At first (heheh) i'm like... whoa thats wierd... then i started to like it... now i love it.
Just got back from our first meeting of the season and we have our robot design completely roughed out, drive sys, manipulator, and end effector. (whoo hoo we did it without pneumatics

gotta love the weight savings)
ALSO I would like to congratulate FIRST on a great challenge design, I think that it does an awesome job of providing an attainable goal to all levels of teams, from rookie to your single and double digit teams. And, all scoring and defensive opportunities are about balanced for their weight in the overall score outcome of the match. Good job game design!
Good luck everybody... i'm sure in a few day's time i'll be posting like mad... think i'll give my fingers a rest for the moment...
-Q
EDIT:
p.s. expect a very interesting scoring feature on our robot this year... and there might be two of them... hint hint...