On the first day of the new year, the people of Ludao ushered in a good weather with sunny days and high clouds, and people went out of their homes to enjoy the first sunny day of the year during this holiday.

Amusement parks, botanical gardens, parks, seashores, and specialty shops are full of citizens and tourists who come out to let off steam, and a variety of free city parks are loved by local citizens.

The park next to it is a member of the free army, which was renovated only the year before last, with flourishing flowers and trees, winding paths, lotus and water lilies on the shore, and swans playing in the center of the pond, although some scenery is helplessly discounted because of the seasonal solar terms, but it is still a leisure place loved by the general public.

Especially today, the weather is sunny and sunny, and there is no winter to kill the air conditioner is the most suitable for going out to play.

But today, it's strange, and there are obviously more young people in their 20s who are crowding in line at the door to enter.

They obviously didn't come to play or go on a blind date, the park gate hung a sign of "Municipal Youth League Committee 2016 Blind Date Temple Fair Time Arrangement", the first blind date temple fair this year will be on January 9 next Saturday. And even if there is a blind date event today, it will not be young people who come to the scene. Like other places, the main ones who often come to participate in this kind of offline blind date activities are parents around 50 years old, and there are many grandparents who have retired more than 6070 people.

As for the young people at the door, their purpose should be the same as Wu Pan Shen Mo, to see a special robot competition.

Because of a slight traffic jam on the road, the Uber they called was ten minutes later than expected, and as soon as they arrived near the park, they saw a long queue stretching to the corner of the street.

In fact, there are many official competitions in the field of robotics, such as RoboCup Robot World Cup, RO Robot Olympiad, VEX Robot World Championship, etc., the earliest Radish Cup began in Japan in 1997, the first RO was held in 2004, and the latest VEX was founded by the Americans in 2007, and it has been held annually for more than 30 sessions.

All three competitions claim to have hundreds of teams signed up for the competition every year, but the influence of the competition has not been increasing, but has been hovering at a low level for a long time, the media does not like to report, the audience is not interested, except for the contestants' families, teachers, friends and classmates, almost no one pays attention.

RoboCup uses homemade robots or flashed versions of NAO robots, and RO and VEX use LEGO Education's brick-based robots to compete in the competition, with the main participants being school students.

Science and engineering students team up to brush radish cups, while primary and secondary school students form groups under the guidance of instructors to brush the last two copies. Every year, a large number of domestic schools organize students to sign up to participate in these competitions, and the number of championships and awards is not uncommon, but it is a pity that the three major competitions are too biased towards engineering teaching, and the content has a strong tendency to simulate and simplify, and the pace of confrontation is relatively slow, so it is naturally difficult to attract the attention of ordinary audiences.

Today's upcoming BotBoxing is the opposite, with tall robots piloted by real people, a storm of bullets of thousands of rounds per minute, and dozens of kilometers of ground galloping, all of which can easily arouse people's enthusiasm and hormones, and the result is naturally a cloud of spectators.

Even if the game is just the result of someone's slap on the head and a temporary idea, just like its name, BotBoxing, they will spit bullets at each other, they will use props and weapons to slash, but boxing sparring is not because it is not flexible enough.

As early as 2007, Japanese robotics artist Kogoro Kurata and robotics expert Yoshizaki Hang cooperated to set up a large-scale civilian robot manufacturing company called Suidobashi Heavy Industries, and they used the technology of V-Sidorp, a motion software solution provider of which the latter is the CEO, to develop a cool-looking four-legged wheeled robot Kuratas (Kuratas) in five years.

Three years ago, this mobile robot equipped with a Gatling gun and capable of firing toy BB shells and mineral water bottles attracted countless onlookers and attracted the attention of media and netizens from all over the world. They also moved it to a shopping website while the iron was hot and sold it at a price of 100 million yen (about 6.5 million soft girl coins), and accepted various modifications and customizations.

At about the same time, Atletico Madrid also began research on large-scale robots and launched his "Fat Baby No. 1 (PFACP1)", which resembles Japan's Kurata in terms of structure and appearance, and once attracted netizens from both countries to spit. On the contrary, Kurata Kogoro saw it very openly, and publicly said that everyone was borrowing from the walking excavator, so the fat baby did not copy his own robot.

Then it was time to praise each other, with Kurata praising the fat baby's multi-legged walking system and Atletico admiring the Kurata's cockpit.

Originally, the matter was going to end here, who knew that a halfway kill would bite the gold, a few American guys who grew up playing mecha games when they were young, partnered to build a taller and heavier robot MegabotMark2, and then shouted on the Internet to make an appointment, wanting to fight with Kurata and the fat baby.

Kurata Kogoro didn't hesitate for long before agreeing, and Atletico Madrid would not be intimidated, not only did he agree, but he also came directly to the sentence "Come on, come on, don't come, don't come!"

The frame is an appointment, but the three parties actually have no bottom in their hearts, the Americans said that we come to play paintball safely and harmlessly, the Japanese think that the lady said that she wants to come to the melee of the masters, and the bee Atletico said that my alloy armor is not ready, and he needs time to arm the fat baby No. 1 to create a combat version of the fat baby X.

In the end, after discussion, they unanimously decided to put the game on the 2016 New Year's Day, and the content of the game was also far, close, and big brawl, and then there was the BotBoxing robot boxing match, in fact, there were punches but no boxing.

The first competition was hosted by Bee, and the venue was naturally placed in China, and then Ludao City was close to the water, and it was easy to grab the title of host city, and also helped arrange a free and easy-to-use venue.

Despite the rush of time, the announcement of the plan still attracted a lot of attention, with 30,000 e-tickets sold out in just one week, about a quarter of which were bought by Crooked Nuts. Even so, some time ago, there were foreign viewers from afar who posted signs at the entrance of the park to buy high-priced infield tickets, and even low-cost tickets on the periphery.

