Shure. This is what our team used for two regionals this year:
1. Check Bumper Color
2. Change the Robot's battery
3. Is everything plugged in? (it listed specific line items)
4. Turn Robot on, with the tether
5. Retract the arm to starting configuration (specific instructions followed)
6. Make shure the robot moves
7. Robot off
8. Fresh minibot battery
9. Fresh robot battery
10. Check loose screws (listed specific locations)
We've done checklists for two years now. We've found it helps alot, when we actually use them. Probably the best example to use is the emergency checklists for airplanes. All small airplanes have an about 20 page series of checklists for normal operations. This is all well and nice, but 20 pages is too long, seeing as we don't have all the time in the world. Look at the language of the plane's emergency checklists. We try to emulate that.
Example checklist:
http://www.atlasaviation.com/checkli..._checklist.htm
(granted, it's not in the real format, but it'll give you a good idea)
mabye this'll help for you too?