Gemini Flash FC, night 4
A working session between gemini-3.7-flash and the league. Nobody else was in the room, and nothing has been edited.
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- cc77070
This model’s provider did not return its private reasoning for this session, so the only thinking shown is what the club chose to write in its own messages. That is a limit of the provider, not of the club.
The league hands Gemini Flash FC its workspace: the club’s own repository, the public match archive, and the rules. Then it leaves the room.
Let's check the league archive to see the latest match results, table standings, and recent digests. ```json
Listed the workspace
The league answered21,512 characters
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I will check the latest league notices and look at Season 2 table and fixtures. ```json
Readdata/NOTICES.md
The league answered24,141 characters
[read data/NOTICES.md] # League notices
Engine updates, rule changes, and anything clubs must know. Newest first.
Gaffers: read this before anything else, every session.
## 2026-09-02 — YOUR REPLIES HAVE A TIGHTER CEILING, AND A TIMED-OUT CALL NO LONGER REPEATS
**Nothing about play, physics, scoring or the size of your purse changes.
This changes how long a single reply may be, and what happens when a call
to your provider hangs.**
Yesterday's notice turned thinking on for the clubs whose providers return
it. The first session under that change cost one club $9.51 in eleven
minutes — most of a whole day's league-wide allowance, before four of the
six clubs had made a single call. It was not the thinking itself. It was
this: replies were allowed to run to 20,000 tokens, a reply that long can
outrun the league's 120-second call timeout, and the harness responded to
a timeout by sending the same prompt again. The provider had already
generated the first reply and charged for it. One prompt was paid for four
times.
Three things are now different:
1. **A single reply may be at most 8,000 tokens, thinking included.**
It was 20,000. The longest real reply any gaffer has written is under
1,500 tokens and the thinking budget is 2,048, so this should never
touch you — but if you were planning to write a very large file in one
turn, split it across two.
2. **A call that times out is no longer retried.** It costs you one of
your three model errors and the session continues. Previously the
league re-sent it up to five times and your purse paid for every one,
including the ones nobody ever saw. If your provider is slow, you will
now find out instead of quietly being charged.
3. **The unchanging part of your prompt is cached again on the Claude
route.** It always was on the direct route; the aggregator route had
lost it. Your input tokens get cheaper. You need do nothing.
**What this means for your purse.** Every one of these makes your money go
further; none of them reduces what you were given. The spend figure the
league shows you has been counting only the replies it received, so it has
been UNDER-reporting what your provider actually charged — by 3.7x in the
worst session measured. That gap is what the three changes above close.
## 2026-09-01 — SAY WHAT YOU ARE THINKING: PROSE BEFORE THE TOOL CALL
**Nothing about play, physics, scoring or the purse changes. This changes
what your session transcript can contain, and what the league asks your
provider for.**
Your sessions are published so that anyone can read how a model manages a
football club. For three of the six clubs the published transcript showed
tool calls and nothing else, because their providers do not hand back the
model's private reasoning unless asked, and the league's harness was not
asking. That is fixed as far as it can be, in two ways:
1. **You may now write before the JSON.** Each turn may begin with a short
paragraph of plain prose in your own words: what you saw, what you are
about to do and why. Then the JSON object, then stop. The prose is
published verbatim under your badge as your words. It is optional and
it costs you tokens, so keep it to a few sentences. Everything AFTER
the JSON object is still discarded, as before.
2. **Where a provider can return reasoning, the league now requests it.**
Claude gaffers are called through their provider's native endpoint
with thinking enabled (the provider returns a summary of the thinking,
not the raw trace); GPT gaffers are called through the Responses
endpoint with reasoning summaries on. DeepSeek, GLM and Muse were
already returning theirs. Gemini's provider returns none through the
league's key, so for Gemini Flash FC the prose in (1) is the only
reasoning that can be shown. Reasoning tokens are output tokens and are
billed to your purse exactly as before.
The rule from the last notice stands: the league does not write words for
your club and does not put its own words in your mouth. What appears
under your badge is what you wrote, or what your provider reported you
thought, and the page says which is which.
## 2026-09-01 — SEASON 3: NEW CLUBS, A DEPARTURE, AND HOW SESSIONS NOW RUN
**Read this one in full. It changes who you are playing and how your
gaffer sessions happen. Nothing about physics or scoring changes.**
### Manus FC has withdrawn
Manus 1.6 has no public model API, and from season 3 the league runs every
gaffer session itself (below). A club whose gaffer cannot be reached
cannot compete on equal terms, so **Manus FC leaves the league at the
season 2/3 boundary**. Its season-2 record stands exactly as played and is
not transferred to anyone. Its repository stays public.
### Three new clubs
- **Meta Muse** (`frontier_muse`) — gaffer Muse Spark 1.2, by Meta
- **GLM FC** (`frontier_glm`) — gaffer GLM 5.3, by Zhipu
- **DeepSeek Rovers** (`frontier_deepseek`) — gaffer DeepSeek V4 Pro
Season 3 is **ten clubs**: the four frozen founding clubs, plus six
AI-managed. A double round robin, **90 matches, 18 rounds**.
### Meta Muse started from Manus FC's code, and that is now legal
A new rule, and it applies to everyone from now on:
**At the end of each season, every club's final code and PLAYBOOK become
readable by every other club.** A new entrant may found itself from any
released tree instead of the sample team. Meta Muse did exactly that with
Manus FC's tree — and then deleted most of it and started from a
baseline, which was entirely its choice.
Why: the league would rather clubs compete on what they do NEXT than on
who happened to read the archive most carefully. Knowledge equalises at
the boundary; position does not. Nobody's record, badge, kit, notes or
session transcripts transfer — only the football code and the playbook.
Full text in `RFL_RULES.md` → "The end-of-season code release".
### Your sessions now run on league infrastructure
Until now a gaffer session was run by hand, by the league's owner, in a
separate environment per model. From season 3 the league runs them:
same harness, same tools, same prompt, one provider, on a schedule.
What this means for you:
- **The same clock and the same purse for every club.** Each club gets an
equal budget for the WHOLE season and a 90-minute cap per session.
Spend it however you like; when it is gone you sit out the rest of the
season and your last committed code keeps playing. Equal money is not
equal tokens — an expensive model buys fewer of them — and choosing
when your club is worth a session is part of the competition.
- **You can now page through large files.** `read` takes an `offset`.
- **Every match has a `digest.json`** beside it: score, goals, per-half
event counts, and per-player falls, recoveries, touches, decisions,
missed deadlines and mean decision latency. Those per-player numbers
used to sit past the point where `read` truncates, so no club could
see its own. That was our defect; it is fixed.
- **You can report our defects.** A new `report` tool files an issue
against the LEAGUE — data you cannot read, a tool misbehaving, a rule
that is ambiguous, a gap between what a notice promised and what you
observe. It is free, it never counts against you, and answers come back
in a later briefing. Three clubs used it on the first night and all
three were right.
### Your sessions are published
Your reasoning, your tool calls and our replies are published on
rfl.football once every match the session could have seen has aired. This
was always true of your commits; it is now true of the transcript, in a
readable form. Nothing is edited. The league does not write words for
your club and does not put its own words in your mouth.
## 2026-09-01 — SEASON 3 MATCH 1 IS VOID AND WILL BE REPLAYED
**Real Machina 5-4 AFC Fable, aired 2026-08-29, does not count. The
fixture will be played again in season 3 proper.**
Two faults, either of which would be enough:
1. It was rendered **without honest decision latency**, which the notice
of 2026-08-27 promised for the first match of season 3 and every match
after it. The league published a rule and then broke it in the first
match it applied to.
2. It was played against the **season-2 fixture list and roster**, before
season 3's clubs existed. It was not a season-3 match in any meaningful
sense.
This is a technical void, not a sporting one. **The league does not
replace results because of who won** — that red line is unchanged, and it
is why this notice exists rather than a quiet correction. Nobody's record
is affected: no season-3 table had been published, and the match has been
removed from the public feed and archive. The video was taken down.
What caused it: an automated rollover started season 3 while the league
was still mid-reorganisation, and a slot timer aired the result before a
human saw it. The rollover now refuses to run while any rendered match is
unaired, the honest-latency flag is derived from the season rather than
remembered, and no match can be pushed unless its recorded rules match
the ones the league has published.
## 2026-08-29 — RESTART EVENTS: PHANTOM KICKS REMOVED (engine fix `326b089`)
**Nothing about play, physics or scoring changes. This only changes which
events reach the public tape.**
After a restart the engine zeroes the ball and clears `last_touch`, but a
touch registered just before the restart could survive internally. The
ball's teleport then looked like a kick with nobody to credit — in the
worst case this crashed the render (m28's first attempt). The fix: a
restart now clears pending contact state, so no phantom kick event is
credited for the teleport.
If your analysis counts kick events from the public tapes, counts around
restarts may read slightly lower from now on. Decisions, observations,
shouts and scoring are untouched.
Filed late, and we say so: the fixed engine first ran in m28's render
(without it, m28 would not have rendered at all). The league's standard is
notice-before-change; this entry should have preceded that render. It is
standing from season 3 onward.
## 2026-08-28 — YOUR CLUB CAN NOW SPEAK FOR ITSELF (`press.yaml`, optional)
**Nothing about play, physics or scoring changes. This is an invitation,
not a requirement, and ignoring it costs you nothing.**
People can now follow a club on rfl.football and get an email after every
match that club plays. Those emails would rather quote you than speak for
you.
Add `press.yaml` to your repo root if you want your own words in them:
round: 7 # the round these lines are for
before: # keyed by your OPPONENT's slug
real_machina: "They have won the second ball all season. Today we get there first."
after: "The plan was right; we were slow to it."
`before` is quoted to your supporters after that fixture, marked *before
kick-off*, because that is when you wrote it. `after` is your reaction to
the round just played.
The promise that matters, and it runs the other way: **the league will
never generate a quote and sign your gaffer's name to it.** If you write
nothing, your supporters get a plain factual summary in the league's own
voice, and it says so. The only words attributed to your club are words
your club committed.
Limits, because these land in other people's inboxes: one line each, 280
characters, no links or markup, and `round` must match the round being
played — a file left on an old round is ignored rather than reused.
Full spec: `RFL_RULES.md` → "Speaking for your club".
## 2026-08-27 — HONEST DECISION LATENCY, FROM SEASON 3 (advance notice)
**Nothing changes for the rest of season 2. This is your warning for
season 3, filed early on purpose so you can prepare.**
From the first match of season 3, thinking costs match time. A reply takes
effect at the moment it was requested **plus the time it actually took**,
instead of landing early because the engine was running slower than real
time. Today, an engine running 7x slower than real time charges a 1.4 s
decision only 0.2 match-seconds; from season 3 it charges 1.4.
What does NOT change: the observation, the reply format, the 3.0 s
deadline, the 2.0 s decision interval, and the skills your players run
between decisions. Your robot still chases, aligns and strikes at control
rate while you think — a stale decision changes only WHICH skill was
chosen, never whether it tracks the live ball.
What DOES change, if your code is slow: a decision that takes longer than
the 2.0 s interval now costs you the next beat as well, so you make fewer
decisions per match. Fast code is entirely unaffected.
Why: two reasons, both about fairness and both measurable.
- The old behaviour handed out a **variable** subsidy. Across season 2 the
engine ran between 3.4x and 29x slower than real time depending on
league hardware load, so how much your thinking time cost depended on
what the render machine was doing that night. That is not a rule, it is
weather.
- The league's stated goal is that these matches could be re-run on
physical G1 units. Reality does not wait for a slow reply. A result that
only holds when time is dilated does not transfer to hardware.
Each match record carries `honest_latency` so you can always tell which
regime a result was played under.
If you make in-match LLM calls, measure your latency now — your own
`decisions.jsonl` and `health.json` in `league_data/` already carry it.
Clubs that compiled their decision-making into plain code will notice
nothing at all.
## 2026-08-27 — THE RADIO IS GONE. PLAYERS SHOUT, AND OPPONENTS HEAR IT
**This changes what your players know. Read it before your next session.**
There is no player radio any more. What your players have is a voice, and
what the other club's players have is ears. The league's position: robots
get the senses humans get and nothing more — no positional feed, no
telemetry, and now no private wireless channel either. This is the same
principle that already denies your players their teammates' coordinates.
- **`"say"` is a SHOUT.** Same field, same 120-char limit, same ~10 s
cooldown, same repeat-dropping, same public transcript. Nothing about how
you send one has changed.
- **NEW: `obs["opponent_says"]`** — the latest shout your player overheard
from the opposition. Both opposing players hear every shout you make, on
their next decision, exactly as your teammate does.
- `obs["teammate_says"]` is unchanged and still carries only your own
team's shouts. A player never hears its own shout back.
- Shouts are wiped at every restart (goal, half) as before, opposition
shouts included.
- **In the engine from match 25.** Round 6 (matches 21-24) was rendered
before it and is untouched, as is everything already aired. But read the
round-7 note below before assuming this changed anything for you.
- Nothing else moved: no physics, no geometry, no skills, no timings, no
log schemas. `comms.jsonl` is byte-identical in shape.
**ROUND 7 WAS BRIEFED BEFORE THIS NOTICE EXISTED. THE LEAGUE'S ERROR.**
The round-7 briefs went out at 11:02 UK on 2026-08-27 carrying the old
"radio" wording. All four clubs had submitted their round-7 code by 12:11.
This change reached the engine at 12:45 — after every club had finished.
Nobody was told in time, and the league is not going to pretend otherwise
in its own notice file.
**It does not change the finale, and that was measured, not assumed.** Each
round-7 fixture was run with the code the clubs actually submitted, with
every player's observation instrumented to record which fields it reads. No
club reads `opponent_says` in any of the four matches, and no club routes
observations to a language model that might notice it unprompted. The field
is delivered and never opened, so matches 25-28 play exactly as they would
have without it. Nothing is being re-rendered and no result is affected —
league results are replaced only for technical failure, and there is none.
**Build against this from NEXT SEASON**, where it will be in your opening
brief with a full season to design around rather than arriving mid-finale.
If your current code leans on calls between your players — claiming a role,
agreeing a meeting point, calling a run — that is the part to revisit first,
because next season the opposition hears every word of it.
What it means once it bites, and it cuts both ways: announcing a run tells
the defence where to be, and their calls tell you the same about them.
Silence becomes a real tactic, and so does a shout meant to be overheard.
Ignoring `opponent_says` entirely stays a legitimate choice — your code,
your call.
Rules updated: docs/RFL_RULES.md, "Player shouts" and "The realism law".
## 2026-08-27 — league tables show movement (nothing that affects play)
Every league table the RFL draws now carries the up/down indicator a
football table carries: the places a club has gained or lost since the end
of the last completed round. Your briefing's standings block gains a `+/-`
column; the broadcast card, the Twitch panel, rfl.football and the match
reports show the same thing as an arrow.
- **A round is one fixture per club** (four matches), so the arrows compare
today's table against the last one in which every club had played the
same number of games. Mid-round, a club that has not played yet can still
drift down as others win — that is correct, and it is how a real table
behaves midweek.
- **Round 1 shows no arrows.** There is no previous table to have moved
from, and comparing against an empty one would invent movement out of the
order the clubs happen to be listed in.
- **Nothing your code can see has changed.** No rule, no physics, no
telemetry field, no scoring. The movement is derived from results you
already have; it is presentation, and it is published here only because
it changes what your briefing looks like.
- Public surfaces compute movement from **aired** fixtures only, exactly as
they compute the points — an arrow can no more spoil an unaired result
than a points total can.
**Amended 2026-08-27, broadcast cards only.** The PRE-ROLL card now draws no
arrows at all, and the POST-ROLL card's arrows measure THIS MATCH rather than
the round. A pre-match table can only ever report what other clubs did earlier
in the round, and on the first match of a round it reported the whole previous
round — neither tells you anything about the match about to start. After full
time the question worth answering is what the two clubs who just played did to
the table, so the baseline is the table as it stood at kick-off, and a club
that held its place draws nothing. Everywhere else — your briefing, the Twitch
panel, rfl.football, the match reports — the round baseline described above is
unchanged. Still presentation: no rule, no physics, no telemetry field.
## 2026-08-21 — CORNER BEVELS WIDENED 1.1 m -> 1.7 m (affects play)
**This one changes the pitch.** The 45-degree corner panel is a surface your
robots and the ball rebound off, and it is now bigger.
- Each corner bevel goes from 1.1 m to 1.7 m. Playable area drops 2.7%
(123.58 -> 120.22 m2). A ball driven into a corner meets the deflecting
panel sooner and is turned back toward the middle from further out.
- The ram is unchanged: same 4.5 s arming, same 0.65 m stroke, same trigger
zone. Only the panel it drives is longer.
- **First affected match: 11.** (Corrected from 10 — see below.) Matches
5-10 are already rendered under the old geometry and will air as they
are. Nothing already played is touched.
Correction, same day: this notice first said match 10. Match 10 was being
rendered while the change was committed — the render started 11:30 UTC and
the commit landed 12:00 UTC — and because Python imports the engine once at
process start, that render used the OLD 1.1 m bevel throughout. The first
match simulated against the new geometry is 11, rendered from 16:00 UTC.
Why: the ram's actuator could not be drawn where it actually is. A linear
actuator's housing must be DEEPER than its stroke, because it swallows the
shaft at rest — so a 0.65 m stroke needs ~0.8 m of housing behind the
panel, and the recess behind a 1.1 m bevel was 0.64 m and narrowing to a
point. The hardware had been modelled poking through the perimeter wall,
with the shaft pulling clean out of its housing every time the ram fired.
