The reasoning was that if you could play one TADS game, you could play
them all, and ditto for Inform. But some people might be in the
position of not having an interpreter for one or the other. So the
vote-pools for the two classes of games might not be the same; so the
votes couldn't be meaningfully compared.
I didn't think it was that important, myself. But then I don't think
the voting process is that important. The contest has gotten people to
write games, which is the real point.
--Z
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."