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On Tiebreakers:

Since there was a question about my chosen method of tiebreakers, I figured I would say a few things here. My basic philosophy with running repeated tiebreaker matches, even when the first tiebreaker produces another tie as with Bastion v Edith Finch, is to maximize the capacity for voters to choose their preferred winner and minimize the arbitrariness of other potential tiebreaker methods. As long as it doesn't interfere with the schedule, I myself don't see why rerunning matches as many times as it takes would be a problem; besides, I feel the aforementioned match proved that something will give at some point.

The truly important reason I made this post is related to the interfering with the schedule bit. Specifically, this contest is currently scheduled to end on July 18, and I will (probably) be going on vacation the very next day. As such, if the second semifinal match and/or the final match requires a tiebreaker, I will run it using the quicker format of 'first to 5 votes wins'. That also goes for any previous tiebreakers which happen to run to the point where they would risk interfering with the schedule (for example, if Bastion v Edith Finch) had stayed tied until the day before the winner's Round 3 match.
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