I'm wondering if you want to change the voting procedure for next tournament.

1. Maybe you want to continue what we have(although I'm going to change the way debate works)

2. Maybe you want to do it Deca 2000 style(all vote 8 games - all count one vote)

3. Maybe back to T1 rules(best one gets 2 votes)

4. Maybe T2 rules(8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1)

5. Maybe randomize the games first - then vote the 50 games that the randomizer picked.

6. Maybe something else?

For possibilities 2 - 5 - to prevent vote leeching - all of those votes will be by SECRET BALLOT - and I will not update until the voting period is over.(Unless you want me to update at time intervals - but I'm definatly doing secret ballot.)

Thanks for your help :) GB9

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), September 18, 2000

Answers

1. keep the randomizing the same, vote for 3 games, then randomize from the unique selection of games comprised of the voting. secret balot makes it better.

randomizing the games first would be interesting if we could assume it would pick 50 unique, playable, tournamentizable games, but i fear that has a rare chance of happening with mame games.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), September 18, 2000.

Nah, let's keep it as it is - I vote for #1.

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hn.pl.net), September 18, 2000.

Definately not 1.

Modified 2 (or 4?)-> players vote 10 games, Votes Weighted first is worth 10, second = 9....tenth = 1. Only the best 8 are taken.

Open Ballot. I like to see what people voted for. I want none of this surviror crap. (5 or 6 players getting together and voting for their games.)

-- Lord AxE (alvaromarques@hotmail.com), September 19, 2000.

LordGaz: Doesn't creating a vote (with each player haveing the chance to score 10 points on a game) include the opportunity for 5 or 6 people to gang vote on a game to get it into the final 8? that's why we used the randomization technique (in 1.) out of all the games selecected so no one could gang vote, all games voted for have an equal chance of getting in, no matter if more people vote for them.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), September 19, 2000.