📅 18th to 20th of July 2025 (main match day: Saturday, 19th of July 2025)
📍 SCALE research building on the mechanical engineering campus
What do you do if you can’t travel to Brazil for the big RoboCup 2025? Well, you simply organize your own small tournament! In our case: the Leibniz Cup 2025.
From the 18th to the 20th of July 2025 we met with the Immortals and RoboTeam Twente at SCALE (Mechanical Engineering Campus) to test some of our newly implemented developments in a relaxed atmosphere! In addition to having a lot of fun, our main goal was to gain experience in organizing such an event so that we can potentially host our own tournaments more often in the future.
Our conclusion: The tournament was a complete success!
First things first: the organization.
As mentioned at the beginning, this was the first tournament we organized ourselves. So we had quite a few things on our to-do list: finding a location, setting up the playing field and getting the technology up and running, organizing catering (i.e., food orders and a barbecue), developing a schedule, and taking care of lots of little things here and there. Fortunately, everything went smoothly—especially because everyone on the team pitched in!
Next up: the matches.
While RoboTeam Twente unfortunately had some problems with their software at the beginning (our team leader Sebastian Knackstedt worked hard to help fix them), the Immortals performed consistently well. So well, in fact, that they emerged as the winners of the tournament! But our robots also performed quite well on the field, and rumor has it that they even played better than at the last RoboCup in Eindhoven. Except for a bent base plate, everything remained pretty much intact.
Last but not least: the fun factor.
This one was very high up! Not only was there excitement and cheering at the well-attended foosball table, but the atmosphere was also exuberant at the robot playing field.
All in all: Need to repeat!
A tournament like this only works if everyone pitches in—and that definitely happened this weekend. Or, in the words of team leader Sebastian: “This showed that we can easily organize a tournament like this as a team!”
