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VGMC 18 nominations will open on Wednesday, April 17th at 9pm Eastern time (UTC-4)!!
Note that the time for rollovers has been pushed from last year's 7pm to 9pm since I am likely to have to work later this year.

This year, I don't have any really big things to announce, just some tweaks. But one might be a little bit of an impact so we'll go over that right away!

Lock Threshold Change
The requirement to lock a song is being bumped from 6 +s up to 7. I debated bumping this even up to 8, but last year locks didn't go super insane so I think a bump by one will do for now. But with our community holding pretty strong after the influx we got after locks were introduced I think it's almost a requirement to raise the number. Those with a good memory may remember I almost did this last year even, but yeah I can't let it go by as it was any longer.

The Schedule
9pm Wednesday, April 17th - Nominations open, 5 unique nominations allowed with no limit to supports.
9pm Thursday, April 18th (start +24 hours) - Unique nominations raised to 10.
9pm Friday, April 19st (start +48 hours) - ALL nominations AND supports stopped. 48 hours pause enacted to let people listen to everyone's top priority nominations over the weekend.
9pm Sunday, April 21rd (start +96 hours) - Nominations and supports resume, unique nomination cap completely lifted. Go crazy!
9pm Saturday, April 27th (end -24 hours) - No more songs will lock past this point if the lock cap has not already been hit.
9pm Sunday, April 28th - Nominations close!

The main difference here is that noms are extended an extra day to encompass the entirety of the second weekend as well.

Like last year, this topic is getting out later than I really would have liked, but that's my fault for taking on other stuff that took up my March (looking at you GENRE-SHUFFLE 4 lol). Regardless, if people were hoping for other changes, since I didn't have much of a chance to hash more things out myself nor get discussion going in the community earlier then I am still open to considering other changes!! There's some bigger ones that I actually would've liked to iron out for this year (i.e. the "drop protection" system UF8 used for BOST 2022) but I'm also sort of in a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mindset and last year really kept me a believer in the lock system as well.

Anyway, get hype!!!!!!