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Is this Mr. Olive or Mr. Murphy? Baldwin loves waiakea as well! promise :D It was amazing to see 2 maui teams in your alliance! way to represent outer-island teams you guys had a great run. Maui High is going to be a beast next year as well as lahainaluna. They have sooo many committed students still young and already hooked to robotics. Makes me sad that im graduating:( hopefully I can stick around. Thanks Waiakea for 2 great years of being alliance partners !

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Aloha Jun, its Olive! Murphy took a year off to concentrate on our cyberpatriot team. We may all take a year off next year. Me and my mentors need a break! We go year round with VEX, microbots, botball(which we're skipping this year), underwater ROV and all the workshops we teach around the State, Mainland and in Japan. I know we'll suffer withdrawals but its also nice getting home before dark in January and February. Its a good time for us to rest, no titles or Chairmans to defend and coming off a great tournament (world ranking of 20th in the latest OPR rankings). We've been taking these every couple of years since starting FIRST in 2002-3, most times for a lack of money but it's still a break. If we do come back I'm only looking at Mainland regionals. I really want to do Silicon Valley again and it conflicts with Hawaii. So many good teams there and I think we'll have a fairer shot at Chairman's having won engineering inspiration our last time there while getting ignored in Hawaii the last three years. Ok, we did get EI last year, the only year of the last three I didn't submit for CA. Its pretty amazing to get EI among all those established Veteran teams in Silicon Valley but not even rate in Hawaii?

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Hey Mr.Olive! You guys totally deserve an RCA award in Hawaii for all that you do. Not saying Kalani isn't deserving of it because the definitely are but it seems that the outer-island teams have a bigger challenge because of being outer-island for awards such as WFA and RCA. I dont see any problem with not attending a home event but taking a break from FIRST would be sad to see. I believe Baldwin will be giving VEX to another adviser and FIRST will be only in Hawaii next year. This year has taken a toll on Mr. Suter and his wife. They work countless amount of hours finding money and donating ALL their time with no breaks from VEX straight into FRC. Whatever you do I hope to see you guys soon

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Thanks again Jun. Kalani does do good work and Mr. Silver has taken our brushbots, summer robotics camp and bipedals and added his own flare to them. I totally agree with you on the Outer Island thing though. Oahu just doesn't get it. I know I didn't when I lived there over 20 years ago now. From what you said I know you feel it too. I've had some very what I consider condescending things said to me over the years. They definitely don't understand how much harder it is for us to have to get airfare, rental cars, hotels, meals etc when we come there. Not to mention the fact we have to fly over with everything we need for presentations. Not like I can go to my room/shop and pick something up. As mentors we also have that added liability since I don't send the students home at night.
Mr. Suter and I are in the same shoes. Every team in the regional has a main nut like us...Glenn at Waialua, Osa Hank and Alan at Mckinley, Bobby at Moanalua and on and on. I think thats why we all get along so well, because we know how hard each other is working. Lucky for me I've always had at least one of my five kids on the team so I could justify the time I was spending. I really admire those who don't. I can't believe you guys pulled off Oregon with the bag and tag mess this year. I'll find out later how you did it. We're not going to VEX worlds this year although we qualified a team. No mo money! It was a down year for us anyway because we lost two months while they were doing school renovations. Next year.

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Thank you Mckinley 368 for picking us to be alliance partners this year. It was a really blast to the the math with you guys. Not to mention WHEA 3881 for also being a contributing factor to our alliances success.

Congratulations to all the teams this year, it was an awesome regional. Being apart of this regional for 4 years, I truly believe Hawaii is one of the premier examples of the ideals of FIRST; Coopertition and Gracious Professionalism. This being my last regional I'll participate in, in hawaii I'm looking forward to see how all the teams as well as the regional grows throughout the years.

A special thanks to all the volunteers, without you guys this wouldn't be possible.

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Yeah, it's tough getting it all together from over here too. We've had a really hard time this past year raising the funds we need... everyone is cutting back, our sponsors are cutting their workforces and just scraping to keep things together. In a way it was a relief (OK, bittersweet) that we didn't get a ticket to St. Louis. Sure, we would have loved it, but I don't know HOW we could have raised the bucks to get even a skeleton team there, at $1000 pp. just for the RT airfare. And when it costs so much, in TIME and energy as well as money, just to get to our closest regional, we always feel like we're running a few steps behind. We cut our budget by SO much this year and still had trouble getting it together. I wish I knew of some sources of grant money that would pay for travel costs, but those are pretty hard to find. And you can only keep hitting the same small community so many times before the money runs out. However, living on Kauai has other advantages, I gotta admit.

