Yesterday we celebrated and chinked glasses – not without a reason: The Hamburg Bit-Bots turned 5 years old.
Therefore we are opening our doors this week (not just a open day but an ‘open week’) to invite everyone who is interested to visit us, which we started with an introducing invitation and had a barbecue with our members.
Maybe we will manage to not just attract and interest new members but also to write an article about what happened in those five years and the history of the Bit-Bots.
The winner of the match with AEhuman in the intermediate round had to be determined by coin toss after we played for two uneventful half times and a scoreless penalty shoot-out. The luck was on our side and we got the chance to play against the Iranian team Parand at 2 pm (11:30 am German time) in the quarter-final.
We are able to reliably detect the ball; just the walking is causing some troubles. We were able to adjust some parameters and hope for a nice and successful match.
After the Fumanoids had won against the Bold Hearts with 5:0, we were afraid of our first opponent in the tournament. For some inexplicable reasons (something with WiFi?) the Fumanoids’ robots weren’t operational. Most of time in the first half time they didn’t do anything, while our robots felt to ground in entertaining ways, stood up again, walked some steps, felt again just to walk in the different direction afterwards. The last 30 seconds were the most exiting part of the match. A now working robot of the Fumanoids tried to dribble the ball towards our goal, but felt onto the ball just a few centimeters in front of our goal. The game was whistled to a close: 0-0 — draw.
The match against the Bolds Hearts followed shortly. It was again a mostly unspectacular match. In the final phase of the match one of the Bold Heart’s robots started an attack to their own goal. They had luck, the game was closed by the whistle before the attack could be executed successfully.
For the group phase we reached the seconds place in our group. Tomorrow at 11 am (8:30 am in CEST) we will play against the first Iranian opponent in the intermediate round, AEhuman.
The ranking of the other group was determined by penalty shootout, because all teams had the same amount of points: zero.
Ranking group A:
1. Parand
2. MRL
3. AEhuman
Ranking group B:
1. Fumanoids
2. Hamburg Bit-Bots
3. Bold Hearts
More impressions of the tournament in our image gallery:
The group phase will start tomorrow. We were drawn into group B, together with the Fumanoids (from Berlin) and the Bold Hearts (from England). In group A are Parand, AEhuman and MRL (all three are teams from Iran).
– 10:15/07:45 – Fumanoids vs. Bold Hearts
– 14:00/11:30 – Fumanoids vs. Hamburg Bit-Bots
– 16:30/14:00 – Bold Hearts vs. Hamburg Bit-Bots
(times: Tehran/Hamburg)
After a few speeches in which the value of developing new technologies was emphasized, the IranOpen officially began with some firework.
300 teams from Iran and teams from 11 countries will give their best in the next days.
Since Sunday evening our team is in Teheran. We arrived with a short delay of about two hours at the airport. From there we went to our accommodation to get some sleep. We woke up and it felt like night due to the time shift.
The event site was a positive surprise – the area for the humanoid league was almost completely prepared in the morning of the first setup day.
While our team is preparing for the competition, you can look at some pictures of today morning:
