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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 8178839" data-attributes="member: 67">I get it. But allowing something as nebulous as “a sentence” leaves the door open to details that bypass the word-limit (and that can be done in far fewer than 40 words – or 10, even). That’s what I don’t want to see. Plus, parameters are as good for the tournament as they are for creativity; when the judge is given leeway to assess those types of things subjectively, that comes at a cost. That cost being: room for contestants’ indignation. As you’ve seen for yourself going through the old tourneys, those kinds of attitudes can snowball quickly. Of course, I’m not suggesting that there is no room for judges’ subjectivity: it’s an inevitable and essential element. But the tournament really does need some rules to be explicitly defined in order to run smoothy. And, in my view, that involves all rules related to the word-limit and time-limit (whatever they happen to be or not be).</blockquote>