Originally Posted by
tanktronic
Oy, finally someone at least TRIES to answer, thank you

Yeah, from context I figured it was something like that... I'm curious if it's a forum for luring elites to status-match, or anything like that. Since I moved from Detroit to Paris, it's kind of a moot point [ST to ST], but someday I might be interested in switching alliances...
Good question. I don't think that's the main point of it, but that's probably part of why the airlines like to sponsor these. For the upcoming One World MegaDO in January, for example, AA offered up a challenge to get people to high level AA status faster. Hyatt did something similar.