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Welcome to the re-branded contest. There was some confusion over the "of the Year" terminology and I realized that saying "of the Year" is not as indicative of the UotY format as I figured. Moving forward, we'll just call it what it is: the hunt for Board 8's favorite video game character.

There was a nominations topic used to determine our field of entrants which I'll be listing in the next post. There were 188 characters that reach a tally of two or greater nominations. Basically if you got a count of two nominations, you are in the field. While I didn't intend for a double nom to mean immediate entry into the contest, the number of nominations wasn't there to allow for a higher barrier to entry, and, given the participation in nominations, I didn't feel throwing over 200 characters into a prelim would be a good idea. Instead we'll roll right into Round 1. To get to 200 characters, I basically used my best judgment on historical GameFAQs contest support and my perceived popularity of the character on Board 8 to select the final 12 entrants from the pool of 156 characters who only had one nomination. In hindsight I think I know a better way to have gone about nominations, but you live and learn and I'm still excited about the contest ahead. Thank you to everyone who nominated and provided input during the process.

As for Round 1, the characters with the highest nomination tallies will be the headliners of each group. Ten characters had 5 or 6 nominations, so they are obvious headliners. 16 characters had four nominations. Six of them reached four nominations without a double nom, so I'll throw them into the headliner pile. That leaves four more characters to choose from the remaining ten. I'll use my best judgment to select the remaining four. I'll post all that information tomorrow. Later this week I'll be drawing all the Round 1 groups. I'll do it live in the contests tab on the Board 8 discord. After that I'll post all 20 groups in this topic. The contest will begin in earnest shortly after.

This topic will be used to post results of each day of the contest as well as be open to any discussion regarding the contest or matches or anything adjacent. It will also be where group and match assignments for each round will be posted once they are fully drawn. I will also field any questions, comments, or concerns as they may arise. I will also be an active participant in the contests tab on the Board 8 Discord should you prefer that forum. In the posts to follow, I will post the official list of entrants as well as the scheduled rounds and a brief description of the rule set used.

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