If nothing bad happens, we will stream all matches. The respective streams will be available via our Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/HamburgBitBots

Upcoming first is the 1:15 pm match between Hamburg Bit-Bots and Photon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgLn7qXph-Q

Livestream of the elimination match: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gsrb4vto25lz7dgxi2zymyznnea?hl=de
(as long as the net keeps up)

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.

The Bit-Bots landed more or less safely at the Hamburg Airport yesterday evening. The Team looks back at a successful world cup, with a lot of knowledge sharing with other teams and some smaller, hard earned, successes (our robot actually threw the ball!).

An official ranking which takes into account the technical challenges unfortunately has not been published yet. Because we made 8 Points there, and only six teams dared to approach the challenges, we hope for a place in the top-ten despite our defeats. Currently only the results of the individual games can be viewed online.

While the team members that attended the world cup still recuperate from their jet-lag we have prepared some visualisation of the work on our software within the last weeks.

The nodes of this tree-structure represent files and folders in the main development branch of our version control system.
One day reflects to roughly 10 seconds of the visualisation and you can see how developers modify the project with each commit (green = add, orange = modify, red = delete). At June the 15. was the take-of for the team. You can clearly see how the competition had impact on our activity. (The Time reflects to CEST, the local Mexican time is -7 hours)

For the technical interested: We use gource as a visualisation tool for git. Linux-Users can install it directly via their software-center.
If you change to a directory containing a git-repository and execute “gource”, it will render a nice visualisation of your own project.
Pretty much of a show for just 10 seconds of work!

The World Cup is no longer far away, on friday our 4 robots together with the WTM substitute and their 6-headed human team of staff will board a plane and head towards Mexico where they will compete against teams from all over the world and collect very important experiences in robot soccer.
This means a lot of work for everyone involved and amongst other things a bit of suffering for our website.

But enough of the gibberish – did I say 4 robots?
Dead on time (no exaggeration) a fourth player did reach us. Just in time to be declared at customs has the robot, whose sponsorship this time kindly was assumed by the TAMS Group, arrived.

To illustrate our joy we have made the following video for you which shows the “birth” of the new Darwin.