2012 Hawaii Regional

[ENeyman]

Originally Posted by TerryS

Our tilter will only push down an empty bridge. By "fully weighted" I meant that we added the required weight to the low cost plywood bridge to duplicate the force required to push down the competition bridge.

I was wondering, what is the force needed to push down the "real" bridge (the one used in the real competition). Also, what is the weight of the "real" bridge?

[jsasaki]

hawaii regionals in 4 days guys whos excited ?

[Alan Anderson]

How many days was that again? I'll be there Wednesday evening. My wife and I are finally making good on our promise to ourselves to visit Hawaii. We're going to be staying a few days after the regional ends to see the sights.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

How many days was that again? I'll be there Wednesday evening.

Just you? or with family.
And is this your first time coming?

[Squillo]

I can't wait!!!!!

Just found out that I don't have to be doing trial prep (case settled), so now I can really focus on what's important - ROBOTICS!

#OMGROBOTS!!!!

Alan, if you're coming to the regional, try to find me (Cindy, from the Kauaibots, Team 2465, a/k/a "The Purple Wave") for a special surprise from our team.

[TKM.368]

Pit map was emailed to team leads tonight. Pits had to be relocated back into the arena.

See you all soon.

BTW, looking for some volunteers for Safety Glasses and Crowd Control on Thursday and Friday if anyone is available. www.usfirst.org/vims

[ThirteenOfTwo]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

How many days was that again? I'll be there Wednesday evening. My wife and I are finally making good on our promise to ourselves to visit Hawaii. We're going to be staying a few days after the regional ends to see the sights.

Our team would love to see you in the pits so that we can have a chat. In our four years of existence we've never been out of the state, so it's always great when one of the more well-versed FRC mentors comes out so that we can talk to them.

Have fun in Hawaii and we'll hopefully see you at the regional!

[Alan Anderson]

With fewer than 40 teams in attendance, I can guarantee that I'll be able to meet anyone who wants to chat with me. As a Control Systems Advisor, I will most likely be wearing a bright orange cap.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

With fewer than 40 teams in attendance, I can guarantee that I'll be able to meet anyone who wants to chat with me. As a Control Systems Advisor, I will most likely be wearing a bright orange cap.

So is Randy Wood wearing one too?

I hope you train him well as I just volunteered his services as co-CSA for the Lone Star regional 2 weeks later.

[waialua359]

A big mahalo to another successful regional event at our 5th annual Hawaii FRC tournament!

Despite lag issues that many teams experienced, it didnt defray from the exciting eliminations that happened today.

Thank you to team 2439 and rookie team 4218 for allowing us to be part of such a great working alliance. We truly had an alliance that relied on teamwork: 1 Shooter, 1 Feeder/Defender, and 1 Balancer. We were not heavily convinced it would work at the beginning, however, trusting each of our strengths, we did quite well.

This had to be one of the best finals for me personally as we didnt have the usual 359-368 alliance, and I cannot recall ever playing against them in our 13 year history (doing soooo many regionals with them).

One of the best joys I got to see was 4218 getting selected last, and their pure joy, tears, and gracefulness in experiencing a regional championship. Not only were they awesome at helping us win, it left a permanent positive experience where I know they will be successful for years to come.
Our other teammate was 2439, and for years they always got so close in both VEX and FRC. To finally see them get above that hurdle and get to experience championships, is even more gratifying than winning ourselves.

Congrats to Team 3008 on another RCA and to Team 3880 on their EI award!

And last but not least, great job to teams 368 and 1056. They both had outstanding robots, evident by their qualification records. 1056 is the best fender bot/dunker I have seen this year, hands down, while 368 will be a force at the Fresno regional during week 6.

Get your popcorn ready!

[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!