The Fallacy of Writing a Winning Fight

[Demetri Malius]

I'm guessing this is at least in part due to some of what I spoke of in chat, and if this is the grading card we'll be using in general, I'm all for it.
Worth noting the PSA might be a bit less necessary if this:

Once the fight has come to an end, the judge will decide upon the winner and give bonus rewards to each player based on the quality of their writing. The winner is determined by a combination of game mechanics (ie the stat difference between players, any injuries suffered during the fight, whether the players already have damage from previous fights) and writing quality.

Wasn't in the fighting and competition section of the rules, though
Note that I'm not disagreeing with you on how you're grading here, just pointing out that at the least, this section seems a bit outdated.

This is true as well. It was just a good post. >.>

I think Thaal may slightly underestimate the importance of stats. They DO give you an inherent benefit. If you're a week into the site and have yet to unlock your first power up (which I think most people should be able to do within a month or so of joining) then you're going to be at an inherent disadvantage. But it's going to be a tiebreaker. If all else is equal, the more powerful person will win. But most of the time we want to see the underdogs win. If you are the better writer, you can take out someone twice your strength no problem. But of course, being "better" is a matter of great subjectivity. So sometimes it's going to come down to stats and that's where the game portion of the RPG comes from.

To combat that inspirational speech ... If you're a level 1 and you fight two people each with a Tier 2 powerup, you're going to die. Sorry. But hey you might kill one of them if you're a total bad ass!

So... what you're saying is... I'm fucked xD