#there's nothing wrong with ties just as a poll-maker i need things to be eliminated

[indie-queer-movie-tournament]

OK we're shaping up to have a Lot of ties so I'm thinking instead of the previous plan of having both proceed to round two in a poll of three options instead of two, we instead have a bonus round before starting round 2 where I put all the tied movies against different tied movies, so it's sort of just a repeat of round 1 but giving them a chance to have a different outcome from the original ties of round 1 and then they are placed differently in the bracket. I expect there would still be some ties and in that case I'd let them go forward in the original three-way poll plan of before, but just to decrease the number of movies doing that, I think this will help. So far it's about a third of polls that are tying, that's why I'm rethinking this. It's also pretty possible that later rounds will have a lot of ties so I might do this again if it's a really large number where it happens but at least for now I'll plan on continuing with this plan for round 1 and then as normal for the following rounds.