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NOMINATIONS PHASE

Nominations Rules and Guidelines

* You have a total of twenty (20) nominations which can be used either on new songs that have not been posted before, or songs already suggested by others that you like. Both cases are counted as a single "nomination".
* Of these 20 nominations, five (5) of these can be "double nominations", which counts as two regular votes but only one unique vote. Like regular nominations, these can be on a song you posted yourself, or another person's suggestion.
* Under no circumstance will you be able to use more than 20 nominations, nor more than five doubles.
* You will only be able to nominate 5 unique songs for each of the first two days of nominations: 5 new, unique nominations on day 1 (April 17th) and an additional 5 new, unique nominations on day 2 (April 18th). All 20 nomination slots and all doubles are available for use beyond five new unique nominations so long as you are supporting an already-nominated song.
* This does mean if you hop in on day 2 (April 18th), you'll be able to nominate 10 new songs!
* After the end of the listening pause at 9pm on April 21st, you can remove and add nominations and doubles as you wish without limit to the number of new, unique nominations until the end of the nomination period on April 28th.
* If a song you have nominated or doubled is locked (see locked section below), then you will not be able to change that vote.

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Song Eligibility and Game Limits

* You may nominate at most 3 songs from the same game.
* You may nominate at most 5 songs from the same series.
* You can't nominate two versions of the same song, including remixes of the same song and alternate versions of the same song.
* You can't nominate songs that are on the retired list. (See VGMC total stats sheet listed in the first post)
* In short, a song is eligible if it plays in-game, or if it appears on the original soundtrack or material that is meant to be OST-adjacent. A dedicated document for eligibility rules with examples can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irtq3XJ9d4GMD8XJtmKBUl6zAHQ_zkzXFo0d2jEO-20
* If all else fails, just ask! The hosts will have the final say of if something is eligible, but with new changes that have come in the past few years even stuff that has been denied before could be eligible now.

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How to Nominate

We're using a script to automatically tally votes rather than hand counting votes, so there's a bit of a format you'll have to follow so that it can actually pick up your nominations. Please use the following format:

+ Game_Name | Song_Name | Youtube_Link

The "+" can be replaced by a "++" (immediate double), "-" (remove nomination), or "--" (completely remove a double). For example:

+ Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Adding a nomination, or upgrading to a double)
++ Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Adding a doubled nomination)
- Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Removing a nomination, or downgrading a double to a regular nomination)
-- Pokemon Diamond/Pearl | Lake | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOmznKTv74M (Removing a double completely)

Please try to match the exact text of nominations if you are supporting or altering a nomination that has already appeared before in topic. This includes links; please use the same exact link as the original nomination.

Please, please, PLEASE avoid special characters like accented letters or symbols! The script does not like those kinds of things and they're a bit of a pain to clean up. Also don't edit posts to try and fix mistakes or add/remove stuff from your posts, just notify a host about mistakes or you can also fix them yourself with a - and + in the same post.

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Locking

Locking system is back once again, but requires even more of a push to lock than last year! If a song reaches 7 nominations, it is guaranteed a spot in the bracket. However, anyone that has nominations on that song will not be able to retract any support on that song under any circumstance. No going back, so make sure that you're completely willing to have that song take up your nomination space! Once a host confirms a lock, the lock is irreversible.

Once 128 songs have reached the lock requirement, then that's it! No more songs will lock and nominations will end with the highest scoring 128 songs filling the remaining slots in the field. There will also be a deadline on locks of 24 hours before nominations close, at 9pm on April 27th.