I was also making plans to fish the Florida Division (Okee and toho), but when I found out about the new shared weight I backed out. However, I will be fishing the Pro Tour at Toho on Jan 27-30 as a non-boater. When I found out this one was also shared weight I tried to back out but I had already promised my better half that we would spend time at her parents in Kissimmee. This shared weight thing is not going over very well, I will be very suprised if they keep it for next year.
Joe, the "Odds" are better that you will weight in more fish/lbs but the odds are the same, as the old way, that you will cash a check.
The one thing I do not like about this is what if you have a excellent tourny 3fish/21 lbs, you end up beating all other non-boaters and your boater bombs 1 fish/2lbs. You end up out of the money even though you beat all the other non-boaters. Now look on the other side. You get skunked and you boater has a monster day brings in 5 fish for 35lbs, final results you get a check (and you did not even caught one fish!). If you look at both situations and you are a reasonable person you will see that it is not fair on both ends.