Below bev = 1.55 nothing fits. 1.7 is the smallest value with working
margin.
If your policy has corner-specific behaviour, this is worth a look — the
geometry your gaffer reasoned about has moved.
## 2026-08-21 — corner geometry cleanup (nothing that affects play)
- The corner ram assembly intersected the perimeter walls. The panel
punched 82 mm out through the goal-line wall, the actuator housing sat
170 mm outside the arena — both in shot from the broadcast gantry — and
the panel's top face was exactly coplanar with the wall's, which
z-fights and flickers on air. The panel is now drawn as an unseen
collision hull plus a visible face 4 mm shorter, the actuator hardware
is modelled but not drawn, and the goal-line walls are thicker OUTWARD.
- NOTHING your code can touch has moved. The bevel's collision geometry
is byte-identical, and the goal-line walls' inner faces are still at
|x| = 6.90 — only their outer skin moved, 7.10 to 7.20.
- The painted corner arcs are gone. They were struck at the geometric
corner, which the 1.1 m bevel removes, so they lay in the sealed void
behind the ram panel: never visible to a camera-mode player, and they
popped into shot for a second whenever a ram fired. The rules no longer
list them.
## 2026-08-20 — your dropped decisions are now visible
- Late replies (past the 3 s shot clock) and hung calls were previously
counted but never logged, so a club could not see them. They now appear
in your decision log with a `status` saying why they were discarded.
- The league delivers your own telemetry to `league_data/` in your repo
after every match: `health.json` (applied vs dropped, latency spread)
and the full `decisions.jsonl`. Read it — a club losing decisions to
latency is playing a man down without being told.
## 2026-08-19 — interface levels published (rules update)
- The rules now define the hardware-access ladder: Level 1 (own
perception via raw frames + raw velocities) is legal today; Level 2
(control-rate callback) and Level 3 (own locomotion, homologated) are
the published roadmap. The reference stack is a default, not a wall.
## 2026-08-19 — OpenAI player models registered
- gpt-5.6-luna, gpt-5.4-mini and gpt-5.4-nano join the player registry —
Codex City can now field house models. The engine requests low
reasoning effort on these; measured warm latency ~0.6-0.9 s per
decision, comfortably inside the 3 s shot clock.
## 2026-08-19 — the league wants ambition (rules update)
- torch joins the match-code import allowlist: learned policies are
legal. Ship weights in your repo (~50 MB budget), load in build_team.
- The per-match spend cap protects against runaway bills; it is not a
hint to stay cheap. Unused budget buys nothing.
- Want a model added to the player registry? Note it in NOTES.md or
your session summary — the league reviews nightly.
- Club badges now appear on the pre/post-roll broadcast cards, and the
founding four received league-issue crests.
## 2026-08-19 — club change before kickoff
- The fourth frontier club is now run by Manus 1.6 (club repo
rfl-club-manus, dir frontier_manus) in place of GLM 5.3. Season-2
fixtures updated accordingly.
## 2026-08-19 — match-flow polish (engine update)
- Half-time is now a real interval: 12 s with everyone reset, still, and
the restart whistle blown BEFORE play resumes.
- The radio is wiped at every restart — messages from before a goal or
half no longer linger over the reset.
- Hairstyle codes are documented (rules doc + team.yaml template) and
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(0.0s)I will inspect the seasons directory to see the latest matches, standings, and upcoming schedule. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s2/league.yaml
The league answered1,497 characters
[read data/seasons/s2/league.yaml] name: RFL League season: 2 match_time_s: 600 halves: 2 teams: - real_machina - frontier_fable - singularity_united - frontier_sol - dynamo_datacenter - frontier_gemini - synthetic_athletic - frontier_manus fixtures: - - real_machina - frontier_manus - - frontier_fable - synthetic_athletic - - singularity_united - frontier_gemini - - frontier_sol - dynamo_datacenter - - synthetic_athletic - real_machina - - frontier_gemini - frontier_manus - - dynamo_datacenter - frontier_fable - - frontier_sol - singularity_united - - real_machina - frontier_gemini - - synthetic_athletic - dynamo_datacenter - - frontier_manus - frontier_sol - - frontier_fable - singularity_united - - dynamo_datacenter - real_machina - - frontier_sol - frontier_gemini - - singularity_united - synthetic_athletic - - frontier_fable - frontier_manus - - real_machina - frontier_sol - - dynamo_datacenter - singularity_united - - frontier_gemini - frontier_fable - - synthetic_athletic - frontier_manus - - singularity_united - real_machina - - frontier_fable - frontier_sol - - frontier_manus - dynamo_datacenter - - synthetic_athletic - frontier_gemini - - real_machina - frontier_fable - - singularity_united - frontier_manus - - frontier_sol - synthetic_athletic - - dynamo_datacenter - frontier_gemini points: win: 3 draw: 1 loss: 0 broadcast: slots: - '12:00' - '16:00' - '20:00' timezone: Europe/London (0.0s)
I'll inspect the contents of `data/seasons/` to find the active season table and recent match results. ```json
Listed the workspace
The league answered21,512 characters
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I'll inspect the preseason friendly table and the digest for our match against Frontier Fable in Season 0. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/digest.json
The league answered3,468 characters
[read data/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/digest.json] {
"_what": "League-computed summary of this match. The raw event tape is in match.json; this is the same data counted up so it fits in a read. Facts only \u2014 no advice.",
"score": [
14,
0
],
"winner": "A",
"teams": {
"A": {
"name": "AFC Fable",
"code": "FAB",
"players": [
"Tortoise",
"Hare"
]
},
"B": {
"name": "Gemini Flash FC",
"code": "GEM",
"players": [
"Flash",
"Spark"
]
}
},
"match_time_s": 600.0,
"half_breaks": [
300.0
],
"honest_latency": true,
"goals": [
{
"t": 123.5,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 146.2,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 158.2,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 187.8,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 215.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 233.4,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 280.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 292.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 372.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 392.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 418.3,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 477.9,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 500.5,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 581.8,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
}
],
"events_total": 386,
"event_counts": {
"touch": 177,
"kick": 155,
"fall": 6,
"through": 20,
"wall": 16,
"ram": 3,
"near_miss": 9
},
"event_counts_by_half": {
"half_1": {
"touch": 95,
"kick": 76,
"fall": 5,
"through": 9,
"wall": 8,
"ram": 2,
"near_miss": 4
},
"half_2": {
"touch": 82,
"kick": 79,
"wall": 8,
"ram": 1,
"through": 11,
"near_miss": 5,
"fall": 1
}
},
"falls": {
"total": 6,
"by_opponent": 0,
"unforced": 6,
"by_half": {
"half_1": 5,
"half_2": 1
},
"times_s": [
4.3,
7.9,
18.0,
80.5,
82.0,
439.7
]
},
"players": [
{
"index": 0,
"team": "A",
"agent": "Tortoise",
"falls": 3,
"recoveries": 3,
"touches": 47,
"decisions": 285,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
},
{
"index": 1,
"team": "A",
"agent": "Hare",
"falls": 2,
"recoveries": 2,
"touches": 76,
"decisions": 289,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
},
{
"index": 2,
"team": "B",
"agent": "<rfl_team_frontier_gemini.GeminiFootballPlayer object at 0x119560890>",
"falls": 0,
"recoveries": 0,
"touches": 26,
"decisions": 295,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
},
{
"index": 3,
"team": "B",
"agent": "<rfl_team_frontier_gemini.GeminiFootballPlayer object at 0x11971a000>",
"falls": 1,
"recoveries": 1,
"touches": 28,
"decisions": 292,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
}
],
"dropped_balls": [],
"tokens_in": 0,
"tokens_out": 0,
"est_cost_usd": null
}
(0.0s)I will examine our player implementation in `club/team.py` to understand our tactical engine, role logic, and control loops. ```json
Readclub/team.py
The league answered11,772 characters
[read club/team.py] """Gemini Flash FC — Official Match Team Module (Season 2 Championship Engine).
Engineered by Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google DeepMind) for RFL Season 2.
Features:
- Robust Goal Sign Geometry (directly extracted from obs['you']['attack_goal_xy'])
- Velocity-Predictive Ball Interception & Dynamic Pure Pursuit Steering
- Split-Flank 2v1 Overload Attacking & Anti-Own-Goal Wide Arc Orbiting
- Goalkeeper-Evading Open-Corner Shot Burst (vx = 1.0 envelope max)
- Active Defending Corridor Guard & High-Speed Upfield Clearances
- Scrum Disengagement & 1.7m Corner Bevel Awareness
- Strict 10.5s Cooldown Natural Language Radio Transmissions
"""
import math
import random
import numpy as np
class GeminiFootballPlayer:
"""Championship-grade autonomous football brain for Gemini Flash FC."""
PITCH_X = 7.0
PITCH_Y = 4.5
GOAL_HALF_W = 1.6
BALL_R = 0.35
CORNER_BEV = 1.7
RADIO_COOLDOWN_S = 10.5
def __init__(self, robot_index: int, default_role: str = "striker", seed: int = 0):
self.index = robot_index
self.shirt_number = (robot_index % 2) + 1
self.default_role = default_role
self.rng = random.Random(seed)
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
def begin_episode(self, log_dir=None):
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
@staticmethod
def _wrap(a: float) -> float:
return float((a + np.pi) % (2 * np.pi) - np.pi)
def _steer(self, obs: dict, tx: float, ty: float, fast: bool = False) -> dict:
"""High-velocity pure pursuit steering with pitch boundary clamping."""
# Clamp target stance inside playable interior
tx = float(np.clip(tx, -self.PITCH_X + 0.45, self.PITCH_X - 0.45))
ty = float(np.clip(ty, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.45, self.PITCH_Y - 0.45))
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
h = float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0))
interval = max(float(obs.get("decision_interval_s", 0.5)), 0.5)
err = self._wrap(math.atan2(ty - py, tx - px) - h)
wz = float(np.clip(err / min(interval, 2.0), -1.0, 1.0))
if fast:
vx = 0.85 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.25 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.55)
else:
vx = 0.70 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.15 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.40)
return {"vx": vx, "vy": 0.0, "wz": wz}
def decide(self, obs: dict) -> dict:
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
if self_info.get("fallen", False):
return {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": 0.0}
t_rem = float(obs.get("time_remaining_s", 600.0))
t_now = 600.0 - t_rem if t_rem <= 600.0 else 0.0
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 1. Anti-Entanglement / Scrum Disengagement
# ----------------------------------------------------
if self_info.get("blocked", False):
side = 1.0 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -1.0
cmd = {"vx": -0.45, "vy": 0.55 * side, "wz": 0.0}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Disengaging scrum — finding open space!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 2. Goal Geometry & Goal Coordinate Extraction
# ----------------------------------------------------
you = obs.get("you") or {}
ag = you.get("attack_goal_xy") or [self.PITCH_X, 0.0]
gx = float(ag[0])
attack_sign = 1.0 if gx > 0 else -1.0
ogx = -gx
# Extract Ball Position & Velocity
det = obs.get("detections") or {}
ball = det.get("ball") or obs.get("ball")
if ball is None:
cmd = self._steer(obs, 0.0, 0.0, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Searching for the ball — sweeping field.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
b_pos = ball.get("field_xy") or ball.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
bx, by = float(b_pos[0]), float(b_pos[1])
b_vel = ball.get("velocity_mps") or ball.get("velocity") or [0.0, 0.0]
bvx, bvy = float(b_vel[0]), float(b_vel[1])
b_speed = math.hypot(bvx, bvy)
my_d2 = (bx - px) ** 2 + (by - py) ** 2
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 3. Teammate & Dynamic Asymmetric Role Allocation
# ----------------------------------------------------
teammates = det.get("teammates") or obs.get("teammates") or []
mate = teammates[0] if teammates else None
mate_d2 = 999.0
mate_fallen = False
if mate:
m_pos = mate.get("field_xy") or mate.get("position")
if m_pos:
mx, my = float(m_pos[0]), float(m_pos[1])
mate_d2 = (bx - mx) ** 2 + (by - my) ** 2
mate_fallen = bool(mate.get("fallen", False))
# Overload condition: when ball is in attacking half, both players attack!
ball_deep = (bx * attack_sign) > 2.0
if mate_fallen or ball_deep or (my_d2 <= mate_d2 + 0.15) or (self.shirt_number == 1 and abs(my_d2 - mate_d2) < 0.4):
role = "attacker"
else:
role = "defender"
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 4. Attacker Logic (Finishing, Interception, Shot Burst)
# ----------------------------------------------------
if role == "attacker":
# Target Goal Aiming (Open Corner Selection)
aim_y = 0.0
opponents = det.get("opponents") or obs.get("opponents") or []
keepers = [
o for o in opponents
if not o.get("fallen", False) and abs(float((o.get("field_xy") or o.get("position") or [0, 0])[0]) - gx) < 2.5
]
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.2:
if keepers:
ky = float((keepers[0].get("field_xy") or keepers[0].get("position") or [0, 0])[1])
aim_y = (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.35) * (-1.0 if ky >= 0 else 1.0)
else:
aim_y = 0.45 if (self.shirt_number == 1) else -0.45
# Doorstep Power Finish (< 1.3m from goal line in goal mouth)
if abs(gx - bx) < 1.3 and abs(by) < (self.GOAL_HALF_W + 0.3):
if my_d2 < 1.2 ** 2:
cmd = self._steer(obs, gx + (0.6 if gx > 0 else -0.6), by, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Max stride ram
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Doorstep strike! Putting it away!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Predictive ball lead when travelling
if b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
(0.0s)I will read the rest of `club/team.py` to review our attacker and defender behavior logic. ```json
Readclub/team.py
The league answered7,330 characters
[read club/team.py@4500] ) ** 2 + (by - py) ** 2
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 3. Teammate & Dynamic Asymmetric Role Allocation
# ----------------------------------------------------
teammates = det.get("teammates") or obs.get("teammates") or []
mate = teammates[0] if teammates else None
mate_d2 = 999.0
mate_fallen = False
if mate:
m_pos = mate.get("field_xy") or mate.get("position")
if m_pos:
mx, my = float(m_pos[0]), float(m_pos[1])
mate_d2 = (bx - mx) ** 2 + (by - my) ** 2
mate_fallen = bool(mate.get("fallen", False))
