Minus the problems we had with it during qualifiers that year, I have to say my favorite comes from my grade nine year, our 04 bot [besides it was dang pretty, water cut and powder coated]. So in terms of prettiness (we could use the water cutter again but that was the only year we have had a good enough student drafter willing to draft an entire robot) that takes the cake. Our teams best years for how far we got though would be 02 and 03. 02 we won the first ever Canadian Regional, and 03 we placed very well at Champs (forget final result but it was good). This year was also great for us dispite technical problems in Waterloo [mechanical problems with boom and lift, and it was us that went up in smoke one match
], and in GTR we suffered the effects of the "random selections", with 4 of 8 matches playing shorthanded, and only 2 of 8 games had a team in the top 2/3 of ranking aligned with us [however we still managed to be part of the 4th highest score at GTR, with our team pulling in 5 of the 8 tubes scored] in the end we placed 55th of 63 teams, but were happy knowing our robot wasn't the problem (in GTR at least) ... plus every year we miss at least a week of build due to the bad winter weather our area gets (this year it was 13 days missed), so with this being the year we have missed the most and seeing how well our robot performed we are happy in that aspect too.