In the second round of pool play, Bowdoin went 1-2 winning against TJ-Ark but losing to UPENN 0-3 and to the Hellhounds 0-7.  The UPENN game was mostly up for grabs and we missed a few golden oppurtunities.  We actually held the Hellhounds and gave them a much better game then in the U.S. Open just a few months ago.

We end RoboCup without an official ranking but clearly in the Top 12.  In the process, we’ve had two big wins, scored five goals in one game, made it into the second round of pool play, and finished top 12 in the world in our first year internationally–all while using (nearly) entirely our own code base in the process.

Ro-bots!!

Here are the scores as I received them 1000 miles away:

Microsoft Hellhounds 6 – Northern Bites 0
UT Austin Villa 5 – Northern Bites 0
Northern Bites 2 – Brown Demonstra Dogs 0
Northern Bites 2 – Brown Pound 1

Game replay, footage, more in-depth analysis later this week. For now, we allow our non-robotic lives to take over for a while.

6:53 PM: So we’ve made it–dogs and laptops and all–to Boston Logan Airport to wait for three hours because of delays in Atlanta. Apparently, there was a suspicious package found in Atlanta, to which the authorities responded to with undoubtedly some sort of robot. I only hope that it was kind enough to play a rough form of soccer after its official business was finished.

Next Day… Ok that didn’t really work out–but we’re at the venue now-picture soon!