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Welcome to the first round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the set generator at Random.org. There's no seeding, no ranking, and no preference or prioritization.

The results of the pools will determine how each game stacks up in the elimination rounds, coming later this year.

HOW TO VOTE

Voting is ranked, but it's not super intuitive, so listen up.

• You have 6 total votes to distribute.
• You can only select up to 3 options.
• You can only give each option up to 3 votes.
• NOTE: The number you pick is not the RANK of your choice (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd), but the number of VOTES you're giving it.
• The more votes (bigger numbers) a game gets, the better for that game.

EXAMPLES

• You could pick three games and order them by giving them 3, 2, and 1 votes.
• If you like three games equally, you could give them 2, 2, and 2 votes.
• If you only like two games, you could give them 3 and 3 votes (or 3 and 2, etc.).

This gives you a lot of granularity for how you assign your votes and thereby a lot of influence over which games can do well. Use your power wisely!

If you have questions, ask before voting!

I like Sly games despite their flaws. They’re cute and fun. I gave it full votes. Threw just one vote to Dr Mario. It’s good but I’m not a big fan of games like that.

Full marks to Dr. Mario, which is almost as iconic and archetypical as Tetris. Tossed one-off votes to Monster Hunter, which was a good game sadly held back by the limitations of the Wii U, and Parodius.

Monster Hunter 3U was a good one. Added a lot of stuff on top of the base Tri game, and got me into MH.

Layton vs. Ace Attorney had some missed opportunities, but overall blended the two games together really well.

Pushmo as a series got a bit milked by the end, but the original was a novel puzzle experience on the 3DS. Shout out to stretchmo as well.