User blog comment:Mrdaimion/Top Six Characters of 2011/@comment-2021069-20120108190533/@comment-1874924-20120109014041

One reason I tended to avoid OC competition stories until fairly recently is that I usually found it too hard to keep the characters straight, especially when trying to read multiple stories at once. I'm currently reading several OC competitions, but it's no coincidence that most of them (the three you mentioned, plus Shopping Centre and Fiji) are among the wiki's more elaborate stories. The other edge of that sword is that reading elaborate stories reduces the total number of stories that I can fit into my limited reading time, especially since I'm a slow reader.