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RoboCup Soccer Finalists Flop Even More Than Their World Cup Counterparts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMSiKHPKX4

In the recent finals of the world’s most prestigious tiny robot soccer tournament, the Darmstadt Dribblers housed the FUmanoids 7-1. Here’s the (mercifully) sped-up video of the match, complete with theatrics I haven’t seen since I last watched Italy play.

https://deadspin.com/today-in-karma-italian-player-viciously-flops-game-ty-5572072

The two finalists were both German teams, which might explain the stiffness. And the game itself was actually a rematch between last year’s finalists, also resoundingly lost by the FUmanoids (11-1). Impressive engineering and all that (except for all the falling down). But when is the US finally going to have a competitive tiny robot soccer program of its own? [Plastic Pals via CrunchGear]

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