I don't want to judge this decision without knowing the details/reasons and seeing how it works out but here are some thoughts:
--One of my favorite things about going to Atlanta was walking into the dome for the first time with a rookie student and having them exclaim how grand the dome looks with 6 fields on the floor. I hope this isn't lost in St. Louis.
-- The lack of qualification matches on Saturday (and longer days on Thursday and Friday) make me (and others who already posted) wonder if eliminations will start on Saturday morning. It would add an interesting twist to Friday night scouting meetings if you know the top 8 for sure.
-- As Mike mentioned below, perhaps two divisions will share the same field in the dome. If so, I think it would be interesting to have Curie Alliance selection, Newton alliance selection, Curie quarterfinals, Newton quarterfinals, Curie semifinals.... Thus, alliances would have additional time to strategize before each round.
-- I hope there is plenty of seating in the pit fields...
In the end I expect there to be some headaches and issues as it is a pretty drastic change from previous championships, but I don't think it will ruin the event. But, if teams want to back out of the 'train wreck', I'm sure I can think of some teams who would want to go
