Our team has spent a good portion of the week building an almost official trailer for as cheap as possible (i.e. using pvc pipes 1/8" smaller that we have to save buying 20 feet of it, etc.) and searching for orbit balls (which we now have 12 of). Programming has gotten familiar with LabView and made one or two test programs to drive a test chassis with this year's controller. The kit chassis is being bolted together but will have to wait for ordered parts to go much further.
Design has been hammered out surprisingly well, largely because we haven't forced everyone to be in design discussions like we used to. The day of kickoff was a full team design/strategy session for 8 hours but after that we've had parallel groups refining design, prototyping ideas, constructing our trailer, and now manufacturing team buttons (you can never start too early on them!).
Our initial ball handling prototypes worked well for gathering balls but weren't too effective as a scoring mechanism, with a quick upgrade however they've surpassed our expectations and may go on the final robot with almost no modification.
Summary of design so far: 6 wheel drive, long chassis configuration, loads balls via ground pickup or human players, shoots balls into goals. Will probably be using a gyro as usual for straight driving correction and going to try to use the camera (it worked in 06 and 07 for us, so if this one's even easier I think we'll have success). 2 years ago we tried omni-wheels for the first time and last year was our first wide chassis robot, this year will be our first *non-main-power motor drivetrain
*For all the younger teams, going back pre-2005 there were drill motors in the kit and these were often the teams drive motors for their robots. The CIMs were around by the time I started in 2004 but I don't know the first year with them.