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Wow.. the contest is off to an ominous start.  It's nearly 5PM eastern and we still have entries from Darkness being processed.  By my calculations entries are averaging about 2.5 mins each to run..  There are 25 entries still in the queue that were submitted prior to noon, meaning we won't be able to truly go into Twilight with a new 'house solver' until after 6PM.  

Add to that the additional ~22 entries submitted after noon sitting in the queue, and someone submitting an entry right now won't be able to see how it reacts to the new house solver until after 7PM tonight (or to put it into perspective, approximately 30% of the time we have for twilight is lost.  This makes the iterative and collaborative intent of the contest almost impossible to achieve.

Are there any intents from the contest team to try to make changes to the rules / execution in order to account for the issues we are seeing?