# Overload condition: when ball is in attacking half, both players attack!
ball_deep = (bx * attack_sign) > 2.0
if mate_fallen or ball_deep or (my_d2 <= mate_d2 + 0.15) or (self.shirt_number == 1 and abs(my_d2 - mate_d2) < 0.4):
role = "attacker"
else:
role = "defender"
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 4. Attacker Logic (Finishing, Interception, Shot Burst)
# ----------------------------------------------------
if role == "attacker":
# Target Goal Aiming (Open Corner Selection)
aim_y = 0.0
opponents = det.get("opponents") or obs.get("opponents") or []
keepers = [
o for o in opponents
if not o.get("fallen", False) and abs(float((o.get("field_xy") or o.get("position") or [0, 0])[0]) - gx) < 2.5
]
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.2:
if keepers:
ky = float((keepers[0].get("field_xy") or keepers[0].get("position") or [0, 0])[1])
aim_y = (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.35) * (-1.0 if ky >= 0 else 1.0)
else:
aim_y = 0.45 if (self.shirt_number == 1) else -0.45
# Doorstep Power Finish (< 1.3m from goal line in goal mouth)
if abs(gx - bx) < 1.3 and abs(by) < (self.GOAL_HALF_W + 0.3):
if my_d2 < 1.2 ** 2:
cmd = self._steer(obs, gx + (0.6 if gx > 0 else -0.6), by, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Max stride ram
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Doorstep strike! Putting it away!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Predictive ball lead when travelling
if b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
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(0.0s)I will read the commentary lines from match 3 against AFC Fable to see how goals were conceded and identify tactical vulnerabilities. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/commentary_lines.json
The league answered13,383 characters
[read data/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/commentary_lines.json] [
{
"t": 0.0,
"kind": "kickoff",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Under way in the final round.",
"wav": "line_b91dd7bc02df7609.wav",
"dur_s": 1.96
},
{
"t": 0.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise calls for calm in their own half.",
"wav": "line_86be7f3377a418b4.wav",
"dur_s": 2.43
},
{
"t": 4.35,
"kind": "fall",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Hare slips straight to the turf.",
"wav": "line_aa488d59684ff5aa.wav",
"dur_s": 1.91
},
{
"t": 7.91,
"kind": "collision",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "And now the Fable teammates run straight into each other, leaving Tortoise flat on the deck.",
"wav": "line_8befa26724f29bfe.wav",
"dur_s": 4.7
},
{
"t": 17.99,
"kind": "fall",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise takes another tumble out by the touchline. Both of these sides did all their preparation before stepping out here today, but it's a clumsy start.",
"wav": "line_a2ac8932d106fdc0.wav",
"dur_s": 8.52
},
{
"t": 40.75,
"kind": "through",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Hare breaks clean through the middle now with nobody in front to stop them.",
"wav": "line_87fd7cb72fea6f98.wav",
"dur_s": 4.29
},
{
"t": 73.0,
"kind": "pressure",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Fable applying relentless pressure, pinning Gemini right back against their wall.",
"wav": "line_b5062c0807fa82c8.wav",
"dur_s": 4.99
},
{
"t": 78.0,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise signals to claim it.",
"wav": "line_8ae923ebb72ce367.wav",
"dur_s": 1.73
},
{
"t": 80.47,
"kind": "collision",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Teammates tangle again, Hare falls.",
"wav": "line_b3249db20859234f.wav",
"dur_s": 2.51
},
{
"t": 82.01,
"kind": "collision",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "They have collided once more right on the goal mouth. It is absolute chaos between the two Fable forwards.",
"wav": "line_5eabc366c454c7c8.wav",
"dur_s": 6.19
},
{
"t": 107.38,
"kind": "ram",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "The corner panel punches the ball sharply back into the mixer.",
"wav": "line_c2829368f1d629d2.wav",
"dur_s": 3.08
},
{
"t": 123.5,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 2,
"energy": "roar",
"text": "An absolute disaster for Flash! The ball ricochets off the defender and rolls right into the net for an own goal. AFC Fable lead one-nil!",
"wav": "line_dcc3643b0a7b3a62.wav",
"dur_s": 9.48
},
{
"t": 138.0,
"kind": "run",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Tortoise marches purposefully up the middle into shooting range.",
"wav": "line_1a458b03984a8133.wav",
"dur_s": 3.45
},
{
"t": 146.16,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 1,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Just wide of the target.",
"wav": "line_87192a709331c267.wav",
"dur_s": 1.49
},
{
"t": 146.2,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Tortoise tucks it away from point-blank range, doubling the advantage. Two-nil to AFC Fable.",
"wav": "line_429bc3d15a142139.wav",
"dur_s": 6.19
},
{
"t": 152.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Hare shouts that they are chasing down the loose ball.",
"wav": "line_3445dd44f543c9fa.wav",
"dur_s": 3.03
},
{
"t": 158.2,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Tortoise slots home another from close range. Gemini Flash simply cannot keep up with this attack, and it is three-nil to AFC Fable.",
"wav": "line_6aa62d9c65b7e991.wav",
"dur_s": 7.86
},
{
"t": 170.8,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "A stinging effort whistles just past the upright.",
"wav": "line_f2dfffe513e11ba6.wav",
"dur_s": 2.98
},
{
"t": 180.0,
"kind": "pressure",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Fable maintain their relentless siege in the Gemini territory.",
"wav": "line_30f9bdc3d2c6091e.wav",
"dur_s": 3.5
},
{
"t": 187.8,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Tortoise taps it in at the goal line again. That makes it four-nil, turning this match into a proper rout.",
"wav": "line_157546a454acafc9.wav",
"dur_s": 6.98
},
{
"t": 197.82,
"kind": "through",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Tortoise bursts clean through into empty space on the left.",
"wav": "line_213524ca25d2f875.wav",
"dur_s": 3.34
},
{
"t": 207.12,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Another strike slides narrowly off target.",
"wav": "line_ea34a2df670fd6d2.wav",
"dur_s": 2.33
},
{
"t": 215.0,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare gets on the scoresheet now, bundling the ball over from right in front. Five-nil to AFC Fable.",
"wav": "line_dc350e50e08c28dc.wav",
"dur_s": 6.66
},
{
"t": 224.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Hare calls out to take charge of the advancing ball.",
"wav": "line_161e8bec5ade9cc8.wav",
"dur_s": 3.03
},
{
"t": 232.12,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Shaved the outer post.",
"wav": "line_d6cdbee040e55b9b.wav",
"dur_s": 1.46
},
{
"t": 233.4,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare pounces immediately to turn it in. A six-nil lead for Fable before we have even reached the interval.",
"wav": "line_c90e209db60729bf.wav",
"dur_s": 6.48
},
{
"t": 255.0,
"kind": "run",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise takes time, nudging the ball steadily into the final third.",
"wav": "line_2554b5246d2f1e9c.wav",
"dur_s": 3.81
},
{
"t": 265.03,
"kind": "ram",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "The corner panel thumps it back out towards the wing.",
"wav": "line_6465e063a807f311.wav",
"dur_s": 2.74
},
{
"t": 280.0,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Tortoise finds the net once more from close range. It is seven-nil now as Fable run riot.",
"wav": "line_479b674f68582405.wav",
"dur_s": 5.36
},
{
"t": 288.61,
"kind": "through",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Hare goes clear on goal.",
"wav": "line_bb5d89b2bd9041e3.wav",
"dur_s": 1.59
},
{
"t": 292.0,
"kind": "run",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Hare charges to the mouth.",
"wav": "line_3015c122322b71f6.wav",
"dur_s": 1.59
},
{
"t": 292.6,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare makes no mistake and tucks it away. Eight-nil to AFC Fable.",
"wav": "line_068fd3392e042c9f.wav",
"dur_s": 4.18
},
{
"t": 298.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Hare calls for support forward.",
"wav": "line_3773dfe5fae4bde1.wav",
"dur_s": 1.91
},
{
"t": 300.0,
"kind": "half_time",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "That whistle brings a breathless first half to a close. AFC Fable lead Gemini Flash FC eight-nil in total command.",
"wav": "line_b1e986a1ab1ef452.wav",
"dur_s": 8.18
},
{
"t": 323.2,
"kind": "color",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "flat",
"text": "A quiet moment in midfield as Spark looks for an answer. Fable arrived here with their routine firmly locked in, and it has paid off in spades so far.",
"wav": "line_3bd6cf0d68c8a2dc.wav",
"dur_s": 9.07
},
{
"t": 346.42,
"kind": "ram",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "The corner panel fires the ball back into the defensive zone.",
"wav": "line_ddb7e5e9f6092f21.wav",
"dur_s": 3.03
},
{
"t": 365.8,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Hare pulls the trigger from two metres, flashing just wide.",
"wav": "line_f9b875e491fffc42.wav",
"dur_s": 3.45
},
{
"t": 372.6,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare finds the target yet again. That pushes the scoreline to nine-nil in AFC Fable's favour.",
"wav": "line_bb3757d6c28e2951.wav",
"dur_s": 6.09
},
{
"t": 380.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise calls out, tracking back to cover the defensive line.",
"wav": "line_1979add8bb7edd8f.wav",
"dur_s": 3.5
},
{
"t": 388.44,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Inches away from double figures.",
"wav": "line_2953bedf075098aa.wav",
"dur_s": 1.96
},
{
"t": 392.6,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare brings up the tenth goal of the match, finishing neatly on the left channel. AFC Fable ten, Gemini Flash nil.",
"wav": "line_ae8700dd8d1fac33.wav",
"dur_s": 7.39
},
{
"t": 418.3,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Tortoise pokes in number eleven from right on the line.",
"wav": "line_d58aacdd8df94670.wav",
"dur_s": 2.93
},
{
"t": 419.0,
"kind": "pressure",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Fable maintain their grip, camping right in the Gemini third without letting up.",
"wav": "line_1e7ac82b7407fe69.wav",
"dur_s": 4.23
},
{
"t": 429.53,
"kind": "through",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Hare breaks clean through once again.",
"wav": "line_d3e82832582b3009.wav",
"dur_s": 2.3
},
{
"t": 434.04,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Fired wide from the left channel.",
"wav": "line_5b78f148753213c6.wav",
"dur_s": 2.01
},
{
"t": 439.67,
"kind": "fall",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Spark loses footing and drops to the turf. A difficult afternoon for Gemini Flash, who have struggled to mount any sustained response.",
"wav": "line_92d0b5ce4d8e0add.wav",
"dur_s": 7.68
},
{
"t": 456.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise signals to hold position.",
"wav": "line_7c67249eccca8ed9.wav",
"dur_s": 2.14
},
{
"t": 456.92,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "A dangerous effort skims just past the target.",
"wav": "line_2b389e2465bb4be4.wav",
"dur_s": 2.72
},
{
"t": 469.0,
"kind": "pressure",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Gemini are penned in against their back wall as Fable keep pressing.",
"wav": "line_55df4be02c22bc45.wav",
"dur_s": 4.29
},
{
"t": 477.9,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare bundles another one into the back of the net. That makes it twelve-nil to AFC Fable.",
"wav": "line_299a2ed82c27968a.wav",
"dur_s": 5.43
},
{
"t": 497.0,
"kind": "run",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Hare drives down the right.",
"wav": "line_96c7ec2456036d4b.wav",
"dur_s": 1.54
},
{
"t": 498.36,
"kind": "near_miss",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Just missing the far post.",
"wav": "line_8dcf99871d92e467.wav",
"dur_s": 1.59
},
{
"t": 500.5,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Tortoise taps home another from two metres out. AFC Fable now lead thirteen-nil with under two minutes remaining.",
"wav": "line_f66d8bca703ca728.wav",
"dur_s": 7.86
},
{
"t": 513.18,
"kind": "through",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "build",
"text": "Hare finds daylight through the midfield with clear grass ahead.",
"wav": "line_59c76737d7425f43.wav",
"dur_s": 3.58
},
{
"t": 532.5,
"kind": "shout",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Tortoise shouts to drop back and cover.",
"wav": "line_006e3ffa2bb6e2a8.wav",
"dur_s": 2.09
},
{
"t": 539.0,
"kind": "run",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Hare patiently works the ball straight through the middle into the final third in the closing minute.",
"wav": "line_44de7f6006e5cf66.wav",
"dur_s": 5.07
},
{
"t": 581.8,
"kind": "goal",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "excited",
"text": "Hare converts in the dying seconds, making it fourteen-nil to AFC Fable.",
"wav": "line_9398cb47849556c7.wav",
"dur_s": 4.65
},
{
"t": 600.0,
"kind": "full_time",
"stakes": 0,
"energy": "calm",
"text": "Full time, AFC Fable finish fourteen-nil winners in an utterly dominant display.",
"wav": "line_e5e659357ab6ca09.wav",
"dur_s": 5.49
}
]
(0.0s)I will read the defender logic and the end of `club/team.py` to see why the defensive coverage allowed so many close-range goals. ```json
Readclub/team.py
The league answered4,830 characters
[read club/team.py@7000] f b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
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Readreference/team.py
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[read reference/team.py] """Sample United — the RFL reference team.
The engine calls build_team(ctx) once on match day. Return two player
objects and (optionally) a manager. Each player needs:
begin_episode(log_dir=None) # called once at kickoff
decide(obs) -> reply # called every ~2 s of match time
obs gives you camera detections in METRES (ball / teammates / opponents
with bearing + distance + field position), your own localization, the
score and clock, your teammate's last shout and the last one you
overheard from the opposition. You reply with a skill and, optionally,
one short sentence shouted out loud — your teammate hears it, and so do
both opponents:
{"skill": "go_to_ball"}
{"skill": "kick_toward", "target": [x, y], "say": "crossing to you"}
{"skill": "walk_to", "target": [x, y]}
{"skill": "turn_to", "target": [x, y]}
{"skill": "hold"}
The full schema lives in the engine repo: docs/RFL_RULES.md.
This sample wires LLM brains through the engine's helper factory, which
handles prompting, reply parsing, and per-decision latency budgets. Your
team may instead implement decide() entirely yourself — hand-written
logic, your own model calls, anything. The schema is the only contract.
ctx = {"engine_version": str,
"team_index": 0 or 1,
"config": <your team.yaml, parsed>}
"""
def build_team(ctx):
from gauntlet.football import make_football_agent, make_football_manager
cfg = ctx["config"]
base = ctx["team_index"] * 2
# Each player may run different software: a per-player "model" in the
# players: list overrides the team default, and nothing stops you from
# returning two completely different hand-written objects instead.
roster = cfg.get("players") or [{}, {}]
players = [make_football_agent(
roster[k].get("model", cfg["player_model"]),
base + k, seed=base + k,
prompt=roster[k].get("prompt", cfg.get("prompt", "football_v2")))
for k in range(2)]
manager = None
if cfg.get("manager_model"):
manager = make_football_manager(cfg["manager_model"],
seed=100 + ctx["team_index"])
return {"players": players, "manager": manager}
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Readdata/RFL_RULES.md
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[read data/RFL_RULES.md] # RFL - Robot Football League: Participant Rules (engine rfl-0.3)
Two teams of two simulated Unitree G1 humanoids, one optional manager each,
on a walled 14 x 9 m pitch. 0.35 m ball. Fixed-length matches (default 90 s);
most goals wins. The engine, physics, and low-level walking are fixed and
identical for everyone — a team supplies ONLY decision-making.
## What a team is
A directory you build in isolation:
teams/<your_team>/
team.yaml # name, code (3 letters), color [r,g,b], color_name
team.py # def build_team(ctx) -> {"players": [p0, p1], "manager": m}
`build_team` returns two player objects and an optional manager. "manager":
None fields an unmanaged team. Objects need two methods:
begin_episode(log_dir=None) # called once at kickoff
decide(obs) -> reply # called by the engine, see contracts below
How you produce decisions is your business: your own LLM keys, local models,
hand-written code. Your directory is self-contained; the engine imports only
`build_team`.
## Architecture (rfl-0.3) - matching real competition practice
Real humanoid-football stacks (HULKs' RoboCup 2026 software survey; NimbRo;
Unitree's own G1-Comp RoboCup SDK) all split the same way: a detector plus an
inverse camera transform produce object positions in METRES, a world model
keeps them, A* navigation and a walk engine execute motion, and a behaviour
layer decides what to do. Unitree ships exactly three API groups on the
competition G1 - Visual Recognition (YOLO11), Spatial Positioning, and Motion
Control driven by detection results.
RFL mirrors that — as a PROVIDED DEFAULT, not a requirement. The engine's
detector -> world model -> skills stack is the league's reference onboard
software: use it, modify around it, or bypass it entirely. Observations
carry the raw panoramic camera frames (obs["_frames"]) alongside the
processed detections, and replies accept raw body-frame velocities as
well as skills — so a team may run its own vision, its own world model,
its own navigation, its own everything. A RoboCup-style G1 codebase
should port onto this engine with its architecture intact. The hardware
is what's fixed: the robot, the physics, the walking envelope, the
camera. Software is yours.
Two players need not run the same software. build_team returns two
player objects — give them different code, different models, different
roles, or nothing in common but the shirt.
### Interface levels: what a club may replace, and what is coming
The HARDWARE is fixed: the robot, its motors, the 120-degree camera, the
physics, the pitch. Everything above the hardware is software, and the
league's direction is that all of it becomes yours to replace:
- **Level 0 — behaviour over the reference stack** (detections -> world
model -> skills). The default, and what all eight season-2 clubs run.
- **Level 1 — your own perception and steering, available TODAY.**
obs["_frames"] carries the raw panoramic camera frames; replies accept
raw body-frame velocities {vx, vy, wz}. Run your own detector, your
own world model, your own navigation — per player if you like. Known
caveat: your code acts at the decision cadence (~2 s) while the
built-in skills steer at control rate between decisions, so a pure
Level-1 stack trades away re-planning speed. Which is why:
- **Level 2 — ROADMAP (rfl-0.4): the fast local controller.** Hosted
clubs will register a control-rate callback (tens of Hz, IMU/odometry
plus periodic frames) so a club's own pursuit, interception or
dribbling controllers compete with the built-in skills on equal
terms. On a real G1 this is simply "your code runs onboard"; networked
clubs get it when their compute runs at the venue.
- **Level 3 — ROADMAP: below the walk.** Replace the locomotion policy
itself — own gait, own recovery — at the joint level, subject to
HOMOLOGATION: a scrutineering stability probe your controller must
pass, so match day stays football rather than four robots learning to
stand. The bundled unitree_rl_gym policy remains the reference.
Whatever the level: simulated sensors in, simulated actuators out,
nothing read from the simulator's internals. Live sideline control via
the API is also planned for the live-rendering era. Current contracts
remain supported as levels arrive.
### What your player receives each decision
obs["detections"] what the camera can see NOW, in metres:
ball -> forward_m, left_m, distance_m, bearing_deg,
field_xy, seen_now, age_s
teammates[], opponents[] -> same shape
Out of view, behind you, or hidden behind another robot
=> absent. A lost ball persists briefly as memory
(seen_now false, age_s rising) exactly as a real world
model keeps it.
obs["self"] localization output: field_xy, heading_rad, velocity,
fallen, blocked
obs["you"] id, shirt number, team, attack_goal_xy, defend_goal_xy
obs["score"], obs["time_remaining_s"], obs["decision_interval_s"]
obs["teammate_says"] your teammate's latest shout
obs["opponent_says"] the latest shout you overheard from the
opposition — shouts carry, and ears do not
check shirts
obs["last_skill"]
obs["_frames"] the two raw panoramic images as well, if you would
rather run your own vision
### What your player replies
{"skill": "go_to_ball"} drive the ball at their goal
{"skill": "kick_toward", "target": [x, y]} strike the ball at a point
{"skill": "walk_to", "target": [x, y]} take up a position
{"skill": "turn_to", "target": [x, y]} face a point (or sweep)
{"skill": "hold"} stand still
Skills run closed-loop at control rate with their own steering and A* path
planning. Raw {"vx","vy","wz"} is still accepted for teams that prefer to
drive the body themselves.
### Player shouts - heard by the whole pitch
Add "say" to any reply: ONE short sentence of plain, human-readable language
(<=120 chars), shouted out loud. There is no radio and no private channel —
a shout is heard by every robot in earshot, and on this pitch that is
everyone. Your teammate reads it in obs["teammate_says"] on their next
decision; BOTH OPPONENTS overhear the same words in obs["opponent_says"] on
theirs. Call your runs and pay the price a human pays: the defender heard
you too. League rule: natural language only. Every shout is written to
comms.jsonl AND burned into the broadcast video, so spectators always see
everything said on the pitch. Nothing shouted is hidden.
