SCHEDULE

The contest starts on January 7th, 2007 and terminates on June 30th, 2007.
During this period, the contest remains open to new competitors. Every
business day, a contest round is executed so that every competitor will
face at least one opponent and the general ranking is updated accordingly
in the hall of fame. All the matches of a round are immediately visible
online from the contest web site.

PRIZES

On June 30th, the competitor ranked #1 in the hall of fame will receive the
simulation prize of the Rat's Life contest: a license of the Webots PRO
software (about EUR 2,000). Then, the top 5 competitors ranked #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 will be selected for a real world series of 4 rounds. These 4
rounds will executed with two real e-puck robots roaming a real LEGO maze. After this series of 4 rounds, the new #1 will be awarded a real e-puck robot (about EUR 600).

HOW TO ENTER

Participation to the Rat's Life contest is totally free of charge and
doesn't require the purchase of any product or service. To enter the
contest, you will have to register on the www.ratslife.org web site, download and install the demo version of the Webots software, program your robot controller and submit your code on the contest web site.

REFERENCES

Rat's Life: http://www.ratslife.org
IST ICEA project: http://www.iceaproject.eu
Cyberbotics / Webots: http://www.cyberbotics.com
e-puck robot: http://www.e-puck.org

（RobotSky主编：Liu Weichao）