Scoring systems:

• (Revenge scoring?): When your pick participates in a match, you earn points equal to their vote share. Whoever eliminates your pick is designated as their nemesis. In subsequent rounds where you chose that same pick, you earn points based on the vote share against the nemesis. When another entrant defeats the nemesis, they become a representative for your pick, and you will begin earning points equal to their vote share. If another entrant eliminates the representative, they become the new nemesis, and the process repeats.

  Repeated wins by the same nemesis (essentially loss streaks for your pick) also grant your pick exponentially stacking multipliers to the number of points they earn from those matches, with a base equal to 1 plus the vote share of your pick in their elimination match. When the nemesis is eliminated, this multiplier resets to 1.

  Furthermore, if your pick loses in Round 1, a bounty is placed on the entrant that eliminated them. In subsequent rounds, if your pick from the previous round is eliminated and the one who defeated them is not the specific entrant you picked to eliminate them, a bounty is placed on that entrant. For a given match, the bounty is worth 100 * (vote share + abs(seed difference) / total entrant count / 2) with a cap at 100 * abs(vote share difference) * 1.5. Bounties are collected immediately (will likely be a more proper "bounty" in future iterations, but this was just easiest to implement right now).

  Note: this is an extremely experimental system. The goal is to give less popular characters a chance and also ensure that your vote has an impact.