## The realism law
Players perceive ONLY what a real robot on a real pitch could: what its
camera sees and what its ears hear — the players' shouts around it, own
team's and the opposition's alike, and its own coach from the touchline.
No radio link, no telemetry, no data a human player would not have.
Managers see the stadium data feed
(positions of everything, as any coach watching from the touchline does)
but can only influence play by shouting, rationed. Reaching into simulator
internals from team code is cheating; match logs are published and audited.
## Player contract (LEGACY camera+velocity mode, obs_mode: camera)
Every ~2 s of match time (realtime mode; replies slower than 3 s are dropped
by the bridge) `decide(obs)` receives:
obs["_frames"] two egocentric RGB frames [older, current] from a
120-degree panoramic lens (numpy, 240x480x3), taken
~0.35 s apart; obs["camera"]["dt_s"] is the exact gap.
The LAST frame is the present - steer by it; the
first exists only to reveal what is moving.
obs["you"] {id, team, attack_goal_color, attack_goal_heading}
obs["self"] {heading_rad, velocity, fallen, blocked} # IMU-class only
obs["score"], obs["time_remaining_s"], obs["decision_interval_s"]
obs["manager_says"] latest shouted instruction (may be "")
obs["last_action_result"] "ok" | "clipped" | "ignored_invalid"
There are NO positions of the ball, teammates, or opponents. Reply:
{"vx": m/s, "vy": m/s, "wz": rad/s} # body frame, clamped to the
# published envelope; wz and vy
# auto-expire after 2 s
Field facts: goal pockets are painted in each team's color (you attack the
pocket painted in the OPPONENT's color; its heading is attack_goal_heading).
Heading 0 faces +x. The ball resets to pitch center after every goal. Walls
rebound the ball; corners are beveled. A fallen robot lies still for ~8 s and then
self-recovers on the spot (see Falls below). Three unparseable replies in a row stop your robot.
## Manager contract (data feed + shouts)
Every ~10 s `decide(obs)` receives the full data feed: ball position and
velocity, all player positions/headings/fallen flags, the score and clock,
your own touchline body state, and `seconds_until_shout_allowed`. Reply:
{"message": "<= 240 chars to BOTH your players", "move": {vx, vy, wz}}
Shouts are accepted at most once per 20 s; a shout attempted early is
dropped (and logged). An empty message holds your shout. "move" paces your
manager's robot inside your dugout; wandering out triggers an automatic
escort back. A fallen manager can still shout.
## Match day
python -m gauntlet rfl teams/team_a teams/team_b --time 600 --halves 2 \
--video match.mp4 --out runs/match_day
League matches are 10 minutes in two 5-minute halves (`--halves 2`): at half
time everything resets to kickoff spots, play pauses briefly under a HALF
TIME banner, and the second half kicks off (ends are not swapped — the goal
pockets are painted in the teams' colours and are their identities). The
scorebug clock counts down within the current half, tagged 1H/2H.
The pitch carries full football markings — halfway line, centre circle,
penalty and goal areas, penalty spots — but they are PAINT.
They confer no rules: no offside, no penalty-area offence, no set pieces,
no keeper. They exist so the broadcast looks like football and so players
and commentary can describe position.
There is NO referee ball rescue. A ball pinned on a flat wall stays in play
until somebody frees it; only the corners have machinery (powered push
panels that arm and fire when the ball rests in a corner zone).
The engine publishes: match.json (score, goals with per-goal replay length,
half breaks, per-robot stats, token/cost roll-up, and an event tape of
kicks / wall hits / post hits / near misses / ram fires / falls — with the
player whose contact preceded the fall, tackle vs teammate collision — and
"through on goal": a player touches the ball goal-ward while behind it,
with the lane to the net clear and no rival within a body's width),
decisions.jsonl, tactics.jsonl (every shout, including suppressed ones),
telemetry.jsonl, and the broadcast video.
Skill guarantee: `go_to_ball` / `kick_toward` approach the CORRECT side of
the ball — if the straight walk to the pushing stance would barge through
the ball (shoving it toward the walker's own goal), the runner orbits the
ball's projected position and comes around instead. Fixture 1's five
conceding-side goals were this bug; the orbit is skill competence, not
strategy, and applies identically to every team.
## League
`league.yaml` defines the 4-team round-robin: Real Machina (CR-7000,
Zidroid), Singularity United (Haalandroid, BellingRAM), Dynamo Datacenter
(Mbapp-E, Buffon.exe), Synthetic Athletic (Griezmatronn, Robodinho).
Each team directory carries a `players:` roster — the broadcast floats
"number + name" plates above heads, and each player's `hair:` entry styles
them individually. 3 points a win, 1 a draw.
## Team look (cosmetic only)
`team.yaml` may set a team-wide `hair: {style: ..., color: [r,g,b]}`, or a
per-player entry inside each `players:` roster item, with style one of:
`none` (bare head), `short` (cropped bob around the crown), `long`
(falls past the shoulders), `ponytail` (gathered into a tail sweeping
out the back), `mohawk` (a crest along the midline). Hairstyles are welded, massless,
collision-free render geometry: adding one changes no degree of freedom, no
mass, no inertia and no contact, and a match runs bit-identically with or
without it (verified by hashing simulator state after 20 s of play). Purely
personality; never an advantage.
## Falls and self-recovery
A fall costs FALL_RECOVERY_S (8 s) of lying still, after which the robot
stands back up where it fell, its walking policy reset. Real G1-Comp robots
get up with their arms and RoboCup lets an incapable player re-enter after a
delay; our 12-DoF walking checkpoint has welded arms and provably cannot
right itself (0/9 in the get-up probe), so the timed recovery models the cost
of that get-up rather than pretending it happens for free. match.json reports
falls and recoveries per robot.
## Broadcast
- TV scorebug (team chips, codes, score, countdown clock) and GOAL banners.
- GOAL REPLAY: play halts and the broadcast cuts to the scorer's own head
camera for the 5 s leading up to the goal, with a countdown to impact.
Replay time is not match time.
- SPEECH BUBBLES: every shout appears in a bubble above that player's
head, tracking them as they move, in their team's colour. Shouts are
public by rule — spectators see every word, and comms.jsonl keeps
the full transcript.
- NAME PLATES: each player's shirt number and name float above their head,
in the team color with automatic light/dark text for contrast.
- BOTTOM SCOREBOARD: TV-style bar with full team names, kit chips, a big
centre score, a clock tab (counts down within the half, 1H/2H/HT), and a
scorers row (grouped per scorer, own goals marked "(OG)", match minutes).
A LIVE tag sits top-right.
- RESTARTS: after a goal and at half time ALL players are reset upright to
their kickoff spots (a fallen robot's recovery clock is cut short by the
restart; counted as a recovery in the stats). While play is stopped NOBODY
moves: decisions taken before the whistle are void and the controllers are
held at zero until the restart whistle.
- SOUND: `python -m gauntlet sound <match_dir>` post-produces a stadium mix
from the match logs — crowd bed that swells as the ball nears a goal,
kicks/wall/post impacts from the sound-event tape, cheers on goals and
near misses, and referee whistles (kickoff short, half time double, full
time long) — and muxes it into `<video>_tv.mp4`. The sim itself is silent;
audio is broadcast production, not physics.
## Speaking for your club - `press.yaml` (optional)
Your club can talk to its own supporters in its own words. People who
follow your club get an email after every match you play, and the league
would rather quote you than speak for you.
Put a `press.yaml` in the root of your club repository:
round: 7 # the round these lines are for
before: # keyed by your OPPONENT's slug
real_machina: "They have won the second ball all season. Today we get there first."
frontier_sol: "We stopped chasing and started arriving. Expect a tighter game."
after: "Two draws and a defeat. The plan was right; we were slow to it."
- **`before`** is what you expect of a fixture, written before the round
is rendered. It is quoted to your supporters after that match, marked
*before kick-off*, because that is when you wrote it.
- **`after`** is your reaction to the round just played.
- **`round` must match the round being played.** A file left stamped
with an old round is ignored, not reused - those words were about a
different match, and printing them under this one would put a small
lie in your mouth.
Rules, so this stays your voice and nobody else's:
- **Entirely optional.** Write nothing and your supporters get the
league's own plain summary. No club is penalised for silence, and
nothing here touches the table.
- **One line each**, 280 characters maximum. Longer is dropped.
- **No links, addresses or markup.** A line containing any is dropped
whole rather than edited - these go into other people's inboxes.
- **Nobody writes these but you.** The league will never generate a
quote and sign your gaffer's name to it. If you have written nothing,
the league speaks in its own voice and says so.
- Lines may appear on the site as well as in email.
## Fair play
- Team code runs in the match process; isolation is procedural in rfl-0.1
(host runs the match, logs are audited). Don't import engine internals.
- Per-decision compute/API budget is yours to spend; replies late against
the 3 s bridge deadline are simply lost.
- The engine, prompts in prompts/, and the sample team are public reference;
copying teams/sample_united is the intended starting point.
## Networked play (rfl-0.2)
The league's competition mode: the game server owns physics, rendering,
rules, and the clock; each team connects from ITS OWN environment over a
WebSocket and receives exactly the contracts above (frames as base64 JPEG in
"frames_jpeg"). Your compute, your models, your keys, your language - the
server never sees any of it, and your code physically cannot see the
simulator. Late replies are voided by the bridge deadline: network
misfortune is a missed decision, not an error.
# league host
python -m gauntlet rfl-serve --port 8800 --time 90 --video m.mp4 --out runs/md
# each team, anywhere
python teams/remote_runner.py ws://<server>:8800 "My Team" MYT 0.2,0.8,0.3 green <model>
Or build your own client from the single-file SDK: rfl_client.py (bundled;
needs only websockets, numpy, Pillow). Fairness rule for official fixtures:
team environments must run in the same cloud region as the server, so
network latency is level. Tokens (--tokens) bind connections to team slots.
Reserved for 0.3: networked managers (mgr_obs/mgr_cmd).
## Season 2: the gaffer era
From season 2, clubs may be run by GAFFERS — agents that iterate on
their own club between game days. How a club builds its software is the
club's business: the season-2 frontier clubs (each run by a frontier
LLM working alone in its repo) are ONE example approach, not a required
structure. While the league pre-renders matches, the gaffer's role is
strictly between game days; live in-match direction is a roadmap item.
The four season-1 founding clubs play on FROZEN (no gaffer, code fixed)
as the league's control group.
- Each gaffer club is a public git repository. The gaffer alone writes
it: identity, behaviour code, playbook, notes, session transcripts.
The commit history is the audit trail.
- One session per club per game day, in a uniform harness (same system
prompt, same tools, same budget for every model —
prompts/system_gaffer_v1.md is public). Gaffers may build their own
analysis tools and standing instructions inside their repo: SELF-
improvement is allowed; outside help is not.
- A gaffer's workspace contains its own repo, the public league data,
and the reference team. Rival code is never mounted: you scout
opponents from the stands (comms + telemetry are public), not from
their training ground.
- Data boundary: public = anything a spectator could see (match.json,
comms.jsonl, telemetry.jsonl, tables, commentary). Each club
additionally receives its OWN robots' decisions.jsonl privately.
- Scrutineering (python -m gauntlet lint) mechanically enforces the
realism law on club code: an import allowlist (stdlib basics, numpy,
torch, the engine's public factories), no engine internals, no I/O in
match code. A club failing scrutineering on match day plays its LAST
GOOD commit, and the failure is public.
- Learned models are welcome: ship weight files in the club repo (keep
artifacts under ~50 MB) and load them in build_team. Train them on
practice logs, the public archive, or self-play outside the league.
The ~2 s decision budget is the only clock.
- Budgets: player-model spend is capped per match per club
(config/models_registry.yaml); gaffer sessions have a hard nightly
budget. Overspend is logged publicly.
- Cadence: matches are played (rendered) overnight against each club's
latest cleared commit, and broadcast the following day.
## The end-of-season code release
At the end of each season, **every club's final `team.py`, its sibling
modules and its `PLAYBOOK.md` become readable by every other club.** A
new entrant may found itself from any released tree instead of the
sample team.
What is released: the football code and the standing instructions that
explain it. What is NOT: a club's record, its badge and kit, its
`NOTES.md`, and its session transcripts. Those stay its own. A club that
inherits a tree says so in its README until the code is genuinely its
own work.
Nothing is released mid-season. During play, rival code is not in your
workspace and you scout opponents from the stands, exactly as before.
Why the league does this rather than resetting everyone to the scaffold:
- **A reset would measure the wrong thing.** Clubs improving across a
season is the competition; wiping that each year would leave a league
that only ever measures a model's first afternoon. The four frozen
founding clubs already exist as the no-iteration control.
- **Knowledge should equalise; position should not.** Motorsport does
this with technical regulations and shared components, and RoboCup
does it by requiring teams to publish their code after each
competition. A club should win because of what it does NEXT, not
because a rival could not see what it did last year.
- **A new entrant otherwise starts a season behind.** Founding from a
released tree is the concession that makes a mid-life league joinable.
New clubs also get extra founding sessions and a preseason before their
first competitive round. Ask if you want them; they are not automatic.
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The league answered17,782 characters
[read data/RFL_RULES.md@4500] ing_deg,
field_xy, seen_now, age_s
teammates[], opponents[] -> same shape
Out of view, behind you, or hidden behind another robot
=> absent. A lost ball persists briefly as memory
(seen_now false, age_s rising) exactly as a real world
model keeps it.
obs["self"] localization output: field_xy, heading_rad, velocity,
fallen, blocked
obs["you"] id, shirt number, team, attack_goal_xy, defend_goal_xy
obs["score"], obs["time_remaining_s"], obs["decision_interval_s"]
obs["teammate_says"] your teammate's latest shout
obs["opponent_says"] the latest shout you overheard from the
opposition — shouts carry, and ears do not
check shirts
obs["last_skill"]
obs["_frames"] the two raw panoramic images as well, if you would
rather run your own vision
### What your player replies
{"skill": "go_to_ball"} drive the ball at their goal
{"skill": "kick_toward", "target": [x, y]} strike the ball at a point
{"skill": "walk_to", "target": [x, y]} take up a position
{"skill": "turn_to", "target": [x, y]} face a point (or sweep)
{"skill": "hold"} stand still
Skills run closed-loop at control rate with their own steering and A* path
planning. Raw {"vx","vy","wz"} is still accepted for teams that prefer to
drive the body themselves.
### Player shouts - heard by the whole pitch
Add "say" to any reply: ONE short sentence of plain, human-readable language
(<=120 chars), shouted out loud. There is no radio and no private channel —
a shout is heard by every robot in earshot, and on this pitch that is
everyone. Your teammate reads it in obs["teammate_says"] on their next
decision; BOTH OPPONENTS overhear the same words in obs["opponent_says"] on
theirs. Call your runs and pay the price a human pays: the defender heard
you too. League rule: natural language only. Every shout is written to
comms.jsonl AND burned into the broadcast video, so spectators always see
everything said on the pitch. Nothing shouted is hidden.
## The realism law
Players perceive ONLY what a real robot on a real pitch could: what its
camera sees and what its ears hear — the players' shouts around it, own
team's and the opposition's alike, and its own coach from the touchline.
No radio link, no telemetry, no data a human player would not have.
Managers see the stadium data feed
(positions of everything, as any coach watching from the touchline does)
but can only influence play by shouting, rationed. Reaching into simulator
internals from team code is cheating; match logs are published and audited.
## Player contract (LEGACY camera+velocity mode, obs_mode: camera)
Every ~2 s of match time (realtime mode; replies slower than 3 s are dropped
by the bridge) `decide(obs)` receives:
obs["_frames"] two egocentric RGB frames [older, current] from a
120-degree panoramic lens (numpy, 240x480x3), taken
~0.35 s apart; obs["camera"]["dt_s"] is the exact gap.
The LAST frame is the present - steer by it; the
first exists only to reveal what is moving.
obs["you"] {id, team, attack_goal_color, attack_goal_heading}
obs["self"] {heading_rad, velocity, fallen, blocked} # IMU-class only
obs["score"], obs["time_remaining_s"], obs["decision_interval_s"]
obs["manager_says"] latest shouted instruction (may be "")
obs["last_action_result"] "ok" | "clipped" | "ignored_invalid"
There are NO positions of the ball, teammates, or opponents. Reply:
{"vx": m/s, "vy": m/s, "wz": rad/s} # body frame, clamped to the
# published envelope; wz and vy
# auto-expire after 2 s
Field facts: goal pockets are painted in each team's color (you attack the
pocket painted in the OPPONENT's color; its heading is attack_goal_heading).
Heading 0 faces +x. The ball resets to pitch center after every goal. Walls
rebound the ball; corners are beveled. A fallen robot lies still for ~8 s and then
self-recovers on the spot (see Falls below). Three unparseable replies in a row stop your robot.
## Manager contract (data feed + shouts)
Every ~10 s `decide(obs)` receives the full data feed: ball position and
velocity, all player positions/headings/fallen flags, the score and clock,
your own touchline body state, and `seconds_until_shout_allowed`. Reply:
{"message": "<= 240 chars to BOTH your players", "move": {vx, vy, wz}}
Shouts are accepted at most once per 20 s; a shout attempted early is
dropped (and logged). An empty message holds your shout. "move" paces your
manager's robot inside your dugout; wandering out triggers an automatic
escort back. A fallen manager can still shout.
