Quote Originally Posted by Pechvarry View Post
To elaborate, I don't mind it getting counted down a bit, but it always feels like such melee tricks get a -2 originality in addition to whatever other penalty they had in mind for the build -- but I'm likely taking it way out of proportion. I just feel like it's worth noting that it gets judged harshly, but I don't see any penalties for the very large multitude of entries across all past tournaments which have Craven or rely on UMD to be effective.

But I should probably shut my mouth, I keep getting cold feats and don't join up.
The difference you're noting is as follows:

-Some builds do nothing BUT be a chain tripper. This is unoriginal.
-Other builds use UMD as their main combat tactic, but do like a dozen other creative things aside.

Now, if there was a build that just optimized UMD out the wazoo and didn't DO anything else, ok, I'd mark that bitch down in a heart beat, since we've all seen it before. Similarly, when a chain tripper who does lots of other things shows up, I don't mark it down.