This isn't really a reply, but since you actually did see the event, could you give an actual rundown on what you saw? Much of the info I've seen is second-hand and I'd really appreciate a breakdown from someone who witnessed the thing.
Of course!
Let's see what I can remember. I spent most of the time talking to myself, "Are they really buying this crap? How many times can he stand up there and resell the same polished turd, and they think it's the greatest thing since talking to an ashtray?"
So the main idea was that many years ago, some bad people cancelled and/or changed a bunch of BTBs, which in turn altered the future of the universe. So mighty mouse came to rescue and personally reviewed every BTB, all the notes and hand-written comments, etc. from ron and used critical thinking to decide which BTBs should be un-cancelled, etc.
He also kept going on about "eliminating economic barriers" and so apparently everything is cheaper now, and most things are quicker to finish.
Here are some of the "re-discovered" things:
(Note: they piloted all the rediscovered stuff on 500 folks and got some average times, which I will try to remember and note)
1. The correct EP for the purif is supposed to be the person takes 5000mg of Niacin with no reaction. They also found some people were gaining weight on the purif. The "why" given was the 'All Blend' oil that is available today is nothing like the stuff back in the 60s, and the vitamins today are crap. So they revamped the whole purif thing, now they have a company that makes all the vitamins & oil, and all the orgs have to buy from the churches international supply depot thing. They also have standard uniforms (shirts, shorts, bag, flip flops) that you wear on the purif. Average
Time is 23 days to finish.
2. Happiness rundown is back on the bridge, but is not mandatory.
3. There is another one, maybe called the Survival Rundown?, anyway, it is on there as well, after the Happiness RD (I think) and is also voluntary.
4. Objectives. There are now over 300 objectives processes (I guess there was 15 or so). Apparently ron delegated the task to someone to go through all the lectures and stuff to put together the Objectives, but the silly knuckle heads on the project stopped at 15. So now there are over 300, but you don’t have to do them all, I think you just go until you are properly hypnotized, I mean HAVE A WIN!!. They also recommend co-auditing the objectives, so you don't get charged auditing time. Average time to complete is around 150 hours.
5. Grades. There was something about each grade has a "Major Process" and a bunch of un-major ones (never done grades, sorry). Anyway, so I guess people were being attested to grades completion without doing the major process for the grade level, and I guess that is why all the OTs are dying from cancer. Ok he didn't say that, but he intimated that the case cannot be fully handled if the major process for each grade is not run. He was then saying something about on grade 4 that ser facs were only being half handled. I guess a serfac is supposed to be audited with grades processes, then with NED, before it is fully handled. But some evil monkey stripped the NED processes out of grade 4, so people would finish grade 4 with their ser facs only half handled. Apparently that is bad. So, now the NED processes have been put back into grade 4, so the awesome product of "A robotic being, with no personality or free will" has been achieved. Average time to finish all grades is 70 to 90 hours, or about a month.
I think that was it on the processing side. I didn't see most of the second part of the event, which went over the training side. Apparently the student hat and emeter courses have had a bunch stripped out, so are much faster to finish. There was something about the student tapes; When ron told someone to make the student hat course, he said to take these certain lectures from the BC lectures, strip out all the fancy auditing stuff, and make those the student hat tapes, but once again the evil monkeys screwed everything up and didn't remove all the super fancy auditor stuff. So now that is all gone, making the course a lot faster. Average time to finish is like 10 hours, or somewhere in there.
The emeter course had some drills removed. Oh, and the solo course has a bunch of drills removed, so it is quicker now too.
Some other stuff:
Every grade chart level has a picture book to tell the PC what is happening.
Reges have a new tool - Indoctrination videos. When someone gets herded to the reg after finishing something (and before the buzz wears off), they are put in a room and shown a video about what the next level is. Apparently these make you want to buy it.
Um... Oh, the penalty for talking about super power is expulsion. DM quote, "I would love to tell you about super power, but the penalty for doing so is expulsion, and I don't want to get expelled..."
Wow I recalled more than I thought, I wonder if I am clear? Well I hope that gives you a bit of an idea about what was involved. If I remember anything else, I will post it.