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Welcome to Game of the Decade of the Year! Here we will throw 200 games into a voting blender to see which one can come out unscathed and be considered Board 8's Game of the Decade of the Year. This contest follows a similar format of User of the Year, a contest etched in the lore of this board, with slight modifactions to some of the round formats. If you want to read more about it, I direct you to the wiki page: https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/User_of_the_Year

In short, there will be eight rounds, each with different matchup and voting rules. Each round will eliminate a chunk of the games from the contest before the remaining games are grouped up for the next round.

This topic will serve as the unveiling of matchups for each round as well as a record of the results of said matchups. Voting will take place in dedicated voting topics. This topic can also be used to discuss the results or anything loosely related to the contest.

Here is the format for each round. I will explain them more in-depth when the groups are announced and in the voting topics themselves.

ROUND 1 (200 games remaining)
--Twenty groups of 10 games
--Voting format is +3, +2, +1, -1, -2, -3
--Bottom three in each group is eliminated
--The winner of each division gets a bye in round 2

ROUND 2 (140 games remaining, 120 competing)
--Groups from Round 1 are paired up and the games within them face off based on Round 1 results
--2nd vs 7th, 3rd vs 6th, 4th vs 5th
--Voting is split 5-0, 4-1, or 3-2 between the two games
--Winners of each individual matchup advance

ROUND 3 (80 remaining)
--Eight groups of 10 games
--Ranked voiting +10 through +1
--Top five in each division advance

ROUND 4 (40 remaining) (aka World Cup round)
-Ten groups of 4 featuring round robin matchups
--Voting format of 5-0, 4-1, or 3-2
--Scores from matches are aggregate with winning a matchup netting +10 additional points
--Top 2 from each division advances

ROUND 5 (20 remaining) (aka Boot and Immune round)
--Two groups of 10
--Voting over five days. Each day users vote to boot one game and immune another
--Game with most boots on a given day is eliminated immediately. Game with most immunes advances immediately

ROUND 6 (10 remaining ) (aka Golden Parcel round)
--Five 1v1 matchups
--Voters rank all remaining games +10 through +1 one time
--Once a day, voters can hand out a golden parcel worth +5 to one game
--Loser of each 1v1 matchup is eliminated

ROUND 7 (5 remaining)
--One group of 5
--Voters can choose to distribute 10 points among the five games -OR- subtract 5 from one game
--Voting last three days. Voters get one vote per day.
--Bottom two eliminated

ROUND 8 (3 remaining)
--One group of 3
--Voting format is +1, -1
--Winner is champion

I will begin drawing the divisions for Round 1 tonight. The top two seeds + the four best performing three seeds (RE2, Xenoblade, Portal 2, Pokemon HG/SS) in the GotD bracket will get separated into their own divisions. Everything else is randomly drawn in. The games in the contest will be posted in alphabetical order following this post.


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snowpork
Zazi is OP.