LogFAQs > #939814962

Alright, my opinions:

I glanced at the VGMDB page and it looks like there are almost 150 songs (woops 156 you did the work for me). That's a lot. I'm willing to bet a good deal of those are unremarkable and aren't really worth getting into the contest. Say only half of those would have any real strength. At that point, a 64 song bracket starts to look appropriate. Having every song be from the same game could be a very interesting case study for SFF/LFF, and I have no idea what would happen with that. I'd say it's probably best to avoid it and do 1v1 bracket-style matches, but if you want you can mix up two matches in a free-for-all and let the top two advance like you suggested. The former is more similar to VGMC so the latter could be better at avoiding fatigue and keeping things interesting. Double elimination is probably unnecessary for this. I think those are best for contests with a lot of variety, and this isn't it.

Of course, you need to decide which songs would get into the bracket if you did use one. I think you can kill two birds with one stone by asking for nominations/top x songs, like you said. You can probably have freedom in how you do this since the options are reasonably limited. Freeform VGMC-style noms, a poll somewhere where people can vote for which songs they want, further categorizing by type (battle, character, overworld...) so that people have to voice preferences for their favorites of each genre, etc. Maybe allow people to rank their favorites? This way, you can get an estimate of the strengths of each song for seeding purposes and you know which are safest to through out. if less than 64 unique songs get nommed choose your favorite who cares. As for variations of the same song, I'd say group them together for noms purposes and people can voice which one they most badly want in. Of course, people may not care enough to nominate, which may be a sign that there isn't enough interest to sustain the contest. It may be a good bellwether.

This is GameFAQs, apparently the one place on the Internet where disparate genres face each other in matches. I'd say keep on with this tradition and try to keep as much variety as possible in each division, avoiding grouping similar songs together.

uhh that's my spiel I'm happy to discuss this further. lefty, azuarc, deo (banshiryuu) and mycro (toxtricity) would be good resources for this

keep in mind that I personally have only run one contest. It was of a single soundtrack, like this... run mostly as a joke and which got at most 15 votes per day (which is better than I expected but otoh, was for a better soundtrack). https://challonge.com/AyeshaOfTheYear

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