Anyone teams for some aloha?

[r2davis2]

I know in my teams case ,we have been wanting to go to the Hawaii regional for a few years now. The issue this year is that, like you said, we have a local regional the same weekend. Alongside this we are usually over weight on our shipping so sending the robot to Hawaii would be mighty pricey, but theirs not much you guys can do about that. Hope this helped at least a little bit.

[DonRotolo]

For our team, the issue is purely and simply financial.

[Kims Robot]

Finances and Number of Spots (if thats still an issue). I know we tried to go the first year, and there were only 5 spots available for "mainland" teams. We had a huge push to go that year, so when we didn't make it in, I think the enthusiasm died.

To raise enough money for flights, take the extra needed time off to travel, and to fund hotel rooms in a rather expensive destination is more expensive than going to championships, so its tough. Hawaii is a wonderful place, and the teams are great, but until it can be a cheaper location to get to, its going to be hard to get many other than west coast teams.

[waialua359]

The committee realizes that cost is 99.9% of the reason.

It is with the hope that if teams are interested in attending, that we help in other costs such as hotel (housing accomodations), transportation to and from venue, and a host of other hidden costs.
It would be quite reasonable for the committee to possibly setup shuttles for teams to be picked up to and from the event, cover the cost of meals such as the regional did last year, and continue to deliver reasonable prices from vendors at the event. Some hotels have already offered proposals for special pricing to help with the FIRST event.
If any teams are seriously interested in attending, send your questions via PM, and we can relay them to the committee to address.

The event promised to be one of the best again, with a great team social that other regionals are slowly NOT offering anymore due to the economy.

Make this your excuse to finally visit Hawaii if you havent done so yet.

[Lavapicker]

Its kind of funny that all the reasons listed are the things we've been bringing up for years about Hawaii teams going to the Mainland to compete. For those of us on the other Islands we still have the same issues of transportation (Interisland airfare, rental car), meals and housing. We're hoping to have enough money left after our trip to compete in the Japan Microbots competition but its not looking good. The darn Yen is way down this year.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

If you are wavering, the islands are beautiful and the people are just like family. ALOHA! Glenn and everyone in Hawaii.

[waialua359]

Al,
so when are the wildstangs ever going to make it to the HI regional?
Or see you and Raul volunteer for this event.

I promise to sign up for the midwest if you folks sign up here one day.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Glenn,
Dottie and I may make it sometime in the future. Wildstang can only attend those events we can drive to.

[IndySam]

Pretty simple. $700 a person for flights from Indy.

We would love to go to Hawaii but we have enough trouble raising enough cash for entry fees and domestic travel.

[JCharlton]

If the Hawaii Regional coincided with March break for Canadian schools they might be tempted. I know we would be, Montreal in February/March is pretty darn cold. We always joke about one day attending the "two-week Hawaii Regional." (It's a long way to go for just three days spent hunkered down in the pit.)

[Phoenix Spud]

I don't know if this will help, but we are planning to bring koalas!

[Molten]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Spud

I don't know if this will help, but we are planning to bring koalas!

Koalas always help. Now if you can just get a kangaroo...