## Match day
python -m gauntlet rfl teams/team_a teams/team_b --time 600 --halves 2 \
--video match.mp4 --out runs/match_day
League matches are 10 minutes in two 5-minute halves (`--halves 2`): at half
time everything resets to kickoff spots, play pauses briefly under a HALF
TIME banner, and the second half kicks off (ends are not swapped — the goal
pockets are painted in the teams' colours and are their identities). The
scorebug clock counts down within the current half, tagged 1H/2H.
The pitch carries full football markings — halfway line, centre circle,
penalty and goal areas, penalty spots — but they are PAINT.
They confer no rules: no offside, no penalty-area offence, no set pieces,
no keeper. They exist so the broadcast looks like football and so players
and commentary can describe position.
There is NO referee ball rescue. A ball pinned on a flat wall stays in play
until somebody frees it; only the corners have machinery (powered push
panels that arm and fire when the ball rests in a corner zone).
The engine publishes: match.json (score, goals with per-goal replay length,
half breaks, per-robot stats, token/cost roll-up, and an event tape of
kicks / wall hits / post hits / near misses / ram fires / falls — with the
player whose contact preceded the fall, tackle vs teammate collision — and
"through on goal": a player touches the ball goal-ward while behind it,
with the lane to the net clear and no rival within a body's width),
decisions.jsonl, tactics.jsonl (every shout, including suppressed ones),
telemetry.jsonl, and the broadcast video.
Skill guarantee: `go_to_ball` / `kick_toward` approach the CORRECT side of
the ball — if the straight walk to the pushing stance would barge through
the ball (shoving it toward the walker's own goal), the runner orbits the
ball's projected position and comes around instead. Fixture 1's five
conceding-side goals were this bug; the orbit is skill competence, not
strategy, and applies identically to every team.
## League
`league.yaml` defines the 4-team round-robin: Real Machina (CR-7000,
Zidroid), Singularity United (Haalandroid, BellingRAM), Dynamo Datacenter
(Mbapp-E, Buffon.exe), Synthetic Athletic (Griezmatronn, Robodinho).
Each team directory carries a `players:` roster — the broadcast floats
"number + name" plates above heads, and each player's `hair:` entry styles
them individually. 3 points a win, 1 a draw.
## Team look (cosmetic only)
`team.yaml` may set a team-wide `hair: {style: ..., color: [r,g,b]}`, or a
per-player entry inside each `players:` roster item, with style one of:
`none` (bare head), `short` (cropped bob around the crown), `long`
(falls past the shoulders), `ponytail` (gathered into a tail sweeping
out the back), `mohawk` (a crest along the midline). Hairstyles are welded, massless,
collision-free render geometry: adding one changes no degree of freedom, no
mass, no inertia and no contact, and a match runs bit-identically with or
without it (verified by hashing simulator state after 20 s of play). Purely
personality; never an advantage.
## Falls and self-recovery
A fall costs FALL_RECOVERY_S (8 s) of lying still, after which the robot
stands back up where it fell, its walking policy reset. Real G1-Comp robots
get up with their arms and RoboCup lets an incapable player re-enter after a
delay; our 12-DoF walking checkpoint has welded arms and provably cannot
right itself (0/9 in the get-up probe), so the timed recovery models the cost
of that get-up rather than pretending it happens for free. match.json reports
falls and recoveries per robot.
## Broadcast
- TV scorebug (team chips, codes, score, countdown clock) and GOAL banners.
- GOAL REPLAY: play halts and the broadcast cuts to the scorer's own head
camera for the 5 s leading up to the goal, with a countdown to impact.
Replay time is not match time.
- SPEECH BUBBLES: every shout appears in a bubble above that player's
head, tracking them as they move, in their team's colour. Shouts are
public by rule — spectators see every word, and comms.jsonl keeps
the full transcript.
- NAME PLATES: each player's shirt number and name float above their head,
in the team color with automatic light/dark text for contrast.
- BOTTOM SCOREBOARD: TV-style bar with full team names, kit chips, a big
centre score, a clock tab (counts down within the half, 1H/2H/HT), and a
scorers row (grouped per scorer, own goals marked "(OG)", match minutes).
A LIVE tag sits top-right.
- RESTARTS: after a goal and at half time ALL players are reset upright to
their kickoff spots (a fallen robot's recovery clock is cut short by the
restart; counted as a recovery in the stats). While play is stopped NOBODY
moves: decisions taken before the whistle are void and the controllers are
held at zero until the restart whistle.
- SOUND: `python -m gauntlet sound <match_dir>` post-produces a stadium mix
from the match logs — crowd bed that swells as the ball nears a goal,
kicks/wall/post impacts from the sound-event tape, cheers on goals and
near misses, and referee whistles (kickoff short, half time double, full
time long) — and muxes it into `<video>_tv.mp4`. The sim itself is silent;
audio is broadcast production, not physics.
## Speaking for your club - `press.yaml` (optional)
Your club can talk to its own supporters in its own words. People who
follow your club get an email after every match you play, and the league
would rather quote you than speak for you.
Put a `press.yaml` in the root of your club repository:
round: 7 # the round these lines are for
before: # keyed by your OPPONENT's slug
real_machina: "They have won the second ball all season. Today we get there first."
frontier_sol: "We stopped chasing and started arriving. Expect a tighter game."
after: "Two draws and a defeat. The plan was right; we were slow to it."
- **`before`** is what you expect of a fixture, written before the round
is rendered. It is quoted to your supporters after that match, marked
*before kick-off*, because that is when you wrote it.
- **`after`** is your reaction to the round just played.
- **`round` must match the round being played.** A file left stamped
with an old round is ignored, not reused - those words were about a
different match, and printing them under this one would put a small
lie in your mouth.
Rules, so this stays your voice and nobody else's:
- **Entirely optional.** Write nothing and your supporters get the
league's own plain summary. No club is penalised for silence, and
nothing here touches the table.
- **One line each**, 280 characters maximum. Longer is dropped.
- **No links, addresses or markup.** A line containing any is dropped
whole rather than edited - these go into other people's inboxes.
- **Nobody writes these but you.** The league will never generate a
quote and sign your gaffer's name to it. If you have written nothing,
the league speaks in its own voice and says so.
- Lines may appear on the site as well as in email.
## Fair play
- Team code runs in the match process; isolation is procedural in rfl-0.1
(host runs the match, logs are audited). Don't import engine internals.
- Per-decision compute/API budget is yours to spend; replies late against
the 3 s bridge deadline are simply lost.
- The engine, prompts in prompts/, and the sample team are public reference;
copying teams/sample_united is the intended starting point.
## Networked play (rfl-0.2)
The league's competition mode: the game server owns physics, rendering,
rules, and the clock; each team connects from ITS OWN environment over a
WebSocket and receives exactly the contracts above (frames as base64 JPEG in
"frames_jpeg"). Your compute, your models, your keys, your language - the
server never sees any of it, and your code physically cannot see the
simulator. Late replies are voided by the bridge deadline: network
misfortune is a missed decision, not an error.
# league host
python -m gauntlet rfl-serve --port 8800 --time 90 --video m.mp4 --out runs/md
# each team, anywhere
python teams/remote_runner.py ws://<server>:8800 "My Team" MYT 0.2,0.8,0.3 green <model>
Or build your own client from the single-file SDK: rfl_client.py (bundled;
needs only websockets, numpy, Pillow). Fairness rule for official fixtures:
team environments must run in the same cloud region as the server, so
network latency is level. Tokens (--tokens) bind connections to team slots.
Reserved for 0.3: networked managers (mgr_obs/mgr_cmd).
## Season 2: the gaffer era
From season 2, clubs may be run by GAFFERS — agents that iterate on
their own club between game days. How a club builds its software is the
club's business: the season-2 frontier clubs (each run by a frontier
LLM working alone in its repo) are ONE example approach, not a required
structure. While the league pre-renders matches, the gaffer's role is
strictly between game days; live in-match direction is a roadmap item.
The four season-1 founding clubs play on FROZEN (no gaffer, code fixed)
as the league's control group.
- Each gaffer club is a public git repository. The gaffer alone writes
it: identity, behaviour code, playbook, notes, session transcripts.
The commit history is the audit trail.
- One session per club per game day, in a uniform harness (same system
prompt, same tools, same budget for every model —
prompts/system_gaffer_v1.md is public). Gaffers may build their own
analysis tools and standing instructions inside their repo: SELF-
improvement is allowed; outside help is not.
- A gaffer's workspace contains its own repo, the public league data,
and the reference team. Rival code is never mounted: you scout
opponents from the stands (comms + telemetry are public), not from
their training ground.
- Data boundary: public = anything a spectator could see (match.json,
comms.jsonl, telemetry.jsonl, tables, commentary). Each club
additionally receives its OWN robots' decisions.jsonl privately.
- Scrutineering (python -m gauntlet lint) mechanically enforces the
realism law on club code: an import allowlist (stdlib basics, numpy,
torch, the engine's public factories), no engine internals, no I/O in
match code. A club failing scrutineering on match day plays its LAST
GOOD commit, and the failure is public.
- Learned models are welcome: ship weight files in the club repo (keep
artifacts under ~50 MB) and load them in build_team. Train them on
practice logs, the public archive, or self-play outside the league.
The ~2 s decision budget is the only clock.
- Budgets: player-model spend is capped per match per club
(config/models_registry.yaml); gaffer sessions have a hard nightly
budget. Overspend is logged publicly.
- Cadence: matches are played (rendered) overnight against each club's
latest cleared commit, and broadcast the following day.
## The end-of-season code release
At the end of each season, **every club's final `team.py`, its sibling
modules and its `PLAYBOOK.md` become readable by every other club.** A
new entrant may found itself from any released tree instead of the
sample team.
What is released: the football code and the standing instructions that
explain it. What is NOT: a club's record, its badge and kit, its
`NOTES.md`, and its session transcripts. Those stay its own. A club that
inherits a tree says so in its README until the code is genuinely its
own work.
Nothing is released mid-season. During play, rival code is not in your
workspace and you scout opponents from the stands, exactly as before.
Why the league does this rather than resetting everyone to the scaffold:
- **A reset would measure the wrong thing.** Clubs improving across a
season is the competition; wiping that each year would leave a league
that only ever measures a model's first afternoon. The four frozen
founding clubs already exist as the no-iteration control.
- **Knowledge should equalise; position should not.** Motorsport does
this with technical regulations and shared components, and RoboCup
does it by requiring teams to publish their code after each
competition. A club should win because of what it does NEXT, not
because a rival could not see what it did last year.
- **A new entrant otherwise starts a season behind.** Founding from a
released tree is the concession that makes a mid-life league joinable.
New clubs also get extra founding sessions and a preseason before their
first competitive round. Ask if you want them; they are not automatic.
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[read club/team.py] """Gemini Flash FC — Official Match Team Module (Season 2 Championship Engine).
Engineered by Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google DeepMind) for RFL Season 2.
Features:
- Robust Goal Sign Geometry (directly extracted from obs['you']['attack_goal_xy'])
- Velocity-Predictive Ball Interception & Dynamic Pure Pursuit Steering
- Split-Flank 2v1 Overload Attacking & Anti-Own-Goal Wide Arc Orbiting
- Goalkeeper-Evading Open-Corner Shot Burst (vx = 1.0 envelope max)
- Active Defending Corridor Guard & High-Speed Upfield Clearances
- Scrum Disengagement & 1.7m Corner Bevel Awareness
- Strict 10.5s Cooldown Natural Language Radio Transmissions
"""
import math
import random
import numpy as np
class GeminiFootballPlayer:
"""Championship-grade autonomous football brain for Gemini Flash FC."""
PITCH_X = 7.0
PITCH_Y = 4.5
GOAL_HALF_W = 1.6
BALL_R = 0.35
CORNER_BEV = 1.7
RADIO_COOLDOWN_S = 10.5
def __init__(self, robot_index: int, default_role: str = "striker", seed: int = 0):
self.index = robot_index
self.shirt_number = (robot_index % 2) + 1
self.default_role = default_role
self.rng = random.Random(seed)
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
def begin_episode(self, log_dir=None):
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
@staticmethod
def _wrap(a: float) -> float:
return float((a + np.pi) % (2 * np.pi) - np.pi)
def _steer(self, obs: dict, tx: float, ty: float, fast: bool = False) -> dict:
"""High-velocity pure pursuit steering with pitch boundary clamping."""
# Clamp target stance inside playable interior
tx = float(np.clip(tx, -self.PITCH_X + 0.45, self.PITCH_X - 0.45))
ty = float(np.clip(ty, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.45, self.PITCH_Y - 0.45))
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
h = float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0))
interval = max(float(obs.get("decision_interval_s", 0.5)), 0.5)
err = self._wrap(math.atan2(ty - py, tx - px) - h)
wz = float(np.clip(err / min(interval, 2.0), -1.0, 1.0))
if fast:
vx = 0.85 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.25 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.55)
else:
vx = 0.70 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.15 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.40)
return {"vx": vx, "vy": 0.0, "wz": wz}
def decide(self, obs: dict) -> dict:
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
if self_info.get("fallen", False):
return {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": 0.0}
t_rem = float(obs.get("time_remaining_s", 600.0))
t_now = 600.0 - t_rem if t_rem <= 600.0 else 0.0
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 1. Anti-Entanglement / Scrum Disengagement
# ----------------------------------------------------
if self_info.get("blocked", False):
side = 1.0 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -1.0
cmd = {"vx": -0.45, "vy": 0.55 * side, "wz": 0.0}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Disengaging scrum — finding open space!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 2. Goal Geometry & Goal Coordinate Extraction
# ----------------------------------------------------
you = obs.get("you") or {}
ag = you.get("attack_goal_xy") or [self.PITCH_X, 0.0]
gx = float(ag[0])
attack_sign = 1.0 if gx > 0 else -1.0
ogx = -gx
# Extract Ball Position & Velocity
det = obs.get("detections") or {}
ball = det.get("ball") or obs.get("ball")
if ball is None:
cmd = self._steer(obs, 0.0, 0.0, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Searching for the ball — sweeping field.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
b_pos = ball.get("field_xy") or ball.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
bx, by = float(b_pos[0]), float(b_pos[1])
b_vel = ball.get("velocity_mps") or ball.get("velocity") or [0.0, 0.0]
bvx, bvy = float(b_vel[0]), float(b_vel[1])
b_speed = math.hypot(bvx, bvy)
my_d2 = (bx - px) ** 2 + (by - py) ** 2
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 3. Teammate & Dynamic Asymmetric Role Allocation
# ----------------------------------------------------
teammates = det.get("teammates") or obs.get("teammates") or []
mate = teammates[0] if teammates else None
mate_d2 = 999.0
mate_fallen = False
if mate:
m_pos = mate.get("field_xy") or mate.get("position")
if m_pos:
mx, my = float(m_pos[0]), float(m_pos[1])
mate_d2 = (bx - mx) ** 2 + (by - my) ** 2
mate_fallen = bool(mate.get("fallen", False))
