The final matches of Robocon Vietnam 2009 took place on the evening of May 17 in the central city of Hue city. SPK-KNIGHT from the HCM City Teacher Training University won first prize and will attend the Asia-Pacific Robocon competition in Japan.

The champion SPK-KNIGHT

The final night opened with the match between the two teams from the the HCM City Teacher Training University, SPK-KNIGHT and SPK-MEC. SPK-KNIGHT defeated its “friend” to enter the semi-final.

The following matches were the competitions between ICE-TEA and SUN WARD from the Hung Yen Technological Teacher Training University, BK-AMT from the HCM City Polytechnic University and SQ01 from the School for Information Technology Officers, 07 STAR of the HCM City-based Lac Hong University and Hong Ha CTM of the Military Technology Institute.

SPK-NIGHT, BK-AMT, SUN WARD and Hong Ha CTM entered the semi-finals.

In this round, SPK-KNIGHT vied with BK-AMT and SUN WARD faced Hong Ha CTM.

In the first match, BK-AMT got a good start but after several seconds, SPK-KNIGHT made a breath-through and became the winner in the 30^th second. In the other match, Hong Ha CTM finished in the 38^th second.

The final match between SPK-KNIGHT and Hong Ha CTM finished with the victory going to the team from HCM City. SPK-KNIGHT will represent Vietnam at the Asia-Pacific Robocon 2009 in Japan this August.

Prizes presented to:

Hong Ha CTM: Second prize of VND25 million, VND10 million Technology Prize

BK-AMT: Third prize of VND15 million and VND10 million Best Automatic Robot Prize

SQ01: VND10 million Best Manually-controlled Robot Prize

07 STAR: VND10 million Style Prize

ICE-TEA: VND10 million Idea Prize

SPK-KNIGHT: First prize of VND40 million, VND10 million Best Playing Solution Prize, VND10 million prize of the Ministry of Science and Technology, US$1,000 award of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting and Information Association

“After finishing in the 30^th second in the match against BK-AMT, we knew that we would be the champion of Robocon 2009,” SKP-KNIGHT’s team leader Phan Van Nam told VietNamNet.

Nam said that after this contest, the team will improve their robot to prepare for the regional Robocon competition in Japan in August.

Mai Loan