DanKirby posted...
As I remember it, at the start of each day of the nominations process, a list of the current top X (not sure exactly how many it was) nominations in terms of nom count would be posted, and no one would be allowed to drop their support for anything on the list.
it was top 8 btw (and whatever else happened to be tied with them on noms). it was a pretty irrelevant system needless to say in a contest with no reason to drop supports in the first place but that's kind of the beauty of it imo, as it well and truly ensured that people were prevented from manipulating their supports at the last minute because of things being "safe" and then them getting cut.
so yeah it was mostly just there to advertise the most popular noms each day lol. (the anti-drop effect only lasted till the next tally update the following day to be clear. of course if a nom like say, genshin, was hogging the top 8 the entire time then it was protected from drops that whole time too)
i'd had ideas to make it more of a floating amount if it were to be implemented in vgmc, like say, up to 32 but there'd also be an initial threshold to reach first (like 3 unique supports) before any of them were counted, so it'd likely be way less than that in the first few days. the exact specifics though weren't fully decided tbh