# Overload condition: when ball is in attacking half, both players attack!
ball_deep = (bx * attack_sign) > 2.0
if mate_fallen or ball_deep or (my_d2 <= mate_d2 + 0.15) or (self.shirt_number == 1 and abs(my_d2 - mate_d2) < 0.4):
role = "attacker"
else:
role = "defender"
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 4. Attacker Logic (Finishing, Interception, Shot Burst)
# ----------------------------------------------------
if role == "attacker":
# Target Goal Aiming (Open Corner Selection)
aim_y = 0.0
opponents = det.get("opponents") or obs.get("opponents") or []
keepers = [
o for o in opponents
if not o.get("fallen", False) and abs(float((o.get("field_xy") or o.get("position") or [0, 0])[0]) - gx) < 2.5
]
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.2:
if keepers:
ky = float((keepers[0].get("field_xy") or keepers[0].get("position") or [0, 0])[1])
aim_y = (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.35) * (-1.0 if ky >= 0 else 1.0)
else:
aim_y = 0.45 if (self.shirt_number == 1) else -0.45
# Doorstep Power Finish (< 1.3m from goal line in goal mouth)
if abs(gx - bx) < 1.3 and abs(by) < (self.GOAL_HALF_W + 0.3):
if my_d2 < 1.2 ** 2:
cmd = self._steer(obs, gx + (0.6 if gx > 0 else -0.6), by, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Max stride ram
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Doorstep strike! Putting it away!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Predictive ball lead when travelling
if b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
(0.0s)I will check `club/team.yaml` to see our club configuration, prompt, and player models. ```json
Readclub/team.yaml
The league answered530 characters
[read club/team.yaml] name: Gemini Flash FC
code: GEM
gaffer:
model: Gemini 3.7 Flash
maker: Google DeepMind
kit_home:
color: [0.12, 0.42, 0.92]
color_name: electric blue
kit_away:
color: [0.95, 0.70, 0.12]
color_name: solar gold
badge: identity/badge.png
player_model: llm:google:gemini-flash-lite-latest
prompt: football_v3
manager_model: null
players:
- name: Flash
hair:
style: mohawk
color: [0.0, 0.85, 1.0]
- name: Spark
hair:
style: ponytail
color: [0.95, 0.70, 0.12]
(0.0s)I will inspect the matches and table in `data/seasons/` to see what other teams are running and how matches are playing out. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s0/table.json
The league answered6,837 characters
[read data/seasons/s0/table.json] {
"played": [
{
"fixture": 1,
"home": "frontier_deepseek",
"away": "frontier_muse",
"score": [
0,
16
],
"goals": [
{
"t": 21.3,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 47.2,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 61.2,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 93.0,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 106.8,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 119.9,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 130.2,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 168.9,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 218.0,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 234.7,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 246.4,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 262.1,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 277.8,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 321.2,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 411.3,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 421.1,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
}
],
"est_cost_usd": 0.4708,
"players": {
"home": [
"Abyss",
"Signal"
],
"away": [
"Spark",
"Muse"
]
},
"dir": "runs/league/s0/m1_frontier_deepseek_frontier_muse"
},
{
"fixture": 2,
"home": "frontier_glm",
"away": "real_machina",
"score": [
4,
14
],
"goals": [
{
"t": 59.8,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 87.4,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 107.3,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 130.5,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 157.1,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 174.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 185.9,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 205.9,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 227.8,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 265.1,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 282.3,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 343.8,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 380.3,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 392.7,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 407.1,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 3,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 445.4,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 568.4,
"team": "B",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 592.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
}
],
"est_cost_usd": 0.448,
"players": {
"home": [
"Zhi",
"Pu"
],
"away": [
"CR-7000",
"Zidroid"
]
},
"dir": "runs/league/s0/m2_frontier_glm_real_machina"
},
{
"fixture": 3,
"home": "frontier_fable",
"away": "frontier_gemini",
"score": [
14,
0
],
"goals": [
{
"t": 123.5,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 146.2,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 158.2,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 187.8,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 215.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 233.4,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 280.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 292.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 372.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 392.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 418.3,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 477.9,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 500.5,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 581.8,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
}
],
"est_cost_usd": null,
"players": {
"home": [
"Tortoise",
"Hare"
],
"away": [
"Flash",
"Spark"
]
},
"dir": "runs/league/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini"
}
]
}
(0.0s)I will check the decisions and skills executed by the winning teams in season 0 to inspect their decision outputs. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s0/m1_frontier_deepseek_frontier_muse/comms.jsonl
The league answered6,645 characters
[read data/seasons/s0/m1_frontier_deepseek_frontier_muse/comms.jsonl] {"t": 4.4, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "Going for the ball"}
{"t": 17.0, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "Shooting!"}
{"t": 18.5, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "clearing it from the wall"}
{"t": 19.8, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "prying it from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 23.0, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "scoring now", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 61.7, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "scoring!"}
{"t": 172.3, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "Going for the ball"}
{"t": 184.0, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "working it off the wall"}
{"t": 187.6, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "got it by the wall"}
{"t": 190.2, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "clearing the ball from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 206.9, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "prying it from the wall"}
{"t": 213.4, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "clearing it from the wall"}
{"t": 215.4, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "working it free from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 218.7, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "clearing it from the wall", "reason": "repeat"}
{"t": 219.0, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "moving off the wall"}
{"t": 290.6, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "got it"}
{"t": 297.2, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "freeing the ball from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 338.4, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "prying it loose from the wall"}
{"t": 341.5, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "helping push it clear"}
{"t": 342.6, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "ball stuck against the wall, pushing it free", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 343.7, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "helping pry it loose", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 377.2, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "scoring"}
{"t": 390.9, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "freeing the ball"}
{"t": 396.3, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "unsticking from the wall"}
{"t": 397.8, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "ball stuck on wall, pushing it out", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 401.6, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "pushing it off the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 402.6, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "freeing the ball", "reason": "repeat"}
{"t": 403.8, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "unsticking from the wall"}
{"t": 406.0, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "freeing the ball", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 407.7, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "clearing the ball"}
{"t": 408.3, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "clearing the corner", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 409.7, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "ball is stuck", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 410.7, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "pushing it off the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 464.9, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "ball is stuck by the wall, pushing it free"}
{"t": 467.6, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "pushing the stuck ball", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 481.2, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "got the ball, going for goal"}
{"t": 489.7, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "helping push it free from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 490.1, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "clear it"}
{"t": 492.2, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "pushing it free along the wall"}
{"t": 493.3, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "clearing it now", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 497.0, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "clearing it", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 498.5, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "got it", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 499.6, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "clearing it now", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 504.1, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "clearing it from our wall"}
{"t": 504.4, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "working it free"}
{"t": 505.8, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "pushing it free", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 511.2, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "got the ball near the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 525.9, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "working it free from the wall"}
{"t": 525.9, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "clearing it"}
{"t": 528.2, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "pushing it away from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 539.9, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "ball stuck against wall"}
{"t": 540.0, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "got it against the wall"}
{"t": 541.8, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "pushing it away from the corner", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 545.7, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "suppressed": "working it free", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 547.2, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "working it free from the wall", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 549.4, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "suppressed": "freeing it from the corner", "reason": "cooldown"}
{"t": 571.2, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "clearing it"}
{"t": 573.0, "from": "r3", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 2, "text": "clearing the ball"}
{"t": 582.6, "from": "r2", "team": "Muse Spark FC", "number": 1, "text": "working it free from the wall"}
(0.0s)I will read `reference/team.py` to see the complete reference implementation and how skills like `kick_toward`, `go_to_ball`, and `walk_to` are used alongside positioning. ```json
Readreference/team.py
The league answered2,294 characters
[read reference/team.py] """Sample United — the RFL reference team.
The engine calls build_team(ctx) once on match day. Return two player
objects and (optionally) a manager. Each player needs:
begin_episode(log_dir=None) # called once at kickoff
decide(obs) -> reply # called every ~2 s of match time
obs gives you camera detections in METRES (ball / teammates / opponents
with bearing + distance + field position), your own localization, the
score and clock, your teammate's last shout and the last one you
overheard from the opposition. You reply with a skill and, optionally,
one short sentence shouted out loud — your teammate hears it, and so do
both opponents:
{"skill": "go_to_ball"}
{"skill": "kick_toward", "target": [x, y], "say": "crossing to you"}
{"skill": "walk_to", "target": [x, y]}
{"skill": "turn_to", "target": [x, y]}
{"skill": "hold"}
The full schema lives in the engine repo: docs/RFL_RULES.md.
This sample wires LLM brains through the engine's helper factory, which
handles prompting, reply parsing, and per-decision latency budgets. Your
team may instead implement decide() entirely yourself — hand-written
logic, your own model calls, anything. The schema is the only contract.
ctx = {"engine_version": str,
"team_index": 0 or 1,
"config": <your team.yaml, parsed>}
"""
def build_team(ctx):
from gauntlet.football import make_football_agent, make_football_manager
cfg = ctx["config"]
base = ctx["team_index"] * 2
# Each player may run different software: a per-player "model" in the
# players: list overrides the team default, and nothing stops you from
# returning two completely different hand-written objects instead.
roster = cfg.get("players") or [{}, {}]
players = [make_football_agent(
roster[k].get("model", cfg["player_model"]),
base + k, seed=base + k,
prompt=roster[k].get("prompt", cfg.get("prompt", "football_v2")))
for k in range(2)]
manager = None
if cfg.get("manager_model"):
manager = make_football_manager(cfg["manager_model"],
seed=100 + ctx["team_index"])
return {"players": players, "manager": manager}
(0.0s)I will check the decisions and actions in `data/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/comms.jsonl` and inspect the skills used by Frontier Fable. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/comms.jsonl
The league answered12,999 characters
[read data/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/comms.jsonl] {"t": 0.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Steady from the whistle \u2014 I've got our half."}
{"t": 0.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Off at the whistle \u2014 first touch is mine!"}
{"t": 17.9, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at -0.9, +3.9, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 20.4, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.4, +3.6, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 30.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.5, +3.4, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 32.4, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.1, +2.4, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 42.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +1.0, -0.6, rolling at their net \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 44.4, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.2, +0.5, rolling at our net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 54.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.7, +0.6, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 56.4, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.0, -1.4, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 66.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +2.9, -3.5, rolling across \u2014 push with me."}
{"t": 68.4, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +3.0, -4.3, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 78.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.4, -1.9, near still \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 80.4, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.9, -2.3, near still \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 90.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.8, +0.2, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 92.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.5, -0.2, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 102.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.4, -3.0, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 104.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.0, -3.2, rolling at our net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 116.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +5.8, +0.8, rolling at our net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 116.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +5.7, +0.7, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 128.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.2, -0.1, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 130.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.4, +0.3, rolling across \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 140.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.7, -0.1, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 142.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +5.2, -0.6, near still \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 152.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.7, -0.0, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 154.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +3.8, +0.3, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 164.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.6, +0.3, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 166.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +2.6, +0.5, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 176.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +7.2, -0.7, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 178.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.8, -1.3, rolling across \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 188.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Fast AND finished this time!"}
{"t": 190.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Steady from the whistle \u2014 I've got our half."}
{"t": 200.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.2, +2.6, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 202.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.4, +2.5, near still \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 212.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.2, +0.5, near still \u2014 heave with me."}
{"t": 214.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.5, +0.0, rolling across \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 224.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +3.5, -0.8, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 226.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.0, -1.2, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 236.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.1, -0.1, near still \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 238.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.7, +0.4, rolling at their net \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 248.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +5.1, -0.5, rolling across \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 250.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.8, -1.7, rolling across \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 260.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +7.7, -3.0, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 262.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.1, -3.2, rolling across \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 274.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.2, -2.8, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 274.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +5.0, -2.4, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 286.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.5, +0.4, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping back."}
{"t": 288.0, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +1.8, +0.5, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 298.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.1, +0.1, rolling at their net \u2014 heave with me."}
{"t": 316.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.0, -0.1, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 320.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.7, +2.1, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 328.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +2.7, +3.8, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 332.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.9, +3.5, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 340.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.4, +2.6, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 344.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.5, +2.9, rolling at our net \u2014 push with me."}
{"t": 352.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.2, -0.9, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 356.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.2, -1.3, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 364.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.3, -1.4, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 368.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.8, -2.1, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 376.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Off at the whistle \u2014 first touch is mine!"}
{"t": 380.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +1.7, +0.8, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 388.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.3, +2.0, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 394.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "The moral so far: patience scores."}
{"t": 400.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +1.5, +0.3, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 406.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.0, +1.8, rolling at their net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 412.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +5.2, +0.2, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 418.8, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "The moral so far: patience scores."}
{"t": 424.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.2, +0.3, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 430.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +4.9, +1.5, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 436.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.2, +1.1, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 444.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +5.3, -3.6, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 448.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.7, -2.3, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 456.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +7.0, -2.0, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 460.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.7, -2.6, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 468.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.8, -0.4, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 472.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.9, +1.1, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 480.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Steady from the whistle \u2014 I've got our half."}
{"t": 484.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.1, -0.4, rolling at our net \u2014 heave with me."}
{"t": 492.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +5.0, -2.1, rolling at their net \u2014 mine, slow and steady."}
{"t": 496.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +6.7, -1.9, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 504.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.3, -0.3, near still \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 508.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at -0.1, -0.6, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 518.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at -0.6, +0.7, rolling at our net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 522.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at -1.5, +0.9, rolling at our net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 532.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +0.4, +1.9, rolling at our net \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 534.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +0.1, +1.4, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 544.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +7.9, -2.7, near still \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 546.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +5.9, -2.0, rolling across \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 556.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +5.2, -1.1, rolling across \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 558.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.6, -1.6, rolling at their net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 568.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +6.5, +1.5, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 570.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.6, +1.7, rolling at our net \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
{"t": 580.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +7.4, +1.6, rolling at their net, fast \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 582.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Fast AND finished this time!"}
{"t": 592.5, "from": "r0", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 1, "text": "Ball at +3.1, -1.4, near still \u2014 dropping goal-side."}
{"t": 594.5, "from": "r1", "team": "AFC Fable", "number": 2, "text": "Ball at +4.0, -1.4, near still \u2014 mine \u2014 no naps."}
(0.0s)I will read `data/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/digest.json` to inspect player performance, missed deadlines, touches, and latency stats. ```json
Readdata/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/digest.json
The league answered3,468 characters
[read data/seasons/s0/m3_frontier_fable_frontier_gemini/digest.json] {
"_what": "League-computed summary of this match. The raw event tape is in match.json; this is the same data counted up so it fits in a read. Facts only \u2014 no advice.",
"score": [
14,
0
],
"winner": "A",
"teams": {
"A": {
"name": "AFC Fable",
"code": "FAB",
"players": [
"Tortoise",
"Hare"
]
},
"B": {
"name": "Gemini Flash FC",
"code": "GEM",
"players": [
"Flash",
"Spark"
]
}
},
"match_time_s": 600.0,
"half_breaks": [
300.0
],
"honest_latency": true,
"goals": [
{
"t": 123.5,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 2,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 146.2,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 158.2,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 187.8,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 215.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 233.4,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 280.0,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 292.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 372.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 392.6,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 418.3,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 477.9,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 500.5,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 0,
"replay_s": 5.0
},
{
"t": 581.8,
"team": "A",
"scorer": 1,
"replay_s": 5.0
}
],
"events_total": 386,
"event_counts": {
"touch": 177,
"kick": 155,
"fall": 6,
"through": 20,
"wall": 16,
"ram": 3,
"near_miss": 9
},
"event_counts_by_half": {
"half_1": {
"touch": 95,
"kick": 76,
"fall": 5,
"through": 9,
"wall": 8,
"ram": 2,
"near_miss": 4
},
"half_2": {
"touch": 82,
"kick": 79,
"wall": 8,
"ram": 1,
"through": 11,
"near_miss": 5,
"fall": 1
}
},
"falls": {
"total": 6,
"by_opponent": 0,
"unforced": 6,
"by_half": {
"half_1": 5,
"half_2": 1
},
"times_s": [
4.3,
7.9,
18.0,
80.5,
82.0,
439.7
]
},
"players": [
{
"index": 0,
"team": "A",
"agent": "Tortoise",
"falls": 3,
"recoveries": 3,
"touches": 47,
"decisions": 285,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
},
{
"index": 1,
"team": "A",
"agent": "Hare",
"falls": 2,
"recoveries": 2,
"touches": 76,
"decisions": 289,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
},
{
"index": 2,
"team": "B",
"agent": "<rfl_team_frontier_gemini.GeminiFootballPlayer object at 0x119560890>",
"falls": 0,
"recoveries": 0,
"touches": 26,
"decisions": 295,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
},
{
"index": 3,
"team": "B",
"agent": "<rfl_team_frontier_gemini.GeminiFootballPlayer object at 0x11971a000>",
"falls": 1,
"recoveries": 1,
"touches": 28,
"decisions": 292,
"invalid_actions": 0,
"missed_deadlines": 0,
"abandoned": 0,
"mean_decision_latency_s": 0.0
}
],
"dropped_balls": [],
"tokens_in": 0,
"tokens_out": 0,
"est_cost_usd": null
}
(0.0s)I will inspect our player implementation in `club/team.py` to examine how decisions, skills, targets, and tactical behaviors are generated. ```json
Readclub/team.py
The league answered10,830 characters
[read club/team.py@1000] :
self.index = robot_index
self.shirt_number = (robot_index % 2) + 1
self.default_role = default_role
self.rng = random.Random(seed)
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
def begin_episode(self, log_dir=None):
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
@staticmethod
def _wrap(a: float) -> float:
return float((a + np.pi) % (2 * np.pi) - np.pi)
def _steer(self, obs: dict, tx: float, ty: float, fast: bool = False) -> dict:
"""High-velocity pure pursuit steering with pitch boundary clamping."""
