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+ beatmania IIDX 29 CastHour | Misogi (Extended Mix) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtLJHlW-88

Double to 5 :)

okay bit of shifting time, these two afaik aren't on any playlists and reception is ng on the sheet so be free my beauties!!

- A Dance of Fire and Ice | LORELEI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bef23j792eE
- SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS | Prayer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVSlzGE1UPw
+ GITADORA EXCHAIN | Trajectory of the Kiyarora Satellite (Long Version) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSnKSYf29Y
+ Final Fantasy VII: Remake | The Valkyrie | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYEE6lJ334

+ Phantasy Star Online 2 | Zero-G (ALL PHASE MIX) | https://youtu.be/VWgFK3VqNgg
+ Medarot 5 | Beat the Diamonds | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUzbpTQntE
+ Mega Man X Legacy Collection | Give it a Shot | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypos_SdPhU8
+ Pokmon Scarlet & Violet | Battle! (Zero Lab) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydT8EItxKlQ
+ Duel Masters Play's | POP TEAM BATTLE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVf2iS5UZVs
+ beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD | Chain of pain | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZL5LFXlKSw
+ Battle Garegga Rev.2016 | Subversive Awareness (DJ Sharpnel Remix) [STAGE5 CLOUD] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1XaLEUtz8c

it begins

DEM1995 posted...

+ Shadow Hearts: Covenant | The 3 Karma | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPmRVBa0NF4

"Nominations full for DEM1995 discarding The 3 Karma"

MarkS2222222222 posted...

noms

@banshiryuu ^ can I do this or do I need to wait

Will add these, sorry I would've added em earlier but wasn't actually watching the thread today oops

VGMC is now open for business once again! Hope you enjoyed your listening, but it's not over yet! We still have quite the many days of nominations left, so don't feel too bad if you weren't able to listen to as much as you had hoped!

+ Megido 72 | Guest Star Appears | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH7MkWFhy5c
+ Megido 72 | Memory Enemy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDytohBvVOg

start with more noms because i'm a dummy and forgot these lmao

handsomeboy2012 posted...

This is for 'For Faith'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJq5SiwjuA

Also you might want to add (Instrumental) to the song name

Donezo

handsomeboy2012 posted...

@banshiryuu I made a mistake in youtube link can I go change that

Yeah def, just post it here and I can swap the links

KidDivinegon posted...

@banshiryuu I hate to be that guy and I apologize, but I completely missed that VGMC was starting. Will the VGMC gods permit me to put in 10 nominations even though the initial round has ended?

Yeah sure go ahead

Thank you for your nominations everyone!! For the next 48 hours minus a little bit, nominations and supports are frozen! If you post them here, they will not be acknowledged as this time is for everyone to have time to listen to what has been posted so far. If youre only finding us now that were paused and would like some nominations added still, just @ me here in thread and Ill reply and probably let you go ahead still, but otherwise please take this time to listen to whats been already posted. Thank you and happy listening!!! See yall on Sunday!

no but the cases so far have been... fine so i didn't say anything lol. since one was not realizing there was a 3 song per game limit, and the other was not knowing things were actually eligible

if anyone just replaces one without any real reason i probably will say that i won't actually add it to the spreadsheet, and i ask people not to do it without reasons like stated above

im acually going to die i cant believe chroma banbard is real

+ Espgaluda | Fort City - Stage4 | https://youtu.be/5XS_8D4ztkk

help

From DeviDoesNothing:

+ NEO: The World Ends With You | Breaking Free | https://youtu.be/ZQmfrBAfBI0
+ Super Mario Galaxy | Gateway Galaxy | https://youtu.be/cmKLOe2fsU4
+ Sonic Frontiers | Break Through It All | https://youtu.be/AzSIuBwPAKs
+ Pizza Tower | Unexpectancy | https://youtu.be/7iDoOvn7J14
+ FINAL FANTASY VI | Dancing Mad | https://youtu.be/4WKQ6mAvjJE

+ Celeste | Reach for the Summit | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVM9KED46Q

Day 2 has now begun! You may mow have up to 10 unique nominations! Reminder that in 24 hours nominations will be totally paused for the weekend!

