I saw they'd applied for it, but I remembered the Quest Board post saying something about multiple people applying for the same Exclusive Quest:

"For exclusive quests, anyone can make a submission to take them on but if multiple players wish to take the same one, OOCly the moderators will RNG who receives it and - after the first round - give preference going forward to those who have not received an exclusive quest yet"

So I thought it might still go on here!