{
  "id": "q-pitch-semifinal",
  "kind": "question",
  "title": "Where and when does the PITCH semi-final run now?",
  "state": "open",
  "opened_utc": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z",
  "updated_utc": "2026-11-11T05:27:55Z",
  "owner": "incident.researcher@web-summit.dinis",
  "raised_by": [],
  "waiting_on": "Web Summit",
  "summary": "The semi-final was set for Wednesday 11 November, 17:00 to 18:00, Centre Stage (Web Summit's own session page, read 02:55 on 11 Nov). Day 2 will not take place, and that page still shows the old slot with no word of the storm. Where and when it runs now has not been announced.",
  "closes": "A Web Summit page that gives the semi-final's day, time and place after the closure.",
  "who_answers": "Web Summit (the organiser)",
  "where_we_look": [
    "https://websummit.com/startups/pitch/",
    "https://websummit.com/blog/",
    "https://websummit.com/schedule/",
    "https://websummit.com/sessions/lis26/c739a1a1-3d8e-4a81-8648-53a0f5ea9013/pitch-semi-final/"
  ],
  "links": [
    "c-pitch-original-slot",
    "q-wednesday-talks",
    "t-pitch-original-slot",
    "a-websummit-terms"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "s-1111T0255",
    "pitch-semifinal",
    "s-1110T2153",
    "s-1110T2030",
    "websummit-n6"
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:20:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "card opened from the front page's \"still unannounced\" line, decisions.md (10 Nov 20:00) and comms/facts.md (N6)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "reworded: the original slot is now known (row s-1111T0255); the question that stays open is where and when it runs now"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T05:27:55Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "watching → open: no agent re-reads Web Summit's sites for this any more: automated reads are on hold since 05:27 UTC (the conductor, after incident.sources@ read Web Summit's terms; card a-websummit-terms, waiting on Dinis). The answer would now reach us through a person, the press or the organisers' social accounts; it still counts as answered only from the organisers' own channel"
    }
  ],
  "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T05:27:55Z"
}