Erm… then why are so many “WordCamp [Country]” events this year still?

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/09/a-tale-of-two-wordcamps/

@scribu - by "so many", do you mean the 3 out of the 37 WordCamps on that page?

I presume that Germany, Denmark, Kenya, all of which are 2011 events, were already being organized by the time this rule was announced and would have had a good argument that it would mess up their existing sponsorship plans.

I imagine the horrified organizers scrambled to come up with any excuse they could to avoid having their event so ruinously downgraded. I would particularly like to hear what the reaction of the Germans was :)

Of the 2012 events, precisely none have been allowed to use their country name.