Hanging mattered a lot more to get us into the tournament (at #1 seed
-- saying that never gets old!), but it didn't matter much once in the tournament itself, because the games were for the most part blowouts, with one notable exception*.
That is to say, if you look at the scores of the qualification games, only two of them were won by 2 points or less where we hung -- but the fact that we *could* hang reliably altered the strategy of our opponents, and that made the difference in a lot of games. FIRST games, just like most games, have a large psychological component, and if you can get your opponent reacting to you instead of mastering their own thing, that's a big advantge.
*In the semifinals match two, we lost 7-8, and did not hang because we had a glitch in our hanger and didn't take a time out to fix it -- so that would have been critical.