Last year I was a human player. I know the feeling that you get up there. As a driver it is even more so. But as an athelete myself, I know too, that it is totally different.
Being a driver, finishing a 2 minute match, is in no way the same as finishing an 800 meter relay leg (about 2:10). Staying up until 3 a.m. working on a robot is no where near the same fatigue that one feels when coming off of a soccer field after 80 minutes of working yourself. Anyone who says that their entire body is sore from all of their exertation is probably just getting too little sleep.
In FIRST, the is a totally different kind of work from that of a sport, and this is what i think GB330033 is trying to get at. Just because it isn't a sport doesn't take away from it at all. However, trying to compare apples and oranges will get us nowhere.
My 2 cents.
