Best OST Contest 2

After a reasonably successful 2011 campaign, azuarc decided to try running Best OST Contest a second time....and I'll leave the BS details about how that went until after the fact and we actually know!

Rules
Nomination Phase
 * 1) During the days that nominating is open, users will be welcome to submit nominations. Please check the list of current nominations to not accidentally duplicate an existing nomination. (See voting section for info on repeating noms.) Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoS8GGHS9FDGdFljOU9MMHNZNl9lRmRGM3VGc1N5bEE
 * 2) When a nomination is given, the user must also provide six songs, in the order you want them played, plus one alternate. All songs must include YouTube links. See example below.
 * 3) All songs must be original to *that* video game. Remixes are acceptable. Mere arrangements are not. Licensed material that is effectively original to the game will be accepted. The music must be findable from the game somehow, even if it’s not heard during a normal playthrough.
 * 4) Game choices will be limited to one game, not a series. Expansions count as part of the base game. If a game is episodic, (Umineko, .hack,) the episodes will count as one game. "Not a game" games that are typically accepted on Board 8 like Homestuck and visual novels will be accepted.
 * 5) Users are limited to one nomination per day. I don’t care if you interpret this as separated by midnight local time, or by your sleeping patterns. The rule will only be enforced if someone is clearly in violation.
 * 6) You may not post a game ahead of time, reserve a game selection, or nominate multiple times in a day following an absence to make up for lost time.
 * 7) THERE ARE NO RULES TO HOW YOU DETERMINE THE ORDER IN YOUR SETLIST. You might decide to put your strongest songs at the end for the tough competition your game would face there, or you might put them up front to help ensure the game makes it through the opening rounds of the tournament.
 * 8) This rule is optional, consider it more of a request: Please don’t nominate games you nominated last year. Let’s help encourage variety, and also give others the chance to represent their favorites.
 * 9) Nominators may change their setlist up until the point that games are chosen for the bracket. If you agree with a nomination, but not with the song selection, please discuss this with the nominator. In *extreme* situations, the tournament adjuticants may accept an alternate setlist, but this will be reserved primarily for cases of (intended or unintended) sabotage.
 * 10) The following games are “retired” due to past success and may not be nominated: Ar Tonelico II - Melody of Metafalica

Voting and Selection Phase Alternate Setlists:
 * 1) Beginning during the nominating period and extending for (several days) afterwards, users will be given the option to “support vote” (SV) the nominations. Games with the most SVs will be placed in the bracket, and possibly given preferential placement.
 * 2) To support vote, simply make a post stating that you support a game. You may support as many games as you like, and you are encouraged to support more than one game at a time. Keep the actual voting portion of your post simple and direct.
 * 3) You may not retract support votes. This is petty and creates unnecessary work. Exceptions will be made for radically revised setlists.
 * 4) Conditional votes ("I'll vote if the nominator does XXX") will not be tracked.
 * 5) Support votes by the nominators will not be counted. It’s assumed you support your own nominations.
 * 6) At the conclusion of support voting, the games will be ranked first by number of support votes, and then by the order they were nominated. The top 64 games will be entered into the bracket, and seeded accordingly.
 * 7) (Touhou rule) Highly represented series will be limited to three entries at most. If a fourth game from the same series would make the bracket, it will be omitted. Note that “series” is not the same thing as “intellectual property.” Decisions on this rule will be borne primarily out of gameplay. Thus, Final Fantasy Tactics would not be part of Final Fantasy, but Mega Man X would be part of Mega Man.
 * If a setlist for a game is not up to your standards, it is your responsibility to talk to the nominator and try to work with them to get it changed. If for some reason this proves not possible, you may re-nominate the game with a second alternate setlist.
 * Alternate setlists will not be accepted on the day the game was originally nominated. Please talk to the nominator first.
 * Alternate setlists will count as your nomination for the day.
 * When an alternate setlist is proposed, all existing support votes will count for both lists. In this specific instance, retracting support votes will be allowed.
 * All future support votes for the game will count toward both unless they specify one list or the other.
 * The setlist with more support votes will preclude the other(s). In the event of a tie, the original (or oldest) list will prevail.

Main Tournament Phase
 * 1) Upon announcement of the bracket, several days will be given for users to make bracket predictions. Following this, the tournament will begin.
 * 2) Two matches will run per day, for a period of 24 hours. Once the first round of the winner's bracket has finished, the second match each day will be from the loser's bracket, until the WB finishes and both matches come from the LB.
 * 3) During each match, voters will be asked to choose between the songs representing the games in the matches. Song 1 on each setlist will be used in the first round, song 2 in the second, etc. Voters MUST vote on the songs and not on other criteria.
 * 4) The game represented by the song with more votes advances. In the event of a tie, a rematch will take place using the “alternate” from each game’s setlist.
 * 5) Games that lose will be placed in the loser’s bracket (LB). At the conclusion of the first round of the main tournament, one match from each day will be a pairing from the LB. Loser’s Bracket matches will (initially) use the first tier of songs that both games have not yet played in a match. See loser's bracket below.
 * 6) In the LB, each game will receive a number of byes equal to the number of rounds they won in the WB. Additionally, the final four will receive an extra bye. The songs played in the rounds of the loser's bracket will be numbers 2-3-4-5-1-6-5-6.
 * 7) The finals of the tournament will be a best of three format, using either all three odd-numbered songs or all three even-numbered songs. The alternate will replace any song pairing that represents a rematch. If the LB champion wins the first set, the other grouping will be used for the follow-up. The LB champion must win both since the WB champion must lose twice to be eliminated.