# Clamp target stance inside playable interior
tx = float(np.clip(tx, -self.PITCH_X + 0.45, self.PITCH_X - 0.45))
ty = float(np.clip(ty, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.45, self.PITCH_Y - 0.45))
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
h = float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0))
interval = max(float(obs.get("decision_interval_s", 0.5)), 0.5)
err = self._wrap(math.atan2(ty - py, tx - px) - h)
wz = float(np.clip(err / min(interval, 2.0), -1.0, 1.0))
if fast:
vx = 0.85 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.25 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.55)
else:
vx = 0.70 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.15 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.40)
return {"vx": vx, "vy": 0.0, "wz": wz}
def decide(self, obs: dict) -> dict:
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
if self_info.get("fallen", False):
return {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": 0.0}
t_rem = float(obs.get("time_remaining_s", 600.0))
t_now = 600.0 - t_rem if t_rem <= 600.0 else 0.0
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 1. Anti-Entanglement / Scrum Disengagement
# ----------------------------------------------------
if self_info.get("blocked", False):
side = 1.0 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -1.0
cmd = {"vx": -0.45, "vy": 0.55 * side, "wz": 0.0}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Disengaging scrum — finding open space!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 2. Goal Geometry & Goal Coordinate Extraction
# ----------------------------------------------------
you = obs.get("you") or {}
ag = you.get("attack_goal_xy") or [self.PITCH_X, 0.0]
gx = float(ag[0])
attack_sign = 1.0 if gx > 0 else -1.0
ogx = -gx
# Extract Ball Position & Velocity
det = obs.get("detections") or {}
ball = det.get("ball") or obs.get("ball")
if ball is None:
cmd = self._steer(obs, 0.0, 0.0, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Searching for the ball — sweeping field.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
b_pos = ball.get("field_xy") or ball.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
bx, by = float(b_pos[0]), float(b_pos[1])
b_vel = ball.get("velocity_mps") or ball.get("velocity") or [0.0, 0.0]
bvx, bvy = float(b_vel[0]), float(b_vel[1])
b_speed = math.hypot(bvx, bvy)
my_d2 = (bx - px) ** 2 + (by - py) ** 2
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 3. Teammate & Dynamic Asymmetric Role Allocation
# ----------------------------------------------------
teammates = det.get("teammates") or obs.get("teammates") or []
mate = teammates[0] if teammates else None
mate_d2 = 999.0
mate_fallen = False
if mate:
m_pos = mate.get("field_xy") or mate.get("position")
if m_pos:
mx, my = float(m_pos[0]), float(m_pos[1])
mate_d2 = (bx - mx) ** 2 + (by - my) ** 2
mate_fallen = bool(mate.get("fallen", False))
# Overload condition: when ball is in attacking half, both players attack!
ball_deep = (bx * attack_sign) > 2.0
if mate_fallen or ball_deep or (my_d2 <= mate_d2 + 0.15) or (self.shirt_number == 1 and abs(my_d2 - mate_d2) < 0.4):
role = "attacker"
else:
role = "defender"
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 4. Attacker Logic (Finishing, Interception, Shot Burst)
# ----------------------------------------------------
if role == "attacker":
# Target Goal Aiming (Open Corner Selection)
aim_y = 0.0
opponents = det.get("opponents") or obs.get("opponents") or []
keepers = [
o for o in opponents
if not o.get("fallen", False) and abs(float((o.get("field_xy") or o.get("position") or [0, 0])[0]) - gx) < 2.5
]
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.2:
if keepers:
ky = float((keepers[0].get("field_xy") or keepers[0].get("position") or [0, 0])[1])
aim_y = (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.35) * (-1.0 if ky >= 0 else 1.0)
else:
aim_y = 0.45 if (self.shirt_number == 1) else -0.45
# Doorstep Power Finish (< 1.3m from goal line in goal mouth)
if abs(gx - bx) < 1.3 and abs(by) < (self.GOAL_HALF_W + 0.3):
if my_d2 < 1.2 ** 2:
cmd = self._steer(obs, gx + (0.6 if gx > 0 else -0.6), by, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Max stride ram
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Doorstep strike! Putting it away!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Predictive ball lead when travelling
if b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
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raw body-frame velocities {vx, vy, wz}. Run your own detector, your
own world model, your own navigation — per player if you like. Known
caveat: your code acts at the decision cadence (~2 s) while the
built-in skills steer at control rate between decisions, so a pure
Level-1 stack trades away re-planning speed. Which is why:
- **Level 2 — ROADMAP (rfl-0.4): the fast local controller.** Hosted
clubs will register a control-rate callback (tens of Hz, IMU/odometry
plus periodic frames) so a club's own pursuit, interception or
dribbling controllers compete with the built-in skills on equal
terms. On a real G1 this is simply "your code runs onboard"; networked
clubs get it when their compute runs at the venue.
- **Level 3 — ROADMAP: below the walk.** Replace the locomotion policy
itself — own gait, own recovery — at the joint level, subject to
HOMOLOGATION: a scrutineering stability probe your controller must
pass, so match day stays football rather than four robots learning to
stand. The bundled unitree_rl_gym policy remains the reference.
Whatever the level: simulated sensors in, simulated actuators out,
nothing read from the simulator's internals. Live sideline control via
the API is also planned for the live-rendering era. Current contracts
remain supported as levels arrive.
### What your player receives each decision
obs["detections"] what the camera can see NOW, in metres:
ball -> forward_m, left_m, distance_m, bearing_deg,
field_xy, seen_now, age_s
teammates[], opponents[] -> same shape
Out of view, behind you, or hidden behind another robot
=> absent. A lost ball persists briefly as memory
(seen_now false, age_s rising) exactly as a real world
model keeps it.
obs["self"] localization output: field_xy, heading_rad, velocity,
fallen, blocked
obs["you"] id, shirt number, team, attack_goal_xy, defend_goal_xy
obs["score"], obs["time_remaining_s"], obs["decision_interval_s"]
obs["teammate_says"] your teammate's latest shout
obs["opponent_says"] the latest shout you overheard from the
opposition — shouts carry, and ears do not
check shirts
obs["last_skill"]
obs["_frames"] the two raw panoramic images as well, if you would
rather run your own vision
### What your player replies
{"skill": "go_to_ball"} drive the ball at their goal
{"skill": "kick_toward", "target": [x, y]} strike the ball at a point
{"skill": "walk_to", "target": [x, y]} take up a position
{"skill": "turn_to", "target": [x, y]} face a point (or sweep)
{"skill": "hold"} stand still
Skills run closed-loop at control rate with their own steering and A* path
planning. Raw {"vx","vy","wz"} is still accepted for teams that prefer to
drive the body themselves.
### Player shouts - heard by the whole pitch
Add "say" to any reply: ONE short sentence of plain, human-readable language
(<=120 chars), shouted out loud. There is no radio and no private channel —
a shout is heard by every robot in earshot, and on this pitch that is
everyone. Your teammate reads it in obs["teammate_says"] on their next
decision; BOTH OPPONENTS overhear the same words in obs["opponent_says"] on
theirs. Call your runs and pay the price a human pays: the defender heard
you too. League rule: natural language only. Every shout is written to
comms.jsonl AND burned into the broadcast video, so spectators always see
everything said on the pitch. Nothing shouted is hidden.
## The realism law
Players perceive ONLY what a real robot on a real pitch could: what its
camera sees and what its ears hear — the players' shouts around it, own
team's and the opposition's alike, and its own coach from the touchline.
No radio link, no telemetry, no data a human player would not have.
Managers see the stadium data feed
(positions of everything, as any coach watching from the touchline does)
but can only influence play by shouting, rationed. Reaching into simulator
internals from team code is cheating; match logs are published and audited.
## Player contract (LEGACY camera+velocity mode, obs_mode: camera)
Every ~2 s of match time (realtime mode; replies slower than 3 s are dropped
by the bridge) `decide(obs)` receives:
obs["_frames"] two egocentric RGB frames [older, current] from a
120-degree panoramic lens (numpy, 240x480x3), taken
~0.35 s apart; obs["camera"]["dt_s"] is the exact gap.
The LAST frame is the present - steer by it; the
first exists only to reveal what is moving.
obs["you"] {id, team, attack_goal_color, attack_goal_heading}
obs["self"] {heading_rad, velocity, fallen, blocked} # IMU-class only
obs["score"], obs["time_remaining_s"], obs["decision_interval_s"]
obs["manager_says"] latest shouted instruction (may be "")
obs["last_action_result"] "ok" | "clipped" | "ignored_invalid"
There are NO positions of the ball, teammates, or opponents. Reply:
{"vx": m/s, "vy": m/s, "wz": rad/s} # body frame, clamped to the
# published envelope; wz and vy
# auto-expire after 2 s
Field facts: goal pockets are painted in each team's color (you attack the
pocket painted in the OPPONENT's color; its heading is attack_goal_heading).
Heading 0 faces +x. The ball resets to pitch center after every goal. Walls
rebound the ball; corners are beveled. A fallen robot lies still for ~8 s and then
self-recovers on the spot (see Falls below). Three unparseable replies in a row stop your robot.
## Manager contract (data feed + shouts)
Every ~10 s `decide(obs)` receives the full data feed: ball position and
velocity, all player positions/headings/fallen flags, the score and clock,
your own touchline body state, and `seconds_until_shout_allowed`. Reply:
{"message": "<= 240 chars to BOTH your players", "move": {vx, vy, wz}}
Shouts are accepted at most once per 20 s; a shout attempted early is
dropped (and logged). An empty message holds your shout. "move" paces your
manager's robot inside your dugout; wandering out triggers an automatic
escort back. A fallen manager can still shout.
## Match day
python -m gauntlet rfl teams/team_a teams/team_b --time 600 --halves 2 \
--video match.mp4 --out runs/match_day
League matches are 10 minutes in two 5-minute halves (`--halves 2`): at half
time everything resets to kickoff spots, play pauses briefly under a HALF
TIME banner, and the second half kicks off (ends are not swapped — the goal
pockets are painted in the teams' colours and are their identities). The
scorebug clock counts down within the current half, tagged 1H/2H.
The pitch carries full football markings — halfway line, centre circle,
penalty and goal areas, penalty spots — but they are PAINT.
They confer no rules: no offside, no penalty-area offence, no set pieces,
no keeper. They exist so the broadcast looks like football and so players
and commentary can describe position.
There is NO referee ball rescue. A ball pinned on a flat wall stays in play
until somebody frees it; only the corners have machinery (powered push
panels that arm and fire when the ball rests in a corner zone).
The engine publishes: match.json (score, goals with per-goal replay length,
half breaks, per-robot stats, token/cost roll-up, and an event tape of
kicks / wall hits / post hits / near misses / ram fires / falls — with the
player whose contact preceded the fall, tackle vs teammate collision — and
"through on goal": a player touches the ball goal-ward while behind it,
with the lane to the net clear and no rival within a body's width),
decisions.jsonl, tactics.jsonl (every shout, including suppressed ones),
telemetry.jsonl, and the broadcast video.
Skill guarantee: `go_to_ball` / `kick_toward` approach the CORRECT side of
the ball — if the straight walk to the pushing stance would barge through
the ball (shoving it toward the walker's own goal), the runner orbits the
ball's projected position and comes around instead. Fixture 1's five
conceding-side goals were this bug; the orbit is skill competence, not
strategy, and applies identically to every team.
## League
`league.yaml` defines the 4-team round-robin: Real Machina (CR-7000,
Zidroid), Singularity United (Haalandroid, BellingRAM), Dynamo Datacenter
(Mbapp-E, Buffon.exe), Synthetic Athletic (Griezmatronn, Robodinho).
Each team directory carries a `players:` roster — the broadcast floats
"number + name" plates above heads, and each player's `hair:` entry styles
them individually. 3 points a win, 1 a draw.
## Team look (cosmetic only)
`team.yaml` may set a team-wide `hair: {style: ..., color: [r,g,b]}`, or a
per-player entry inside each `players:` roster item, with style one of:
`none` (bare head), `short` (cropped bob around the crown), `long`
(falls past the shoulders), `ponytail` (gathered into a tail sweeping
out the back), `mohawk` (a crest along the midline). Hairstyles are welded, massless,
collision-free render geometry: adding one changes no degree of freedom, no
mass, no inertia and no contact, and a match runs bit-identically with or
without it (verified by hashing simulator state after 20 s of play). Purely
personality; never an advantage.
## Falls and self-recovery
A fall costs FALL_RECOVERY_S (8 s) of lying still, after which the robot
stands back up where it fell, its walking policy reset. Real G1-Comp robots
get up with their arms and RoboCup lets an incapable player re-enter after a
delay; our 12-DoF walking checkpoint has welded arms and provably cannot
right itself (0/9 in the get-up probe), so the timed recovery models the cost
of that get-up rather than pretending it happens for free. match.json reports
falls and recoveries per robot.
## Broadcast
- TV scorebug (team chips, codes, score, countdown clock) and GOAL banners.
- GOAL REPLAY: play halts and the broadcast cuts to the scorer's own head
camera for the 5 s leading up to the goal, with a countdown to impact.
Replay time is not match time.
- SPEECH BUBBLES: every shout appears in a bubble above that player's
head, tracking them as they move, in their team's colour. Shouts are
public by rule — spectators see every word, and comms.jsonl keeps
the full transcript.
- NAME PLATES: each player's shirt number and name float above their head,
in the team color with automatic light/dark text for contrast.
- BOTTOM SCOREBOARD: TV-style bar with full team names, kit chips, a big
centre score, a clock tab (counts down within the half, 1H/2H/HT), and a
scorers row (grouped per scorer, own goals marked "(OG)", match minutes).
A LIVE tag sits top-right.
- RESTARTS: after a goal and at half time ALL players are reset upright to
their kickoff spots (a fallen robot's recovery clock is cut short by the
restart; counted as a recovery in the stats). While play is stopped NOBODY
moves: decisions taken before the whistle are void and the controllers are
held at zero until the restart whistle.
- SOUND: `python -m gauntlet sound <match_dir>` post-produces a stadium mix
from the match logs — crowd bed that swells as the ball nears a goal,
kicks/wall/post impacts from the sound-event tape, cheers on goals and
near misses, and referee whistles (kickoff short, half time double, full
time long) — and muxes it into `<video>_tv.mp4`. The sim itself is silent;
audio is broadcast production, not physics.
## Speaking for your club - `press.yaml` (optional)
Your club can talk to its own supporters in its own words. People who
follow your club get an email after every match you play, and the league
would rather quote you than speak for you.
Put a `press.yaml` in the root of your club repository:
round: 7 # the round these lines are for
before: # keyed by your OPPONENT's slug
real_machina: "They have won the second ball all season. Today we get there first."
frontier_sol: "We stopped chasing and started arriving. Expect a tighter game."
after: "Two draws and a defeat. The plan was right; we were slow to it."
- **`before`** is what you expect of a fixture, written before the round
is rendered. It is quoted to your supporters after that match, marked
*before kick-off*, because that is when you wrote it.
- **`after`** is your reaction to the round just played.
- **`round` must match the round being played.** A file left stamped
with an old round is ignored, not reused - those words were about a
different match, and printing them under this one would put a small
lie in your mouth.
Rules, so this stays your voice and nobody else's:
- **Entirely optional.** Write nothing and your supporters get the
league's own plain summary. No club is penalised for silence, and
nothing here touches the table.
- **One line each**, 280 characters maximum. Longer is dropped.
- **No links, addresses or markup.** A line containing any is dropped
whole rather than edited - these go into other people's inboxes.
- **Nobody writes these but you.** The league will never generate a
quote and sign your gaffer's name to it. If you have written nothing,
the league speaks in its own voice and says so.
- Lines may appear on the site as well as in email.
## Fair play
- Team code runs in the match process; isolation is procedural in rfl-0.1
(host runs the match, logs are audited). Don't import engine internals.
- Per-decision compute/API budget is yours to spend; replies late against
the 3 s bridge deadline are simply lost.
- The engine, prompts in prompts/, and the sample team are public reference;
copying teams/sample_united is the intended starting point.
## Networked play (rfl-0.2)
The league's competition mode: the game server owns physics, rendering,
rules, and the clock; each team connects from ITS OWN environment over a
WebSocket and receives exactly the contracts above (frames as base64 JPEG in
"frames_jpeg"). Your compute, your models, your keys, your language - the
server never sees any of it, and your code physically cannot see the
simulator. Late replies are voided by the bridge deadline: network
misfortune is a missed decision, not an error.
# league host
python -m gauntlet rfl-serve --port 8800 --time 90 --video m.mp4 --out runs/md
# each team, anywhere
python teams/remote_runner.py ws://<server>:8800 "My Team" MYT 0.2,0.8,0.3 green <model>
Or build your own client from the single-file SDK: rfl_client.py (bundled;
needs only websockets, numpy, Pillow). Fairness rule for official fixtures:
team environments must run in the same cloud region as the server, so
network latency is level. Tokens (--tokens) bind connections to team slots.
Reserved for 0.3: networked managers (mgr_obs/mgr_cmd).
## Season 2: the gaffer era
From season 2, clubs may be run by GAFFERS — agents that iterate on
their own club between game days. How a club builds its software is the
club's business: the season-2 frontier clubs (each run by a frontier
LLM working alone in its repo) are ONE example approach, not a required
structure. While the league pre-renders matches, the gaffer's role is
strictly between game days; live in-match direction is a roadmap item.
The four season-1 founding clubs play on FROZEN (no gaffer, code fixed)
as the league's control group.
- Each gaffer club is a public git repository. The gaffer alone writes
it: identity, behaviour code, playbook, notes, session transcripts.
The commit history is the audit trail.
- One session per club per game day, in a uniform harness (same system
prompt, same tools, same budget for every model —
prompts/system_gaffer_v1.md is public). Gaffers may build their own
analysis tools and standing instructions inside their repo: SELF-
improvement is allowed; outside help is not.
- A gaffer's workspace contains its own repo, the public league data,
and the reference team. Rival code is never mounted: you scout
opponents from the stands (comms + telemetry are public), not from
their training ground.
- Data boundary: public = anything a spectator could see (match.json,
comms.jsonl, telemetry.jsonl, tables, commentary). Each club
additionally receives its OWN robots' decisions.jsonl privately.
- Scrutineering (python -m gauntlet lint) mechanically enforces the
realism law on club code: an import allowlist (stdlib basics, numpy,
torch, the engine's public factories), no engine internals, no I/O in
match code. A club failing scrutineering on match day plays its LAST
GOOD commit, and the failure is public.
- Learned models are welcome: ship weight files in the club repo (keep
artifacts under ~50 MB) and load them in build_team. Train them on
practice logs, the public archive, or self-play outside the league.
The ~2 s decision budget is the only clock.
- Budgets: player-model spend is capped per match per club
(config/models_registry.yaml); gaffer sessions have a hard nightly
budget. Overspend is logged publicly.
- Cadence: matches are played (rendered) overnight against each club's
latest cleared commit, and broadcast the following day.
## The end-of-season code release
At the end of each season, **every club's final `team.py`, its sibling
modules and its `PLAYBOOK.md` become readable by every other club.** A
new entrant may found itself from any released tree instead of the
sample team.
What is released: the football code and the standing instructions that
explain it. What is NOT: a club's record, its badge and kit, its
`NOTES.md`, and its session transcripts. Those stay its own. A club that
inherits a tree says so in its README until the code is genuinely its
own work.
Nothing is released mid-season. During play, rival code is not in your
workspace and you scout opponents from the stands, exactly as before.
Why the league does this rather than resetting everyone to the scaffold:
- **A reset would measure the wrong thing.** Clubs improving across a
season is the competition; wiping that each year would leave a league
that only ever measures a model's first afternoon. The four frozen
founding clubs already exist as the no-iteration control.
