User:TonyTheTiger/sandbox/MP for Cup

With the final September update showing 1180 for me, 1175 for and 1100 for, it is becoming clear to me that the winner of this contest will likely come down to whether you grant me Featured Topic points for Featured topics/Millennium Park. I earned FT points for this topic when it was first promoted. At that time the topic was 15 articles and the requirement was that 1/3 of the articles be WP:FC and all be at least WP:GA. Thus, I was acknowledged for bringing 5 of 15 topics to featured status. However, during the year two articles (Park Grill and Grant Park Music Festival) were added to the topic and the requirement was increased to 1/2 of the articles needing to be featured. Thus, I had to ensure that the two new articles be promoted to good article (which I did without a lapse in topic status) and that a total of 9 of the 17 articles reached featured. Thus, I helped raise McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink (March 23), Harris Theater (Chicago) (June 12), Millennium Park (August 31) and Exelon Pavilions (September 25) to featured. Promoting two GAs and 4 FAs is more work than most people have to do to get a new FT.

The initial decision by judge was that this was a form of gaming the system by letting a topic lapse, which is dangerous territory for the cup. Clearly, just having articles added to a topic or repromoting a deleted topic could be gaming the system, but when a rule change requires taking a 17-article topic from 1/3rd to 1/2 Featured content, it is not a matter of gaming the system.