Very good results at the international robotics competition “Robotiada 2019” in Vilnius!
On 23 March 2019 in Vilnius the robotics competition “Robotiada 2019” took place, the largest robotics competition in Lithuania.
Members of the Preiļi Robotics Club also took part, with 22 robots. The Preiļi Robotics Club was represented by Armands Upenieks, Aldis Buks, Matīss Dambītis, Kārlis Pīgožnis, Matīss Buks, Iļja Martinovs, Lauris Šmeiksts, Edīte Meikulāne, Margarita Džeriņa, Solvita Ragauša and Rinalds Pākste. The team took part in the Folkrace, MiniSumo, Line followers without turbine, Line followers with turbine, iRobot Sumo events. Armands and Matīss, also representing the Robotu skola team, took part in the Mega sumo event, in which they fought for a ticket to the prestigious sumo competition in Japan.
In the Folkrace event Matīss and Aldis Buks won 1st and 3rd place.
In the Minisumo event, PRO group, Matīss Buks and Armands Upenieks won a medal-winning 3rd place.
Although several prize places were won at the competition, it will also be remembered for several 4th places: in the Folkrace event Edīte Meikulāne was very close to the podium, but this time finished 4th in the results list. In the Mega sumo event, in a fierce fight against Polish robot masters, Armands Upenieks won 4th place. In the iRobot event the most successful from our team was Rinalds Pākste, but with his sumo robot he too finished in 4th place.
Thank you to all the participants for preparing and competing, and to the team’s adviser-coaches for advising and helping the participants!
Good luck in the coming competitions!
Juris Erts, head of the PRK team