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There's a game I want to nominate that has only six songs in total. Is it eligible?

3) Here's a new idea: What if we allowed multiple soundtrack albums be from the same game be allowed as separate contestants? You know, like PSO2 volume 6 and PSO2 Volume 8....? (I have no plans to nominate PSO2 as a whole, but I would nominate a specific volume if allowed!)

You still can't nominate BOST champion soundtracks, but if you nominate a game that's been in, try to make most of your tracks unique. At least aim for the songs that weren't used in BOST 5. Probably won't make this a concrete rule, but hey! If it really is a contender for the best soundtrack, it should have a good bench of backups.

to clarify, I like how we do tiebreakers but i'm not enamored to the point where i'm opposed allowing alternate matches and such to break ties instead. it's more that i'm not inclined to bend the rules because a game doesn't have enough songs, since that makes calling it a contender for "best ost" kinda silly. if we got rid of the alt song then fine ig

Did you typo this, or did you mean to say that any game in the last contest should try to come up with a completely unique set of tracks? Guess we won't be nominating VVVVVV, then. (I know you're not framing this as a hard rule, but I still want to try to obey the spirit of the contest.)

Anyway, there's definitely some weird stuff that happens with use of the alternate. It gets played for first tiebreakers, which was the primary use, but then because loser's brackets inherently have more rounds than winner's brackets, it pulled double duty in the later parts of the LB. You may want to look at how the late rounds of the LB could play out, because there's room at that stage of the bracket for wanting multiple alternates. I know I pulled some weird bullshit for how to pick songs in those matches, like whichever song had the most decisive win earlier in the contest, or randomly making it a 3v3, etc.

Other than that, as long as I can infer that there is not a total redesign of the contest, I can begin preparing nominations and telling folks what to expect. I had held off until now for fear there might be some major overhaul -- which I would be totally okay with, by the way.

the first game that popped into mind was one that i didn't nominate a single thing for in vgmc oops

Seashore Probe ~ Wopal (Battle)
Mothership Probe (Scenery)
Unfathomable Darkness
Yggdrasil
LEYGENDER
STRUGGLE TO LIVE
The Whole New World (Full)

I think uf8 had Opinions but those might've just been for VGMC.

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i will watch the video

I suggest going back to full randomness, which could be more natural in a sense. Plus, random is fun as a general rule

It's a valid idea, just...outside of the fact i feel this is very much overestimating the existence of these loyal volunteers who will listen to all 7 tracks in these setlists and rank each of them, not to mention without bias
Youd need at least 3 or 4 for every game for it to be worth, i think, and idk

yeah who could find 3 or 4 people listen through the setlists that got 3 or 4 supports to get into the contest

yeah who could find 3 or 4 people listen through the setlists that got 3 or 4 supports to get into the contest

People who support a game don't necessarily look at the songs in the setlist before casting their support.

Nov 1

clearly what you need to do for finals is pick songs from a sequel to the game in question and if it doesn't have one it automatically loses

Random song selected for each match.
A song can't be selected again until every song has had a turn.
If a song loses, it is fully removed from rotation so a game can't lose twice with the same song.

oh yeah i forgot that as somebody who had my best (snubs) set die to an unfortunate 2v3 matchup last time i'd rather that not happen again tbh

for the main bracket i guess it's not a big deal since there's still the losers safety net but definitely would rather non-randomised snubs specifically (maaaaybe something like 456-321 just so it's not super brutal on ones that drop off a bit by 6 and don't get to show off some better songs)

• Nominators choose 6 main songs, then some number (>=1) of side songs for tiebreakers/losers
• In the main bracket, for each game, a random song is selected--a different # for each game
• Each song can only be used once until all songs from it have been selected
• In losers', a random song from the top 3 is selected for each game
• If a match ties, or a game runs out of songs, a random song from its secondary pool is selected
• When a game has used all of its songs, its list is refreshed. If it lost a match, the song it lost by is not in the new pool

also tomorrow night at 8 we'll be doing listening parties of songs/sets, and probably the two weeks after too

Overall, the new system of setting up matches seems to be a huge improvement over BOST5! I'm still a bit worried about a potential large increase in nominations, though. In BOST5 we had 175 nominated games. I'm expecting at least 225 games this time if nominations are done the same as last time. We had a cap of seven nominations per user in BOST5. Should it be dropped to five or six this time around so we're not as overwhelmed with all the music to go through? (and also... please don't remove the snubs bracket!)

oh is it audience participation sharing or did someone specific book

wait so how many songs should we be preparing for a game

6 main songs, then some number (>=1) of side songs