That is very true... our team has two main teams who alternate (driver and controller) between matches. The team that does better in their qualifying matches goes on to compete in the finals and elimination.
For practice, we had driver tryouts Saturday before ship... the afternoon was then drive practice for the groups. Sunday, we got there at 2pm and practiced till 9pm. On monday it was 10am-9pm that we practiced along with Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday, we practiced to 5pm, cleaned up, and headed up to BorgWarner. We practiced till around 9pm there and did a demo for the President of BW.
Our drivers, in their free periods also did driver practice. One driver, Dana, seemed to have no classes and drove for 3 days straight for roughly 7 45-min periods each day. I've videotaped the process from driver tryouts to wednesday night. The accuracy has increased so much it's hilarious to watch the video from Saturday's tryouts
