Best Girl 9

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seriously? best girl 9?
if anyone is still interested in the contest that is...

BEST GIRL IX
PREPARE TO BE SALTY EDITION

Scheduled to begin in June 2022.

Rules & Tournament Format

All voting rounds begin and end at 18:00 Eastern Standard Time (UTC-4). (15:00 Pacific, 22:00 UTC, 06:00 Beijing)

Voting poilcy

• You must register or login to a reddit account in order to vote.
• Accounts must be at least 2 months old.
• NO CROSSPOSTING / BRIGADING / LINKING the contest to other subreddits.

Nomination

• Lasts 2 days
• Enter name, series, image URL address
• Image links must come from MyAnimeList or Anilist, otherwise the nomination will be deleted
• Females only. Sexless characters with feminine appearance are allowed, but males (traps) are not.
• Characters who have made their animated debut in 2021 Summer or later are NOT allowed. (that's right, No Komi-san, No Template:Jolyne Jolyne, No Template:Makima Template:Power csm Template:Reze Chainsaw Man girls.)
• Best Girl champions and Best Character winners are also NOT allowed.
• Check the entrants list first to prevent repeat nominations

Eliminations

• Voters will choose the characters they want to participate in the main bracket stage.
• All nominees are divided into 4-6 groups. (depending on nominees)
• Each group lasts 1 day
• Approval voting - Vote whoever you like; there is no limit.
• 512 players with the highest adjusted votes will advance to the main bracket.
• Series Limit: maximum of 5 characters per series.

Main Bracket

• 512 players, single-elimination
• Seeded by results in the previous stage
• Rounds 1-6 are split into 4 groups per round; each group lasts one day
  • Round 1 Group A lasts 2 days instead in order to give users time to fill out their bracket predictions.
• Quarter-finals and beyond will last one day each
• A consolation match for third-place, if available, will be held in a separate website.
• If a match is tied, the higher-seeded contestant wins.