+ MoonDriver | encounter the unknown environment | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av66F_bNNo0
+ Falsion | Narrow Road | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PITV4KA-9U
+ Zakuzaku Actors | Glass | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IPxeSXB5s
+ Espgaluda II | Deserted - Younger Brother and Elder Sister and... (Stage3) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRd75lxH2Ig
+ Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge | Gambit | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6Hg-fFc5A

From DeviDoesNothing:

+ Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story | The Grand Finale | https://youtu.be/ouUeRx0OHPw
+ Sonic and the Black Knight | KNIGHT OF THE WIND | https://youtu.be/L_bImwAmdAw
+ Super Mario 64 | Staff Roll | https://youtu.be/XI12BK9VC3U
+ Sonic Heroes | What I'm Made of...: Last Boss ver.2 / Metal Overlord | https://youtu.be/FA0wWQ3gooQ
+ GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- | Love the Subhuman Self | https://youtu.be/SMItKJ_SNf8

pyresword posted...

So just to double check, I can go above 5 nominations right now as long as I'm supporting things other people have already nominated, correct?

yup!

Thank you for waiting patiently!

Nominations are now open! Please remember, only nominate five songs for now!

+ beatmania IIDX 29 CastHour | Misogi (Extended Mix) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtLJHlW-88
+ beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage | LOST TECHNOLOGIE ("Data scraper" Long ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSQ1ZzPopaM
+ jubeat Ave. | Drenched in Air | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w4X67atXEo
+ A Dance of Fire and Ice | LORELEI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bef23j792eE
+ SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS | Prayer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVSlzGE1UPw

BRACKET PHASE

Population and Bracket Design
After the closing of nominations, the bracket for the contest proper will be populated by songs in the following priority:

1) Songs that were locked before the end of the first week, which were guaranteed a spot into the bracket.
2) Songs with the highest number of nominations, based on total unique votes. (Thus 5 total/5 unique prioritize over 5 total/3 unique)
3) Remaining slots that are on the bubble will be chosen based on a number of hidden criteria, prioritizing those nominators that were not as successful in nominations as others.

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Bracket Design
Once the field of 256 is finalized, the hosts will work swiftly on creating a bracket based on a number of criteria to make the most reasonable and interesting bracket possible. All the while everyone chants "WE WANT BRACKET! WE WANT BRACKET!" from the sidelines! As soon as we release it, a BracketMaker page will be posted to allow predictions to be made before the contest itself starts. The contest should start in the first part of May.

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Head-to-Head Matches
Once the topic starts, every topic will go up at 10pm Eastern and have three matches. All six songs will be posted and users can vote for their preferance after listening to all the songs. And by "after listening to the songs" I really mean after listening to the songs! This may by a popularity contest on the surface, but we still would like everyone to judge matches based on the quality of the songs, and not just because a song you know and like has come up. If the hosts believe voting rules are not being followed, your vote could be disqualified, and repeated offences can lead to being barred from voting in matches.

Winners advance, losers are out, ties get re-run, and double tiebreaks will come down to a special sudden death scenario should a tie not be resolved by that point.

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Retirement
If a song does well enough to reach Round 5, or the Round of 16, then said song has proven its strength and worth as a "best of the best", and will be added to the "retired list" seen previously in the rules.

NOMINATIONS PHASE

Nominations Rules and Guidelines

* You have a total of twenty (20) nominations which can be used either on new songs that have not been posted before, or songs already suggested by others that you like. Both cases are counted as a single "nomination".
* Of these 20 nominations, five (5) of these can be "double nominations", which counts as two regular votes but only one unique vote. Like regular nominations, these can be on a song you posted yourself, or another person's suggestion.
* Under no circumstance will you be able to use more than 20 nominations, nor more than five doubles.
* You will only be able to nominate 5 unique songs for each of the first two days of nominations: 5 new, unique nominations on day 1 (April 19th) and an additional 5 new, unique nominations on day 2 (April 20th). All 20 nomination slots and all doubles are available for use beyond five new unique nominations so long as you are supporting an already-nominated song.
* This does mean if you hop in on day 2 (April 20th), you'll be able to nominate 10 new songs!
* After the end of the listening pause at 7pm on April 23rd, you can remove and add nominations and doubles as you wish without limit to the number of new, unique nominations until the end of the nomination period on April 29th.
* If a song you have nominated or doubled is locked (see locked section below), then you will not be able to change that vote.

