[EricH]

Originally Posted by cglrcng

The looking at direct post community informative evidence was pretty easy in hindsight though (Oh WOW! Bing!). All the facts were laid out, just not the exact details, until as promised, when the VERY HARD decisions were finally made, and the ink was almost dry.

Hindsight is 20/20, remember. Have YOU solved any game hints prior to Kickoff? Neither have I. They're pretty obvious, you know, but only after the game is revealed. What does "5 bots tangling with pasta/ A game piece obsessed with a shovel's show/And seeing Montana's green heights" mean to you? Well, for someone familiar with the 2006 game, it's pretty obvious. Very obvious, in fact--someone actually guessed the second line right away before knowing the game. But if you knew nothing about that game, you'd get all confused. (For that matter, you could show us a scored game piece and we'd go all crazy with a number in the middle of the picture if it was cropped enough--2007's hint.)

I think when most people saw that blog post, they were thinking that the panel would be sticking to CMP qualifying (and, BTW... no change was announced in October; I'm guessing it just took a bit longer than planned, and there might have been some announcement to that effect). This is NOT CMP qualifying, folks! This is a new CMP--or whatever it is, as long as you don't try to call it a world championship. (Admittedly, there is historical precedent: try the Constitutional Convention, called to fix the Articles of Confederation, which eventually threw them out and started over, for one example.)

So please: Don't go saying "You missed this! It's obvious!". Try "We missed this, looks like we need to read more carefully in future".