First off, congratulations!! Another climber at St. Louis! You guys had a great showing at South Florida, and I'm really happy you got off the waitlist (also, 1523 seems to have gotten off the waitlist, yay florida!).
1) Divisions are random. Typically they are relatively balanced, but occasionally you'll find a super strong division (Galileo '09, Archimedes '10) and sometimes you'll find divisions that are generally weaker (some claim Galileo '12 was weak, but you can ask the world champions if they thought so)
2) I highly recommend that you send a few people over to Karthik's and 1114's conference on strategy and strategic design, it will change your perspective on how to build robots and play the game.
3) There are a lot of fun things to do, I think there's a thread about the "informal things" floating around somewhere. And take advantage of those, you're there for a competition, but you really want to have fun too. It's not all about the robots after all.
