Wednesday 1st of July: The Long Haul

Better late than never; the following is a short summary of what we did yesterday. By 8am the first programmers got behind their stations, where most of us stayed till 11pm. Highlights of the day were: McDonald's, Tulip falling on his hind-side, and our first official match!

The short story: we ended up losing the match. Our Iranian opponents were switched out for the Tsinghua Hephaestus team, their robot managed to find and maneuver to the ball, and on their fifth/last attempt they scored! So an exciting match, that ended in a loss.

TUlip also had a very unfortunate accident. While testing kick-behavior he experienced the equivalent of a hiccup, temporary software failure. We were unprepared, and the robot went crashing to the ground, TUlip spent the next half hour under Intensive Care as we did all system checks we could think of. The problem was resolved. TUlip is alive and kicking!