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By SanderSat, 06/27/2009 - 09:12

Bold Hearts is a RoboCup team from the University of Hertfordshire (UH), UK. The team was founded in 2002 by Dr.Daniel Polani. The team consists of computer science students at UH who have a keen interest in AI and Robotics and dedicated in pushing the boundaries of AI and Robotics

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So far not so good

By SanderMon, 07/11/2011 - 08:26

RoboCup 2011 has already ended again, and unfortunately it ended for us a day earlier than planned. The success of the seeding and first rounds were continued in the second round, by winning all matches without conceding any goals, in the fourth round matches started to become more difficult, examplified by a loss of 1-0 against UT AustinVilla from Austin, Texas. When we arrived in the fourth round only 8 of the 22 teams were left, forming a very level field of competitors.

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So far so good

By SanderFri, 07/08/2011 - 12:48

We are now at the second day of matches. Yesterday the seeding round was played, which we got through quite comfortably, winning 5-0 two times and 6-0 another. This was partly due to being placed in a relatively easy group, but it feels good nonetheless.

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Istanbul (not Constantinople)

By SanderWed, 07/06/2011 - 19:47

Another year has passed, another RoboCup World Championship has arrived. All the hard work of the last year should culminate here, at the Fuar Markezi - Expo Center in Istanbul, Turkey. The victory in Iran a few months ago was highly motivational, but the competition has not rested in the meantime and all bets are off again.

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Bold Hearts Win Iran Open 2011!

By SanderMon, 04/18/2011 - 15:42

Although our virtual football players gave their best at the German Open competitions, they did not have much time to recuperate. Just a few days after claiming the third prize in Magdeburg, they had to show their abilities again in Tehran, Iran, for the 2011 edition of the RoboCup Iran Open. The performance at the German Open gave us some confidence that we should also be able to do well in Iran.

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Bold Hearts in Germany

By DanielSat, 04/09/2011 - 12:51

The RoboCup 2011 season is open! And 'Open' is the motto - the RoboCup
German Open in Magdeburg is the 'must be seen here' event for all the
robot soccer world champion hopefuls from Europe, but also from
overseas.

In the 3D Humanoid Soccer Simulation League in which the Bold Hearts,
the UH team, participated, most teams were from Europe, but also included some non-European teams.

9 teams only, but some of them were among the best in the world. Among
them our long-term Nemesis, NaoTH from Berlin, which in the past years kept

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4th train to Mexico

By vighneshThu, 06/24/2010 - 06:51

Today is the day of the finals. all the leagues battle it out for the 1st place slot and the lovely glass trophy with a football on top. Including us. Well on US us but our league. We are battled out for 3rd place slot and a slightly smaller lovely glass trophy with a football on top. We were playing against HFUT Engine from China and they were good. facing them was like facing NaoTH again, almost equally matched. the HFUT Engine mange to score first in the first half with the help from our sluggish goal keeper. In the second half, and we equalized.

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5 seconds....

By vighneshThu, 06/24/2010 - 05:51

Semi-final time. After the third round we went straight back to work. we analyzed the videos or 'log files' tiring to identify the strong and weak points of ourselves and NaoTH, our obstacle to the finals, to find the strong and weak points and improve on them our take advantage of. I don't remember the last time we franticly hacked away on the laptop, almost afraid it will soon burst in to flames. 3 hours later the semi-finals started.

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Semifinals!

By DanielWed, 06/23/2010 - 07:25

After beating FCPortugal by 2:0 (tough game), re-matching RoboCanes (they hoped to win this time) by 1:0, we lost to Apollo3D in a tight game 0:1 - Apollo3D is a fast team, and they were more often at our goal, but we could have had defended slightly better, and probably survived without catching a goal. Bottom line is: we are second in the group and face NaoHumboldt in the semifinals - a very strong team who is in the running as a favourite of the competition. Tune in at 16:00 Singapore time for a sharp game!

Deja Vu!

By DanielTue, 06/22/2010 - 13:00

Well, I (Daniel) have been missing all the games from the seeding and the 1st round, sitting in meetings. So, as fate decided, the 2nd round happened to re-encounter us with two previous teams, as if to recap for me what happened in the seeding round which I missed. Remember, that in the first of the seeding round games, DreamWings3D had put us back the earthy grounds of reality in that we lost to them in the very first of our games.

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