FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Jul 2001
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It sure looks that way to me. Hyatt got rid of their regular status match program a few years ago and replaced it with a challenge, which currently no longer available.
My thoughts all along were that this was a mistake, and now they're trying to fix it by limiting it to their original target group.