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Mitch Hawker 2013 Steel Poll

I got the "not enough people are voting" email.

Stop being douches and vote. These are the closest thing to accurate general coaster polls we have, lets make it worth our whiles!
 
rtotheizzo17 said:
Stop being douches and vote. These are the closest thing to accurate general coaster polls we have, lets make it worth our whiles!
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This!

It's not that time consuming.
 
No. Shan't.

It IS that time consuming if you've got a higher coaster count. The wooden one took over an hour even with the drop box thing (which itself is a pain in the arse when trying to order a larger number of selected rides), and there were FAR fewer coasters to deal with on there.

I see the issue: people with higher coaster counts are the ones who really should be voting to get a better result, but those people are less inclined to do it due to it being too big a task to organise huge numbers of coasters.

Frankly, I don't really give enough of a ****. Sorry about it.

Having said that, I've got half days at work next week. I'll see how I feel, but it's far from a priority.
 
A tactic I simply use is to copy my ballot directly from the posted ballots list, and add in new roller coasters.

http://www.ushsho.com/processedsteelballots2012.htm

Just keyword search for your name. (This is why I always include Hyde244 in my naming for easy finding)

I always try to save my previous years ballot in excel form, but inevitably always misplace it on my hard drive.
 
^Can't tell you how many ballots I've seen do that, then forget to update the parks and coasters which names change and delete the rides that have been removed. Ends up with dozens of coasters disappearing from the ballot.

And I 100% agree with Gavin: The last poll I did took me like two days to get completely sorted out. Blech.
 
^^ I use that method with a bit of global search/replace as well (Notepad++ rather than Excel tho').
^ but I also check the lists in the ballot that say what has been removed or changed (hope I've caught them all)
then I add in whatever new I've ridden that year and update anything I've reridden with my latest feelings (GAdv.Nitro this year leapt up my rankings)

Took me about 1.5 hrs this year and is hardly a chore since thats 1.5 hrs just thinking about nice roller coasters I've been on. </goon>
 
^ Good point - I too did some search and replace function in my excel ballot this year.

To take it to the next level of goon, I have even gone as far as to create an Access database for tracking ridership this year, which with any luck will be able to produce a ballot within 1 click for next year.
 
--Generator: Jordan's Ballot Helper 2013 (steel)--
--Ballot: 6d73c2ba7d2--
[email protected]------
LOCATION IN NEXT LINE (Please LEAVE THIS LINE IN BALLOT)
~"Oxford, MS"
NAME IN NEXT LINE (Please LEAVE THIS LINE IN THE BALLOT)
~"Edward Morgan"
RANK THE FOLLOWING RIDING SENSATIONS <-LEAVE
Positive G's/Loops_________________________,y,y,1
Abrupt Airtime_____________________________,y,y,2
Floating Airtime___________________________,y,y,3
Sensation of Speed_________________________,y,y,4
Lateral Forces_____________________________,y,y,5
Out of Control Feeling/Directional Changes_,y,y,6
COASTER NAME PARK LOC <--Please leave this
Kumba Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,1
Favorite Wood Coaster Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,2
Millennium Force Cedar Point OH,y,n,3
Maverick Cedar Point OH,y,n,4
Nitro Six Flags Great Ad NJ,y,n,5
Top Thrill Dragster Cedar Point OH,y,n,6
Iron Rattler Six Flags Fiesta T TX,y,y,7
Goliath Six Flags Over Geo GA,y,n,8
Magnum XL-200 Cedar Point OH,y,n,9
Diamondback Kings Island OH,y,n,10
Montu Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,11
Superman:Krypton Cstr Six Flags Fiesta T TX,y,y,12
Incredible Hulk Islands of Adventu FL,y,n,13
Wildfire Silver Dollar City MO,y,y,14
Volcano: The Blast Co Kings Dominion VA,y,n,15
Intimidator 305 Kings Dominion VA,y,n,16
Mystery Mine Dollywood TN,y,n,17
Powder Keg Silver Dollar City MO,y,y,18
Stealth Thorpe Park UK,y,y,19
Dominator Kings Dominion VA,y,n,20
Patriot Worlds of Fun MO,y,n,21
Superman - Ultimate F Six Flags Parks **,y,y,22
Mindbender Six Flags Over Geo GA,y,n,23
Batman The Ride/Clone SF & Other Parks **,y,n,24
Cheetah Hunt Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,25
The Swarm Thorpe Park UK,y,y,26
Nemesis Inferno Thorpe Park UK,y,y,27
Wild Eagle Dollywood TN,y,n,28
SheiKra Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,29
Mamba Worlds of Fun MO,y,y,30
Hungarian Horntail Islands of Adventu FL,y,n,31
Chinese Fireball Islands of Adventu FL,y,n,32
Hollywood Rip Ride Ro Universal Studios FL,y,n,33
Vortex Kings Island OH,y,n,34
Titan Six Flags Over Tex TX,y,n,35
Flight Deck Kings Island OH,y,n,36
Rock n Roller Coaster Disney's H Studios FL,y,n,37
Space Mountain WDW Magic Kingdom FL,y,n,38
Fav Intamin Bobsled Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,39
Raptor Cedar Point OH,y,n,40
Mr. Freeze Reverse Bl Six Flags St. Loui MO,y,y,41
Firehawk Kings Island OH,y,n,42
Saw - The Ride Thorpe Park UK,y,y,43
Revenge of the Mummy Universal Studios FL,y,n,44
Fav Intamin Impulse Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,45
Expedition Everest Disney Animal King FL,y,n,46
Gemini Cedar Point OH,y,n,47
Fav Schw Shuttle loop Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,48
Fav Arrow Mine Train Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,49
Kingda Ka Six Flags Great Ad NJ,y,n,50
Poltergeist Six Flags Fiesta T TX,y,y,51
Flight of Fear Kings Dominion VA,y,n,52
Flight of Fear Kings Island OH,y,n,53
Tennessee Tornado Dollywood TN,y,n,54
Fav Gerstlauer Spinn. Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,55
Fav Zamperla Volare Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,56
Fav Vekoma Invertigo Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,57
Backlot Stunt Coaster Cedar Fair Parks **,y,n,58
Iron Dragon Cedar Point OH,y,n,59
Shockwave Kings Dominion VA,y,n,60
Dark Knight Six Flags Parks **,y,n,61
Journey to Atlantis SeaWorld San Diego CA,y,n,62
Fav Zamp. Motocoaster Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,63
Avalanche Kings Dominion VA,y,n,64
Big Thunder Mountain Disneyland CA,y,n,65
Big Thunder Mountain WDW Magic Kingdom FL,y,n,66
Fav Vekoma Boomerang Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,67
Fav Spinning Mouse Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,68
Fav Loop-Screw Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,69
Fav Wild Mouse Any Park Anywhere **,y,y,70
Colossus Thorpe Park UK,y,y,71
Ninja Six Flags St. Loui MO,y,n,72
Mantis Cedar Point
 
