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UF8 09/24/23 5:32:54 PM #1: |
CONTEST CONTEST BEST OST but not that one BEST OST OF 2022 (last year) hi CONTEST this is my announcement post for the contest :) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/8/AARWb-AAE3re.png but WHAT IS BEST OST OF 2022 I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!! ok good news i can tell you finally WHAT IS BEST OST OF 2022 I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!! Best OST of (year that is last year), or BOST'22 (name pending) for short, is a "fresh", "new" contest that is kind of like the Best OST Contests but with a specific theme and many twists (wow!) HOW DOES IT WORK? thank you for asking me so i have a reason to answer that question! ok anyway jokes aside https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/9/AARWb-AAE3rf.jpg This unofficial spinoff of BOST has several key aims. The first is to borrow and repurpose the scope of the Best OST Contest, a video game music event that happens here sometimes that takes a lot of effort to run and isn't very popular, into a similarly high effort event that is even more niche... er, I mean, has a more specific focus. That contest aims to find the best game soundtracks of all time. Here, in the same vein as the more standard game of the year contests, we instead simply aim to determine Board 8's favorite new game soundtracks of the year (well, last year). Given this (and in the interest of giving other projects more oxygen), it's a much smaller affair, with the tighter focus meaning we'll only have a total of 32 entrants, lasting roughly a month, at (technically) just one match per day. But more on that later! Starting October 1st, we'll be opening up the first-ever nomination period for this ambitious new project, and there are many changes in store compared to what you might be used to from regular BOST or VGMC. Starting off, here's some eligibility rules for you to peruse carelesslyfully... Release dates:
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NFUN 09/24/23 5:33:37 PM #2: |
there was no music released in 2022 how will this contest work
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UF8 09/24/23 5:34:04 PM #3: |
Next, here's some more specifications on the whole nomination format (the posts, I mean). THE WHOLE NOMINATION FORMAT (THE POSTS, I MEAN). Nominations
Double nominations exist, however there are similar restrictions placed here too. For one, you can't double your own nominations, here they only apply to games you're supporting. And for another, you can only do up to 5 of them, and you start off only being able to do one per day as well (if you use them later on you can just do all 5 at once though, unlike noms where you can only do up to 2 at a time). Finally, I'd like to encourage that people include the earliest release dates for the games you nominate yourselves, preferably a line below your noms proper (note that by earliest release, it is the earliest relevant release date between original release, 1.0 release and leaving early access in 2022, and just the original release for games completely prior to then. Okay, are we on the same page here? No? Well, fortunately, I've provided some examples here. NOMINATION Okay, I admit it, I left some details out until now. So the big change as you can tell here, is this. Nominations are formatted simply with just the game, unlike BOST and even VGMC you actually don't nominate songs specifically, you nominate game soundtracks as a whole. How does this work? You decide. Well, not actually, but actually though. The nominator and supporters work together during the contest to set the songs for the matches! One major focus for this contest is to cast aside most of the RNG of the matchups usually seen in BOST and put control in the hands of the players. At any point from pretty much now onwards, I'd like to encourage that people make use of the #bost-vgm forum on the Board 8 Discord server (see here: https://discord.com/channels/87835278454050816/1031588897345511454) to make threads to brainstorm tracks to use, as they WILL be directly relevant if they're among the 32 games that get in. TRACK SELECTION (and) TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE Now I'm sure this is leaving you with even more questions than before, so I'll try to explain a few more things. Games that get in will make use of threads made either in advance or as soon as the bracket is released, and I, your humble (co-)host UF8, will be pinging both the users and the nominators for each game that makes it in, to come to an agreement before the next match on the songs that will be used. I won't say there's a hard rule on how to go about this, as open discussion is encouraged. Either way, at the same time, I'll also be making a dedicated thread for each match, also on #bost-vgm. I'll ping the nominator (please join the Discord if you're not there) or else a suitable representative (preferably somebody who doubled the nomination at least) to submit a set of 3 songs for the match by the deadline (which is 24 hours before match time, or 12 hours in later rounds) in said match thread. These match threads will go up a day or two before the following round, except for the last matches each round (obviously). Now, I'm sure you just noticed that bolded text in the last paragraph. Yes, with the smaller bracket, it felt like a good excuse to make the whole contest like a finals match in BOST, with 3v3 all the way through (this is also why nominated games need three new songs). Whether you would want to pick a game with only that many songs, thereby demanding their usage in every round, is up to you. There's also NO LOSERS' BRACKET here if it wasn't obvious from the smaller contest size and different scope, as the inclusion of one would change the pacing of the contest considerably which is just not what we were looking for here. Considering every game that gets in is guaranteed to use at least three songs you pick yourselves, I hope people don't take too much issue with this; it's a much smaller project overall by design. Lastly, I didn't find a good place to insert this before, but back on noms: without a dedicated set of songs being nominated, I was worried about how awkward the nomination period would be without music to listen to, so... This isn't an outright rule, but I strongly encourage you to post a set of "sample songs" with the sets you nominate yourselves. Preferably 2, so we can have a playlist like those "first 2 songs from each set" ones az usually does for BOST proper. For songs you know were added after the initial release, including their release dates is also encouraged too, since I'd like to use some of that info for the matches if possible) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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UF8 09/24/23 5:34:32 PM #4: |
