[evanperryg]

Repeating a lot of what has already been said, but:
-This degrades the significance of winning the championship. Why let the best alliance win when you can let everyone win, right? Wrong. The intensity, the inspiration of FIRST comes, in part, from winning. The feeling of victory in a challenging competition is something irreplaceable and by doubling the winners, that feeling will be diminished.
-This makes IRI a very, very important event. Only at IRI will the best robots in the world be able to compete together. If I were on the IRI planning committee, I'd be looking into larger/better suited venues, cause if this goes the way I think it'll go, IRI is going to become the new champs, at least for robot performance.
-This really doesn't help many teams. The large concentration of teams in Michigan will benefit once it's in Detroit, but, then again, it's not helping anyone else. It's going to be very amusing to watch all those trailers navigate Detroit's strange U-turn based infrastructure. (Clarification: detroit has right turns like normal, but instead of left turns, they have u-turn lights, where you turn around then make a right to your destination) It disregards the large concentrations of teams on the entire east coast, too.