It’s been 10 days since we started on this experiment to try and re-sort the current Group of Five conferences, and so far, the procedings have been a doozy.
(In case you don’t know the rules of the experiment, I recommend reading this primer.)
At first, the auction went at about the pace of a molasses avalance, which is to say, very slow indeed. This was due to a rule where each bidder had up to 12 hours to respond to a placed bid. There was also no restriction on when a bid could be placed, resulting in a lot of sniping.