The lottery drawing has been held, and the list of candidates not selected has been posted on a dedicated lottery results thread. To keep this main thread readable, please post discussion about lottery results to that dedicated thread.
We now enter the 8-week “quiet play” period to allow fans to play unfamiliar games. Each week near the start of the week, mathbrush will be posting his overview of 8 selected candidates. This will be done in the order in which they are drawn, but drawing order will not be used for division and match assignments. (I’ll be posting division assignments on this thread tomorrow.)