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Welcome to the second round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the sequence 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... realistically in early 2021.

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!

This is quite a bracket! I went with, in descending order, Humans (hard but fun), Portrait of Ruin (great game) and Wonder Boy (another great game). I couldn't vote for Chrono Trigger as I ran out of votes. I couldn't vote for Mario 3 as I don't love it as much as the rest of the world does and I'm sure it'll do just fine without me.

Geez. I had to load up Chrono Trigger, simply one of the best games of all time. Great plot/structure, great story, GREAT soundtrack. Second vote to Mario, thanks to a good helping of nostalgia, and my final vote to Portrait of Ruin, one of the weaker Castlevania games, but even those are still generally great.

I really need to play A Hat in Time.