Titles says it all, time to vote!
Brackets:
1. Top 20 general.
2. Specialists.
Rules:
1. Both voters & nominees must have at least 1500pp.
2. Do not vote for banned/restricted players.
3. Do not vote for players who have not been active since 2017.
4. Please write the exact usernames (e.g. no abbreviations).
5. No self-votes.
6. You cannot vote more than once, but you may edit your initial vote unless the voting stage has ended.
7. Two person cannot occupy the same slot.
8. Each nominee can only occupy one position.
9. You may choose not to vote for the Specialists bracket, but you must fully vote for Top 20 general.
10. You can vote for the same person in Specialist bracket, but not more than twice.
11. Troll votes will not be counted.
12. Please do not fight over nominees.
13, Video outline:
- Nominees will send replays, amounts according to the hierarchy below.
- Each replay is to make up for 15 seconds of footage approximately.
- 25th to 21st positions will display 15 seconds of honorable mentions footage each, before top 5, in no order/mention of merit. (1 replay)
- 20th to 11th positions will display 30 seconds of footage each. (2 replays)
- 10th to 6th positions will display 45 seconds of footage each. (3 replays)
- 4th-5th will display 1 minute of footage each + commentary. (4 replays)
- 2nd & 3rd will display 1 minute 15 seconds of footage each + commentary. (5 replays)
- 1st will display 1 minute 30 seconds of of footage + commentary. (6 replays)
- Mod specialists (if not in the Top 20), will be given 15 seconds of honorable mentions footage each, before top 5 & after 25th to 21st place (1 replay).
- Mod specialists (if in the Top 20), will be given a special tag in the footage of which they are officially ranked in.
- Expected length: ~50 minutes.
Scoring system: (place. points)
1. 1070
2. 975
3. 885
4. 800
5. 720
6. 645
7. 575
8. 510
9. 450
10. 395
11. 345
12. 300
13. 260
14. 225
15. 195
16. 170
17. 150
18. 135
19. 125
20. 120
Specialists:
1. NoMod (NM)
2. Hidden (HD)
3. HardRock (HR)
4. DoubleTime (DT)
5. FlashLight (FL)
6. Easy (EZ)
7. Spinners (SP)
The specialists will not receive extra credit in the Top 20 general, their specialty should have already been taken into account as a valuable criteria for the Top 20 general.
Extra info, not necessary to know:
Vote ends when (whichever comes first):
1. There are 70 counted votes.
2. On 06th/Jan/2019 11:59PM (UTC+8).
Staff support:
If you would like to help out in the below categories, please indicate your interests in the thread replies:
1. 2x Score reviewers.
2. 3x Commentators.
You would be given credit in the official video.
Staff:
- He Ang CTB (Arbiter & Productions Director)
- Schwarzer (Score Reviewer)
- Disco-Master (Score Reviewer)
Last year's (2017) video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7AvkbYVtg
Expected date of video completion:
01/Feb/2019
If you have any skin recommendations, do comment together with your vote. The skin will preferably be non-monochrome & easy to read (subjective), with decent hitsounds.
Now let's get this started!
Remember to vote for me 
Brackets:
1. Top 20 general.
2. Specialists.
Rules:
1. Both voters & nominees must have at least 1500pp.
2. Do not vote for banned/restricted players.
3. Do not vote for players who have not been active since 2017.
4. Please write the exact usernames (e.g. no abbreviations).
5. No self-votes.
6. You cannot vote more than once, but you may edit your initial vote unless the voting stage has ended.
7. Two person cannot occupy the same slot.
8. Each nominee can only occupy one position.
9. You may choose not to vote for the Specialists bracket, but you must fully vote for Top 20 general.
10. You can vote for the same person in Specialist bracket, but not more than twice.
11. Troll votes will not be counted.
12. Please do not fight over nominees.
13, Video outline:
- Nominees will send replays, amounts according to the hierarchy below.
- Each replay is to make up for 15 seconds of footage approximately.
- 25th to 21st positions will display 15 seconds of honorable mentions footage each, before top 5, in no order/mention of merit. (1 replay)
- 20th to 11th positions will display 30 seconds of footage each. (2 replays)
- 10th to 6th positions will display 45 seconds of footage each. (3 replays)
- 4th-5th will display 1 minute of footage each + commentary. (4 replays)
- 2nd & 3rd will display 1 minute 15 seconds of footage each + commentary. (5 replays)
- 1st will display 1 minute 30 seconds of of footage + commentary. (6 replays)
- Mod specialists (if not in the Top 20), will be given 15 seconds of honorable mentions footage each, before top 5 & after 25th to 21st place (1 replay).
- Mod specialists (if in the Top 20), will be given a special tag in the footage of which they are officially ranked in.
- Expected length: ~50 minutes.
Scoring system: (place. points)
1. 1070
2. 975
3. 885
4. 800
5. 720
6. 645
7. 575
8. 510
9. 450
10. 395
11. 345
12. 300
13. 260
14. 225
15. 195
16. 170
17. 150
18. 135
19. 125
20. 120
Specialists:
1. NoMod (NM)
2. Hidden (HD)
3. HardRock (HR)
4. DoubleTime (DT)
5. FlashLight (FL)
6. Easy (EZ)
7. Spinners (SP)
The specialists will not receive extra credit in the Top 20 general, their specialty should have already been taken into account as a valuable criteria for the Top 20 general.
Extra info, not necessary to know:
SPOILER
Formula:
A(n) = 2.5[(n^2) - 41n + 468], n is any integer between & inclusive of 1 and 20.
