Quote Originally Posted by sydnie7 View Post
I'll admit to having a low tolerance when it comes to judging something "beaten to death." The fact that the question has been asked multiple times, with either no response or no response that seems satisfactory to the questioner, would indicate to me that either nobody here has the answer or, if they do, they don't care to share what they might know.

If I were asking such a question, I'd consider that evidence enough that I needed to direct it elsewhere. Perhaps the editors of the newspaper(s) whose stories covering the event are linked here? Perhaps the organizers themselves, who are perhaps the folks best able to "insure that. . .default does not happen again"?

You know what "they" say about doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. I think that concept has multiple applications in this situation.
So, it's now been settled that the question has only been raised twice before (ie multiple times), but hardly "beaten to death". Also, it would seem that I am a bit more persevering about this subject, than you would be. And, that's OK.

There are many folks who read this blog, but rarely or never submit posts. Perhaps, one or more of them can/will take action. A failure to receive a response to a query is little reason to stop asking.

Your suggestion to write letters to editors of relevant (local) newspapers is an excellent one. I would hope that at least some folks reading this will take you up on that. I would, if I lived in Great Britain and it materially affected me.

My interest is more one of curiosity about folks getting hurt financially, when it appears to me that, seemingly, there was/is no need for that to happen. And you are correct in that the organizers, along with those who grant the license, themselves are the folks best able to insure that a irremediable default does not recur.

Finally, you are also spot on about "doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results". It's like the old saw, "Fool me once, your fault; fool me twice, my fault." I just hope the people involved don't get fooled twice. For then, who's fault is it?

Cheers!