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Since this time,

the serenity of the previous day has now been forgotten. We can feel a great excitement. No one is inactive, despite the haggard lookings.

Everybody is working on his robot. Referees run from pits to pits to speed up approvals ... Which, according the teams, always ends to early !

The team of volunteers, who takes care of the competition organization, has never been so international!

Of course, most of the persons are Swiss and French, but we also have Spanish, Iranian, Czech, Italian, Austrian, Algerian and German people.

All the teams switch easily from French to English (or any other preferred language) according to affinities, in a happy hullabaloo that would scare away any linguistic teacher. But, after all, the most important is that everybody understands each other!

Information bulletin for Eurobot^Open - Yverdon-les-Bains – Switzerland

Number 2 – May 20, 2005

Friday, 8am, in the pits.

Most of Eurobot teams have now arrived. Only Canadians are missing. All English teams arrived at 3am, but they were not the last ones! The last French team reached

the recap-

tion at

4 am!

Zone de Texte: FORCED BATH AT YVERDON-THE-BATHS From our correspondent, Philippe Sigrist This afternoon, at Yverdon-the-Baths, around 4:30PM, during the qualification sessions, the robot Terminator (*) fell into the ditch delimiting the two sides of the game area. According to the latest news, the designers are not wounded, but deeply shocked. A team of psychologists, present there, advised them not to wait and to start the reprogrammation of their robot immediately… if however they wish to be well placed in the coming competition. Many persons, situated on the stages of the floor of the Marive, or around the area of the game witnessed the incident. Some pretended that the ditch made an unexpected movement, that the robot didn't manage to avoid. Investigations are in progress.