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MacArrowny posted...

I think this year's contest was run very well and liked the nomination system. Tremendous work, deo.

I certainly never said I didn't like the nom system this year. I was one of the big proponents of dropping noms back down to 20! I even made a post specifically requesting that prior to this contest, so perhaps you could throw me a compliment, as well! >_> (but really, though... Tremendous work, deo.)

Well, looks like my post stimulated some good discussion. Yeah, after thinking about it, I would totally be down for auto-include. I don't think it's grievously against the spirit of the contest as long as there aren't too many of them. My main issue with auto-include is that if every user gets one, that would mean 80 auto-includes, which would be 1/3 of the bracket. That would make it quite a bit more difficult for conventional noms, so it kind of defeats the purpose of the whole idea...

I would suggest limiting them somehow. Mac already provided one idea, which would require each user a minimum of ten nominations. Or otherwise we could require a certain degree of participation in order to qualify for an auto-include (leave it up to the host's discretion?). Another idea is to limit auto-includes to those users who don't do very well during the nomination period. For example, provide the auto-include only to those who got less than three songs into the tournament. Looking at the stats for VGMC16, there were only like 25 users who had less than three songs qualify for the bracket. So, if we did it this way, we'd probably get no more than 32 auto-includes, which seems like about the right number.

But if almost everyone must get an auto-include, maybe just create a side bracket for them?