Welcome to the AIM 2021 fan vote thread! Here, you will cast your votes for your favourite entries! Please read this post carefully before voting, as the process will be different from the most recent AIMs.
(Please direct any questions about the fan vote itself to the AIM 2021 Discussions thread.)
Voting
Instead of picking just one entry, you will now be ranking your top 5 entries. You will post them numerically from 1 to 5, 1 being the entry you like the most. Format the votes like this:
#1
Link to #1 Audio
#2
Link to #2 Audio
#3
Link to #3 Audio
#4
Link to #4 Audio
#5
Link to #5 Audio
For the above example, please use the Share link on the track you’d like to vote for and put it on its own line so that it embeds into the post. Links should look something like this: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1044823 on their own line, without any of the ?updated=23423 stuff after it.
Alternatively, you can put your votes in a numbered list as such:
- “Title of Track 1” by Author 1
- “Title of Track 2” by Author 2
- “Title of Track 3” by Author 3
- “Title of Track 4” by Author 4
- “Title of Track 5” by Author 5
Linking to the tracks themselves is appreciated, but not necessary, so long as the title and the author names are accurate.
If you want to provide commentary on your votes, you can do so below your votes in the same post (though comments aren’t necessary). The important thing is keeping the votes separate so that it’s easier to keep track of them.
Scoring System
The ranked pieces will be assigned a certain number of points:
- 1st place vote - 5 points
- 2nd place vote - 4 points
- 3rd place vote - 3 points
- 4th place vote - 2 points
- 5th place vote - 1 point
The Fan Favourite award will be given to the entry with the most points that is not already going to be a winner or runner-up. If a winner is indeterminate by too few people voting and not enough overlap, this award may be abandoned altogether.
Rules/Guidelines
- Both participants and non-participants can vote. The only people on Newgrounds who cannot vote are the judges (for obvious reasons).
- You can only vote on qualifying entries submitted in AIM 2021. These can be found in the AIM 2021 masterlist or the approved entries playlists (1, 2, 3)
- Voting for the same entry more than once (eg. ranking one entry you like as both 1st and 2nd) is not allowed. You can, however, vote for different entries by the same composer (for those who submitted 2 entries).
- If you don’t want to rank 5 entries, you can also do a top 3. Those three will be given the same amount of points as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place votes in a top 5 (5, 4 and 3 points respectively). You must vote for a minimum of 3 entries - you can also rank 4 entries if you’d like, but I would encourage everyone voting to rank 5 entries. There’s over 100 entries, so there’s plenty of content to consider.
- Voting for your own entry is permitted but heavily frowned upon.
- Keep all your votes in one post; don’t split your votes among multiple posts.
If you must change your votes, state you are changing them at the beginning of a new post, then post your full list of votes again directly below your statement using one of the formats above in that same post. I don’t need to know which votes specifically have changed, just that you’ve changed your votes and what the latest revision of your votes is. Avoid doing this more than once if possible, as too many changes will make counting the votes confusing.
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The fan vote will end shortly after the judges have finished deliberating. There will be a 24 hour warning before the fan vote closes and then the results will be released. This will not be happening for at least 3-4 weeks, so please take your time and don’t rush. Happy listening!
![[AIM2021] ADA & L.Mity - 𝑅𝑒:𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛](https://aicon.ngfiles.com/1046/1046628_medium.png?f1624213733)
![Valley of Bones [AIM 2021]](https://aicon.ngfiles.com/1045/1045192_medium.png?f1623913008)
