just Chengdu it already

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Ten days after the "one more week" estimate Chengdu is now saying "end of June" for finalists. I just want to know how much reading I'm doing! And get in library queues in hopes of getting stuff before voting closes! I get that something is going on that has made this year unusually complicated, and I want to be patient with that in the interests of supporting this neat globalization experiment, but, uh, insofar as it is an experiment, it's hard to feel like it's entirely succeeding. Like, whatever the problems have been - all the technical problems in the nominations phase, and now whatever is going on trying to compile and contact finalists - it kind of seems like it's been more difficult than they were prepared for. (And what happens if *voting* goes this poorly? Worldcon is a hard deadline...)