Only a small amount of personal nominations made it in, and got knocked out early. One of the nominations was in part allegorical about the chaos and flames of the final day of nominations (TMNT arcade Fire, which is COOL but not a great song for a competition setting.)
I killed Shatter. AGAIN.
I only had stakes in like, two of the retirees by the time that round rolled around. Sonic R is meh for me and just sounds so similar to the rest of its own soundtrack.
I didn't really add much to my personal playlist this year compared to the last two.
The good:
One of said retirees was the second placer, so good showing from it.
I am ALWAYS a fan of a good Castlevania track getting exposure, even if someone completely nailed that it's much better in context.
Running my birthday list during the middle of the voting helped me set aside some possible tracks for later.
I got to meet at least one voter in person at SGDQ, so that was cool (and his track nomination was one that I also saved for later.)