Rules are largely the same as last year: Only girls that first appear in video games (visual novels do count) are allowed, not any old anime girl who appears in a video game adaptation of an anime. If there’s a case you consider borderline, you can make your case, but I’d recommend playing it safe.
Obviously, all girls from last year’s tournament are eligible, except the Touhous, because we already have our Touhou reps for this year (Cirno, Marisa and Remilia). Samus, Tamamo-no-Mae, Pyra, 2B and Ryza have also already qualified, so don’t bother voting for them.
No fatties, no trannies, no traps and no dickgirls allowed. Lolis are of course allowed, as are AI girls (the likes of Cortana and even GLaDOS are eligible). Monster Girls are allowed, as are certain kinds of Furry girls (like Krystal), but NOT generic female variants of fictional animals (so no “Female Gardevoir”). Whether you nominate and vote based on looks, personality, how much you like the game the girls are from etc is all up to you of course.
Very few, if any girls will directly qualify for the tournament through this Nomination Thread, which is made to find worthy picks for the big, upcoming Qualifier Poll. However, earning lots of Nomination points will result in bonus votes being added to the final Qualifier Poll score, which WILL be decisive, so you have every incentive to Nominate your favorite girl even if she has already been nominated by several other people. FYI, the Qualifier Poll will probably also feature some girls who didn’t get nominated (this format produced some epic snubs last year), though such hand-picked selections will NOT receive any bonus votes whatsoever, having to 100% earn their tournament spot in the poll.
We do now have a franchise cap in place, only 3 girls per franchise max. So at most we’ll get 2 additional girls from the likes of Atelier, Nier, Xeno games, Fate games and Metroid (this one is not gonna come up, lel). I’ll also institute a Mobile Gacha game cap: Last year we had a whopping 6 Gacha girls in the tournament, who collectively had a win-loss rate of 1 – 6, so I think their tournament population needs to be kept in check to weed out potential filler. Since I do suspect that Gacha gals will be slightly boosted this year, I’ll actually be generous and cap them at 6, so a maximum number of 6 Gacha girls in this year’s tournament as well. And obviously, the standard franchise cap also applies to individual Gacha games and series.
And with that, nominate your faves!
