Technically, the two sentences in that quote may not be connected. The first sentence is about the longest eval they did (8 months); the second sentence is abo

Technically, the two sentences in that quote may not be connected. The first sentence is about the longest eval they did (8 months); the second sentence is about their performance on competitions (95%), but I read it that the 95% was over all the competitions they did, and that they could have been (and presumably were) worse on the 8-month one.