[Donut]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Here's my list of the most dominant robots every year that I've been involved with FIRST:

2000: 47 (maybe the best robot of all (in relation to the rest of the competition)
2001: 71
2002: 71
2003: 111
2004: No teams were dominant.
2005: No team dominated.
2006: 1114 (three regional wins I believe, #1 seed at each regional)
2007: no dominant teams, but 1114 comes close
2008: 1114
2009: 67
2010: 469 (let's be real, their partner getting stuck in their own goal is why they lost, and they almost won despite that. Sorry to my friends on the winning alliance.)
2011: No dominant teams (too many teams that were top tier)
2012: Similar to 2011.

I agree with Chris' list with the exception of 2006, which I think goes to team 25. That year they only lost 2 matches prior to making Einstein and both were at the Championship. I can only comment on games after 2000, I've seen hardly any match footage or robots from years prior to that.

I know the 2 teams that seemed to have the most hype coming into Champs in 2007 were 330 and 1114, but I don't think anyone truly dominated that year.