- Flexies are changed to be graded purely by percentage, which had been the rule in the hosts' minds for some time anyway. (For the record, this publication had some thoughts on this and was very much not listened to. But at least now it's clear.) If the ratio is the same, the tie is broken by coin flip (even if the number of picks differ, e.g. 3/6 and 5/10).
- The long standing practice of resolving ties with coin flips was codified, with a lifetime ban on Jason Snell flipping a physical coin.