I think I should give a small update on the status of this queue, since a few weeks have passed without word. So, here's some facts:
1) Since Ascendance is no longer a BN, I'm taking leadership of this queue. However, Ascendance was willing to keep helping us as the CtB BNG is a bit undermanned, so we will be keeping him as a voting member.
2) Some of us were a little bit too harsh when casting votes, basically expecting maps to be already perfect instead of a "near rankable state", which resulted in a lot of the submitted maps failing to pass. We discussed this, reaching the conclusion that we should be a bit more lenient when casting votes, giving a "Yes" to maps that would meet our quality criteria after we mod them, rather than expect them to be perfect beforehand. For this reason, we're re-casting our votes, hoping that some maps will be able to pass to the Nomination Pool.
3) We received a lot of submissions for this first round, so for the next rounds we're probably limiting the number of submissions we will accept each round. We're also discussing adding some additional requirements, though they won't be that hard to fulfill. This is still under discussion.
I am sorry that we've taken this long (and we aren't even ready, considering the changes we've discussed as of today), but we're trying to learn from the mistakes we've made this round to get this queue working in a more steady manner.