I'm glad a few people beat me to the "Stop Whining" punch...
The fact is, people are resistant to change. Everything is new. FIRST has changed the venue, thus it is going to create change... nearly everyone here seems to think change is bad.
Heck my first thought was "ugh we have to lug our scouting setup halfway through the day on friday, and gosh, during the Deans List presentation! how rude!"... but then I immediately volunteered to organize a group of 3 of us to do it so the rest of the team could go see the Dean's list presentation.
My second thought was exactly JesseK's "SWEET, I can be in both the pits and at the scouting/matches at the same time!! I dont have to walk a bazillion miles for every match!"
Its new... Its different... LIVE WITH IT. It may not be so bad!
FIRST has their reasons (which we dont know yet), and I'm sure 3 years from now we will find something else to whine and complain about and will forget that we even had a time before there were 3 fields in the Dome....
Don't get me wrong, healthy conversation & concern can be useful and has helped bring about some great changes... but when after a hundred posts it winds down to people bashing FIRST for decisions we don't even know about, random speculation and whining... well its just not productive anymore. If you really have a concern or issue, have your team leader email FIRST to bring it up. If you are just concerned that it wont be glamorous enough, well just wait and see. It might be better than you think.