The issue was that we wanted to limit the abstract to two lines on the homepage. Limiting to one sentence meant that long sentences were taking up more than that. So, we truncated based on word count.
We could have done something more complicated with checking sentence length and then truncating etc. But, the Rumble is time limited & it wasn’t a priority.
Thanks for the heads up; I'm sure that there will be plenty of little things pop up now we have finalized the entry. We'll take a look at it once the judging is over.
The site looks neat, but it's a bit hard to read here since the text is wider than the window for most window widths (Chrome 22.0.1229.79, Kubuntu 12.04, 125% zoom - it fits at 100% but that's too small for my eyes).