[Kevin Sevcik]

It's certainly going to be annoying. I know we'll be hunting down our alliance mates for the first match or two after Friday noon just to make sure they're clued in. It could be a little worse, though. If I recall correctly, Disney involved multiple switches to the main field, not just one big switch over.

I'm definitely most concerned about all the implications of switching from one field to another in the middle of a regional. Different field, autonomous problems, possibly different staff and refs. It's either different refs, or refs that are also getting used to a different field and environment.

I'm not really enthusiastic about any of the other switchover logistics either. There's near zero chance they're going to bother switching over any of the video feed stuff on Friday, so teams recording will need to switch equipment from pits to dome fields. And the webcasts are probably going to be confusing thanks to that as well. Sponsors and friends back home are totally going to lose track of you over the Friday switch.

All in all, I have to agree with Karthik that I'd rather play on the pit field for the whole competition than have to deal with the hassle of switching fields. You can put me in the "Alright, we'll deal with it" camp. I'm not going to pretend like there's any possibility FIRST can somehow make this good. They've declared we're switching fields halfway through the competition, and by my definition that's a step down from Atlanta no matter how much they reduce the impact of it.