Best FIRST game...

[JesseK]

Best autonomous for me is 2007 (2015 is a close second, but I want to see how it plays out). IMO, that's the last year where FRC's autonomous was harder than VRC & FTC. Every year since then, teams could dead reckon with mere encoder feedback (or nothing) in order to get major points. There has been very little incentive in recent years to attempt the harder auto routines since they give so little extra value (overall field success relative to available resources) for the average team. 2007 required any sensor system that could deal with an inconsistently-located scoring goal using hardware that was difficult to integrate with the sensors which would make the task easier.

Best Champs Teleop: 2014, by far. Alliances that were mature enough capability-wise to play the entire game DID play the entire game. Scores were through the roof and the matches were very intense. Driver practice/skill was as important as strategic decisions, as there were very few catch-up mechanisms built into the game (no end game!). My team really struggled since we couldn't get around a double-team, but the matches were still a lot of fun to coach and we were able to put up some big scores.

For me, best all-around is 2013. It was fun to build, fun to test, and fun to coach. The matches were pretty intense as well, with a good blend of offense, defense, HP interaction and strategic game play.