[AquaMorph]

I think for me the biggest thing I liked about 2015 was that the finals at events was always the best two alliances. In the past, there have been several events I have been to where the semifinal was the real final. Since, alliances played against each other based upon ranking it happened fairly often the two best alliances would play each other before the finals. I liked thanks to the average the two best alliance played in the final.

The new control system was excellent. I'm so glad to be done with those awful WAGO connectors. All the new connectors are snappy and much easier to use. The smaller size of all the electronics in general was a huge step up. The roboRIO having USB connections was very useful in having an easy way to deploy code without dealing with networking.

Having eight alliance for Einstein with two fields was a wonderful idea. It made the transition time much better between matches. In the past there was a lot more dead time and having two fields fixed that. Also Einstein being a full elimination event made it more intense and interesting. I very much hope that stays.

I really enjoyed the less strict rules about robot size and parameter. It led to some really neat ideas that were fun to watch. Not having the hassle of changing bumpers was also nice. It might

I appreciate that FIRST decided to create an API for third parties like the Blue Alliance to get data from. When it worked it seems like updates were pushed faster than with the past system of web scrapping. I would like to see FIRST in future work more with these type of third party projects. I think the API being down so often shows an area where this can be even further improved. If FIRST could reach out to people who make these type of things and have them make some official stuff for FIRST I think it would be better for everyone. FIRST biggest asset is the people who love it enough to poor time into great third party resources.