[JesseK]

Who's excited that he's only toting the robot 1/4-mile for HALF of the matches?

<==== This guy!

Well, except we'll get a few more qual matches (doh!) so it evens out to what it was in Atlanta. Also, as a guy who's usually in the pits/on field for ALL of the championships up until the end of quals, I'm personally very glad to have a short commute to at least one of the playing fields if I get a brief respite. FIRST was even generous to bless me with TWO options! Alright, maybe the excitement IS overstated, yet these small things (to me) balance out the supposed logistic nightmare. The average team will have enough of their wits about them to be able to switch robot toting paths. As for scouts -- that's self explanatory: if your scouts are any good at scouting, then they're obviously intelligent enough to figure out the swap as well. So really it's about moving over all of the team's "fans".

Cory, you have a very good point IMO. We'll have to wait and see what the real reason is.