I don't think that OCIN had the rankings in mind while applying for sanctioning, but here's a wrench... there are two Sprints with A-meet sanctioning applied for on 31 December 2006. Personally I don't expect sanctioning to be granted, since it was a very late application. If they were to be sanctioned, it would probably be easiest if Clare would grant some kind of waiver for those to count for 2007, not 2006, EOY rankings.
To give more background—OCIN has historically put on a number of events around New Year, and decided this time to apply for sanctioning. OCIN has always had a tight planning schedule; this is not a beg for excuses, it's just the way we are. The Pig has flown for 10 years now, with hundreds of happy customers, last year's Relay discussion notwithstanding.
I am thinking of moving the
Clever Event Name to around New Year's time 2008. It will be a long weekend (Saturday 29 Dec 2007 through Tuesday 01 Jan 2008), so almost certainly OCIN will put on an event or two, and it would be so starry awesome to see our ICO friends to finally get one together on the hundred or so km
2 of A-quality maps they got.
The working title—sorry for lack of inventiveness or cleverness here—is the Frozen Pig.