2012 Hawaii Regional

[Lavapicker]

Thanks Glenn, 17/17 perfect 10's in hybrid and only one missed shot the entire tournament, if you call our dunk's a shot??? Too bad we can't show it and our lifting robot bridge dropper at worlds but thats how FIRST goes I guess. It was definitely the most interesting alliance selection I've seen in 10 years! Congrats to you and Baldwin and.....sorry, forgot your third partner....I'm really happy for Baldwin!!! First trip to worlds....very very deserved!! You've had so many finalist over the last rwo years. Best of luck to you both at Worlds!!

[TKM.368]

Congratulations to all on a highly exciting Hawaii Regional. Thanks go out to our partners Punahou 2090 and WHEA 3881.

Baldwin 2439 - congratulations on going all the way. Great job, Jun. You deserve the trip to St. Louis in this, your senior year.

Waialua 359 - we did it without you in 2009 and now you've done it without us in 2012. Can't say we didn't give it our best shot. Yoshi's gonna be a monster when he's a senior in 3 years with 2 for 2 under his belt already.

Island Pacific 4218 - you are just a gem to behold and a rookie inspiration, indeed! We all knew before the matches began that you would be going to the Championship one way or another. No matter how successful you are in the future, you will never have another year quite like this one so enjoy it to its fullest!

Despite the highly competitive elimination matches, I must say Match 61 will be one of the most memorable with Punahou 2090 (our eventual first pick), Kapolei 2445, and ourselves all scoring 12 points in hybrid, having Punahou up on the Coopertition Bridge with Baldwin, and then our last second shot from the key.

We will try to get match video up onto YouTube as soon as we can, but we failed to capture about 1/3 of the Friday matches. Not sure if we'll be able to get it up before we depart next weekend for the Central Valley Regional.

Again, congratulations to all and thanks also to teams that helped with volunteers for the event. Without them, this all would not be possible.

[rwood359]

On behalf of the entire Hawaii robotics community, I would like to thank Alan and Carol (sp?) Anderson (Team 45 the TechnoKats) for volunteering at our event. I was correct in believing that I couldn't handle being the lead Control System Advisor at my team's first competition. I was greatly relieved when Alan volunteered to take the lead leaving me to be the back-up. Carol did a great job on the green shirt safety team.

All day Thursday and Friday morning, Alan didn't have much down time. He was always moving from one team to another keeping things moving and solving problems much more quickly than I could have. A number of times I encountered problems that I knew that I couldn't handle quickly. I called Alan for help. It is humbling to find out that things that you "know" are dead wrong. Without Alan's help, there are a number of teams that couldn't have competed or would have competed with "crippled" bots.

Again Thank You both, enjoy the remainder of your time in Hawaii, and I look forward to seeing you at IRI,
Randy Wood

[Simspi182]

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.

[TerryS]

Wow! What a great regional! OK, we didn't have any triple balances, but there sure were some awesome scoring robots...359, 368, 1056 and 3008. Semifinal 2 and the finals were the most exciting series of matches that I can recall.

Baldwin showed how to win as a great passer, defender and bridge balancer.

Great job by our Kapolei neighbor IPA too.

Congratulations and good luck to all of you in St. Louis!