KRHH: Tournament update - written vs. performance?

Hi y'all. Thanks for the responses yesterday; I feel really good about this and I'm deciding to move forward with it. I'm gonna be posting updates like this throughout the week so that I can get general opinions on how to conduct the tournament. I'll try to incorporate feedback I get from you guys into my updates and ultimately we'll be able to flesh this out together. I'm also hoping more people will join in once they have a better idea of what's going on.

If we did hold a tournament, would you like it to be only written verses, or would you like there to be a performance aspect to it?

In the past we had people send in recordings of them rapping their verses and that was cool. Even if they're just recording on a phone it's nice to hear the verse the way the writer wants us to hear it. Plus, a lot of people agree that it can’t be a “rap” battle if there’s no actual rapping to it. However, sometimes people have problems getting time to record or they just don’t wanna do it, which is fine but it makes the battles a little weird since some people will have voice accompaniments and others won’t. It’s up to y’all - if it's easier to do written verses or if you're just not comfortable with the possibility of strangers masturbating to the sound of your voice, that's fine. I don't wanna complicate this, so whatever works best for everyone should be the primary concern.

Opinions? And please help repost this question so that all interested regs can see it. Thx