WMAT

[Aqua]

I don't know how likely it is for people to say "I hate this! I want to write more than 5,000 words per round!" If they're that driven, they can always post themselves observing other fights and the like. They could also just spend more effort and energy on each post. For my own part, I know I don't think it's fair when I put out twice as much content as someone else and, even though our quality is equal, we get similar rewards. With a max word count, this problem is far less likely.

Beyond that, I wanted this tournament to be a true test of RPing ability. The only way to do that is to moderate how much each person is posting. Otherwise, there's no real way to determine who RPed better if two people are posting two different qualities at two different lengths. This is a competition, and all competitions have parameters.