Generally, I think I agree with you, so there are mainly two things I want to clarify.
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I am not saying that nobody did anything wrong either. If you know that you did anything wrong, you probably did. If anyone else thinks so, that person probably did. It’s just that a “who did what, who is at fault” approach is rarely constructive, things went wrong, people probably learned a thing or two from it, just move on then.
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I already answered you earlier that when you had started with the format you did, you could as well continue. The thing is, there were both positive and negative aspects of your review format, and it was interesting to try it out, I am just not sure that it worked out that well in the end. That didn’t mean that it was a disaster, just that it came with some drawbacks, not everything in this world is either black or white.
Also, you might want look into this for inspiration, I know this was an appreciated challenge series.