> The key here being using the events table for anything as opposed to just writing into it.

That goes beyond my comment at https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1549#issuecomment-34496212, but it doesn't look like this PR actually fulfills that requirement? No? I'm see we're reading from the `events` table for the admin view, but we're not consuming the events table to produce state in the participants table. Or am I missing something?