The week before we left for Worlds, we were involved in several interviews for various media outlets. You can read the article covering us in the Central Leader newspaper here: https://www.aura.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/centralleader.png You can also listen to our 10 minute interview on the Public Address radio show on RadioLIVE here: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2979/

We did pretty well today! After our 2nd place ranking yesterday, we entered into elimination rounds. There was a 32-team bracket, and we beat our first opponents in the round-of-64 and round-of-32, but unfortunately lost to a team from Philadelphia in the round-of-16 in a 2-1 set of 3 matches. It was pretty infuriating for us to be knocked out …

After a strong start yesterday as first place in the highly volatile College division (with the rankings changing every match), we played six more matches today. With a lot of work done to perfect the robot mechanically over the last couple of days, most effort was spent on strategy and autonomous today. We won 5 of our 6 matches, beating …

After arriving in Orlando much jet-lagged yesterday at about 6am, we set up our pit, did some urgent repairs on the robots after the plane rides, and got some rest. Today, the competition matches started, with 35 teams competing in the College Division. We faced some tough opponents in our practice match, defending World Champions MNU (Mianyang Normal University) from …

We’ve had a pretty hectic week! In amongst all of the end of mid-semester tests that everyone seems to have for every paper they do, we’ve had to get ready for the World Champs too! This included borrowing a field from Kristin, doing a demonstration to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, doing a public demonstration as well, doing interviews for …