2018 Golden Ticket Award winners announced!

[TLARides]

Of course, leave it to KI to take the Best Kid's Area award. Again.

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I'm interested to see if anything I've ridden makes the top 50! When should this be released, out of interest?
EDIT: Wikipedia now has the top 10 for each category listed. They are as follows:
Top 10 Steel

1. Fury 325 (Carowinds)
2. Millennium Force (Cedar Point)
3. Steel Vengeance (Cedar Point)
4. Expedition GeForce (Holiday Park)
5. Superman the Ride (Six Flags New England)
6. Apollo's Chariot (Busch Gardens Williamsburg)
7. Iron Rattler (Six Flags Fiesta Texas)
8. Leviathan (Canada's Wonderland)
9. Maverick (Cedar Point)
10. Diamondback (Kings Island)

Top 10 Wood

1. Phoenix (Knoebels)
2. El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)
3. The Voyage (Holiday World)
4. Boulder Dash (Lake Compounce)
5. The Beast (Kings Island)
6. Lightning Rod (Dollywood)
7. Outlaw Run (Silver Dollar City)
8. Ravine Flyer II (Waldameer)
9. Gold Striker (California's Great America)
10. Thunderhead (Dollywood)

Wait, DB made #10?

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MOD EDIT: Please don't double post

 

[Matt N]

I just had a look on Amusement Today's website, and here are the top 50 steel coasters of 2018: http://goldenticketawards.com/2018-top-50-steel-coasters/
And the top 50 wooden coasters of 2018: http://goldenticketawards.com/2018-top-50-wooden-coasters/

As well as the rest of the winners as well as the nominees (they are on page 10 and page 12: http://goldenticketawards.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AT-GoldenTickets-2018-LowRes.pdf

Also, I'd like to share the nominees for Best New Ride of 2018 with you all, which I must say I found rather interesting:
1. Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point (33% of vote)
2. Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City (29% of vote)
3. Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion (6% of vote)
4. (joint) Oscar's Wacky Taxi at Sesame Place and Wicker Man at Alton Towers (5% of vote)

 

[Snoo]

Also, I'd like to share the nominees for Best New Ride of 2018 with you all, which I must say I found rather interesting:
1. Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point (33% of vote)
2. Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City (29% of vote)
3. Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion (6% of vote)
4. (joint) Oscar's Wacky Taxi at Sesame Place and Wicker Man at Alton Towers (5% of vote)

 

[Matt N]

Also, I'd like to share the nominees for Best New Ride of 2018 with you all, which I must say I found rather interesting:
1. Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point (33% of vote)
2. Time Traveler at Silver Dollar City (29% of vote)
3. Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion (6% of vote)
4. (joint) Oscar's Wacky Taxi at Sesame Place and Wicker Man at Alton Towers (5% of vote)

Time Traveler may have been voted it by some because of the innovation and the theming etc.; the GTAs seem to look past the actual ride experience when they rank these things.

 

[Hyde]

Really glad that, statistically speaking, Ohio has 40% of the best steel coasters in the world.

 

[b&mfanboy123]

Yeah, I don’t know if your reaction is over the fact that one is higher than the other, or that both are in the top ten, but whatever the case it really is insane that Apollo’s Chariot is still in the top ten steel of the world. I love that ride, but putting it in the top ten steel coasters of the world is absolutely nuts.

THANK YOU GOOD SIR!

 

[bob_3_]

I imagine these awards are only mildly interesting if you're american.

 

[Snoo]

I imagine these awards are only mildly interesting if you're american.

I'd say it's more interesting to make fun of and laugh at then anything. Really, it's perfect for CF.

 

[SilverArrow]

So much wrong with the rankings, why is skyrush number 30????

And Taron at 15. Nope.

Just so much wrong.


(And re MF Vs At I prefer swoopy speed to jerky airtime but that's for another thread.)

 

[VikingsAf]

So much wrong with the rankings, why is skyrush number 30????

And Taron at 15. Nope.

Just so much wrong.


(And re MF Vs At I prefer swoopy speed to jerky airtime but that's for another thread.)

Do you mean skyrush must be higher than Taron? Or they both should be higher? Because on the second i could agree

 

[caffeine_demon]

No sign of Osiris either :emoji_rage:

 

[SilverArrow]

Do you mean skyrush must be higher than Taron? Or they both should be higher? Because on the second i could agree

Both should be higher in general.

 

[Peet]

Out of interest, what are people's predictions for Best New Ride of 2019?

I predict the actual best new ride for 2019 will be F.L.Y, as for what the GTAs give it to - that's anybody's guess

 

[Snoo]

I predict the actual best new ride for 2019 will be F.L.Y, as for what the GTAs give it to - that's anybody's guess

Wait, what is this "F.L.Y" you speak of?
-GTA Voter

 

[Hixee]

I think this can live within the Golden Ticket thread we've got going already. That's pretty much already a bitch-fest about how bad they are.

 

[Coaster]

I'm surprised that Valhalla keeps winning, it's nowhere near the world beating ride it used to be.

 

[mouse]

I'll just re-post the top 10 steel coaster list so people don't have to go back a page to find it:

1. Fury 325 (Carowinds)
2. Millennium Force (Cedar Point)
3. Woodstock Express (Cedar Point)
4. Millennium Force again (Cedar Point)
5. Tea Cups (Six Flags New England)
6. Token European coaster (Holiday Park)
7. All the below average B&M hypers (Various)
8. Token actually good coaster (Cedar Point)
9. Millennium Force again (Cedar Point)
10. Millennium Force again (Cedar Point)