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While there has often been schedule slippage in the past, it's not the case here. The preliminary polls, which were never edited since being posted in June, all make no mention of semifinals, only the finals. In this contest, as in a number of others in that past, semifinals were cancelled since there were few enough entries that those advancing from preliminaries will already be enough for a final poll.

While there has often been schedule slippage in the past, it's not the case here. The preliminary polls, which were never edited since being posted in June, all make no mention of semifinals, only the finals. In this contest, as in a number of others in that past, semifinals were cancelled since there were few enough entries that those advancing from preliminaries will already be enough for a final poll.

Fair enough. I didn't actually notice that change in the voting topics, though again updating the actual topic that is plastered atop every page on bzpower would be smart, as that is likely the first thing people would click on even if the contest is already over.

I've only ever helped run one official BZP contest, but I can tell you even from that experience that keeping everything on a schedule can be quite tricky because the slightest thing can throw off the whole schedule, from number of entries to confirming any disqualifications to simply unexplained Internet outages.