[Donut]

Autonomous has finally been a massive success. In the past it's always been a passive thing with a few teams doing something kind of cool in them, but nothing much happened here. This year ignoring it was the equivalent of willingly losing at least half your matches. The CMUCam is much improved over last year as well with the support and effectiveness of it.

This game was very exciting for non-FIRST people, and is possibly one of the easiest games ever to explain.

The addition of significant new rules (wedge rule, bumper rules, and height rule) along with a previously illegal scoring strategy (shooting) significantly leveled the playing field between veteran and rookie teams. I saw historically "strong" teams struggling this year while there were rookies at 4th seed after qualifiers.

And I cannot say it enough; this year's Q&A system has been the most effective I have ever seen.