Vote Now in the 2002 Internet Wood Coaster Poll
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Once again the polling algorithm that separates ride quality from rider quantity is being used to rate the wooden-tracked roller coasters that operated worldwide this past season. Results of the 2001 Internet Wood Coaster Poll, ballots for the 2002 poll, past wood and steel poll results and more about the algorithm used for this annual poll are available at the website.
New for this year are the ability to rank what you love in a roller coaster, from floating airtime to slamming laterals. Also, for the first time, poll respondents also have the option of putting their name on their ballot for display on the website's completed ballots page.
Link: Internet Roller Coaster Poll
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I don't really have a hard time with 1-15, but after that it's really difficult. There are so many rides that are in the 'ok' category: Rides I had fun on, but that just didn't blow me away. Trying to rank those rides is a real headache for me.
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'I don't want to grow up, there's too much contradiction.' - Television 'Friction'
*** This post was edited by chris on 11/8/2002. ***
I agree, the poll is fun, but gets harder to fill out every year. And I rode so many new-to-me coasters this year. My top 10 saw 4 new entries!
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--Oat Boy
My page
I solved the rating problem by having tiers...there are a lot of coasters I feel similar about, so it's hard to differentiate between them and say that one is better than another in a lot of cases. Therefore, I have 4 #1's, 3, #2's, some 3's and 4's, a heck of a lot of 5's and 6's, and so on down to the dreaded 10, reserved for the likes of Psucklone, Rolling Blunder, The Fizzly, and SFWOA's Big Crapper.
Ranking them this way really made completing the poll easy and I was done with 37 woodies in about 15 minutes.
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Mike Miller
"You're trouble, Trouble Boy!"
I also use the tier system, makes the job a LOT easier. I have 7 more woodies to add to my ratings list this year. IIRC, in the past Mitch sometimes gave you a method to ressurect last years ballot to use as starting ground. I feel now for the ECO attendees, as their coaster rating lives just got significantly harder.
Big Crapper bad, nah Raging Wolf Bobs is MUCH worse.
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David Bowers
Mayor, Coasterville
Chris: I submitted the ballot that way, and it looks like it showed up on the webpage listings without any problems.
And don't tease me about my woodie count, I just started riding outside of Calif. 2 years ago! I should be over 50 woodies after 'Con-Quest next year, and I'm looking to make Coney #50!
Dave: I know it's hard to believe, but I actually preferred RWB to the Big Crapper (not that RWB was "all that" either). I only took one ride on the Dipper, in the backseat, and it was a horrible disappointment, as I had really been looking forward to it. I still need to try the front, maybe my opinion of it will improve. I really thought ALL of the SFWOA woodies were crap, but that's just IMO.
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Mike Miller
"You're trouble, Trouble Boy!"
'And don't tease me about my woodie count, I just started riding outside of Calif. 2 years ago!'
And from what I hear, they're all 6 1/2s out there. ;)
Have you guys finalized an itinerary for your epic adventure yet?
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'I don't want to grow up, there's too much contradiction.' - Television 'Friction'
*** This post was edited by chris on 11/8/2002. ***
I'd like it if it had radio buttons and was in HTML format too, but it's really not that hard to fill out the poll if you follow the directions. It took me about 25 minutes last year when I did it for the first time, and about 15 this year.
It's terrificaly easy to say it should have all those things, but it would add a lot of work on Mitch's part to change both the poll format and his tabulation methods.
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Mike Miller
"You're trouble, Trouble Boy!"
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