Some thought experiments concerning the final round of the kid-size league and why the semi finals could clearly determine the final winner of the tournament – and a press foto of the “class 2009” (huge group of teams with their robots). Edit: Things are exactly like I expected in this article.

Looking at the quarter final games and the semi final playing pattern, one recognizes a strong probability for the two strongest teams NimbRo and Darmstadt Dribblers to match in the semi finals. This happens, if in the quarter final games

• NimbRo defeat BogoBots and
• Darmstadt Dribblers defeat ZJUDancer.

Personally, I feel that both seems likely to happen, even though I admit that there may always be surprises.

A semi final game NimbRo vs. Darmstadt Dribblers therefore could be something like an “inofficial final game”, because the winner has pretty good chances to then defeat his respective opponent in the final game.

As a gimmick I present the press foto “Class of 2009” which shows a huge group of Humanoid Team members and Robots¹⁾. More Information will probably be provided this evening in another article.