Freestyles should only be used for a brief rebuttal and then get back to your writtens. A lot of decent lines get gassed because they were off the top and it's graded on a curve. All that for an entire round and asking the crowd give them a word . That just tells me they're unprepared or don't trust their pen.
This.
And if you think about it.. This is a written battle league. So technically you shouldn't even be freestyling like that