I think it's good for everyone to be seeing the same info. I happen to have that news announcement open on another PC, but if I didn't it would be handy to not have to bring up the news page or rely on my memory.
But anyway ... over 200 submissions? I'm guessing that doesn't mean over 250 submissions. That doesn't sound a lot - I recall someone getting a competition ticket number over 25,000.
All they need to do is print the list, queue them up in a local server, and do a quick run through. Say, 60 seconds per map. Anything that obviously isn't #1 material is going to get scratched quickly and easily (like when companies go through resumes and ditch all the ones that don't follow standard resume formatting, or spell the company name wrong).
After they're left with the pretty ones that actually have lined up textures and decent lighting, they can work on culling the ones with poor gameplay. At this point they might easily have under 100 maps to check out. Scratch half for bad fps, poor doorway clipping, bad weapon/ammo placement, crappy spawns, etc. and they probably won't be left with many that really need thorough playtesting.
Just my uneducated 2 cents.
I'm hoping there will be a top-10 mappack release, because once you get down to the top 10 there's no doubt you're looking at some seriously good maps.
