For anyone who is on the CCLP4 staff

[Ihavenoname248]

I think this would be even more reasonable. It addresses the everyone-would-have-to-be-familiar-with-most-everything issue. Plus, having a number like 50 levels for designers to choose from their own submissions would strike a balance: it would force the designers who crank out a lot of content to cull their submissions down to the best (hopefully with some variety in there) while allowing less active designers fair representation.

Though this is true, it's still not a perfect solution. Though yes, I'm aware of the problem because it directly affects me, I'm not the only designer who would be in this position (Josh and Zane have similar amounts of levels available in the pool, though admittedly both already went through the CCLP1 process).

The potential "abuse" in the system of nominations is that designers could purposefully leave out levels they know would be nominated from their submission pool. This in turn favors the more well known (and by extension, older) sets. I'm not sure if there's a way to prevent this, unless we started with a nomination phase, then had designers submit 50 (though to me this number feels a bit low, I suppose it would depend on how the nominations go) and then open back up for a final round of nominations if there were any deserving levels that were missed.

Another potential change could be 50 or some % of the total number of MS&Lynx compatible levels by the designer, up to a maximum. This is probably more trouble than it's worth to calculate, though.