It's a perfectly fair question.

There's three separate issues:

1.) the official editorial position of Slowtwitch with regard to race series;
2.) why there isn't coverage of the race in Singapore;
3.) my opinion.

The official editorial position of Slowtwitch is that we are brand agnostic when it comes to race series, minus any specific partnership deal we may have with a particular series. (We do not currently have one. Our most recent one was with the PTO in 2022.) Our editorial plans for mainstream triathlon race coverage this year included WTCS events, the Olympics, SuperTri, T100, IRONMAN Pro Series events, and Challenge Roth -- all under the umbrella of how we were going to look at race event articles in 2023.

Now, you're probably asking, "how can he say that when they didn't cover Singapore?" We are, at the moment, unable to bring you coverage of T100 events on the front page. It involves two of our sacred cows when it comes to us being an independent publisher. Until there's a resolution we will not be able to write on the home page.

With regard to my opinion piece -- I think that the PTO would be best served by recognizing what they are good at (creating pro content, finding money) and recognizing their weaknesses (producing wholly-owned events). Again, going back to -- it's nuts that we're approaching six months until Lake Las Vegas and there's still zero indication that registration might open anytime soon. They're going to miss the window to get dollars in the door.

So why not take their strengths, use the best IM assets (as that's the brand name people associate with this stuff), be the media rights holder, and make your money that way? Not totally dissimilar from the arrangement between the FIA, Formula One Management, Liberty Media, etc. Might actually create the change they are looking for.