Yesterday the first group phase ended. In the morning we played against the empty goal (the fourth “team” in the group as not all teams ha showed up). What would be easy in human soccer was still difficult for robots, as it is hard to decide which goal is the own and which the other. Our match ended without us scoring an own goal, but unfortunately, no goals were scored since we weren’t able to walk on the artificial turf well enough to reach the ball or kick it.

Now all matches of the group phase had ended without one goal so that a penalty shootout tok place to sequence the teams. Even here none of the teams scored, so the time it took each of the teams to get to the ball was measured. We were ranked third with 0.36 seconds difference to the second.

Or next match was against the fourth-ranked of another group. The Kudos from South Korea had similar strenghts and weaknesses as we have, so the match ended 0:0 after the normal time. Together we decided to leave out the play-off and start directly with the penalty shootout. As here was no goal scored either the time was measured again. We reached the ball quicker but touched it one time less and thus exited the championship.
That’s a pity, but now we can use our time here to swap ideas on soft- and hardware problems and can show the other teams our platform Hambot.