User blog comment:GravityMan/Sixth Official Wiki Rap Tournament/@comment-24328089-20170814221954/@comment-24328089-20170815044257

That's a good point about a popular vote shutting out new talent. And it's good that you take into account people's personal schedules.

But I still think that an objective system, (such as first come first serve or randomization, paired with a veto for people who are "not serious") would be better than just being selected by the host.

And I have a bit too much faith in the community to believe that they would vote somebody in "for the sake of memes". We've all seen the "haha, I rap bad" joke about a 1000 times by now.

I think every person (including myself) is inherently bias, which is why I'd always come up with a very mechanical way for conducting these type of events. But maybe that's just me.

@Joe that wouldn't really be a problem at all. It's not like each person would only vote for one contestant. I assume everybody would just list the 16 contestants that they think should be in the tourney and then whoever was mentioned the most times would get in.

But like he said, a popularity contest like that would cause problems regardless.