Team Koalafied attended our first competition in 2018, at the FRC Southern Cross Regionals. With our robot 'Buzz', our team finished 15th in qualifying, and joined Alliance 6, reaching the grand finals and finishing as finalists. The team also won the Rookie All Stars award, recognising our team's exemplary efforts in inspiring and encouraging students to learn about science and technology, qualifying the team for the World Championships. In addition, Team Captain Amber Kraczkowska received the FIRST® Dean's List Finalist award, an extremely prestigious award.

At the World Championships, the team placed 30th out of 67 teams in the Roebling Division, joining Alliance 8 for the playoffs. The playoffs were extremely competitive, and Alliance 8 finished their journey in the quarter-finals.

During the preseason, Team Koalafied experimented with swerve drive, something that was only just emerging within Australia. At the Southern Cross Regional, Borzoi ranked 6th in qualifying, an impressive feat for a team with a massive turnover in membership. As an alliance captain for the first time, the team picked teams #4774 and #7583 as alliance partners, finishing 3rd overall! In addition, the team also won the Quality Award, celebrating our robot's robustness in both concept and fabrication. 

Before the Melbourne Robotics Tournament, the team designed a new and improved intake, boosting the scoring capability of our robot. At the tournament, Team Koalafied finished 1st in qualifying, and won the competition for the second year in a row!

Carrying the experience from the previous season, Team Koalafied continued training and teaching students on new skills, including CAD, mechanical skills, and CNC manufacturing. While #10-32 was excellent at what it was designed for, some electrical difficulties (including self destructing wires!) limited our performance. Regardless, the team placed 14th out of 47 teams at an extremely competitive Southern Cross Regional, placing 3rd overall in the playoffs.

Team Koalafied saw greater success at the Melbourne Robotics Tournament, where our team placed 3rd in qualification rankings, and placed 2nd overall with Alliance 1.

With new team captains, many more students and greater confidence than ever, the 2025 season looked promising, and an exciting season it was! Attending the FRC Southern Cross Regional with Locked In, Team Koalafied finished qualifiers in 3rd place, and finished 2nd overall as the captains of Alliance 2. In addition, the team also won the Excellence in Engineering Award, qualifying the team for the 2025 FRC World Championships, the first qualification for the team since 2018!

With the unexpected qualification, the team made significant modifications to both our climbing and scoring subsystems. In the Newton division, the team placed 18th out of 75 teams, but did not make it into the playoffs.

For the Melbourne Robotics Tournament, a second robot, Unk (short for Unkoalafied) was constructed, inspired by World Champions Team #2910. There, Team Koalafied (competing with Locked In) placed 13th in qualifiers while Team Unkoalafied (competing with Unk) placed 4th. Both robots joined Alliance 3 with Team Unkoalafied as captains, and finished 3rd overall.

2026 saw Team Koalafied further develop the skills of students, with more students than ever involved in design and manufacturing, as well as brand new students beginning their learning in software and electrical. 

The team competed at the 2026 Southern Cross Regional, where during practice matches, Lemon Launcher struggled with shooting and had emergency improvements made to it. However, qualifications looked much better, with the team winning 9 out of 10 qualification matches, finishing 4th in qualifying. The team were captains of Alliance 4, and partnering with teams #6510, #4774 and #7583, finished second overall, earning the Finalist Award. Our ability to both shoot efficiently and climb, as well as our well laid-out engineering process was awarded with the Excellence in Engineering Award. These awards qualified the team for the 2026 FRC World Championships, the second year in a row!

At the Melbourne Robotics Tournament, the team once again competed as two teams, with Team Koalafied competing with an overhauled Lemon Launcher, and Team Unkoalafied competing with Unk - now a drivebase with a scoring capability in the form of pushing fuel to human players. Team Koalafied finished qualifying in 6th place, were the first pick of Alliance 2, finishing 2nd overall and winning the Finalist Award. Team Unkoalafied finished qualifying in 7th place, were the captains of Alliance 5 and finished tied 5th overall. Team Koalafied also won the Excellence in Robot Design Award for Lemon Launcher, a huge achievement for our team!