To be perfectly honest, this is my first go round modding an AO3 exchange so it might be fine but I'm not sure and don't want to risk breaking anything. So I'm following the letter of my co-mods instructions (and some of the warnings in the AO3 backend) not to go around changing things during sign ups.

With a bit of luck one of the others might be around soon and can confirm/do so if it's safe, but we're also collectively traveling/dealing with urgent offline stuff *raises hand* so I can't give you an estimate on when.

I really can only reiterate that I am very, very sorry about it. I wasn't the one who wrangled Warcraft so I'm not sure what the circumstances were around this, but it certainly seems like we made an error somewhere and I know that's disappointing. If you are (rightly) concerned about us repeating the muck up in future years, what I said above are probably the most reliable ways to pre-empt us being regular error prone humans. But for this year I can only sincerely apologise for whatever happened (and cross my fingers another mod might pop up who knows more than me and is comfortable tweaking late.)