Still trying to finish mine... oops

Uh... for now, top "10"
Favorite Wood Coaster Any Park Anywhere **,y,n,1
Apollo's Chariot Busch Gardens Will VA,y,n,1
Bizarro SF New England MA,y,y,1
Nemesis Alton Towers UK,y,n,2
Dragon Khan Port Aventura ES,y,n,3
Superman la Atraccion Parque Warner Madr ES,y,n,4
Leviathan Canadas Wonderland ON,y,y,5
Kumba Busch Gardens Tamp FL,y,y,6
Black Mamba Phantasialand DE,y,n,7
Dragon's Fury Chessington UK,y,n,8
Diamondback Kings Island OH,y,n,9
Behemoth Canadas Wonderland ON,y,y,10

and bottom three <3
Hollywood Rip Ride Ro Universal Studios FL,y,n,500
G Force Drayton Manor UK,y,n,600
Furius Baco Port Aventura ES,y,n,750
 
^ I join you in the high praise for B&M Hypers. Only ridden 2, but both are in my top 10 as well.
 
I've submitted mine! My top ride was Nemesis, and the bottom was Infusion - nothing surprising really.

^^ I notice G Force is your second bottom. That's a shame, it looks like an intriguing ride to me. I will probably ride it later this year.
 
lachlan said:
^^ I notice G Force is your second bottom. That's a shame, it looks like an intriguing ride to me. I will probably ride it later this year.
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G Force would be a good ride if the restraints didn't try to cut your body in half as you go around.

This year was the first in many that I didn't take part in this poll. When going through my coaster list, I just find it really labourious trying to figure out which rides fit in the "Your favourite x" categories, and I just couldn't be bothered to do it this year.
 
Maybe not bottom ten, but I'm not a huge fan. It just doesn't do very much. Without the music it would be even worse. Sorry Jordan
 
lol, I live pretty much across the street from USF... and I haven't ridden Rockit since 2010. Its so awful... the trains and lapbar are awful (as seen by G-Force also being in my bottom....) the ride is horrifyingly rough, and the music adds NOTHING. Its not like they cut and paste the songs to fit the ride... and then it just cuts off at the end, if you pick DaftPunk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger the ride ends before you even get to the Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger part (the whole ride is pretty much the intro)
 
FWIW, I had RRR at number 12 on my 2012 steel ballot. I thought it was a fantastic ride back in 2011.
 
Results!

http://www.ushsho.com/steelrollercoaste ... ts2013.htm

Bizarro Number 4 just doesn't have the same ring to it...

It's incredible how well RMC have done; we talk mainly about their wooden coasters, but clearly the topper tracks aren't too bad either. Obviously there are surprises; Formula Rossa (Highest ranked Accelerator) and Smiler being ranked so highly? A lot higher than some well regarded B&Ms. And what about Space Fantasy at USJ? I hadn't even heard of it 10 minutes ago and it's come in at 52! Not suggesting that I have to have heard of a ride for it to be good...
 
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