In July 2022 I and my teammates Aditya, Ricky, and Ethan were all allowed to travel to Curtin university to compete in the RoboCup this is a tournament where teams of 2-4 have to create a robot that can navigate through the various tiles that they have. Each team has around a year after the old comp to prepare for the new one, but sadly our team only got half a year. During that time we were just enjoying the time we spent together on a Friday building a robot at the same time, but then came the comp day. We had barely started on our code and that meant that every day except Tuesday the week before I needed to stay back and hardcore code to finish in a week. During that time I had a schedule but then it went lopsided, so I had to do some at home (lots). After eventually finishing green spaces I realised we couldn’t do gridlock, this was difficult to get around. On the first day, one of our rounds was done very well this one round practically infinitely double our old score of 0. This meant that luckily we were able to secure a spot in the finals on day two, coming 8th. On day two we were doing decently well but we couldn’t do gridlock still. So on that day a made a big brain move (slightly dumb move) and programmed it so that whenever it sees double black it will skip gridlock then the course I ended up on, had no gridlock but had an intersection. this meant that our robot was toasted. Whenever it tried to complete the course it just went full speed in the wrong direction. After this, I realised that the amazing strategy stuffed green spaces as well, so I took it out. Overall the comp was amazing and coming 9th out of 50 is a good achievement in my mind.