Welcome to RoboCup2025 Salvador!
We are delighted to welcome you to RoboCup2025 Salvador — an international celebration of learning, creativity, and collaboration through robotics. Whether this is your first time or you’re a returning team, we’re excited to see how you apply your ideas, skills, and teamwork in this year’s Junior Rescue League.
Let’s make RoboCup2025 Salvador a meaningful and inspiring experience for everyone involved! 
We would like to inform all teams participating in the Junior Rescue League at RoboCup 2025 Salvador about the submission process for the TDP, poster, video, and BOM. This post outlines the necessary steps and deadlines of these submissions.
These materials are crucial for your successful participation in the competition. Please read the instructions carefully and ensure that all required documents are submitted by the specified deadlines.
Deadline
In order to ensure that all teams’ documents can be reviewed fairly and thoroughly, the official competition rules require that all documents be submitted no later than three weeks before the start of the event.
Accordingly, the deadline for submitting the required materials for this competition (TDP, poster, video, and BOM) is:
Thursday, June 28, 2025, at 23:59:59 (UTC).
Please be mindful of the time difference between your country and UTC, and make sure to complete your submission before the deadline.
Teams that fail to submit their documents on time or need to update their information may be granted an extension under exceptional circumstances. However, to maintain fairness across all teams, a score reduction may be applied to the document evaluation part based on established criteria.
Submission Form
The submission form URL will be issued individually for each team and sent to the email address provided during team registration. The email will be sent from “robocupjunior-rescue[AT]robocup.org” with the subject line:
“Submission of Technical Documents at RoboCup2025 Salvador”
Please note that there may be a lag between the completion of your team registration and the delivery of this email.
An email was sent to all registered teams as of June 16th on 2025/06/17 at 14:30 (UTC).
If you have not received it, please check your spam folder.
By clicking the link in the email, you will be directed to the submission form. Please read the instructions at the top of the form carefully before you begin entering information.
Make sure to frequently click the Save button at the top right of the screen as you fill in the form. You may update and overwrite your submission as many times as needed until the deadline, so we strongly recommend saving your progress regularly.
Submission Contents
Haven’t received the submission form for your team yet?
If so, we recommend using this time to prepare your submission materials in advance.
Here are some examples of the questions that will be asked in the form:
1. TDP
For this competition, the contents of the Team Description Paper (TDP) must be entered directly into the submission form, rather than uploaded as a PDF file. Please follow the instructions provided within the form.
You can refer to the TDP template to see sample questions and get an idea of the expected content.
TDP Template (Line/Maze)
TDP Template (Simulation)
In addition, the TDP evaluation will follow the rubric below, so please use it as a guide when preparing your responses.
TDP Rubrics (Line/Maze)
TDP Rubrics (Simulation)
2. Poster
Please upload your team poster in PDF format.
Detailed regulations can be found in the RCJ General Rules.
Please note that each team is responsible for printing their own poster and bringing it to the venue .
In addition, the Poster evaluation will follow the rubric below, so please use it as a guide when preparing your responses.
Poster Rubrics (Line / Maze)
Poster Rubrics (Simulation)
3. Presentation (Technical Description) Video
All teams must create and submit a Presentation Video before the competition.
The video should be short and highlight your team’s work. It will be shown during the competition and should clearly summarize the key aspects of your project, including your design process and innovations.
Please refer to the following document for detailed information about the video’s format, content, and restrictions:
Presentation Video Guideline (Line / Maze / Simulation)
When submitting your video, please follow these requirements:
- File format : MP4 only(If your video is in another format such as .mov, .wmv, etc., please convert it to MP4 before uploading.)
- Maximum file size : 500 MB
In addition, the Video evaluation will follow the rubric below, so please use it as a guide when preparing your responses.
Presentation Video Rubrics (Line / Maze / Simulation)
4. Bill of Materials (BOM)
All teams must submit a Bill of Materials (BOM) listing the major components and materials used in their project.
Please refer to the following link for the official BOM Template.
You must use this template to create your document and submit it in PDF format.
5. Technical Questions
The specific questions may vary depending on the league, but examples include the following.
- Does your robot use a camera?
- Does your robot use machine learning or artificial intelligence?
- Does your robot use any type of wireless communication?
- Does your robot have a handle?
- Does your robot have a binary switch/button, clearly visible to the referee, for starting the robot at the begining of the run and when a lack of progress occurs?
General Notes
The form has an overall character limit of 35,000 characters.
Please note that providing more information is not always better. Instead, we encourage you to carefully select the most important aspects you want to highlight about your team. Use the available space effectively to present your team in the best possible way within the given limit.
Any Questions?
If you have any questions, please consider the following ways to resolve them:
- If you believe your question could be helpful for other teams as well, please share it in this forum.Your question is likely valuable to others too!
- If you have a team-specific issue—for example, if you still haven’t received the email with the form link by June 19th—please contact us directly at robocupjunior-rescue[AT]robocup.org. When contacting us, be sure to include your name, team name, region, and enough information for us to identify your team.
We look forward to seeing you in Salvador!
RoboCupJunior Rescue Committee