Friday 18 July: footrace: 9.75 seconds!

Today we had our final challenges of this tournament, the tactical challenges.These consist out of three challenges, the footrace, obstacle avoidance and the dribble. Because we can't walk with TUlip we brought flame with us. Flame can already walk but only in a straight line. So we only participated in the footrace.Flame isn't always stable and a needs to be catched if it falls. But you're not allowed to stand in the field, so that could be a problem. If flame did fall it would be seriously damaged so we were not sure if could do the challenge at all. However we solved the problem by putting Eelko in the goal which was allowed. Martijn released flame and then Eelko protected it, then it was catched by Tomas. Flame walked well and with a tweak by taping some batteries on it did it in 9.75 seconds!

After the challenge we let flame walk through the conference hall which drew a large crowd. We don't know yet if flame was the fastest but it sure was crowd's favorite.

Pictures can be found on the media page.