In large-scale robot fighting competitions, just imagining robots weighing several tons and meters high can attack each other with weapons of distance and short, which can make people's blood boil, such a feeling that those small-sized model robots can never bring.

Many people just happened to see the teaser video released by the organizer, and they were easily grabbed and couldn't break free anymore. Practitioners and enthusiasts in the robot industry like Wu Pan and Shen Mo will naturally not miss the opportunity to appreciate the robot war of the Three Kingdoms.

Looking at the direction of the door, Wu Pan beckoned the driver to find a place to park in advance, pay to get out of the car, and walk towards the end of the team together.

There was an aunt at the gate who was jumping and scolding the street, and the park guards, staff and other spectators were all hiding away from her, as if she had a 5-meter aura of resistance. ”

"Can you hear me?"

"I can't hear clearly, look at the movements and look at the scarf. ”

No matter how sharp and loud the other party's scolding was, it was naturally impossible to hear it clearly from a distance of several hundred meters, but Wu Pan had a smartphone in his hand, opened the browser and searched the Internet, and soon found the answer.

There was a big boy who was queuing up with his aunt on the scarf to announce what he saw, and many of the other people in line were also bored brushing the scarf, and immediately forwarded the reply to supplement after seeing it. Then, Wu Pan described to his friend what netizens had restored.

"That aunt should have nothing to do to wander around, passing by the park and seeing the long queue of people, he became interested, and then he grabbed a person and casually asked what are you doing in line? The person who was asked by him didn't take it seriously, and replied casually: 'Go to the park, there are too many people to queue up today,' and the answer was a question. ”

"What's wrong with that?"

The man didn't talk but had a brain, he only said that he was queuing up to enter the park, but he forgot to say that they were waiting in line to check the ticket to enter the park, and if you want to get in, you have to have a ticket first, this ticket is cheap 20, expensive 2000, he forgot to tell his aunt. ”

"Then the aunt went to the queue, and then the queue was told to her that she was forbidden to enter the venue without a ticket, and then the aunt was angry?"

"Almost, alright, okay, the police car is here!"

Following the direction pointed by Wu Pan, Shen Mo saw a blue and white police painted battery patrol car driving to the door, and two policemen got out of the car, I don't know what to say to the aunt, the other party was soft, "What did they say, the effect is so good?"

Wu Pan retracted his gaze and said: "I guess, it must be to pay attention to the impact, today's event has crooked nuts to participate, don't embarrass the city and the country." ”

"Where are the crooked nuts?" Shen Mo put his hand on the pergola and looked around.

"Okay, okay, you belong to a dog and not a monkey, what did you learn Sun Dasheng? But there are a lot of crooked nuts this time, thousands of them, and you can see it later." ”

With an "oh", Shen Mo stopped paying attention to this topic, and asked instead: "Didn't the competition sell 30,000 tickets, why did it still be held in the park, and the bees were not too cold?"

"I know this, in fact, the organizing committee originally planned to put the venue in the city sports center, but before the two sides could start contact, they were intercepted by the city's propaganda department and directly arranged to be placed here. As soon as I heard that I could rent the venue for a week and the venue rental fee was waived, the organizing committee immediately knelt down. ”

"The park will agree?"

"Of course, we have to agree that the park is a public welfare institution, and the expenditure is completely dependent on the city, so naturally it is up to the top to do whatever it wants. And the city does not suffer, 7 games before and after two days, the remaining 5 days to hold a free exhibition in the park, can drive a lot of tourism income, not to mention, but also increase the city's international popularity, of course, to rush to be the home field!"

Wu Pan looked at the park gate that was getting closer and closer and said, "It's just that in the park, how can it be comfortable to look at the stadium condescendingly?"

Shen Mo patted his friend on the shoulder: "Even if you want to go to the stadium, it's not easy, right? These robots are more than 4 meters tall, a story high, are you sure the stadium gate can enter?"

"It's not a problem, as long as you are willing to spend money to tear down doors and windows, a floor is nothing, and they are not 79 meters of soy sauce Emperor Storm Red. It's mainly because the bees are slamming the door, and as soon as they see that the park is providing the venue for free, the money will immediately go away, and the same is true of the sponsorship of Legendary Pictures. ”

Because everyone buys tickets online, they only need to go through the security check and then activate the electronic ticket holder application on their mobile phones near the ticket gate to enter the park, so the speed of the team is quite fast, and the two of them walked to the park gate while talking.

For Wu Pan Shen Mo, this park carries a lot of memories for them, looking at the new and old flowers and trees in the park, the history of the past ten years seems to be vivid.

For ordinary people, a son of heaven and a courtier or something is just gossip and talk at a party, but a mayor and a pit are real personal experience.

With the deepening of the understanding of urban development theory by mayors around the world, the xx square, music fountain, and large-scale sculptures that used to be thought to be able to enhance the image and style of the city have been proved to be large and useless, and they have been wasted public money, so they have gradually been abandoned by local officials.

These things are gone, replaced by public buildings such as subways, bus rapid transit, and city parks that add value to the city. The subway approval to run depends on the size of the city, the bus express line to be demolished to build bridges, both of which are a bit troublesome, the result is that all kinds of citizen parks have begun to become crazy popular, I can't reproduce the "green lung of New York" Central Park to drive the surrounding land prices, so that high-rise apartments sell villa prices miracle.

This park used to be the so-called city square, but it was only the year before last that it was dug and planted into a recreational park, and the original cement hardened ground was not all smashed and planted, and there is still a large area of the square area that has been preserved. The inaugural BotBoxing chose this venue as the venue for the competition, and this venue was arguably the most important factor.