No, I realize that. I even spent a little time participating. I'm not sure I could have changed my registration after the fact and ultimately didn't find anythi

No, I realize that. I even spent a little time participating. I'm not sure I could have changed my registration after the fact and ultimately didn't find anything new. Since I was already registered in the lottery, I didn't spend a lot of additional time hunting. So while I do think the scavenger hunt is very Googleish, I still don't think the overwhelming majority of attendees will have gotten passes as a result, so I don't think this game really does much to tilt the needle. Most of the attendees will have fronted their $300 or $900 and will have been selected at random instead of by merit. I'm still looking forward to the event but I can't help but be disappointed by the result and I'm not sure this particular selection process will have generated the best pool of attendees. Demand simply exceeds supply, and no matter what selection criteria have been used, someone more deserving will be left out. I don't necessarily qualify that by suggesting that I'm more deserving, just that this process accentuates it. Ultimately it is Google's event to run and there is something to be said about providing an equal chance to everyone, but there are tradeoffs with this approach.