Core -> Gold -> Chad
(@kgamble I'm gonna proudly beat your dead horse)
This announcement kinda took me by surprise... I just received my Gold certification a few weeks ago (not that I care about it very much), but it seems like being automatically certified after attending training will de-value the Core and Gold cert. Or strip it of any value it had.
I could see why IA might want to make the change. Even grading and sending feedback for the tests is probably a full time job for at least one person - it might make sense to make the training/certification process leaner. I'm hoping if that was the case, IA would tell us that instead of hiding behind the reasons they listed in the email.