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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!

Here I was weighing my preferences for Altitude and a weaker entry in the Castlevania series, but then I hit the bottom of the pool and my votes were locked in without any further choice: Pool of Radiance and Spelunky are both solid, guaranteed 3-votes from me.

Pool is an early masterpiece RPG that might be credited with getting me into tactical games. Spelunky is a genre-defining game that gets everything right (and I highly recommend the Boss Fight Books entry on the game, penned by Derek Yu himself, if you want some more excellent insight into the game's development).

Crash Nitro Kart had its issues, but I think it was a worthy successor to CTR.