A new day brings fresh motivation after a long evening yesterday. Our team was on-site as soon as the hall opened at 7:00 AM local time.
Although the official RoboCup has only just begun, the lack of sleep is starting to take its toll. Hence, our first order of business upon arriving at the hall was to track down some coffee.
Afterwards, a bit more awake, Jakob and Marko got ready to take on our first Ref + GCO slot at 8:30 AM. The schedule for the initial matches is already set, though network issues in the hall have caused significant delays for some games.

Our next match will presumably be at 11:30 AM against Tigers. Before that, we have a test slot at 10:30 AM to verify some final adjustments. We are all hoping our first official match goes better than yesterday’s friendly. That game was, unfortunately, a total disaster — plagued by our famous wireless connection issues. These stem from the Raspberry Pi chips, which scan surrounding networks to determine their location and ensure only legal frequencies are used. However, because the Teams in the hall use various routers configured for different countries, the 6 GHz band — which is crucial for us — is flagged as illegal, even though it is permitted in Korea. In classic ER-Force fashion, our solution is a case lined with aluminum foil to act as a Faraday cage, since the problem only occurs when the robots are booting up.

As always, things remain exciting right down to the last minute.

A livestream link is now available, if you click here, you can watch the matches live or catch up on previous games. For more details on match times, I also recommend checking the tournament schedule linked here.
We look forward to reading your comments in the streams.