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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!

While I've largely stopped playing Pokemon Go, I'm legitimately surprised it has lasted as long as it has—and it's actually putting up huge profits every year, proving that it wasn't just a figment of one charmed summer. It somehow survived a year of COVID by adapting its mechanics to allow for remote raiding, increased local/from home catching & hatching, etc. It's pretty huge.

Also gave a couple of votes to Blands 2 for being one of the better looter shooters, and my final vote to Sackboy for pivoting LittleBigPlanet from a level-creation playground into a straight-up mascot platformer. I guess they recognized that the greatest strength of that franchise was Sackboy himself, and then they put him to good use in a more structured game.

2 votes for Mario Party, they're always fun to play
1 vote for Pokémon Go, just because it is still played a lot (a bit less for me)