2016 HOF Voting Thread (1 Viewer)

[Mr Tree]

Maybe a rap battle could be in the offing?

 

[jbutler]

I really love seeing so many sets in the 30s. A great tribute to the quality of this year's nominees imo.

 

[BGinGA]

Could also be argued that they are all so underwhelming that none are capable of garnering more than 25% of the voters endorsement.

Not my position personally, but it could be interpreted that way.

 

[Mr Tree]

With only four choices it's really tough to get votes. The highest vote getters are historically extremely lucky to get votes from half the participants. I don't really think that's a metric that provides much meaning.

 

[BGinGA]

Agreed, although I do think that it reflects the relative parity of the available choices.

 

[Mr Tree]

Agreed, although I do think that it reflects the relative parity of the available choices.

That I do agree with. There are about six sets hovering in that same range where I think my preference of one over another is razor thin.

 

[courage]

Could also be argued that they are all so underwhelming that none are capable of garnering more than 25% of the voters endorsement.

Not my position personally, but it could be interpreted that way.

Then I'm not sure why you would say that. What is your position?

 

[courage]

Once again we're seeing the Recency Bias, meaning a preference for newer sets connected with an active forum member.

They are all deserving sets, but I'm a little sad and bewildered that a set like Contreras Landa is just getting by. I mean, you could make Key Lime pie with those $1 chips, and the inlay design has always seemed quite original and unique!

The Mona Lisa would prolly have a tough time here too.

 

[manamongkids]

Once again we're seeing the Recency Bias, meaning a preference for newer sets connected with an active forum member.

They are all deserving sets, but I'm a little sad and bewildered that a set like Contreras Landa is just getting by. I mean, you could make Key Lime pie with those $1 chips, and the inlay design has always seemed quite original and unique!

The Mona Lisa would prolly have a tough time here too.

I totally agree with the recency bias. my 4 picks were 2 recent ones and 2 olders ones. Also, many of us who are active now had a helping hand in some of the most recent sets, which may push someone to vote for a recent one, if you had any hand in helping with its design.

not saying its a positive, negative or otherwise, but that point definitely exists

 

[Psypher1000]

I'm a little sad and bewildered that a set like Contreras Landa is just getting by

I've seen a lot of support for this particular set and I think I understand people's reasons for it. I certainly don't fault anyone for wanting to see this one "immortalized". For me, though, the giant inlay precludes it from receiving my vote - as it would for any set with giant inlays. I just enjoy being able to see the spots/spot patterns on the face of the chip too much to vote in a set w/giant inlays, regardless of how awesome the inlay itself is.

 

[courage]

I've seen a lot of support for this particular set and I think I understand people's reasons for it. I certainly don't fault anyone for wanting to see this one "immortalized". For me, though, the giant inlay precludes it from receiving my vote - as it would for any set with giant inlays. I just enjoy being able to see the spots/spot patterns on the face of the chip too much to vote in a set w/giant inlays, regardless of how awesome the inlay itself is.

Yessir, I can respect that rationale, and normally I'm in the same camp from a "chip performance" point of view since I've had some slippery ones in the past (*cough, $5 Aztars). But I was also underwhelmed and skeptical regarding PNY's (*gasp*) until I got to handle mountains of them at berg's a few years ago and they were amazing.

I just need a rack of Contreras to be certain. (y) :thumbsup:

 

[Mr Tree]

If a rap battle needs to ensue including Contreras Landa I nominate Bergs to stand in since Patolanda is no longer around.

 

[Toby]

'Mon the Iron Bank!

 

[Puggy]

Gonna be a real fight.

 

[Puggy]

Rob vs. Jack Rap Battle. Wanna see that.

 

[jbutler]

Rob vs. Jack Rap Battle. Wanna see that.

Would definitely be the whitest rap battle of all time. Not sure I want to become engaged in such a tussle.

 

[Mr Tree]

MC Drinksalot vs Dr Forehead

 

[Ben]

Prediction: Butler is DQ'ed (obv) after using "inter vivos" in a rap. Berg wins by default even though he is lying on the floor after 18 crown & gingers and all he has managed so far is a grunt.

 

[Puggy]

Go for it guys. Go for it.

 

[jbutler]

Prediction: Butler is DQ'ed (obv) after using "inter vivos" in a rap. Berg wins by default even though he is lying on the floor after 18 crown & gingers and all he has managed so far is a grunt.

You joke, but Master P has made a career out of one grunt.

 

[bergs]

Degenethon mornin' and in my trunk is chips
In the backseat Harley and Butler hunned dollah flips
Now I ain't tryin to see no chase with Guinness
14 flips, my muthafuckah still broke and winless
I ain't passed the bar, but I know a little bit
I ain't playin no Pineapple, I'll win the next flip
I got 99 problems but my forehead ain't one

(Hook)
If you havin roll problems I feel bad for you son
99 problems but my forehead ain't one

 

[Mrs Poker Zombie]

Once again we're seeing the Recency Bias, meaning a preference for newer sets connected with an active forum member.

I think you are also seeing a bias for the earlier listed sets - this is why polling software allows for random order of answers for each participant. I realize that can't be the case here, but with that much information to process, it may have impacted selections.

 

[Toby]

I'm not normally one for oversize inlays either but I really love the use of colors on Contreras Landa and the great art. I'd love to play a few games with the set!

 

[gopherblue]

Once again we're seeing the Recency Bias, meaning a preference for newer sets connected with an active forum member.

They are all deserving sets, but I'm a little sad and bewildered that a set like Contreras Landa is just getting by. I mean, you could make Key Lime pie with those $1 chips, and the inlay design has always seemed quite original and unique!

The Mona Lisa would prolly have a tough time here too.