And we have a great, young team this year, and lots of ideas and inspiration for next year. And our first ever win of an elimination match! That was really inspiring. Thank you to our alliance partners 2459 and 1378 - even if our team was picked by accident, I think we all did pretty well!

Just curious - a question for the alliance captains, including those who ended up picked by other captains (359, 2443 come to mind) - were we (2465) on any of your picklists as a 3rd team, if we hadn't been picked first round?

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Oh, and Hot Rocks 1056, you truly have a "Robot of Awesomeness" this year.:cool: You absolutely deserved the awards you won, hands down. Just seeing your robot has inspired our students (and mentors) in SO many ways. It was worth everything we did to get to the regional just for that. The team can't stop talking about "the quintessential dumper." We would have LOVED to see you on Einstein.

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I have to say it seemed like everyone was truly inspired at this years regional.

Personally i was moved by the growth of ALL of the teams in hawaii, not just a few, but all of them.

I'm sure we've all learned a lot and have a bunch of things to take into consideration in preparation for the upcoming VEX season, and later the FRC season.

I look forward to working with all of you in the coming months and years.

-Matt

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Yes you guys were actually pretty high on our list because of the fact that you guys had a solid auto and could get the job well done. 3rd picks were very hard for us but we made a great choice with ipa

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Awww, shucks, you're too kind. Seriously, our team will be thrilled to hear that you even considered us! (And I had to tell my son, who programmed the autonomous... made his night.)

We were really happy to see IPA go the distance - their pit was next to ours and they were totally wonderful folks. I hope they can travel to champs - I know when we went in 2010 it was such a fantastic experience, to really see the "wide world" of FRC.

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Hey everyone, Logan here! Just finally getting around to posting this now that I've finally pulled myself together after the post-FRC energy crash. Thank goodness for Prince Kuhio Day; I don't know what I would've had to go through to get myself through school on Monday after playing Rebound Rumble all weekend. Fun game, but the insane amounts of negotiation necessitated by the seeding rules had me running around the pit constantly. Thanks, everyone, for putting up with my constant check-ins! A particular thank you (and apology) go to the guys from Damien, who had to deal with tired-and-frustrated me on Saturday morning. I'm sorry for our misunderstanding and glad we were able to patch it over afterwards.

I'm happy to say that this was absolutely our best season ever by pretty much any metric you choose. We got the game strategy closer to correct than ever before, we had a complete scoring robot, we had an autonomous, we had more student involvement in design and fabrication than ever before, we captained an alliance, we had full CAD, and we won a really nifty award... all after the year in which we lost our driver and our administrative captain! All in all I was really happy with our performance.

I'd like to call attention to team 2090 for all of the help they provided us with pre-and-mid-tournament: loaning us a solenoid breakout for our practice robot, donating a motor for arm upgrades, and helping us out with scouting and strategy were all hugely appreciated. 2090, you guys inspire us every year, and anything we can do to help you out we will.

Of course, I would be remiss to not mention our awesome alliance partners 3008 and 2455. We were a great team, guys, and those elimination rounds were bundles of fun! Special congratulations to 3008 for winning the RCA.

Good job to all of the teams who are moving on from Hawaii to St. Louis. Have fun there--we'll be cheering for you from back home!

As for the future... unlike last year, when half the team graduated, we only have two seniors leaving this year: Michael, our Programming Captain, and Erin, our physicist and VEX Admin Captain. They will be sorely missed. However, we'll be looking forward to competing next year and hoping we can continue our five-year trend of improvement! Next year is the last year for myself, FRC Admin Captain and tournament coordinator Spencer, head scout Blake, and engineer extraordinaire Kyle, so we'll be looking to make a big splash next year--we're hoping to preregister for our first ever World Festival and maybe attend our first ever out-of-state regional.

We're going to be quite busy with offseason work this coming year. Unlike in previous seasons, when we've never really found the time to work in the offseason, we plan on working our tails off this year to be even better and more prepared for next season. If you're interested in working with us on some offseason build projects, shoot me a PM or an email at our team address frcteam2438@gmail.com.

Thanks for a great tournament and we'll see you at the next one!

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Yes, mahalo to the Cool Geeks for arranging the webcast. The JustinTV video seems to have been removed. Are the matches archived somewhere else now and if not will they be?

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Team 368 will be posting them on Youtube some time soon.

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Can anyone shed some light on this ?

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Ether,
we are not sure as well why its not posted.
We would want it posted since last I checked on Saturday, we had the most TP points (over 200 iirc) and 2nd in HP behind only 1056. 1056 was 2nd in TP also.