superhero origins contest

Not Sol, but pretty sure he will tell you to follow the limit stated in the contest itself - that is when you click on the contest from the home page and it gives the limit as well as a preferable range. The general "contest rules" are more generic and they very rarely go in depth enough to change those for the individual contests and thus we most always have this type discrepancy; i.e. they just recycle the rules from the last contest even though they may not be exactly the same in all details such as the word limit case here. And let's face it, most folks aren't going to go into those generic rules looking for word limits if they are already spelled out within the specific contest parameters. But I could be wrong; I was once a long time ago, lol. Take care. Vern