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BRACKET PHASE

Population and Bracket Design
After the closing of nominations, the bracket for the contest proper will be populated by songs in the following priority:

1) Songs that were locked before the end of the first week, which were guaranteed a spot into the bracket.
2) Songs with the highest number of nominations, based on total unique votes. (Thus 5 total/5 unique prioritize over 5 total/3 unique)
3) Remaining slots that are on the bubble will be chosen based on a number of hidden criteria, prioritizing those nominators that were not as successful in nominations as others.

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Bracket Design
Once the field of 256 is finalized, the hosts will work swiftly on creating a bracket based on a number of criteria to make the most reasonable and interesting bracket possible. All the while everyone chants "WE WANT BRACKET! WE WANT BRACKET!" from the sidelines! As soon as we release it, a BracketMaker page will be posted to allow predictions to be made before the contest itself starts (provided BracketMaker is still a website that exists and functions.) The contest should start in the first part of May.

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Head-to-Head Matches
Once the topic starts, every topic will go up at 10pm Eastern and have three matches. All six songs will be posted and users can vote for their preferance after listening to all the songs. And by "after listening to the songs" I really mean after listening to the songs! This may by a popularity contest on the surface, but we still would like everyone to judge matches based on the quality of the songs, and not just because a song you know and like has come up. If the hosts believe voting rules are not being followed, your vote could be disqualified, and repeated offences can lead to being barred from voting in matches.

Winners advance, losers are out, ties get re-run, and double tiebreaks will come down to a special sudden death scenario should a tie not be resolved by that point.

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Retirement
If a song does well enough to reach Round 5, or the Round of 16, then said song has proven its strength and worth as a "best of the best", and will be added to the "retired list" seen previously in the rules.