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Dumb question, this is my first Game Jam so I am unfamiliar with the +20 rating rule. What is it? 

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It means that you have to get at least 20 ratings to qualify to win regardless of your score. It so someone can't  get one 5 star rating from a friend and then win the jam. It's also supposed to get a variety of people to rate your game so it isn't as bias towards the rater's personal preferences.

Oh sweet.  I figured the system was set up in a way that you scored depended more so on how many people rated along with how good your ratings were. Thanks for the info!

Yep, some jams have "weighted score" vs "raw score" where they take into account how many ratings you got. But not Brackeys. If you have 20 ratings, you can win just as much as if you had 100 ratings

Now tbf, I know I'm not going to win. There are too many other games that I recognize are better than the one I submitted - after all this is only the second jam I've been in. But it's fun to have personal goals. So 20 is a cool number to have as a goal because you are then eligible to win. 

My first jam, 20 was my goal (which we got! yay). This Jam my goal was 30 ratings, which I have got too. So I hope to do well in the rankings, but my goals are met, and the fun part is trying other people's games and helping them reach their goals. And getting feedback on comments so I can learn

Yeah, I am sort of in the same boat. This Game Jam I made my first ever game, so I knew it was a very rough demo. I just really wanted to prove to myself I could actually make something that resembles a functioning game. I also really wanted a benchmark so I could compare myself to the results I get in the next game jam. Do you happen to know if we will get just one ranking or if we will get a ranking for each section? 

We'll get a ranking in each section and one for overall. This is what mine looked like from last time btw 

(see it says raw score as opposed to adjusted, but I also saw people who had fewer than the median and their score was not adjusted either)