At 1:45 am our intermediate game against the “Cyberlords la Salle” will begin. The winner gets to play in the second round robin, the looser wont have any game here anymore.
That is gonna be interesting.
The live-Streaming starts with the game:
Soon our Game against the Bold Hearts will begin.
There will be a live-stream:
By the time almost all members of our team have a sore throat, thus first some fennel-tea with honey for the start of the day.
At a traffic light on our way here we where spontaneously blessed by a passing stranger.
It might be the catholic scout bus we are driving around here.
But maybe it is a good sign for our upcoming game.
YAY! We did it!
Our first regular goal, our first worldcup-goal and our first regular victory in a game.
During the first half we where a little out of luck, the opponents succeeded in scoring a goal against us – our counterstrike was near, but we only got close. The second half was way better. Tamara started from the kick off, and brought the ball with a few “aimed” kicks to the enemy goal. Exactly as planned, which is a rather seldom situation to observe at the RoboCup.
Shortly after this, the enemy fieldie took the initiative again. He saw the ball, positioned himself not to miss the goal post, and kicked – directly into his own goal.
That is how our Game ended – with a 2:1 score for our team – and we have all reason to be happy.
To be honest, the referee decisions where to our advantage. Especially the repositioning of the ball was sometimes quite beneficial for our chances to score.
What makes us especially proud: The game ended without any notable hardware faults. No camera “lost” at all. The difficult soldering work in advance was worth the effort.
Tomorrow at 10:00 9:30 am we are going to play against our neighbours on the next seat, the Bold Hearts from Great Britain.
Maybe we should be careful from now on with the coffee they are offering 🙂
Since long we are plagued with problems at the JST-Connectors of our cameras. As we did not manage to construct high-quality spare cables for them we now started to solder them directly to the board.
No plug, no problem.
Today was our last pure preperation day. Tomorrow at 3:30 pm it will get serious for us, with a game against an iranian team that apparently scored quite well during the last worldcup.
Apart from many hardware works we also tested our software at a larger scale – most notably with the test game against the Fumanoids we mentioned before. Although we lost, scoring 1:2, we are quite satisfied with this first real test. At least we managed to make a long distance shot directly from the center-line into the enemy goal.
At our accommodation we had to switch our rooms to our inconvenience this morning because of some strange bookings.
Well, at least the bigger part of our luggage was already in the hall, so we could do that quite quickly.
We also took a short ammount of time to have a quick look around the other competition-areas.
Overall we find the setup to be quite fitting – especially regarding the integration of visitors.
Almost all areas from all leagues are easy to be watched – despite that the seggregation between visitors and team-areas is given by access-checks. The singnposting is good as well.
The organiser made sure enough network and power-plugs are available, albeit we already lost power several times at our table.
We are hoping this problem won’t occur during critical phases for us.
The amount of helpers is quite high, for general amusement their shirts are orange, in other words ball-colored. Simple image-processing modules are going to be confused by that.
Several gastronomy areas are present, with accordingly high pricing – nothing in comparison to switzerland though, as we know from “Robots On Tour
During our walk we were also reminded why we like to play in our league and not the standard plattform league.
We saw a backstage room, labeled “Nao Clinic”, and tried to get a nice picture from the ~20 Naos sitting there on a table.
“Sorry no photos allowed, this is not the kind of impression we’d like to give to our custumers.” – lucky for them, we are not their “custumers” 🙂
Our two designated referees, Jessica and Bente, also had to endure the quite long training for the rules to be fit for the games they have to rule begining from tomorrow. The first game to be overseen is tomorrow 8:30 am.
That is why we have to quit chatting for today and go to bed.
Wish us the best, tomorrow 3:30 pm!
Der erste Setup Day ist vorüber, und auch heute hat sich einiges ereignet.
Insbesondere wurden die offiziellen Spielbälle ausgeteilt, und zur Überraschung Aller ist er farblich leicht in Richtung Magenta (also in richtung einer Mannschaftsfarbe) gefärbt. Dadurch müssen wir unsere Farbkalibierung anpassen was sich momentan noch als aufwändig erweist. Aber genau für solche Fälle gibt es die Setup-Days.
Mit 8 Leuten und 5 Robotern ist es an unserem Tisch äußerst eng, darum haben wir uns zusammen mit den Fumanoids aus Berlin als allererstes ein Steckregal im örtlichen Baumarkt beschafft um ein wenig Staufläche zu schaffen. An anderen Tischen mag man nun über Deutsche Ordnung lächeln, wobei das durch unsere Tische wieder relativiert werden dürfte.
Unsere unmittelbaren Sitznachbarn sind jetzt die Bold Hearts aus Großbritannien, die wir bereits gut von den German Open kennen. Da sie mit nur 3 Personen angereist sind stören sie sich weniger an unserem Platzverbrauch als das bei anderen Teams zu erwarten wäre. Auch die Bold Hearts setzen auf die Darwin-Plattform, sodass es bereits in der Vergangenheit zu regem Austausch zwischen uns kam.
Unser großes Plakat konnten wir dank einer Helferin, die kurz weg geguckt hat, an prominenter Stelle an den Rängen des Stadions in dem wir uns befinden befestigen. Positiv zum Veranstaltungsort lässt sich außerdem feststellen, dass die Halle keinerlei Fenster hat und die Lichtverhältnisse somit den Tag über konstant bleiben dürften.
Der Tag ging schnell vorüber, mit Testen der Software und warten der Hardware. Letztere brachte einige AG-Mitglieder dank Nervenaufreibender Kleinstarbeit an den Kabelsteckern an die grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit. Doch um 22:30 durchbrach dann die Lautsprecherdurchsage der Veranstalter unsere Betriebsamkeit “30 minutes left, leave the Hall!”. Ähnlich wie beim öffnen der Halle ist man sehr auf Pünktlichkeit bedacht – und um Punkt 23:00 wird die Stormversorgung in der gesamten Halle zwangsweise unterbrochen.
Nun sitzen wir wieder in unserer Unterkunft und schreiben die Erlebnisse des Tages nieder – vorausgesetzt Martin lässt uns.
Bootet er nämlich sein (frisch installiertes!) Ubuntu, so wird augenblicklich jedem anderen Nutzer, außer ihm, der Zugang zum WLAN verwehrt. Technik die begeistert.
Here you can see all our images from the German Open 2013.
Have fun!
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As you can see there is not much going around at this time. Many members of our work-group where busy writing exams and/or enjoying their holidays.
But of course we will keep you upgraded as soon as something interesting happens 🙂
Event after Mexico our robots have to stay fit, that is why Atlas is training hard again. Especially as he is going to fight for his honour in a competition against one of his programmers during the Informatics Summer Festival.
