For a first time team & school we think we did quite well. The driving mechanism actually required a some rather complicated code due to the rotation system, but in the end it ended up working out really well. We ended up being the only robot in all three (A, B1 and B2) divisions to implement the holonomic drive.
The robot had a very simple design, and worked very well with (and against) robots that had the suckers. We usually used it to steal\scatter pawns accross the field or awkwardly positioning them (i.e putting them in the corners made it very difficult for some sucker designs to extract the pawns from the playing field.) Or for collecting pawns for our alliance. The design also allowed very flexible movement. We were very easily able to navigate around blocking robots. Other robots with larger designs had high-torque driving wheels which posed a bit of a challenge for us.
We had a more complicated scissor lift design that we ended up dismounting because we thought it our robot would be more effective as a plow.
We placed first for the duration of the first couple of matches, though for the remaining three qualification matches we were allied with robots that were literally dysfunctional. Two were completely immobile. The problem with our robot design is that we must be allied with someone who can lift balls into the goals, it is really more of a support bot than anything. So being paired with dysfunctional robots was a very big problem for us. We plan to compensate for these problems by creating our own lifting mechanism next time.
We made captin, though this turned out to be a disadvantage. We had another team that wanted to elect our robot for their team (but we found out that this wasn’t possible as captins cannot elect captins.) This team went on to the finals 
We were one of the last captins to choose, so we yet again got two dysfunctional robots, during the duration of the last three matches, our robot (in our team) was the only one capeable of scoring (and for two of the three matches, moving.)
Being apart of B2 though, this was entirely expected and we are very proud of our team-mates and our robot despite the difficulties. I find it odd though that nothing is done when you are allied with a team whos robot does not initially work. We got 4-5 alliance bots in a row with either very serious mechanical failures or were immobile prior to being placed on the field. If they had broken down on the field opposed to being placed into the field without initially working, I wouldn’t have minded.
This video shows some of the driving systems on our robot. The holonomic drive is written from scratch, you use a normalized unit vectors to describe a direction to the driving module. You can also specify a natural angle (so you can change what direction is forward on the robot very easily).
We had some really cool autonomous implementations, but never had time to test\setup the hardware for them; next year though you guys might be able to see some of the ideas we had. We’re working on our scissor or some other form of lift and it should be working for the next competition. We are also having some competitions local some schools in the BC, Canada area hosted by another school with a playing field, so we hope to demonstrate some of our autonomous programming there.
Tell us what you think (the bot gets a little stuck near the start):
