Coming into championships we (1902) had an 87% success rate. See this video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=04WOql6JqQI
In my opinion auto mode got us to Einstein, but it did fail in Einstein. Our banebot motors on our arms were failing and throwing off much of what we did.
I can't judge others because I spend most of my time in the pits, but I did see 79 and their flip over was really cool.