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Originally Posted by Kafri2630
One other problem you guys don't see as Yarden sees is that an israeli team can participate in one regional, we only have one regional in here and the amount of money you need for another regional with a flight to America is huge and almost not possible, it only happend once in the last 10 years.
And also the israeli regional is in week 1
Yarden's team's robot was pretty great but the ranking are very effected from the teams you randomaly play with.
Just one more porblem, we had a game with a team that did not come, what chances do you have in Ariel Assist while playing 2 VS 3?
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Coming from Hawaii I certainly understand this. I am not sure of the exchange rate and such, but traveling from Hawaii to do another regional seems just as expensive.. A round trip from Ben Gurion to NYC is about 950 USD. From Kona, Hawaii to Los Angeles, California a flight is 850+. I just did a quick Expedia search for the same days in the first week of April. Of course I am not sure of the other issues that are encountered when traveling from there to here. We have done a few mainland regionals as well as an international event in Canada. We fundraise all year long because of this. Sadly this year we were unable to generate enough funds to do an additional regional. I do understand your frustration. It can be very expensive, 95%+ of the Hawaiian teams do not travel out of state and just compete in the one and only Hawaii regional. Be proud of what you have accomplished. FRC is the "Hardest Fun Ever!"
Aloha!