All of the games in this side-event successfully survived through at least three (in some cases more) preliminary rounds in the main event. This separates them from games that simply received stacked seed ranks because of high support during the nomination phase. These games all received strong vote support through multiple rounds.
- There will be 3 rounds: 4 brackets of 8-9, followed by 2 brackets of 8, followed by 1 final bracket of 8.
- Brackets are seeded randomly.
- You will be able to vote for two games in each poll.
- The top 4 games from each bracket will advance.