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Hello everyone!! Sorry if you were disappointed at no actual VGMC news with our funny topic on April Fools, so allow me to make it up with the official announcement of our next contest!

VGMC 16 nominations will open on Sunday, May 1st at 10pm Eastern time!! The current plan is to have nominations open for 10 days, and end at the same time on May 11th.

Let's just get into the nitty-gritty of what's gonna be shaken up this year:

- Bracket size will remain at 256 songs!
- Nominations will remain at 30 total and 5 doubles for each person, however this year we'll be running a "staggered nomination" system. Much like how in the past for the first 24 hours of nominations we limit the amount of new songs everyone can post to 5 songs, this year we'll have it so this "only 5 new tracks per day" limit extends through each of the first six days of nominations, with the count resetting every new day. This is so we can slow the flood of new songs while still allowing people to use their full 30 slots for supporting.
- Locking will come back almost as it was last time, with 6 votes guaranteeing a song a spot in the bracket and locking each nominator into supporting that song. This time however the lock period will last for the first 9 days of nominations, leaving the last day for final nominations.
- The eligibility expansion we had last year worked out beautifully, so there are no plans to scale back on that now!

If there's any elaboration on the new changes you'd like or any issues you have with them, please let us know!! There's still plenty of time to have things tweaked in anticipation of this year's contest so don't hesitate to toss in a comment.