Don't you ever get tired of listening to the hits? Sick of hearing the same old songs? Looking for a new jam? The eligibility rules for this thunderdome have been mathematically calibrated to ensure that every song you'll be listening to is unique. Welcome to the nominations thread for the Singularidome, a dome where every entry is singular and unique.
The nomination process in this one is a little bit more involved than usual. If you find a song that proves that an already-nominated song is ineligible under the rules below, quote the offending nomination and post the disqualifying example. Eliminate your rivals mercilessly! If this happens to you, you should be grateful, since you're learning about an unfamiliar version of a song you like. Replace it with an eligible nomination.
Submit your nominations in the form of a ranked list. You may nominate as many songs as you want, but I suggest nominating around four of them. I'll pick them in rank order until I get a convenient number for the bracket, so your lower-ranked songs might be cut to make it fit.
The short version is: you must nominate songs that have only been used once.
The long version is:
The nomination process in this one is a little bit more involved than usual. If you find a song that proves that an already-nominated song is ineligible under the rules below, quote the offending nomination and post the disqualifying example. Eliminate your rivals mercilessly! If this happens to you, you should be grateful, since you're learning about an unfamiliar version of a song you like. Replace it with an eligible nomination.
Submit your nominations in the form of a ranked list. You may nominate as many songs as you want, but I suggest nominating around four of them. I'll pick them in rank order until I get a convenient number for the bracket, so your lower-ranked songs might be cut to make it fit.
The short version is: you must nominate songs that have only been used once.
The long version is:
- Every nominated song must originate from a video game
- Original game audio only. No remixes or arrangements from outside of a video game are eligible
- The song itself must never have been remixed or arranged in an official capacity in any other video game
- No songs that have won a previous thunderdome may be nominated
- If the original game was remade, and the song rearranged for the remake, that rearrangement does not disqualify the song (but you have to use the original version, not the remake version)
- Rearrangements used in the same game don't disqualify the song. You may post any one of them but only one of them. If multiple participants select different arrangements from the same game, only the highest-ranked will be included (ties to be broken based on who posted first)
- If the game was released on several different platforms at about the same time, with different audio between them, you can use any of those releases
- If the song was reused virtually unchanged in another game, that doesn't count as a rearrangement or remix
- Songs are not disqualified by being quoted in a medley or through the reuse of a leitmotif
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