Our next match is against Tech United… well, I sup­pose that all of you know what that means :) But still, keep fin­gers crossed! :D

The first half of this game was really inter­est­ing and fun to watch! Both teams were very agile and – at least I’d say so – on a par with each other The second half will defin­it­ively look dif­fer­ent, Tech United will quite cer­tainly change their tac­tics, so … we’ll see.

Yeah, as expec­ted: in the second half, Tech United changed their strategy (they kicked again from their half) and they decreased the timeout when their oppon­ent has to carry out stand­ards. Nor­mally, the team that is not in pos­ses­sion of the ball has to wait for 10 seconds or until the ball has been touched by their oppon­ents. Noth­ing more to say but the first half was really nice and 0:3 is a real­istic res­ult, in my opinion.

13:00: End Game

12:xx: Goal! Goal! Goal! CN 0 &ndash 3 Tech United
12:44: Game Star­ted (Second Half)

12:37: Half Time
12:20: Game Star­ted (First Half)

New day, new match. Today, the last two matches of the second round robin will be fought. At 10, we are play­ing against MRL, at 12 against Tech United. Both matches will be very, very hard. let’s hope for some good res­ults. For the time being, I’ll keep this page updated for the match against MRL.

We lost the match because we had severe prob­lems with ball detec­tion, coordin­a­tion, and our hard­ware. Even though our goal was empty in almost the entire second half – Mops’ (our goalie’s) motor con­trol­ler behaved weird –, MRL didn’t man­age to score one more goal against us. So I think, the match was quite balanced…

Dur­ing the game, again some com­pon­ent of a robot exploded in a big bang. This time even with fancy light effects :) Appar­ently, the hard­ware of an MRL robot blew up… but only a few seconds later, the robot was back in the game. Very robust these squeaky robots!

10:50: End Game
10:45: Game Star­ted (Second Half)

10:28: Half Time

10:20: Goal! CN 0 – 1 MRL (time approx)
10:13: Game Star­ted (First Half)

I just found another pic­ture of one of our robots (Mops in this case) in the inter­net, more spe­cific on the futurezone web­site. This time, they men­tioned even our team name :)

http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1612227/

In this art­icle, there’s even a pic­ture of our former Mini­hops:

http://static.orf.at/vietnam2/images/site/futurezone/20090727/mostlyharmlessjubel.jpg

Update 15:34: An art­icle on heise.de that shows a quite noisy pic­ture of our game against MRL, links to our team web­site: RoboCup-WM: Explod­i­er­ende Akkus und abstürzende Roboter.

Graz, 2009-07-03, 22:05 – Dur­ing the Rob­oCup Ban­quette, the organ­isers of the Rob­oCup World Cham­pi­on­ships 2009 con­firmed that a mem­ber of a Rob­oCup team was infec­ted with the swine flu virus A/H1N1. The nev­er­the­less didn’t give any more con­crete or spe­cific inform­a­tion (pre­sum­ably in order to keep the situ­ation calm). Accord­ing to them, the team has been isol­ated, is under med­ical super­vi­sion, and the Rob­oCup World Cham­pi­on­ships will go on as planned. The ORF has pub­lished an art­icle on this topic as well.

There is no reason to be con­cerned. The respons­ible author­ity has made and cares about all the neces­sary arrangements.

They provided a let­ter with inform­a­tion on how to behave and how to identify a flu infec­tion. I’ve attached the let­ter we got (in Ger­man only).

Mex­ican Flu at Rob­oCup 2009

Update 22:42: A more real­istic view on this new situ­ation, this time in Eng­lish, is shown below:

redund­ant present­ing the flu instructions

The match against Mostly Harm­less is sched­uled for 17:00, as already poin­ted out in the last post. We already star­ted pre­par­a­tion, I’ll try to keep this post updated.

17:57: End Game

17:55: Goal! CN 3 – 0 Mostly Harm­less (actu­ally no goal, because it was just rolling towards and into the goal)
17:xx: Game Star­ted (Second Half)

17:32: Half Time

17:30: Goal! CN 2 – 0 Mostly Harm­less (time approx)
17:17: Goal! CN 1 – 0 Mostly Harm­less
17:17: Game Star­ted (First Half)