It is with great shame and regret I must submit an ANTI-teaser. Thanks to a particularly bad confluence of planned extended vacation and unplanned responsibilities as caregiver I cannot see a path to commit to an X-ROOT review series this year. If you have gleaned anything about my faux-OCD over the years, know this tears me up more than it should.
Even more so because of THIS:
I am leaving the door open for a post-Comp review series, truncated if need be, but will depend entirely on the events of September.
Good luck, and deepest apologies to all entrants. Just another thing to add to the pile of darkness that is my 2025. (At least brightened significantly by my Alpha playtesters, proving there can be bright lights, even in the deepest night.)