.
However, my doubts were not resolved at all.
There was the same text written, exactly as before, without any changes.
That’s why I will ask the same question.

Component Communication: Communication between components of the same robot is permitted under the general guidelines.

What are the ‘general guidelines’ written here?
Where can they be found?

Best Regards
MASA

I will check the github pull requests and check to see I pulled the right one!

The correct wording is: Component Communication: Communication between components of the same robot is permitted

Hello @M.Edwards

The correct wording is: Component Communication: Communication between components of the same robot is permitted

Thank you for teaching me the correct sentence about Component Communication.
Please announce it again on the forum when the general rules are revised.

Best Regards
MASA

@M.Edwards pushed the fix a couple minutes ago, should be fixed now.

Hello @david

daivid worte

should be fixed now.

I have just checked the RCJ website’s General Rules, and the rules have not been changed.

When will the General Rules on the RCJ website be updated?

and
If the General Rules are revised, will the General Rules included in the Soccer Rules 2025 and Rescue Rules also be revised accordingly?

Best Regards
MASA