RoboCup 2018 - Preparation Day 1

Yesterday we arrived at the hotel at around 5 pm local time (that's 11 pm CET). Because we didn't want to wake up at 3 am local time we struggled a bit to stay awake. So we meet the Frankfurt Bembelbots and chilled for the rest of the day ... or so we thought ...

Our Chinatown Hotel Lobby

After leaving the pub and enjoying a meal at a chinese restaurant, our teamleaders were called to an emergency meeting to discuss the current state and the expected progress of the venue preparation. You see, normaly only the rescue leagues competition area is still under work during the first preparation day. It turned out that the venue management failed to organize the construction of all competition areas (soccer fields and so on).

So the construction of the SPL soccer fields started more or less at around 1 am today by the local organizer and members of the SPL. The construction of the 4 fields is still going on at this moment due to missing material and consumed a lot of time of most teams ....

The venue late at night

1st DIY RoboCup

We are heading to the airport

Once again our quest begins and we are heading to Canada. Our flight starts at 2pm German time and will approximately take 8 hours to reach Montreal. Stay tuned for updates :-)

Robocup 2018 Montréal - Preparations

Hello o/

Tomorrow we fly to Montréal to participate in the RoboCup championship to defend our current title of vice-champion (and somewhat German champion of course :3).
We spend this week in Leipzig to find and fix some bugs, prototype a few new features and improve some others. Additionally, we were interviewed by the dpa and the MDR.

MDR Mediathek at around 3:20

Whish us luck :-)

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Finals Video

Our cut of the final match is up on youtube now. We hope you enjoy :-)

 

 

RoboCup German Open - Finals

As promised, here are the pictures from the final game versing Nao Devils, the results and the award ceremony.
According to the Results page on http://spl.robocup.org/events/german-open-results-2018/ we passed the round robin unbeaten, scoring 32 goals and received none. With 16 points we were the leading team, this year. The ball entered our goal only two times in the finals in a fierce battle with a strong Nao Devils that won their match against the champion B-Human with an amazing 1:0.

All around we learned a lot, made a lot of progress and had a ton of fun.

Looking forward to the competition at RoboCup International 2018 Montréal Canada.

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Finals

We won the RoboCup German Open with an amazing 5:2. In the finals we faced the Nao Devils again.
We post pictures about the last game and the team in a while when we have a bit more time

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Nao-Team HTWK vs NaoTH

We are in the finals
We won our last round robin game versus NaoTH 7:0 and are therefore qualified for the finals at 3pm later this day.

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Competition Day #3

Today is the last day of the German Open. In our first match at 9am we are facing the NaoTH from Berlin.
If we win the match we are qualified for the finals at 3pm against Nao Devils who already qualified yesterday.

Nao Devils host a livestream for this last day again.

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Nao-Team HTWK vs B-Human

Our last game for today was a draw against the champion B Human. With that draw, the probability is high that we face Nao Devils in the finals tomorrow. But before the finals, we still have to win a match against Berlin United tomorrow morning at 9am.

Robocup German Open 2018 - Video of the first match vs. Nao-Devils

The video of our first match against the Nao Devils is online. Hope you enjoy.

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Nao-Team HTWK vs Bembelbots

We won our second match today against Bembelbots from Frankfurt 10:0.
With that, we are the leading team by score according to http://spl.robocup.org/events/german-open-results-2018/ with 12 points and a goal difference of 25 goals.

Our next match is against the current champion B-Human at 3pm. Wish us luck :-)

Robocup German Open - Nao-Team HTWK vs HULKs

We won our first match of today 5:0 versus the HULKs from Hamburg.
Our next match is scheduled 12am versus the Bembelbots.

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Competition Day #2

We are at the Messe Magdeburg early again, today. Our first game versus the HULKs from Hamburg is at 9am.
In total we have to play 3 games today:

• 9am versus HULKs
• 12am versus Bembelbots and
• 3pm versus B-Human

Here is the schedule again.
The results are kept up to date here.
The results are kept up to date here:

Todays Livesteam is kindly hosted by Nao Devils again :-)

RoboCup German Open 2018 - Nao-Team HTWK vs NomadZ

We won our second and last game for today 7:0 versus the NomadZ from Switzerland..
You can keep up with the competition results here: http://spl.robocup.org/events/german-open-results-2018/

Robocup German Open - Nao-Team HTWK vs Nao-Devils

Our first official game of the competition versus Nao Devils went surprisingly well. We won the match 3:0

 Our next game will be at 3pm versus the NomadZ, Robocup Team ETH Zurich.

Robocup German Open 2018 - Competition day #1 Livestream

This is the livestream for today

Robocup German Open - First competition day

Today is the first competition day. Our first game will be against Nao Devils at 11am. The game will decide if we have a chance to enter the finals ... wish us luck :-)

The full schedule can be found here.

Robocup German Open 2018 - Livestream

The Nao-Devils provide us with a Livestream.