VIC's odd for me (and I'd welcome suggestions for other, similar places).
I went through a period where I looked at the 45d delayed ones and gave each a good bit of research, and it felt like a lot were "check out this obscure OTC and thinly-traded Norwegian short-haul shipping company!"
I'd finish the write-up and think "I have no idea how to evaluate any of the claims made here, or even how I'd trade this if I wanted to" -- and I'd check and see how the stock had done since being written up and it would be +/- 5c on its 1.38 value and still was only seeing a 100-1000 shares trade/day.
To hear that there were better ideas going in and not making it is particularly disappointing.