LogFAQs > #975567907

I still really feel like auto-includes go against the spirit of nominations, what's the point of listening to new songs in that phase when your support might not matter anyways. Not to mention if a song gets in bracket when it wouldn't normally it's probably not going to do that well, probably increasing the amount of people who just jump in to nominate and then dip before/very early into bracket. And then comes what's likely going to happen, which is people put in some of the most unlikely stuff to get in possible for their auto-includes because why not, and it harms the bracket experience with it, I think. Obviously you could argue I'm also biased because I often get several nominations in (and they rarely do well in bracket anyways, which is still frustrating to me, but yknow) but I feel like everyone's a little biased in that way and I think autoincludes are somewhat net harmful overall.
Just my opinion though, but I think this year's system went pretty damn well, my only probably proposal for changing it is making the first day's noms like . 3 instead of 5 or something, because I think it's hard for everyone without a lot of time on their hands to get through the entire first day as-is, and it'd help limit a bit of bias to people getting their noms in early on day 1. But I dunno.