got fire?
An exciting to watch game, we did some good things: better role switching, but did some bad things: inconsistent grab.
Our goalie issues still plagued us and would have probably stopped at least one of the goals. And our offense didn’t look great as one of the goals was error by the other team, we missed a wide open net once, and just ran one goal in without grabbing it.
So, things could be better. But things could definitely be worse.
We play against the Cerebus team in 36 minutes. It should be a goody. We just fixed a huge bug in our ball model so hopefully things will go well. Or our dogs will crash and we’ll have a good cry during the timeout.
There were moments in the game where we seemed eerily like last year’s team (hopeless!) but we came through with a solid go-to goal behavior.
Tomorrow we play Cerebus (Turkish team) and then Kouretes (Greek team). We hope to win both games and then get the 2nd bid out of our pool going into the quarterfinals.
The Northern Bites pool play at the German Open got off to a disapointing start. In the first game of pool play for pool B we were defeated 8 – 0 by the German Team. Although the goal differential was quite high, play, particularly in the second half, was even at many times. The German team’s largest advantage came from the goalkeepers on the field. Our goalie was having a difficult time localizing and was positioning poorly in the goal; in opposition, the German Team goalie played very well and blocked multiple Northern Bites shots. Our second game will be this afternoon and we hope for a much better result.
We arrived safely, we arrived tired, we arrived in a country were beer is king and robots are more king. We are embedded in the very center of sprawling industrial fair in Hanover. We are now in our second day of testing and our players are looking strong. Last night in a test scrimmage against the German Team and ended after one half with a tie of 1-1. Setup continues today with scheduled test matches. Our team played well against Cerberus in our first test match of the day, even though wireless was spotty and are players’ decision making was not at the best level. We have another test scrimmage this afternoon and hope to see our dogs once again in the best of states. Pool play begins tomorrow and we will make sure to post all information about our triumphs and place many sad emoticons around information of our losses.
If we can make it through the Nor’Easter, four of us (Henry, Joho, Tucker, and Jeremy) will be heading to Hannover, Germany for the 2007 German Open.
We will be posting lots of news, photos, and video from the road over the next week. Stay tuned.
Robot Dogs, in exhibition match, ready for Germany
Good article, all in all.
Video of our Scrimmage from a few days ago. [Google Video]
I would embed the video here but the Google Video->WordPress process is pretty lame and I don’t feel like installing a plugin to make it work.
Feel free to come check the Northern Bites out as we prep our team for Germany next week.
Easter Sunday, 2pm, Daggett Lounge Next to Thorne Dining Hall, Bowdoin College Campus
