1. True. Pure BASIC programs are in a separate category than hybrid BASIC (xLIB, Celtic, XCOPY, DCSlibs, etc), Axe, FastRPL, Grammer and C, which competes directly against ASM.
2. Yep. No 84+CSE nor 83 (82 Stats.Fr) entry.
3. Nibbles. A text RPG would not only lack the replay value/addiction level required by the overall contest theme, but the fact it would be text-only (as in menus) would totally ruin your TI community reputation on ticalc.org.