+1. I think there should be a waiting period of a year or two before a set can be nominated for that very reason. The recent sets nominated are great, but no way they are more deserving than some of these older sets, which were at the time--and still are--some of the greatest designs we've seen.

HoF is meant to recognize sets that are not just fantastic now, but that have stood the test of time and are still great, years later. There a difference between sets that are rightfully deemed to be a "set of the year" and those that are a "set of all time." I'm sorry, but as much as I like some of these fantastic recent sets, not one of them has met that threshold...yet.

 

[Mr Tree]

+1. I think there should be a waiting period of a year or two before a set can be nominated for that very reason. The recent sets nominated are great, but no way they are more deserving than some of these older sets, which were at the time--and still are--some of the greatest designs we've seen.

HoF is meant to recognize sets that are not just fantastic now, but that have stood the test of time and are still great, years later. There a difference between sets that are rightfully deemed to be a "set of the year" and those that are a "set of all time." I'm sorry, but as much as I like some of these fantastic recent sets, not one of them has met that threshold...yet.

We are going to implement a one year waiting period starting next year.

 

[12thMan]

In some ways I think it's too bad that there is so much consternation concerning which sets are "deserved" of getting in more than others based on age. If you are going to have an open vote then you are going to get what you get when people express their opinions by way of their vote and that vote shouldn't have to conform to someone else's definition of "worthy". Contreras should be in? Well, ok, sure, it's a great set and I'll listen to why it needs to be in there (and would never protest it being in), but if you ask me to vote it isn't going to matter to me because it has a giant inlay and I think giant inlays on poker chips are like hubcaps on nice wheels. The Casino Antarctica was praised by Jim himself? Awesome, I'm glad to some people it's an example of the perfect inlay, but according to my tastes and what I've grown to like over the many years of looking at and appreciating poker chips (which, by the way, goes back way further than CT or PCF) I think a Bellagio style chip is the quintessential design form and feel. C U Next Tuesday has a great story to it?? Cool, I'm a very sentimental person and that's an awesome story, but I also could never in my life have a chip set with a phrase on it that I used to hear come out of Tom Leykis' mouth back in the late 90's. So, not for me.

We are voting on poker chips so don't think I'm jumping up and down mad over here, but it gets a little tiresome reading over and over why the "right" sets aren't winning, everything from ignorance of the voters to where they are listed on the pole, and how it should be corrected. I say if some people are that much smarter and more in tune with this than the unwashed masses you should just put the sets that you want to be in the Hall of Fame in it and call it good. Until then though, if my vote counts for anything, Suicide Queens, The Colony Club, The Boulevard, and CDN get it (they got it a while ago) because they are my Hall of Fame sets out of this class for many of my own reasons and every one of them would have got my vote regardless of age or their placement on the list...and I don't feel a bit bad about it.


COME ON CDN!!!!!! @bivey I'm pulling for you!!

 

[Jeff]

I was hoping more would tie, and more sets would go into the HOF because they'd put the sets that tied in as opposed to going through some other contrived gymnastics to break the tie.

 

[Mr Tree]

In some ways I think it's too bad that there is so much consternation concerning which sets are "deserved" of getting in more than others based on age. If you are going to have an open vote then you are going to get what you get when people express their opinions by way of their vote and that vote shouldn't have to conform to someone else's definition of "worthy". Contreras should be in? Well, ok, sure, it's a great set and I'll listen to why it needs to be in there (and would never protest it being in), but if you ask me to vote it isn't going to matter to me because it has a giant inlay and I think giant inlays on poker chips are like hubcaps on nice wheels. The Casino Antarctica was praised by Jim himself? Awesome, I'm glad to some people it's an example of the perfect inlay, but according to my tastes and what I've grown to like over the many years of looking at and appreciating poker chips (which, by the way, goes back way further than CT or PCF) I think a Bellagio style chip is the quintessential design form and feel. C U Next Tuesday has a great story to it?? Cool, I'm a very sentimental person and that's an awesome story, but I also could never in my life have a chip set with a phrase on it that I used to hear come out of Tom Leykis' mouth back in the late 90's. So, not for me.

We are voting on poker chips so don't think I'm jumping up and down mad over here, but it gets a little tiresome reading over and over why the "right" sets aren't winning, everything from ignorance of the voters to where they are listed on the pole, and how it should be corrected. I say if some people are that much smarter and more in tune with this than the unwashed masses you should just put the sets that you want to be in the Hall of Fame in it and call it good. Until then though, if my vote counts for anything, Suicide Queens, The Colony Club, The Boulevard, and CDN get it (they got it a while ago) because they are my Hall of Fame sets out of this class for many of my own reasons and every one of them would have got my vote regardless of age or their placement on the list...and I don't feel a bit bad about it.


COME ON CDN!!!!!! @bivey I'm pulling for you!!

As a point of reference, the one year waiting period isn't a reaction to fix any type of injustice from this year. The sets that win all deserve to go through. That's kind of the point. We didn't nominate anything that ultimately we would be embarrassed if it got enshrined.

As a matter of fact of the top seven sets only two would have been affected by a one year wait. The Boulevard and Colony Club. Do I think they would still get in if you made them wait a year? Honestly, yes. I just also think as they have both recently been produced and are fresh and people are still patting their owners on the back they have a lot of extra wind in their sails. This will happen every year so I think making a one year waiting period happen just levels he field a bit.

As far as getting it "right". I think that's a fool's game here. That's why we put it to a popular vote. It's a subjective medium so there is no definitive way to iron out a "right" answer. I do think some people are very passionate about the sets they like which is a great thing.

 

[Toby]

Is the poll voting time according to user set time zone in account preferences?

 

[Mr Tree]

Is the poll voting time according to user set time zone in account preferences?

No clue lol