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I don't think anyone is in favor of bringing the wild cards back.

I've tried a variety of innovations to the formula over the years:

• The two-phase nomination system in VGMC10
• Attempting to straddle 128 and 256 with byes last year
• Wild cards
• Locking nominations

Of these, only locking seems to have had a favorable response. And that's really funny, because nomination locking is almost purely cosmetic. While, at the very end, we did have songs on the last day reach 5 votes and not make the cut, I'm going to hypothesize that this wouldn't have happened otherwise, because people would have been pushing their early favorites to 6 instead of diffusing their supports to a greater number of songs. However, for the psychological benefit of safety alone, locking is a trend that I suspect Decro will want to revisit.

I'm fully prepared to come to terms with other possible tinkering, though. It will be very weird to see what someone else does, after five years to ruminate over all my different madcap ideas that were ultimately discarded.

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