It's now at night after the quarter finals, and the team is discussing a new goalie strategy designed to defeat big kickoffs. After the kickoff, if the ball comes near the goal, the goalie is supposed to come out, and walk sideways to clear it. In this set of tests, it failed once, and Claude (left) is arguing to have it taken out entirely. 

Son is part of the discussion going on in the previous picture. In several subsequent tests after the failure, the goalie performed as expected. The goalie walks out of the goal to prevent a leg getting stuck on the edge of the goal. 

Mike is also part of the discussion going on. The one failure is blamed on the orange stripe on his shoes being detected as the ball. Claude is eventually convinced to let the new strategy stay in for the semi-final match.

More testing of the UNSW strikers. Notice the low crouched walk of the robots - this helps stop them falling over, because their centre of gravity is low.

Closeup of two UNSW robots going for the ball. This makes a great background image. In fact, here is a 1024x768 version you can use as wallpaper.

This android looking thing was the commentator for the small size league. It was given a video feed of the match and it interpreted what it saw. Pretty amazing stuff!

This little guy was one of the humanoid robots on display this year. It's hard to see from this angle, but he's sitting down.

This is UNSW doing Robocup Challenge 1. UNSW was the fastest in this Challenge.

The team testing their Challenge 3 code. The blue robot just sitting there is one of  the obstacles.

Bernhard and Mike in tactical discussions.

The UNSW vs CMU semi final in progress. Two UNSW strikers are menacing the CMU keeper. There are no other CMU robots in view because they had been removed to the halfway line because of the 'Two Defenders' rule - you are only allowed to have your goalie in the penalty box.

A couple of cool 'Aibolikes' brought by other teams.

The team photo : L-R Darren, Son, Bernhard and Claude.

Fujita-san presents the UNSW team with First Prize for winning the Robocup Challenge.