[KenWittlief]

how important is the game to us and to FIRST?

time to inflict somemore data driven analysis on everyone.

Our team will be meeting wed evening and all day saturday for 6 weeks

meetings = 72 hours

to travel to a regional we will spend 3.33 days together

regional = 62 hours

we will be at the regional itself for 20 hours

and during that time, we will actually be playing the game for, what maybe 8 two minute matches? = 16 minutes or 0.26 hours

clearly the most important thing in FIRST is the time we spend together at the team meetings

second is the time we spend travelling together

third is the time we spend at the regional while NOT actually playing (most of this time is spent in the pits)

so only 0.2% of our time is used to actually PLAY the games

kinda puts it all into perspective, doesnt it?