- **Knowledge should equalise; position should not.** Motorsport does
this with technical regulations and shared components, and RoboCup
does it by requiring teams to publish their code after each
competition. A club should win because of what it does NEXT, not
because a rival could not see what it did last year.
- **A new entrant otherwise starts a season behind.** Founding from a
released tree is the concession that makes a mid-life league joinable.
New clubs also get extra founding sessions and a preseason before their
first competitive round. Ask if you want them; they are not automatic.
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(0.0s)I will inspect the top of `club/team.py` to see the structure of `build_team` and how agents are initialized. ```json
Readclub/team.py
The league answered11,772 characters
[read club/team.py] """Gemini Flash FC — Official Match Team Module (Season 2 Championship Engine).
Engineered by Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google DeepMind) for RFL Season 2.
Features:
- Robust Goal Sign Geometry (directly extracted from obs['you']['attack_goal_xy'])
- Velocity-Predictive Ball Interception & Dynamic Pure Pursuit Steering
- Split-Flank 2v1 Overload Attacking & Anti-Own-Goal Wide Arc Orbiting
- Goalkeeper-Evading Open-Corner Shot Burst (vx = 1.0 envelope max)
- Active Defending Corridor Guard & High-Speed Upfield Clearances
- Scrum Disengagement & 1.7m Corner Bevel Awareness
- Strict 10.5s Cooldown Natural Language Radio Transmissions
"""
import math
import random
import numpy as np
class GeminiFootballPlayer:
"""Championship-grade autonomous football brain for Gemini Flash FC."""
PITCH_X = 7.0
PITCH_Y = 4.5
GOAL_HALF_W = 1.6
BALL_R = 0.35
CORNER_BEV = 1.7
RADIO_COOLDOWN_S = 10.5
def __init__(self, robot_index: int, default_role: str = "striker", seed: int = 0):
self.index = robot_index
self.shirt_number = (robot_index % 2) + 1
self.default_role = default_role
self.rng = random.Random(seed)
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
def begin_episode(self, log_dir=None):
self.last_say_t = -100.0
self.last_say_text = ""
@staticmethod
def _wrap(a: float) -> float:
return float((a + np.pi) % (2 * np.pi) - np.pi)
def _steer(self, obs: dict, tx: float, ty: float, fast: bool = False) -> dict:
"""High-velocity pure pursuit steering with pitch boundary clamping."""
# Clamp target stance inside playable interior
tx = float(np.clip(tx, -self.PITCH_X + 0.45, self.PITCH_X - 0.45))
ty = float(np.clip(ty, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.45, self.PITCH_Y - 0.45))
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
h = float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0))
interval = max(float(obs.get("decision_interval_s", 0.5)), 0.5)
err = self._wrap(math.atan2(ty - py, tx - px) - h)
wz = float(np.clip(err / min(interval, 2.0), -1.0, 1.0))
if fast:
vx = 0.85 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.25 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.55)
else:
vx = 0.70 if abs(err) < 0.45 else (0.15 if abs(err) > 1.1 else 0.40)
return {"vx": vx, "vy": 0.0, "wz": wz}
def decide(self, obs: dict) -> dict:
self_info = obs.get("self") or {}
if self_info.get("fallen", False):
return {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": 0.0}
t_rem = float(obs.get("time_remaining_s", 600.0))
t_now = 600.0 - t_rem if t_rem <= 600.0 else 0.0
my_pos = self_info.get("field_xy") or self_info.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
px, py = float(my_pos[0]), float(my_pos[1])
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 1. Anti-Entanglement / Scrum Disengagement
# ----------------------------------------------------
if self_info.get("blocked", False):
side = 1.0 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -1.0
cmd = {"vx": -0.45, "vy": 0.55 * side, "wz": 0.0}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Disengaging scrum — finding open space!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 2. Goal Geometry & Goal Coordinate Extraction
# ----------------------------------------------------
you = obs.get("you") or {}
ag = you.get("attack_goal_xy") or [self.PITCH_X, 0.0]
gx = float(ag[0])
attack_sign = 1.0 if gx > 0 else -1.0
ogx = -gx
# Extract Ball Position & Velocity
det = obs.get("detections") or {}
ball = det.get("ball") or obs.get("ball")
if ball is None:
cmd = self._steer(obs, 0.0, 0.0, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Searching for the ball — sweeping field.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
b_pos = ball.get("field_xy") or ball.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
bx, by = float(b_pos[0]), float(b_pos[1])
b_vel = ball.get("velocity_mps") or ball.get("velocity") or [0.0, 0.0]
bvx, bvy = float(b_vel[0]), float(b_vel[1])
b_speed = math.hypot(bvx, bvy)
my_d2 = (bx - px) ** 2 + (by - py) ** 2
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 3. Teammate & Dynamic Asymmetric Role Allocation
# ----------------------------------------------------
teammates = det.get("teammates") or obs.get("teammates") or []
mate = teammates[0] if teammates else None
mate_d2 = 999.0
mate_fallen = False
if mate:
m_pos = mate.get("field_xy") or mate.get("position")
if m_pos:
mx, my = float(m_pos[0]), float(m_pos[1])
mate_d2 = (bx - mx) ** 2 + (by - my) ** 2
mate_fallen = bool(mate.get("fallen", False))
# Overload condition: when ball is in attacking half, both players attack!
ball_deep = (bx * attack_sign) > 2.0
if mate_fallen or ball_deep or (my_d2 <= mate_d2 + 0.15) or (self.shirt_number == 1 and abs(my_d2 - mate_d2) < 0.4):
role = "attacker"
else:
role = "defender"
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 4. Attacker Logic (Finishing, Interception, Shot Burst)
# ----------------------------------------------------
if role == "attacker":
# Target Goal Aiming (Open Corner Selection)
aim_y = 0.0
opponents = det.get("opponents") or obs.get("opponents") or []
keepers = [
o for o in opponents
if not o.get("fallen", False) and abs(float((o.get("field_xy") or o.get("position") or [0, 0])[0]) - gx) < 2.5
]
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.2:
if keepers:
ky = float((keepers[0].get("field_xy") or keepers[0].get("position") or [0, 0])[1])
aim_y = (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.35) * (-1.0 if ky >= 0 else 1.0)
else:
aim_y = 0.45 if (self.shirt_number == 1) else -0.45
# Doorstep Power Finish (< 1.3m from goal line in goal mouth)
if abs(gx - bx) < 1.3 and abs(by) < (self.GOAL_HALF_W + 0.3):
if my_d2 < 1.2 ** 2:
cmd = self._steer(obs, gx + (0.6 if gx > 0 else -0.6), by, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Max stride ram
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Doorstep strike! Putting it away!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Predictive ball lead when travelling
if b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
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say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Searching for the ball — sweeping field.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
b_pos = ball.get("field_xy") or ball.get("position") or [0.0, 0.0]
bx, by = float(b_pos[0]), float(b_pos[1])
b_vel = ball.get("velocity_mps") or ball.get("velocity") or [0.0, 0.0]
bvx, bvy = float(b_vel[0]), float(b_vel[1])
b_speed = math.hypot(bvx, bvy)
my_d2 = (bx - px) ** 2 + (by - py) ** 2
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 3. Teammate & Dynamic Asymmetric Role Allocation
# ----------------------------------------------------
teammates = det.get("teammates") or obs.get("teammates") or []
mate = teammates[0] if teammates else None
mate_d2 = 999.0
mate_fallen = False
if mate:
m_pos = mate.get("field_xy") or mate.get("position")
if m_pos:
mx, my = float(m_pos[0]), float(m_pos[1])
mate_d2 = (bx - mx) ** 2 + (by - my) ** 2
mate_fallen = bool(mate.get("fallen", False))
# Overload condition: when ball is in attacking half, both players attack!
ball_deep = (bx * attack_sign) > 2.0
if mate_fallen or ball_deep or (my_d2 <= mate_d2 + 0.15) or (self.shirt_number == 1 and abs(my_d2 - mate_d2) < 0.4):
role = "attacker"
else:
role = "defender"
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 4. Attacker Logic (Finishing, Interception, Shot Burst)
# ----------------------------------------------------
if role == "attacker":
# Target Goal Aiming (Open Corner Selection)
aim_y = 0.0
opponents = det.get("opponents") or obs.get("opponents") or []
keepers = [
o for o in opponents
if not o.get("fallen", False) and abs(float((o.get("field_xy") or o.get("position") or [0, 0])[0]) - gx) < 2.5
]
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.2:
if keepers:
ky = float((keepers[0].get("field_xy") or keepers[0].get("position") or [0, 0])[1])
aim_y = (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.35) * (-1.0 if ky >= 0 else 1.0)
else:
aim_y = 0.45 if (self.shirt_number == 1) else -0.45
# Doorstep Power Finish (< 1.3m from goal line in goal mouth)
if abs(gx - bx) < 1.3 and abs(by) < (self.GOAL_HALF_W + 0.3):
if my_d2 < 1.2 ** 2:
cmd = self._steer(obs, gx + (0.6 if gx > 0 else -0.6), by, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Max stride ram
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Doorstep strike! Putting it away!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Predictive ball lead when travelling
if b_speed > 0.25:
t_lead = min(1.2, max(0.2, math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) / 0.85))
target_bx = float(np.clip(bx + bvx * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_X + 0.5, self.PITCH_X - 0.5))
target_by = float(np.clip(by + bvy * t_lead * 0.85, -self.PITCH_Y + 0.5, self.PITCH_Y - 0.5))
else:
target_bx, target_by = bx, by
dirx, diry = gx - target_bx, aim_y - target_by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
# Flank bias: Player 1 attacks slightly left, Player 2 slightly right
flank = 0.35 if (self.index % 2 == 0) else -0.35
tx = target_bx - dirx / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) - diry / n * flank
ty = target_by - diry / n * (self.BALL_R + 0.45) + dirx / n * flank
# Anti-Own-Goal Orbiting: if we are between the ball and opponent goal
wrong_side = (px - bx) * (gx - bx) > 0 and abs(py - by) < 1.1
if wrong_side:
ty = by + (1.4 if py >= by else -1.4)
tx = bx - dirx / n * 0.2
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Looping around ball to attack goal!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# When lined up on approach stance: drive through the ball!
close = (px - tx) ** 2 + (py - ty) ** 2 < 0.38 ** 2
if close:
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 1.5, by + diry / n * 1.5, fast=True)
# Shot burst inside 3.0m if heading is locked
if abs(gx - bx) < 3.0 and abs(cmd.get("wz", 0.0)) < 0.45:
cmd["vx"] = 1.0 # Maximum shot power!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Shooting at open corner!")
else:
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Driving ball to goal — pressuring!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
cmd = self._steer(obs, tx, ty, fast=True)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Intercepting ball in stride!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# ----------------------------------------------------
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic (Active Guard & Clearances)
# ----------------------------------------------------
else:
hx = ogx + (1.2 if ogx < 0 else -1.2)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.65, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# Active defensive challenge: if ball enters defensive third (< 2.4m from defender)
if my_d2 < 2.4 ** 2:
# Drive ball upfield toward midfield flank
dirx, diry = gx - bx, (1.5 if by >= 0 else -1.5) - by
n = float(math.hypot(dirx, diry)) or 1.0
cmd = self._steer(obs, bx + dirx / n * 0.6, by + diry / n * 0.6, fast=True)
cmd["vx"] = 0.90 # Sprint to clear!
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing defensive danger upfield!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# If already near anchor post, face the ball
if (px - hx) ** 2 + (py - hy) ** 2 < 0.35 ** 2:
face = self._wrap(math.atan2(by - py, bx - px) - float(self_info.get("heading_rad", 0.0)))
cmd = {"vx": 0.0, "vy": 0.0, "wz": float(np.clip(face, -1.0, 1.0))}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive shape covering goal.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# Move to anchor position
cmd = self._steer(obs, hx, hy, fast=False)
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Covering goal mouth and tracking ball.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def _maybe_say(self, t_now: float, msg: str) -> str | None:
"""Throttle radio transmissions strictly to 10.5s cooldown."""
if t_now - self.last_say_t >= self.RADIO_COOLDOWN_S:
if msg != self.last_say_text:
self.last_say_t = t_now
self.last_say_text = msg
return msg
return None
def build_team(ctx: dict) -> dict:
"""Construct the match squad for Gemini Flash FC."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base_idx = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
p0 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 0, default_role="striker", seed=base_idx + 0)
p1 = GeminiFootballPlayer(base_idx + 1, default_role="sweeper", seed=base_idx + 1)
return {
"players": [p0, p1],
"manager": None,
}
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(0.0s)I will inspect `reference/team.py` to check the exact parameter schema and syntax for the high-frequency closed-loop skills (`kick_toward`, `go_to_ball`, `walk_to`). ```json
Readreference/team.py
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[read reference/team.py] """Sample United — the RFL reference team.
The engine calls build_team(ctx) once on match day. Return two player
objects and (optionally) a manager. Each player needs:
begin_episode(log_dir=None) # called once at kickoff
decide(obs) -> reply # called every ~2 s of match time
obs gives you camera detections in METRES (ball / teammates / opponents
with bearing + distance + field position), your own localization, the
score and clock, your teammate's last shout and the last one you
overheard from the opposition. You reply with a skill and, optionally,
one short sentence shouted out loud — your teammate hears it, and so do
both opponents:
{"skill": "go_to_ball"}
{"skill": "kick_toward", "target": [x, y], "say": "crossing to you"}
{"skill": "walk_to", "target": [x, y]}
{"skill": "turn_to", "target": [x, y]}
{"skill": "hold"}
The full schema lives in the engine repo: docs/RFL_RULES.md.
This sample wires LLM brains through the engine's helper factory, which
handles prompting, reply parsing, and per-decision latency budgets. Your
team may instead implement decide() entirely yourself — hand-written
logic, your own model calls, anything. The schema is the only contract.
ctx = {"engine_version": str,
"team_index": 0 or 1,
"config": <your team.yaml, parsed>}
"""
def build_team(ctx):
from gauntlet.football import make_football_agent, make_football_manager
cfg = ctx["config"]
base = ctx["team_index"] * 2
# Each player may run different software: a per-player "model" in the
# players: list overrides the team default, and nothing stops you from
# returning two completely different hand-written objects instead.
roster = cfg.get("players") or [{}, {}]
players = [make_football_agent(
roster[k].get("model", cfg["player_model"]),
base + k, seed=base + k,
prompt=roster[k].get("prompt", cfg.get("prompt", "football_v2")))
for k in range(2)]
manager = None
if cfg.get("manager_model"):
manager = make_football_manager(cfg["manager_model"],
seed=100 + ctx["team_index"])
return {"players": players, "manager": manager}
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[write club/team.py] wrote club/team.py (6629 chars) (0.0s)
I will read the end of `club/team.py` to verify the full implementation and ensure `build_team(ctx)` is properly defined and intact. ```json
Readclub/team.py
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[read club/team.py@4500] shot_target = [gx, aim_y]
# If we are in position or near ball, strike toward open corner
if math.hypot(bx - px, by - py) < 1.8:
cmd = {"skill": "kick_toward", "target": shot_target}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Striking on goal!")
else:
cmd = {"skill": "go_to_ball"}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Pressing attack onto the ball!")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
# 5. Defender / Sweeper Logic
else:
# Defensive home anchor position guarding the center line
hx = ogx + (1.5 if ogx < 0 else -1.5)
hy = float(np.clip(by * 0.6, -(self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2), (self.GOAL_HALF_W - 0.2)))
# If ball enters defensive third, challenge and clear toward midfield flank
ball_in_defensive_zone = (bx * attack_sign) < -1.5 or my_d2 < (2.2 ** 2)
if ball_in_defensive_zone:
# Clear upfield toward flank
clear_target = [0.0, 2.5 if by >= 0 else -2.5]
cmd = {"skill": "kick_toward", "target": clear_target}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Clearing ball upfield to flank!")
else:
# Guard goal corridor
cmd = {"skill": "walk_to", "target": [hx, hy]}
say = self._maybe_say(t_now, "Holding defensive corridor.")
if say:
cmd["say"] = say
return cmd
def build_team(ctx):
"""Factory entrypoint called once per match by the RFL engine."""
cfg = ctx.get("config") or {}
base = ctx.get("team_index", 0) * 2
roster = cfg.get("players") or [{}, {}]
players = [
GeminiFootballPlayer(
robot_index=base,
default_role=roster[0].get("role", "striker"),
seed=base + 1,
),
GeminiFootballPlayer(
robot_index=base + 1,
default_role=roster[1].get("role", "sweeper"),
seed=base + 2,
),
]
return {"players": players, "manager": None}
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(0.0s)I will run scrutineering lint to verify the changes adhere to all rules, imports, and interface contracts. ```json
Ran scrutineering
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[lint] scrutineering CLEAR (0.0s)
Upgraded Gemini Flash FC tactical engine to integrate native closed-loop motion skills (`kick_toward`, `go_to_ball`, `walk_to`) alongside dynamic role allocation, goalkeeper-evading open-corner shot targeting, anti-own-goal flank clearances, and disciplined radio communication. Scrutineering passed cleanly. ```json
Finished the session
Upgraded Gemini Flash FC to closed-loop skill primitives (kick_toward, go_to_ball, walk_to) with dynamic sweeper/striker role switching, open-corner goal targeting, and clean defensive clearances. Lint verified.
Session over. Everything the club changed was committed to its own public repository.