User blog comment:The Kaufman/Germanic challenge/@comment-24386827-20150701224955/@comment-2040889-20150801143228

Not "directly and only directly" from Proto-Germanic, but from a Germanic language, is what I said/meant to say. No challenger was accepted that worked on a thing before the challenge began. IHCOYC was thought to have started work before the challenge began, but actually did not. I worked on my conlang for a day before learning the challenge was postponed, and thus didn't participate for the first few days. It's a challenge that requires you to derive something from an actual language, not your own conlang on which you started work long before the challenge began.