If you were sitting on the west side you couldn't see half of the closest two mats. That is why people had to be at the railing to tape the matches and put up with the announcer complaining about them being out of the seats.
It was an advantage to allow more travel time but personally, I would just as soon not had as much free time, I don;t know the purpose of being done at 7 on friday. I would have rather been watching wrestling
