Post by MGH on Jun 28, 2014 12:18:59 GMT -5
Some of the long time posters may recall around 2008-2009 when I used to do the Top 20 Series here on the forums. It was a pretty straight forward concept. Each week a different wrestler is chosen (sometimes at random, sometimes not) as the subject for the countdown and the forum PMs me their ten favorite matches of his or her career. A top 20 list is assembled from the votes, and at the end of that week I do a live countdown of the results.
When the game section was added to the forums originally the traffic was very low for a while and the voting went down. Once the countdowns started becoming a regular thing I was probably getting anywhere from 50-60 voters per list. I think the biggest list, the Ric Flair list, ended up in the 70s. But that dropped down to 15 or so a week with the move to the gaming section and while I appreciated the people who found it and stuck with it, that just wasn't enough to make this worth maintaining.
But now it has been a few years and the game forum has much more of a regular group of visitors. So I thought I would take a chance and see if maybe this was a concept people would be interested in having return. Or if you're newer to this place, something you'd be interested to participate in for the first time. I had to dig a little through the archives, but here is an example of one of the weekly lists. This is from the end of 2008 when we did a year end countdown of best matches.
The Voting Thread
The Top 25 Matches of 2008
Obviously links to full matches won't be provided any more, but the general layout would remain the same.
So yeah, if this is something it seems there might be real interest in I would post the first one on Monday the 7th. There needs to be a real level of interest though. I'm including a poll at the top here. If you're interested in this coming back, either vote there or post in the thread here and let me know. I'm looking for around 30 or so people at least before I bring this back. If I get that, and hopefully more, awesome. If not, no need in bringing it back.
So let me know what you think
When the game section was added to the forums originally the traffic was very low for a while and the voting went down. Once the countdowns started becoming a regular thing I was probably getting anywhere from 50-60 voters per list. I think the biggest list, the Ric Flair list, ended up in the 70s. But that dropped down to 15 or so a week with the move to the gaming section and while I appreciated the people who found it and stuck with it, that just wasn't enough to make this worth maintaining.
But now it has been a few years and the game forum has much more of a regular group of visitors. So I thought I would take a chance and see if maybe this was a concept people would be interested in having return. Or if you're newer to this place, something you'd be interested to participate in for the first time. I had to dig a little through the archives, but here is an example of one of the weekly lists. This is from the end of 2008 when we did a year end countdown of best matches.
The Voting Thread
The Top 25 Matches of 2008
Obviously links to full matches won't be provided any more, but the general layout would remain the same.
So yeah, if this is something it seems there might be real interest in I would post the first one on Monday the 7th. There needs to be a real level of interest though. I'm including a poll at the top here. If you're interested in this coming back, either vote there or post in the thread here and let me know. I'm looking for around 30 or so people at least before I bring this back. If I get that, and hopefully more, awesome. If not, no need in bringing it back.
So let me know what you think
