FINALE WOOOOOHHHHOOOOO

Oh boy Oh boy! WHAT A SEMI FINAL!

Our first match of the knock-out round was the most intense nail biter we ever experienced. Our opponents from CAU_COE are truly incredible. Having played against them just yesterday, we saw the incredible improvements they pulled of literally overnight from the day before yesterday when they faced off against NuBots from Australia.

And so another night passed, or maybe it didn't, we wouldn't know, we spent most of the time hacking through the dark, into the depths of the hardware and beyond the veil of what we had done before.

Either way, after a rough and tumble test game against the famous Invisibles (the name for an empty field during a test game, this was an inside joke, very funny!) and we made our way to the Olympic Stadium. The energy was electric but I'm not gonna lie - we knew they could absolutely beat us, and the first half looked like they were about to put an abrupt end to our winning streak.

0:0 after the first half means it's time for some risky decisions - do you tune a parameter, do you switch to a different changeset, do you just try something random and hope for the best? do nothing and hope for better lighting conditions in the other direction after the sides are switched?

Oh and did I mention the robots have absolutely heated themselves into high heavens and the joints now respond differently to your commands? but that's fine, right? this is fine. everything will be fine.

Actually, it was more than fine. WE WON! With a nerve wrecking second half, we managed to edge them out of the win and concluded with a final score of 3:0 for us.

What an incredible game, one of the best I've ever seen. We'll also post the video on YouTube as soon as possible!

We're now in the final, which will be in about 2 hours so stay tuned!