Rob­oCup 2009

I finally arrived at the air­port in Düs­sel­dorf, got some­thing for break­fast, and already passed the secur­ity check. Yes, they really allowed my to go through, you won’t believe it :) No I’m wait­ing for depar­ture, board­ing is sched­uled for 8:40 or some­thing like this.

The last match for Carpe Noctem (against the Hong Kong Dragons) in the first round robin is sched­uled for 11:00. I won’t be able to see it, arrival will be around 10:40. Mostly Harm­less’ last match (against ISe­Porto) is also planned for 11:00. They will pro­ceed to the second round robin given they win this game. So I’ll keep my fin­gers crossed!

Below, you may find some impres­sions from the venue elm sent me yes­ter­day (I’ll provide them later, sorry, board­ing is about to start)

Teamarea 360°

Gaffer-Glasses by Janosch, Endy-Collection

Gaffer-Glasses by Janosch, redundant-Collection

Except this one :) I’m cur­rently involved in a meet­ing, so I’m unable to see the matches and com­ment on them respect­ively. My flight arrives in Graz tomor­row between 10 and 11, so … well, maybe some more words from me tonight :)

For now: Carpe Noctem won the match against MRT 3:0.

Today was a very excit­ing, thrill­ing day for the whole team but also for me. I spent about 1.5 hours of my work­ing time watch­ing our matches. Well, as the hours I typ­ic­ally spend in the insti­tute are well above the required min­imum, this should not really be a big issue. Finally, this is also robot­ics, so part of my work anyway.

There’s actu­ally not much to say about the per­form­ance of our team. It is like in every tour­na­ment: we’re get­ting con­stantly bet­ter! The match against Stut­tgart must have been really nice, accord­ing to some voices that reached me from Graz. The only things I want to post now are some impres­sions elm sent my some minutes ago. We’re def­in­itely not the only team that is able to pro­duce big bangs, Tech United is cap­able of doing this as well. The only dif­fer­ent in effi­ciency is that they need two robots for this to be accomplished.

The Res­ult of Two Tech United Robots Kick­ing a Ball Simultaneously

t2000, redund­ant, Puto, and Stefan Gal­ler Inspect­ing the “Ball of Contention”

Then, finally the 1. RFC Stut­tgart man­aged to reduce their TTBSB (Time To Break the Safety Bound­ary) to only 2.5 days. Great done, guys! :)

1. RFC Stut­tgart Treated the Saftety Bound­ary as Always

So long. Tomor­row, there will be prob­ably less activ­ity here as I’m attend­ing a work­shop. So maybe see or read you again on Friday!

The third and prob­ably most chal­len­ging match for Carpe Noctem today will start in the next 10–15 minutes, around 16:00. They will have to fight against the 1. RFC Stut­tgart, the cur­rent Ger­man Cham­pion in the MSL. Let’s hope for the best! :)

Ok, the game is delayed… at least a few minutes. Stuttgart’s still work­ing on a robot. They seem to have some (maybe) severe prob­lems with their goalie as well. Oli’s nervously walk­ing around. That’s a really tense situ­ation, we all know. It’s now about quarter past four.

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The second game has star­ted but I was busy at that time. I think it’s still 0:0 but I don’t really know. Roel appar­ently is ref­eree again. Great … again! :) No live-blog for this game… it’s too much work :D

Well, we finally lost the match. This can hap­pen, no reason for being upset! :)