I don't want to say names. If I'm wrong then finger poiting and dragging someones name through the mud is useless, and if I'm right then you're someone I care about and respect and I'm not looking to fight with you, or embarrass you, or turn anyone against you either. Besides, you've already stated that you'll deny it. I'm more than willing to discuss the issues, I just think the tone of the conversation needs to change on everyones part.

The "soft deadline" and forcing early roleplays is to prevent people from sandbagging. In a 13-14 day roleplay period in a game that's largely collaborative it's very tough to have someone wait until the last day and drop two roleplays at 10 PM and 12 PM without impacting the game for other people. It also helps the judges get a handle on judging well in advance, rather than scrambling the day of the show to read a massive influx of roleplays and make their decisions. There are other factors, but those are two of the main ones. Stick to savage, one RP a week is not really that much to keep up with.

There IS a rubric. The judges do use it, and I believe it has been shared with some people when explaining outcomes to their matches. In this era there has never been a public rubric with the philosophy of not wanting everyone just writing what they think will grade the highest, they want people to just write whatever they enjoy writing and it scores how it scores. It's worked for them. However now that multiple older members have mentioned that they'd appreciate at least having the guideline, the staff is discussing and largely open to making that scale public. Nothing is finalized, but we've heard the concerns and understand where it comes from and like I said... we're trying.

Uni defenses will come. Main has never been a champion to shy from defenses, but the federation was in a position where there weren't really legitimate contenders available full time to challenge. We're working on it.

Anything else?