I'll leave others to rant at the above as they wish, but thank you very much for explaining all that as always, chalker...
So this is a totally separate discussion and thread as you said, idk if this can be moved or something...still fun to chat about imo. New events are already discussed at length looking at past posts, especially along with event predictions. At worst, it's just complaining, and at best, it leads to "let's run a trial event!" (maybe I or someone drops some links) and then everyone's too busy. One idea I always bring up is a data science event in response to a CS event (I feel people just cop off AP CS or other competitions without adding anything new...Source Code is already a thing if you really want...). I did start drafting some trial rules, but I got busy, alas...not sure about the issue with RemSen either, it rotates with GeoMaps and is getting the topic focus it needs. At most, I could imagine adding another computer-based geology event in that mix similar to (but obviously vastly improving upon) hydrogeo, though that would require effort and is probably already being worked on by idk who.primitive_polonium wrote: The entire events roster needs to be looked at and scrubbed. New events either pertaining to relevant topics (such as CS events that is NOT Game On), advanced events (Go Big Orgo Home, pls), or purely problem-solving events (eg: a CS event where you need to code on the spot and are measured by test cases), along with the removal/cycling out of things like Picture This or Remote Sensing, would be a game-changer.