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Hello there! A couple of years ago I hosted a Final Fantasy Music Contest on the board, and I have the itch to do something similar again later this year (as long as it doesn't step on the toes of anyone else running a contest). But what series would provide the best experience?

Zelda is an obvious choice, the other pillar of the site's tastes to go along with FF. But it has a less varied set of genres and a smaller overall pool of tracks I feel, we'd probably get a lot of multiple versions of the same piece.

Sonic is in the opposite position, it has many fangames and spinoffs spanning a world of different music. But maybe it's too big for a simple 128 contest here? And I don't want lefty to explode if Sonic R runs the board.

I'm conflicted on Smash, it spans so many different franchises and therefore has a lot of different styles of music, but it's a very enclosed series itself so there wouldn't be much in the way of new discoveries for people.

Pokemon is another huge series with plenty of spinoffs, though I wonder if the board's tastes would disproportionately favour stuff like the PMD subseries. Would that even be a problem? IDK.

Mario is Mario, an absolute giant, but does it have the passionate fanbase for a fun music contest like this?

DK, though beloved, is relatively small and I feel David Wise would take up an awful lot of spots. And if we allow fan remixes we may have to face the possibility of 6 different versions of the DK Rap battling it out.

FF is a known quantity, the last contest worked well and there's plenty of great tracks that didn't get touched, we could also keep out the ones that did very well last time as 'retiree' equivalents to broaden the field and keep it fresh. If I do go ahead with any of these, I will make some changes based on mistakes I made last time regarding seeding, nominations and the like.

I considered things like Touhou, Kirby, and Xeno too, but I'm not familiar enough with their music overall to feel right hosting a contest for them. And of course I don't want to burn anyone out on too many contests, especially with the BOST of 22 coming up, so 'nothing' is an understandable option.