2009 Hawaii Regional

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Sorry to hear that, maybe next year.
We will certainly look to possibly attend yours in 2010, depending on when??

we'd love to see you there I think this year they were looking at mid-march but i'm not completely sure.
look us up if you're over here!

[NoahTheBoa]

We are going to be returning to the hawaii regional this year. It was easily the best regional we went to last year and we look forward to this year.

[TKM.368]

Originally Posted by NoahTheBoa

We are going to be returning to the hawaii regional this year. It was easily the best regional we went to last year and we look forward to this year.

Awesome! One of the highlights (the Team Social) will be maintained through the generosity of BAE Systems. We are happy to have with us this season 2629 from Mexico and the first team out of the Philippines 3105!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by NoahTheBoa

We are going to be returning to the hawaii regional this year. It was easily the best regional we went to last year and we look forward to this year.

For me it was not just the best regional of the year, but the best regional I have ever been to (and I have been to quite a few). I would give the Hawaii Regional my highest recommendation to anyone considering going.

[jsasaki]

i heard the hawaii regional is moving to week4 is it true

[TKM.368]

Originally Posted by jsasaki

i heard the hawaii regional is moving to week4 is it true

My understanding is Kickoff will be Sat Jan 9, 2010. Traditional 6 week build and Tuesday ship would take us to Tue Feb 23. Week 1 Regionals would commence on Thu Mar 4. Hawaii DOE Spring Break is Mar 15-19 (Week 3) but the University of Hawaii Spring Break is Mar 22-26 (Week 4) - Fri Mar 26 being a State Holiday (Kuhio Day) fortunately for DOE schools.

Week 5 Regionals would be Apr 1-3 and there will be no Week 6 Regionals as the Championships commence on Thu Apr 15 which is locked in.

[waialua359]

Osa,
That would mean that the regional may indeed be during week 3 or 4.
If week 3, Hawaii teams may be limited to doing a week 1 or 5 only on the mainland.
However, Hawaii teams that may want to participate in mainland regionals may have a huge cost savings transporting their robots, as the robot doesnt have to travel back and forth to Hawaii more than once in a season.
If week 3, we may be looking at Hawaii first, then Vegas week 5, then directly to CMP.

It would be my only excuse now for going to Vegas......."because its for Robotics."

[Lancer Robotics]

If these dates come true that would be hard on teams that are not able to miss 2 weeks in a row. For us with other apearances the first week it could lead to a strange schedule.

Congrats to both of your teams. As always they set the standards for the rest of us to reach for.

[ranman96734]

Hi again, I just realized I forgot some of the most important people in this regional, our alliance!
Team 2504 -- The Governors!
Team 2813 -- The Gearheads!

[jsasaki]

thanks and i hope all of this works out for hawaii teams !!! we really want to go to the microsoft seattle regional but ends up the same week as hawaii sooo cant wait if we can go !! oh and good luck 368 and 359 at CMP

[ajisjesus]

Originally Posted by SCROSSLEY-GCEC

Our official Regional has been cancelled (New Zealand) so we are currently concentrating on VEX. But if somehow we managed to raise enough money then we'd be at Hawaii in a second
unfortunately I don't see that happening but we wish we could
Hawaii is easily cheapest for us to attempt but its still HUGELY expensive...

That may not be totally true... last time I checked flights from Hnl-Auk they were around $2000+US roundtrip versus JFK (New York)-Auk is much cheaper something like $1300-1600 US. (And sometimes even a few hundred cheaper than that!) I myself have been trying to figure out how to get to New Zealand from Hawaii! That is one regional I cant wait for!

so anyway!

an update on the webcast!

The webcast is up and running but is lagging very badly. We discovered (after some questioning and trouble shooting) that we are sharing bandwidth. :/
At the moment were trying to see If something can be done about this. The feed has failed a few times because of to much traffic (right now were somewhere around .05Mbps ...i wish i was joking) other than that hope youre enjoying whatever you can see!

[xcentrix]

Hey all -

We would like your feedback on the webcast. The choppy quality is due to the fact that we are sharing bandwidth with others. We are going to try some things on this end that will hopefully ameliorate the choppiness and produce a cleaner better feed. Can you please post where you are viewing from and the quality on a 1 to 5 scale? 1 = total crap and 5 = crystal clear audio and video.

We appreciate your help.

- Deanna

[sanddrag]

When it plays it looks good, but I'm only getting maybe 1 second of video every 20 seconds or so. The audio isn't staying constant either. Watching from Los Angeles area, California.

[Jetweb]

I was getting about a second at a time about every 5 sec. and no audio. good quality though.

[ajisjesus]

Thanks for the response! we've found a solution that appears to be the best one so far. So in a few minutes you may experience a jump or pause. Thanks for your help hope your enjoying what you can see so far!