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Song Eligibility and Game Limits

* You may nominate at most 3 songs from the same game.
* You may nominate at most 5 songs from the same series.
* You can't nominate two versions of the same song, including remixes of the same song and alternate versions of the same song.
* You can't nominate songs that are on the retired list. (See VGMC total stats sheet listed in the first post)
* In short, a song is eligible if it plays in-game, or if it appears on the original soundtrack or material that is meant to be OST-adjacent. A dedicated document for eligibility rules with examples can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irtq3XJ9d4GMD8XJtmKBUl6zAHQ_zkzXFo0d2jEO-20
* If all else fails, just ask! The hosts will have the final say of if something is eligible, but with new changes that have come in the past few years even stuff that has been denied before could be eligible now.

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How to Nominate

We're using a script to automatically tally votes rather than hand counting votes, so there's a bit of a format you'll have to follow so that it can actually pick up your nominations. Please use the following format:

+ Game_Name | Song_Name | Youtube_Link

The "+" can be replaced by a "++" (immediate double), "-" (remove nomination), or "--" (completely remove a double). For example:

+ Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Adding a nomination, or upgrading to a double)
++ Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Adding a doubled nomination)
- Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Removing a nomination, or downgrading a double to a regular nomination)
-- Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Removing a double completely)

Please try to match the exact text of nominations if you are supporting or altering a nomination that has already appeared before in topic. This includes links; please use the same exact link as the original nomination.

Please, please, PLEASE avoid special characters like accented letters or symbols! The script does not like those kinds of things and they're a bit of a pain to clean up. Also don't edit posts to try and fix mistakes or add/remove stuff from your posts, just notify a host about mistakes or you can also fix them yourself with a - and + in the same post.

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Locking

Locking system is back with a vengeance! If a song reaches 6 nominations, it is guaranteed a spot in the bracket. However, anyone that has nominations on that song will not be able to retract any support on that song under any circumstance. No going back, so make sure that you're completely willing to have that song take up your nomination space! Once a host confirms a lock, the lock is irreversible.

Once 128 songs have reached the lock requirement, then that's it! No more songs will lock and nominations will end with the highest scoring 128 songs filling the remaining slots in the field. There will also be a deadline on locks of 24 hours before nominations close, at 7pm on April 28th.

Greetings all, and welcome to Video Game Music Contest 17!! We're very glad to see you back if you're returning from last year, and especially glad to see you if you're just checking us out for the first time!! It's sure to be yet another year of VGM greatness so buckle up and we'll get going right away!

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What is VGMC?
Video Game Music Contest (VGMC for short) is a single-elimination tournament of video game music that we run right here through GameFAQs forums. The community comes together to determine a pool of songs to populate the bracket with, and then run daily head-to-head matches to slowly determine the best of the best of the field.

The community, you say? Does that mean I can help get songs into this bracket?
Of course! This process of finding songs to use in the tournament is known as the "nominations phase", which is what is starting right now. Anyone and everyone can participate, and the more the merrier! There's a few rules and formats you'll need to follow which will be laid out in the post right below this one, but we'd more than love to see what you can bring to the table!

How exactly does the song pool get decided then?
Everyone who participated has a pool of 20 songs that they can "nominate", which can be either new songs or supporting other songs people have posted. During the two week nomination period, you can move around these nominations as you please, and once nomination time is over, the most nominated 256 songs (simplified, there's some other stuff that'll go down) will be our field for the bracket. Then your hosts will conjure up a bracket, and a while later the bracket will be released and the contest will begin!

Where can I talk to people about the contest?
We have a dedicated channel for VGM on the Board 8 discord, which is linked in the first post above! Find us in the #vgmusic channel!

What kind of stuff has done well in past contest?
Our previous host, azuarc, compiled a playlist of the winners of past contests here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW9O9mntH1RElFQnUIoUjxk4_bi-uLbVQ
Additionally, you can see the brackets for previous years linked here: https://p0p0p0p.github.io/contests.html (thank you to PIayer_0 for this beauty of a site!!)

