The judges are getting around to reading the submissions of the Firenze participants. Early this morning I got an email commending the quality of submission of the Johnson-Cornell students. 

"Is there any way we can have more than 4 teams make it to the final round?", asked one of the Firenze judges from the Dynamics case. "There were incredibly strong submissions from some of these teams and it is really hard to choose between them."

  The official announcement of the finalists go out in the next couple of days.