Starting with
a step towards the mountain
footfalls of moments
ideas and design
listening and redesigning,
a plan emerged
for our robot code,
building and rebuilding
coding and testing
and recoding,
we climbed the rocky
face of robot soccer.

Competition clambered ahead
passing us on
belays and pinions
points and strategies
and we stood second
on the first peak.
Mount "Canterbury Regionals"
So, we planned to ascend again.

New energy, new ideas
hard decisions,
hundreds hours of practice,
muscles, minds and hearts
leadership
stretched again and again,
equipment changed
hardware, software prepared
ready for the new challenge;
New Zealand RoboCup.

Breathing thinned
in the expectant
finals atmosphere,
we took the last step
points in balance
hearts beating
sweat cooling our brows
and approached
the peak of our
achievement
always thinking
mindset strategies to beat
the last climbing competitors.

Tension high
heights of achievement
we trooped,
team member
after team member
up the final steps
Finally,
we stood tall
Kings of the
N.Z. Robotic Soccer mountain.

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