It's so hard to compare this tour to the others b/c it's about half as long as even a 3.0 tour...but there's one show you can call below average (Rochester), a host of shows you can call above average, and a few all-timers thrown in. Summer 2012 is very, very top-heavy, IMO. 8/31/12 is better than Fall 2013's best show (either 10/20, 10/27, or 11/1), and 8/19, 9/1-2, 8/28, 6/7, 6/23, 7/8, and 8/15 are damned good shows, but you also have KC (a pretty close analogue to Rochester, actually), OKC, Charlotte, and some other okay to below average shows in Summer '12 to deal with (there's a reason nobody mentions 8/17-18, IMO), whereas you don't really have that problem here. The "peaks vs. consistency" argument, much like with the baseball Hall of Fame, is one where you can make valid arguments for either side. In this case, though, I think I'm going with consistency. I'm not ever going to listen to OKC again; I'll listen to Glens Falls (or, at the very least, the Twist) again.

I'm not going to call anybody wrong that prefers 2012 to 2013 (certainly not @nichobert, whose opinions I always value), but to me it's Fall '13 and then it's everything else in 3.0.