TIMELINE Anyway, I guess I should finally talk a bit more about the whole nomination phase as a whole, and when everything is happening in general. As you probably gathered already, nominations will run from Sunday, October 1st to Tuesday, October 10th. To be specific, I'm thinking about starting it in about... 2 and a half hours earlier than this topic has gone up now, I was actually aiming to get this up sooner but I ended up rewriting a lot of it after getting Dawn's final editing pass back to me (sorry!!!) I'll be testing out my experimental new "soft-locking" system here (not that I think this is really the best place for it) where nominations that are within the tied top 8 at the end of any given day cannot be dropped. The games affected by this will reset each day, so it's not like something that had 2 supports on day 1 can never be removed for the rest of nominations or anything like that. It's just a non-intrusive way of preventing any funny business like people dropping noms that are "guaranteed" in and then them getting cut on the bubble... I'll be posting the relevant list of games at the start of each day so there's no confusion here. At the end of the period, the top 32 most nominated games (tiebreaker process TBD. If anyone has a preferred method here we're open to suggestions) will make it in, and we'll be looking at a roughly two-week wait before the start of the contest proper. Hopefully, we'll have the bracket out on bracketmaker around the 20th or so maybe a couple of days later? And, as mentioned, anything that doesn't already have a thread made for it will get one then, too. Then, "the contest proper" should start sometime in the week starting October 23rd and running through to the end of November. It is highly probable there will be no delays in the schedule since we'll be using combined votes across the three matches as a tiebreaker measure instead of overtime. (If they should still be tied after that... well, there is a simple backup method in play here too. I'll talk about it if it ever comes up.) As for stuff that doesn't make it in, we're exploring the possibility of running a quick snubs bracket and a mini-losers bracket for the last few rounds in the polls, likely using the first of the songs we get from sample picks in noms, we'll see if those ideas pan out. Anyway... Yeah, this was a very long-winded, rambling post, even for me. Honestly, I'm not sure how well this whole thing is going to go down since I've never run a contest before; I doubt I ever could've gotten this far without the help I've received. I'd like to express my incredibly deep gratitude to those who supported these horrendous ideas of mine, especially my co-host Dawn, who really did 99% of the prep here (Dawn edit: UF8 is being very humble here. This is decidedly his brainchild <3). Thank you SO SO SO much I could not be more happy with how this is just a reality now. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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UF8 09/24/23 5:35:54 PM #5: |
NFUN posted... there was no music released in 2022 how will this contest workshort answer it won't ... Copied to Clipboard!
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pyresword 09/24/23 6:26:07 PM #6: |
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--- I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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andylt 09/24/23 9:00:34 PM #7: |
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UF8 09/25/23 2:57:02 AM #8: |
Two notes I neglected to bring up in the initial announcement. First of all, obligatory promo for the Mega Man Music Mania contest running currently. It's currently 10 days deep and while it's unlikely to overlap with this contest outright, I don't want this announcement to detract from its participation. You can catch up on the results over here if this is the first you've heard of it, not that I think that's very likely. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80564455 Secondly, another obligatory promo for the unofficial listening party night next saturday (time tbd, expect it to run for most of the afternoon/evening in US times) for this contest. Anyone (and I mean anyone) is welcome to drop into the vgmusic channels on the b8 discord then to post songs they want to share from games they want to nominate when that happens some time. They can be songs planned to be also shared in the sample songs for said noms or just whatever you want really as long as it's something that can actually be used for the 2022 contest ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Haste_2 09/26/23 4:16:53 PM #9: |
Cool.
But I haven't explored much music in 2022. There's Pokemon Legends: Arceus and that 's pretty much it. I figure someone else will nominate it, so I will likely relegate myself to a supporter only. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Chaeix 09/26/23 5:49:10 PM #10: |
is this instead of or in addition to regular BOST
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UF8 09/26/23 7:24:56 PM #11: |
apparently regular BOST is in strife (again) but the intent is for it to complement it rather than replace it. regular BOST is definitely not a yearly thing any more, since it's so hard to maintain enough interest to run it remotely frequently, but this... hopefully will be, since it's such a small project by comparison it should be a lot more manageable and i'm hoping the "of the year" hook can give it some staying power but yeah i definitely hope BOST (real) can come back ... Copied to Clipboard!
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UF8 09/26/23 7:33:06 PM #12: |
Haste_2 posted... Cool.that's totally fine and understandable. I can imagine you absolutely won't see people managing to use all of their nominations even with them being separated from supports entirely. i do hope you find some ones that stick out to you since i have a lot of ones I'm definitely attached to for sure and i'm pretty keen to see what others have in mind ... Copied to Clipboard!
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