so if the comp can be extended what other rules can be bent/broken, sounds like bull** to me...
What it means is that somebody somewhere made a mistake, which is human .. I've made a few myself in my time.
It is highly embarressment for them and us.
The story:
The comp is being run across a few sites around the world, and they set the finish date at the 16th. Then they started other comps which finished on the 25th. Then they realised that once the winners of the others were announced on the 16th people could google & get the correct answer from the other sites, and use it to enter on the sites which hadn't finished.
Important to understand that even though this comp is being run in other countries, in this Seabreeze comp you're only competing against other Seabreezers, not all the international comps.
does that mean no one has it right so far
We don't have the correct answer yet. Only aboards know that.