Please do not post until your host tells you you can!! We have a few posts to make before the flood gates open, thank you!!

Be sure to read all the rules over even if you are returning from previous years, as some rules have significantly changed!

https://i.imgur.com/TQ12Ix9.png

Important links
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SAJKYJmYhccLvbf_H-5uSA7-eMwXfW8k1q74Qho1bLU
Nomination playlist: (NO DONT LOOK YET AAA)
Discord: https://discord.gg/WDvMS4a
Last years spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_IU5iCFTM_4WEx8ZWKwznMz5v2tarCKh1Ag0mxIgAes
VGMC total stats sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K1XdLWiUKB2kX99qYBgnRbLU_sCz4dvZSByKKJHCT6o

Timeline (all times are at 7pm Eastern US time on the day specified):
April 19th - Nominations open, 5 unique nominations allowed with no limit to supports.
April 20th - Unique nominations raised to 10.
April 21st - ALL nominations AND supports stopped. 48 hours pause enacted to let people listen to everyone's top priority nominations over the weekend.
April 23rd - Nominations and supports resume, unique nomination cap completely lifted. Go crazy!
April 28th - No more songs will lock past this point if the lock cap has not already been hit.
April 29th - Nominations close!

Three more days!!!

Meant to respond a bit more here earlier but I think other people have pretty much summed up all my reasoning already lol. I was flip-flopping between 6 and 7 for a while and decided sticking at 6 was best when we're slashing everyone's available nominations by a third, and I also don't anticipate that big an influx of new nominators like the past few years. (Also I did forget to state lock cap was sticking at 6 oops lmfao but yes that is correct its still 6)

VGMC 17 nominations will open on Wednesday, April 19th at 7pm Eastern time!! The current plan is to have nominations open for 10 days, and end at the same time on Saturday, April 29th. There's a few big changes to way nominations are structured this year, so let's hop into how this shinding will go down:

Nomination Slot Decrease
The past two years we increased the total amount of nomination/supports that you can use to 30, including 25 single noms and 5 double noms. This year we're scaling it back to 20 total, 15 single and 5 double. We had a clear overabundance of nom slots going around last year with the fact that the entire field was locked so easily, so forcing everyone to be a bit more selective with their slots should help curb the madness a little bit.

Nomination Staggering Changes and the Mid-Nom Freeze
Last year, we elected to stagger the amount of unique, new nominations you could make per day to help make it easier to keep up and listen to all nominations. Despite our efforts, it seemed to be just barely feasible for the most dedicated people to actually do this, and anyone that ended up falling behind struggled to catch back up. To help those that wish to listen to everything, the trickle of nominations will be slowed down just a bit more, and the semi-impromptu nomination/support freeze that happened last year will be pre-planned instead. Here's the current calender of how nominations will be structured:

7pm Wednesday, April 19th - Nominations open, 5 unique nominations allowed with no limit to supports.
7pm Thursday, April 20th (start +24 hours) - Unique nominations raised to 10.
7pm Friday, April 21st (start +48 hours) - ALL nominations AND supports stopped. 48 hours pause enacted to let people listen to everyone's top priority nominations over the weekend.
7pm Sunday, April 23rd (start +96 hours) - Nominations and supports resume, unique nomination cap completely lifted. Go crazy!
7pm Friday, April 28th (end -24 hours) - No more songs will lock past this point if the lock cap has not already been hit.
7pm Saturday, April 29th - Nominations close!

Lock Cap
This year locks will be returning once again, but there will be a cap to the amount of songs that can lock to 128 songs. Again, further safeguard against the complete locking of the field that we had last year. Because of the existence of the cap, there will no longer be a timed deadline for locks. To keep things easier to deal with, locks will no longer happen in the last 24 hours of nominations even if this cap is not actually met by that time.

