[George A.]

This year, the autonomous mode was important in the fact that it gave teams an extra 30 seconds with access to the small balls, where that might be the deciding factor. However i feel that autonomous mode last year was far more important. Due to the nature of the game, if you can control the top of the platform, you bascially controled the match. Therefore if you could get on the ramp in autonomous (hmm... Wildstang rings a bell), and control it, then you won. So it depends on the nature of the game whether or not autonomous is all that important.

Also there is no real least significant part of the game, because each part had its role in canceling out another teams strategy.