Would I commit? Absolutely. Based on the history of the previous rounds of this contest it would be a no-brainer for me. That being said, @fersher has made good points regarding the comment-upvote-curation interaction, plus conditions on Steemit have changed significantly since the days of the EPROM review contest.

Going way back to that review contest, STEEM and SBD were relatively cheap, bidbots hadn't taken over Steemit yet, and you were looking to acquire feedback on that literary work. The beta-reading concept that you then presented for Ragnarok Conspiracy was not only a logical evolution to the EPROM contest, but it also sounded brilliant to me from a business standpoint. Had there been wider participation as [I believe] we were both expecting but never saw materialize, you would have effectively crowdsourced the editing work at a total cost (in prizes) of far less than hiring a professional editor. I entered not only for the prize prospects, but I was also interested in seeing how it would all play out -- would you successfully get that crowdsourced editing? If so, it would have been, in my opinion, a new revolutionary way for authors to write -- and potentially, a complete disruption to the business model of authoring and publishing. Whether you had intended to or not, I thought you were onto something and I wanted to play a part in it.

Then those rounds of beta-reading lotteries came and went, and we know what happened there -- SBD skyrocketed, and I'm sure you still remember how I tried to hand out drawing tickets on a silver platter in round 4, and yet no other Steemian was willing to put in the minimal effort needed to read one specific paragraph and point out any mistake in it.

Anyway, I'll be around and make time for round 5 if you run it. But I can easily understand if that 5th round doesn't happen. Hopefully the new Steemian blood that's been coming in [as Steemit's popularity grows] lately will be more diligent than previous generations.