[sciencenerd]

I didn't see many matches (being on the drive team) but these are the ones that left an impression on my mind the few times I was able to play with/against them at PNW:

Scorers:
948

Lifting bots:
997
488
1280

IMHO, 488 had the best lifting mechanism for their platforms (they would continue to lift after the power was cut) but because their platforms were higher off the ground than the other two lifting bots (3.5" as opposed to something around 1.5") there was a longer, if not steeper, climb to get onto it, and what seemed like a shorter (frontwards-backwards wise) platform. The one issue I noticed was the long time it took to reset their ramps between matches (they seemed to take about 5 minutes between rounds to reset, and when one of the ramps accidentally deployed as we were bringing the robots onto the field our alliance had to call our timeout to reset it. In all fairness they only had to use the first couple of minutes to correct the problem).

1280 had to lift both platforms at the same time and 997 couldn't lift both platforms at the same time (they had to wait 15 seconds between lifts to recharge their tanks). These were both problems the 488 design avoided that definitely made a difference (997 lost one match because they tried to lift two bots at once in the last few seconds, and they didn't have enough air so the robots only counted for 15 points apiece).