I'm not necessarily a supporter of Norm, or have an axe to grind with you. Just seemed to me that what was purported to have been the bottom line, so to speak, was completely ignored and sort of swept under the rug (by you) at the end of the contest with Langolier, even though CK had included it in every thread page and it never had been brought up by you to have been thrown out.
Kinda seems like it would have been the honorable thing to do by you, having lost, unless Langolier had suggested that it was not necessary, which I don't believed ever happened.
Seems to me like because no one in authority had told you "goodbye" that you deemed yourself off the hook for the consequence aforementioned. Is that not the case?