As per my previous blog, I did not quite reach GM after Good Bye 2024:

That blog, however, was written before the 2053I2 — Affectionate Arrays (Hard Version) incident:

As a result, to the best of my knowledge, $$$4$$$ participants have been made unrated. While normally this wouldn't be that big of an issue, the $$$4$$$ participants deemed affected by the last problem in the contest were, naturally, quite high up in the rankings.

This, in turn, made me gain $$$2$$$ spots, which, according to Carrot, increased my performance by at least $$$5$$$ points (from either $$$2665$$$ or $$$2667$$$ to $$$2675$$$), which means that I should have reached GM after Good Bye 2024.

For added context, the rating change still shows my rank as $$$157$$$, instead of $$$155$$$:

I am aware that this is incredibly petty (and I probably would have reached GM at some point anyways), but the main reason that I wrote this blog is that the rating changes for Hello 2025 have already been applied, without any sign that the rating chages for Good Bye 2024 will ever be recalculated.