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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!

Wew, this is a strong bracket. I had to snub Mario's Picross!

Voted for Journey, which is a beautiful experience, Grim Fandango, which is a clever exemplar of the P&C adventure genre, and tossed my last vote to Progress Quest, perhaps the first idle game and a witty and well-implemented RPG satire at that.

Voted for both Super Marios. I bet some of these other games are better than SMB1, but none of them are better than SMG2.

Any genre-definers deserve three votes from me. Super Mario Bros pretty much defined and/or refined the platformer genre. Before it, what was there? Pitfall, I guess. Gave SMG2 a few votes too, since it's a stellar experience, and a final respect vote for Grim Fandango. I wasn't a fan of it, but I respect what it was trying to do.