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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rui" data-source="post: 422889" data-attributes="member: 2">The old ones adapted the rules over time but the basic idea is that the users nominate a bunch of characters who are then paired up, tournament style, with one another and voted on in a series of regular rounds until the forum's most popular character for the year is crowned. Some people get more into it than others.Proposed new system (basically designed to remove as much administration as possible because I'm lazy and on a lot of projects):- Everyone is welcome to nominate 1-5 characters (specifying the series they're from). Not sure what participation will be like so not sure how many to limit people to; if a lot of people play I think it should be a low number so the roster reflects diverse tastes. I guess people can just rank their picks to make it easier to change the rules.- I think it would be good to limit overall participation to 2 or fewer characters from a single series to avoid the latest flavour of the month titles dominating.- Rui counts them up. Anyone with more than one vote automatically qualifies. There can be a sudden death blind qualification vote for any instances of a series having too many nominees or to fill the rest of the ranks.- Not sure what's a good number for the total combatants, I don't want it to get too massive. We can see whether there's a natural cut-off after the nominations.- Do we want to split it into guys and girls again? Animals of undetermined gender and agender characters can go in either category as needed if anyone nominates any.- To save admin time finding decent pictures, perhaps the people nominating the characters can also provide a representative official picture of that character and the best ones will be chosen from the pool by the mod in charge. - It would also help if they write a one-line introduction for that character to help them sell themselves to the audience.- Anyway, once the lists are ready we'd do the usual thing and post one battle every few days. One vote per person. No cheating. R</blockquote>

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