Notations:
n = nth place. (e.g. n=1 ---> 1st place, n=12 ---> 12th place).
A(n) = points awarded for the nth place. (e.g. A(3) = 2.5[(3^2) - 41(3) +468] = 2.5[9 - 123 + 468] = 2.5(354) = 885).
Intuition:
Lower limit ---> 20th ---> 120pts
20th (+5pts) ---> 19th
19th (+10pts) ---> 18th
18th (+15pts) ---> 17th
17th (+20pts) ---> 16th
16th (+ 25pts) ---> 15th
... ...
5th (+ 80pts) ---> 4th
4th (+85pts) ---> 3rd
3rd (+90pts) ---> 2nd
2nd (+95pts) ---> 1st
Upper limit ---> 1st ---> 1070pts
Motivation:
The widely used voting system of A(n) = 21 - n scales poorly in terms of vote importance. E.g. 20th place ---> 1pt, 19th place ---> 2pts, that means one 19th place vote is worth two 20th place votes. In fact 16th place is worth 5 times that of the 20th place.
This goes against two principles of prestige that are critical yet neglected:
- The difference between being voted in & not being voted in should be significant. Having 20th place of 1pts and 21st place of 0pts ignores the fact that being voted in Top 20 as opposed to not, is huge difference in prestige, than if one is being placed at the 19th place or the 20th place. E.g. having passed an exam with 50/100 is vastly different than failing an exam with 49/100, even though one could argue that 49 & 50 is equivalent in terms of capability.
- The difference in score between each ascending player should matter increasingly, as the distinction between placings become more and more important. E.g. coming in at 55th or 56th in a race doesn't really matter, but coming in at 3rd or 4th is a huge deal, regardless of the possibility that the 3rd or 4th place runner is about equally good.
"So is this about skill or prestige?"
To be honest, community votes are directed at who is the most well-known & respected person in the community. Skill & popularity have undeniable correlations, and no matter what system you have it's always hinged on popularity since it's a community vote, so why argue day & night about the semantics.
"I really want the traditional scoring system, or I have a better system to suggest, what should I do?"
Simply comment in the post, and make sure you convey your ideas clearly and professionally. Rant comments will be ignored.
"I don't like this, I'm going to run a parallel vote thread!"
Sure thing. No one's gonna stop you. In the end there wouldn't be much difference in terms of individual votes themselves. And now you would have the responsibility of making a video
A(n) = 2.5[(n^2) - 41n + 468], n is any integer between & inclusive of 1 and 20.
Notations:
n = nth place. (e.g. n=1 ---> 1st place, n=12 ---> 12th place).
A(n) = points awarded for the nth place. (e.g. A(3) = 2.5[(3^2) - 41(3) +468] = 2.5[9 - 123 + 468] = 2.5(354) = 885).
Intuition:
Lower limit ---> 20th ---> 120pts
20th (+5pts) ---> 19th
19th (+10pts) ---> 18th
18th (+15pts) ---> 17th
17th (+20pts) ---> 16th
16th (+ 25pts) ---> 15th
... ...
5th (+ 80pts) ---> 4th
4th (+85pts) ---> 3rd
3rd (+90pts) ---> 2nd
2nd (+95pts) ---> 1st
Upper limit ---> 1st ---> 1070pts
Motivation:
The widely used voting system of A(n) = 21 - n scales poorly in terms of vote importance. E.g. 20th place ---> 1pt, 19th place ---> 2pts, that means one 19th place vote is worth two 20th place votes. In fact 16th place is worth 5 times that of the 20th place.
This goes against two principles of prestige that are critical yet neglected:
- The difference between being voted in & not being voted in should be significant. Having 20th place of 1pts and 21st place of 0pts ignores the fact that being voted in Top 20 as opposed to not, is huge difference in prestige, than if one is being placed at the 19th place or the 20th place. E.g. having passed an exam with 50/100 is vastly different than failing an exam with 49/100, even though one could argue that 49 & 50 is equivalent in terms of capability.
- The difference in score between each ascending player should matter increasingly, as the distinction between placings become more and more important. E.g. coming in at 55th or 56th in a race doesn't really matter, but coming in at 3rd or 4th is a huge deal, regardless of the possibility that the 3rd or 4th place runner is about equally good.
"So is this about skill or prestige?"
To be honest, community votes are directed at who is the most well-known & respected person in the community. Skill & popularity have undeniable correlations, and no matter what system you have it's always hinged on popularity since it's a community vote, so why argue day & night about the semantics.
"I really want the traditional scoring system, or I have a better system to suggest, what should I do?"
Simply comment in the post, and make sure you convey your ideas clearly and professionally. Rant comments will be ignored.
"I don't like this, I'm going to run a parallel vote thread!"
Sure thing. No one's gonna stop you. In the end there wouldn't be much difference in terms of individual votes themselves. And now you would have the responsibility of making a video
Vote ends when (whichever comes first):
1. There are 70 counted votes.
2. On 06th/Jan/2019 11:59PM (UTC+8).
Staff support:
If you would like to help out in the below categories, please indicate your interests in the thread replies:
1. 2x Score reviewers.
2. 3x Commentators.
You would be given credit in the official video.
Staff:
- He Ang CTB (Arbiter & Productions Director)
- Schwarzer (Score Reviewer)
- Disco-Master (Score Reviewer)
Last year's (2017) video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7AvkbYVtg
Expected date of video completion:
01/Feb/2019
If you have any skin recommendations, do comment together with your vote. The skin will preferably be non-monochrome & easy to read (subjective), with decent hitsounds.
Now let's get this started!
