WRSC2019 rules v1.0 and registration!

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WRSC2019 is going to be held on August 25th, Dongqian Lake, Ningbo, China. Registration has started and we sincerely welcome everybody to join our competition.
Website: https://www.roboticsailing.org/2019/

This year we made some interesting updates to the challenges, we can discuss about them here or in facebook group. New challenges have not been tested and your suggestions can help us to make them more practical.
Fleeting Race: The same. Beginner friendly.
Station Keeping: Two parts! Part A: original station keeping, get close to region center. Part B: station keeping with obstacle. The center of your movement is an obstacle with uncertain location (vision needed) and crashing with the obstacle will cause punishment. Like patrolling around a drilling platform, get close but don't kiss it.
Area Scanning: Regulations were made to make to help cooperation. Total time for each team is 60 minutes. You can stop (clock stopped) and then continue (clock goes on) in start regions but this is not retrying. Our API will only give valid routes of every team, if you want, maybe an online costmap.
Hide and Seek: Two boats run in parallel. Running back and forth will get scores, detecting and recognizing another team's April Tag will get many scores. The April Tag is an A4 paper and is put on the sail of boats by workers.

For more details and numbers, please read the rule document on our website.
Though it is long and tiring journey to China, we will try our best to provide support and help. Future information like transportation, awards and bonus will come out after sponsorship discussion.