Bracket: Tiebreaker Safeguards
Last year we passed up on actually implementing any sort of safeguard for if a match went into too many tiebreakers, and we once again had some stubborn matches crop up, so this year there actually will be a plan! Should any match reach a second tiebreaker (or in other words if a match is run for a third time) and that match remains tied when voting ends, rather than the match ending normally, all current votes in the match will be locked in (this includes if you take a vote off and make it a "no vote") and voting will be extended through the next day and anyone that had not yet voted will be allowed to do so. The match will be appended to the next day's matches and new votes will be taken in the new thread. The match will continue to be open for as long as a tie may persist at a match day's rollover. Keeping to a time-based closing was chosen over "the next vote decides it" so as to prevent funny business like someone getting a friend to hop in and decide it.

I know this may be a lot to drop just a week before I'm looking to opening nominations, which... is pretty much all my fault cause it took me a while to iron some details out and then I got sick right before Easter weekend that meant I didn't get it up when I wanted to lol. So sorry if this is super sudden for some people!! But I do want to start earlier rather than later to minimize chances that the contest runs over time in the summer where I will be very, very busy. Hope you all will forgive me when we make this the best VGMC yet!!!

Iceman (Mega Man) very based

.except I love bobbys dumb ass too much to not say him

edit: oh fuck nbiceman good choice as well

Super Smash Bramble Blast
Gears - SMALL TWO OF PIECES ~Broken Shards~

Atrocious Raid

Corridors of Time
Labyrinth VI - The Vengeful God in the Dark Ocean Abyss
Unrest - Their Own Brand of Justice

match 2 the only one thats even remotely easy lmfaooooo, match 1 is very clear but very fucked because i love both songs a lot lot lot lot

match 3..... where the fuck do i even begin with it??? undersea palace is probably the single coolest song in the entire ct soundtrack and every time i listen to it is such a treat, the combination of mitsuda WORLD and technology that is very threatening... so good. to each justice though is just a through and through masterpiece in Finalbossology straight from the getgo with one of the best intros to a song that i can think of lol. i have to give it to eo3 here these songs are pretty much equal but listening to each justice gave me a bigger sense of "god yeah this is why i love this song" than undersea palace did atm. yep

all in all very good grand finals i was worried there for the past 40 days or so

oh my fucking god all six of these are 9.x+ for me lol

bost5

Alt. Battlefield - The First Campaign

To Far Away Times

Blue Reflection - BLUE REFLECTION

blue reflection

Aruella
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Bramble Blast
Kimigatame

match 1 evil

Make a Wish/Chiisaki Mono (Jirachi: Wish Maker ending song)

Was really really tempted to nominate the Best Wishes episode that was basically Wish Maker but better and shorter and uses Chiisaki Mono as an insert in an absolutely beautiful and perfect way but I would hope you havent seen that cause it means you probably also suffered through the rest of BW lmfao (its BW ep 132)

Nihil Redux
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Gensokyo Millenium ~ History of the Moon

history of the moon banger even if most of my fondness of it is because of sennen no kotowari lolol

Adam
-(VALINE)-

Heartless Being
-
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match 1 and 3 are so insanely good lol

Treecko
Grovyle
Sceptile
Tangrowth
Serperior

grass sucks except when they dont then theyre AMAZING also treecko line is prob the best evolution line when considered combined in the series

Risk Everything on This Moment
Lift & Lodge (2st. BGM I)
Flying Castle

oh my god this is a very deo day

Clash of Swords
STELLAR LIGHT
RING RING RING!

this is one of the best days in the history of bost6 wow, sand castle is really REALLY good and i am sad that i am voting against it lol

Xerneas
Zacian

wow dewott and clawitzer pulling a pretty good showing is super based

Labyrinth V - Chalky Woods
Swimming in an Empty Sky
Maidens Capriccio ~ Dream Battle

match 2 is too hard :(

TIGAR -Otto-
Partizans
x

Barraskewda
Clawitzer
Dewott
Gorebyss
Huntail
Palafin
Suicune
Wartortle

STELLAR LIGHT (Arrange)
Blossom Haze (Press Garden Zone Act 2)
Azures - Incarnation of Life

Dusknoir
Cofagrigus

aw man missed fighting and gurdurr got no love :( idk why i love that sucker a lot but i do lol

Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)
Tin Soldiers
Disco Heat For Rehot Ride Act 3

X
coronary
forest

Ordium Shrine
Yggdrasil
Act on Instinct

actually not entirely sure of any of these lol (except match 3 i think... no jk if im saying "i think" then idk)