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Genesjs wrote:

I find most of your suggestions agreeable. However, I have some questions about some of them.

For #4, you suggested that menu themes should be excluded from consideration for being entered into the tournament, yet you don't really explain why they should be. Could you perhaps explain to me why you feel they should be excluded?

For #7,you claim that Hub/Free Roam themes should be excluded because they would "encourage biased leverage, and by indirect extension, could be considered menu themes". Could you explain how exactly they would encourage this leverage, and be mistaken for menu themes? Because I fail to see how it would do either of these things. Hub/Free Roam songs are just as part of the soundtrack as any of the other songs are, and (while I admit there's no way I can prove this) I think most players can tell the difference between a menu theme and a Hub/Free Roam theme so how there would be notable confusion over something like this, if there is any at all, is beyond me.

I consider those "extra" tracks that aren't really necessary. Considering there are almost 50 games to go through, all getting bigger and bigger with age, we have an insane amount of work ahead of us. Besides, most of the games that have menus, also have multiple menu tracks. Meaning there would be several rounds where we're all literally just voting on one game's multiple menu themes. As for the hub stuff--I can literally count on one hand all the Sonic games that have explorable Hubs in the first place. That's why I believe it would cause imbalance--that's going against all the other Sonic games that don't have one. A hub is basically like an 'interactive' menu--you can mess around all you like, but you're eventually selecting an "option"--going to this level, fighting this boss, or even quitting the game.

So in summation, I feel that there aren't enough menu themes/hub themes to add to the already blistering list we have now. And speaking realistically--would any of them really hit even an honorable spot anywhere in the bracket?