I don't really agree with the "playing the system" sentiment. It isn't as if we took the same paper 10 times and just submitted it until it stuck somewhere. Eac

I don't really agree with the "playing the system" sentiment. It isn't as if we took the same paper 10 times and just submitted it until it stuck somewhere. Each time we got valuable, actionable feedback, which we then acted upon; the final paper was almost unrecognizable from the first submission except in the core ideas. We gained a lot of experience as a team from this process, and the end result is a much, much better unit of work entered into the literature. None of my other publications have taken 10 submissions, so this case is also probably an outlier.