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NOMINATIONS PHASE

Nominations Rules and Guidelines

* You have a total of thirty (30) 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 30 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 30 nominations, nor more than five doubles.
* You can remove and add nominations and doubles as you wish 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 with new management 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. 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

That's right, the locking system returns once again! First trialed last year, it worked out pretty well, so it's here again this year as well. In the first week of nominations (until April 22nd), 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.

In the absolute silly circumstance that we hit a field of 256 locked songs before the lock period ends (dear god please don't make this happen), then nominations will close as soon as the 256th song is locked. If this happens in the middle of a post, chronological order will be while going down the post. Really don't think this will come close to happening, but in case we severely, SEVERELY underestimate participation then this will happen.