Mark said:
I do find it odd with some of the groupings though. for instance the Extended SC 2000/3000 coasters. I mean, I rank Dragons Fury quite highly, as apose to Spinball Whizzer and Whirlwind (yes this is a CLONED one, I understand that! but ironically it is almost the same as Crush Turlte Twist - which is in the poll!. They differ so very much in my ranking that it seems a bit bizarre to group them. It has also missed out Tarantula at Parque de Attractionnes in Spain.... That isn't a clone either...
I've been assissting Mitch with the polls the past three years now, and I can speak a little on why the groupings are getting crowded.
The program that Mitch uses to compile and tabulate the votes is limited by the number of rankable linesthat can be used.
We are up against that limit.
So, for every new coaster built, something has to go. We are trying to clump rides in groups that make sense, so that every (major) coaster can still be represented in some way.
We try to get all of the production models, but there's too many to list, as all those instructions and whatnot are becoming incredibly cumbersome to view.
So, while the Extended SC 2000/3000 coasters may have differences between them, we know this. You should rank that line as if it were your favorite of the type, whether it is Dragons, Tarantula or one of the clones.
As for Crush, Mitch likes to separate the more highly themed rides from the rest, to see how theming affects people's opinion of a known coaster type.
Just be sure that come next year, more rides will
seem to have vanished, but will instead have been relegated to their group types. My next candidate for that is the Intamin Impulse Coasters. Some of the coasters that have never seen any votes at all (read as South American coasters) will be disappearing from the ballot as well.
(Now to finish reading the rest of the thread.)
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