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Tom, hit on something of a separate issue here. The amount of time that these teenagers (not to mention adult mentors) were expected to sit around and wait for thing to get get going is ridiculous. When you loose the attention of the group you have to expect something to happen.
The amount of time between alliance selection and the start of the divisional eliminations was so short that our alliance did not have enough time to get all together on the practice field. Our drive team and pit crew had just enough time to shovel down some food in the pit and rush out to the field. Then at the end of the divisional's I had time to pack up the pit, load the bus and still have time to wait two hours for anything to start on Einstein.
Then people want to complain about a harmless release like making paper airplanes. I think this group did very well listening to speeches from that they really did not want to hear after waiting that long to hear them.