[Koko Ed]

Well in my opinion our best robot was our 2005 robot X-WhAAAt?
One for the obviously reason: It won our one and only regional win ever but there's more to it than just that.

-It opened up a new era of robot building for our team. In the previous 13 years we had decent robots. But in the last three we've had success that we never would have even dreamed of before the 2005 season. And the catalyst was of all things Xerox significantly slashing our budget and causing us to have to go with a much smaller team than in the past. Suddenly we had to streamline our processes and become more efficient at building and lo and behold! Not only did we build a competitive robot but we built a pratice bot as well!

- It has what I consider the coolest feature we have ever built on any robot we had. The arm and particularly the claw, which was instrumantal in the design of this years robot which I think is the second best machine we've ever had.

- The "iconic" name and accompanying cheer that everone seems to remember ( ANNOUNCER:X-WhAAAt? X-CAT: YE-AH! ANNOUNCER: X-WhAAt? X-CATS: OK!). WHen our coach and spirit leader pushed for the name the mentors we're not overjoyed that this weird name was going to represent our robot but Lizzie and Brittany prresented their reasoning for the name and convinced the mentors and the team of it's merits and won them over.
The rest is history.

-The first robot we had that used our trademark "Spirit numbers". Could be a problem next year as Mike didn't put up may FLR pictures at all. So I may have to be clever about it.