Yeah, I have the same issue. Haven't received any of the newsletters. Guess I have to sit this event out unless someone is sharing the links?

It's definitely an adjustment working with Cycles, and I haven't done too complex of scenes yet or anything too involved. But, I do have this promo I rendered for a set of satin shaders I'm developing for Superfly.

The nice part is that you can mostly use Blender tutorials to find the best ways to create various materials, and most of the node setups don't seem to end up nearly as complex as Firefly. Also, I feel like it takes less time (and tweaking) to get a quality render than with Firefly. But, it's possible I'm somehow uniquely attuned with Cycles.

I do agree they needed to include more "starter" materials. I think I saw, like, 3 materials, and they all looked really terrible when you loaded them up on a primitive with the default lighting in the default scene.