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I would also like to point out that the queue has been growing over the past two months after it actually became quite short in December—it stayed under 20 for several weeks and went down to 11 team apps at one point. People saw that as a good time to get their applications in, so the app count more than doubled immediately (within the two weeks) afterwards, which is what has significantly contributed to the current bottleneck. There's a good chance that adding two new teams will have the same effect, where people will take the fact that the queue is suddenly drastically shorter as a good time to submit their app, returning us to the same problem almost immediately.

You can turn this around though, too. The current bottleneck is pretty anomalous over the course of the last year. The pool has gotten bigger and smaller, but it's been relatively stable and it's been flowing relatively well most of that time.

Making two new teams won't drop the app pool down so low that everyone will necessarily see it as a great time to app. We had pretty good equilibrium there for a while. If we could get the queue back into the 20-30 range, things may well balance out again.

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