The nomination deadline is just 8 hours away. It’s not too late to send in your choices or post them on this thread before time runs out, but it will be soon! Once the deadline has passed, no new nominations will be accepted.
As of right now, including nominations via PM, there are a total of 104 unique candidate games that have been nominated. With the current set of entries, about 3/5 of the nominated games will be selected for the tournament.
Thirteen candidates have been independently nominated more than once and will get extra tickets in the lottery drawing. (See list above.)
If you have registered as a fan but not sent in any picks, now is the time to get them in. Also, new players can still sign up (see the FAQ for details).
I made a little simulator for the drawing. Lady Luck can be pretty brutal to any particular person’s list of choices, but in a handful of test runs there was always at least one of each person’s picks in the final list. I estimate that for any particular person in the worst case scenario there is only a 1% chance that none of their picks will be drawn.
Drawing Simulator.gblorb (679.4 KB)
I don’t know how to calculate the odds exactly, but it seems like there’s about a 90% chance for any game with three nominations to be selected, about 75% for a game with two nominations, and about 60% for a game with only one nomination.