I have been notified by a butthurt admin that my criticism should have been more constructive. I think a better solution would have been to randomly have a couple of the videos have a first round bye, and put those into a thread for viewing. Maybe even have them have a scrimmage where the votes didn't count.
In sports having a first round bye is a major advantage because even if you are a better team, there could be like a 30% chance you lose anyway. However, in a discrete media such as a video, every time you play the video it is the same. The best video will win, as long as exposure to all of the videos is equal.
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