Although we weren’t actively participating in the competition any more we arrived at 8:30 in the hall to attend to our referee duties. Thus we had a lot of time till the evening to exchange with other teams and two interesting events occurred.

Firstly, we wanted to how if and how the walking other teams had implemented worked on our robots. We sat together with the RoboPatriots who have relatively new and similar darwin-based robots to ours. After some difficulties and a few adaptations our robots were able to walk on the artificial turf with their software.

The second occurrence was, that we were invited by a member of the committee of the rescue league to let our robots walk on their uneven ground. Tamara was made volunteer and walked impressively well on gravel and bricks. The members of the rescue league were so excited that they offered to build a set and provide material for a Technical Challenge next year.

Also we promoted our Hambots and  introduced a lot of teams to it in detail. Altogether a lot of visitors came to take pictures with Kuddel, Fiona, and other robots and many flyer and buttons were taken.

Furthermore mentionable is the FUmanoids making it into the quarter-final as the only german team where they lost against the ZJUDancer 0:1. In the semifinal the Rhoban Football Club from France were the only european team, and also lost against the ZJUDancer and will now play in the match for the third place.

On wednesday the small and grand final will take place.