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Originally Posted by stevend1994

I don't think its necessarily to start on the next game, but so that they can test the games as much as possible, so there wouldn't be the many issues in Week 1 as there were this year, like what happened with minibot towers.

They most definitely said/posted somewhere that they wanted to get the 2012 game done early to allow for more debug time as well as to get a head start on the 2013 game.