2016 Custom Chip HOF stump thread. (3 Viewers)

[Mr Tree]

The committee has been called together to select nominations for the 2016 custom chip set HOF thread. This is your chance to sway their decisions! This thread is for stumping for chip sets that you feel deserve nominations. I would suggest adding liberal chip porn to effectively stump as well. Which sets should be immortalized? Please keep in mind cash and tournament sets are separate nominations.

 

[slisk250]

Colony Club, beat everyone to it.

 

[Mr Tree]

I can't resist

 

[SixSpeedFury]

That high roller set definitely needs to be nominated

 

[Poker Zombie]

I think you just effectively jacked your own thread before it ever got started.

 

[manamongkids]

Honestly if you dont have one of these as your avatar, who even are you

 

[Mr Tree]

I think you just effectively jacked your own thread before it ever got started.

A successful thread Jack of my own thread in post number 3. That has to be some kind of record right?

 

[spikeithard]

inb4 'le Boulevard'

 

[Poker Zombie]

Colony Club, beat everyone to it.

That high roller set definitely needs to be nominated

inb4 'le Boulevard'

Don't make me hunt for pics - post them here!

 

[slisk250]

Don't make me hunt for pics - post them here!

Colony Club needs no pics. Viewing them one time has sufficiently burned the images into my retinas.

 

[Mr Tree]

Keep in mind there has to be a high degree of consensus among the nominees for a set to go to voting. As chair of the committee I am avoiding naming names but I know sets that I wanted to go to voting last year that didn't make it...

 

[jbutler]

Keep in mind there has to be a high degree of consensus among the nominees for a set to go to voting. As chair of the committee I am avoiding naming names but I know sets that I wanted to go to voting last year that didn't make it...

Same. And I will be berating my fellow committee members again this year for those same sets which were my babies last year

Looking forward to seeing everyone else's favorites in this thread.

I will reiterate something that was discussed privately among the committee: this is intended to be high selective. There are a LOT of truly great sets produced every year. I can easily name ten off the top of my head from the last year that I think are nearly perfect in achieving what they set out to do. But the Hall of Fame is for those that stand out among even those great sets.

My point in saying the above is to avoid long lists of sets listed just because they are beautiful. We want to see those that you think are the cream of the crop and hear why you think so.

 

[links_slayer]

edit: n/m

 

[Poker Zombie]

You "say" Colony Club has burned the images in. Others "may" not have seen the thread (like people on Mars). Also.... Pr0N!

 

[manamongkids]

can we get a link to the current HOF inductees? or a compiled list, and a list of who was up for induction last year?

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Don't make me hunt for pics - post them here!

Ask and ye shall receive

I mean, c'mon now..... notice how they look like big pieces of hard candy when they're perfectly aligned (as if they would be perfectly aligned in stacks during a game.....)

 

[Mr Tree]

can we get a link to the current HOF inductees? or a compiled list, and a list of who was up for induction last year?

Here is the voting thread from last year.

http://www.pokerchipforum.com/index.php?threads/2015-Custom-Chip-Hall-of-Fame-voting-thread!.4739/

Also all of last year's inductees can be found in the resource section. (Or on March if you bought this year's calendar.)

 

[jbutler]

can we get a link to the current HOF inductees? or a compiled list, and a list of who was up for induction last year?

Here's the current HoF.

Here's the voting thread from last year.

 

[Mr Tree]

Ask and ye shall receive

I mean, c'mon now.....

Bang

 

[manamongkids]

are you sticking with the same rules, 10 new sets?

edit: will sets that did not make the vote from last year, go over and be able to be considered for this year? is there a certain % for that to happen, lets say 25% for sake of argument

 

[jbutler]

are you sticking with the same rules, 10 new sets?

This year and all years going forward, unless the committee later amends the policy, the cap is 5 inductees. There is no minimum, however. The number of actual inductees will be determined the committee after it has finalized the number of nominations.

The inaugural class was 10 sets in order to account for the fact that we were dealing with a huge backlog of very deserving sets and we thought it better to go ahead and get in a reasonable number of them rather than basically guaranteeing that the first two years would be classic sets that we all knew would get in there eventually.

 

[Mr Tree]

are you sticking with the same rules, 10 new sets?

edit: will sets that did not make the vote from last year, go over and be able to be considered for this year? is there a certain % for that to happen, lets say 25% for sake of argument

FYI shameless self promotion is kosher in this thread manamongkids.

 

[manamongkids]

FYI shameless self promotion is kosher in this thread manamongkids.

Haha, nah. I think Suicide Queen from @k9dr should go up for nomination, an absolutely all-time set

 

[Ben]

I will be stumping in the form of new pr0n sometime very soon. Jack, your samples are on the way.

Speaking of which though, wasn't the committee supposed to be re-selected each year?

 

[jbutler]

I will be stumping in the form of new pr0n sometime very soon. Jack, your samples are on the way.

Speaking of which though, wasn't the committee supposed to be re-selected each year?

In order that there will always be some members who have experience in the role, each member serves a two-year term with half the members' terms staggered.

In order to accomplish that, the first committee (formed last year) had three members with one-year terms and three members with two-year terms. So Tom, Josh, and I remained this year and next year bergs, PZ, and Toby will remain to welcome three new committee members into the process.

 

[k9dr]

Haha, nah. I think Suicide Queen from @k9dr should go up for nomination, an absolutely all-time set

Thanks for the nomination I might have a few pics somewhere :

http://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/suicide-queen-asm-cpc-md-50-cash-set.8695/

 

[slisk250]

I liked some of the discussion that was first raised by payback, then was dropped due to respect for Tom and the hard task of moving forward. Now that we are past the first year should the discussion about rules, committee membership, etc. be revisited? There were a few highly respected chippers who felt strong enough about the process to chime in. I didn't disagree with many points made by Jeff and payback but do not in any way want that to be a dig against the 2015 committee. They made good points too.

Edit - I'm curious about one thing. Should the owner of a set accompany the nomination or it's creator? Hungry Frog is in but sold and now we have Suicide Queen, a very worthy set now owned by the good doctor. Should meatboy get the nod in the event it is nominated?

 

[Mr Tree]

I liked some of the discussion that was first raised by payback, then was dropped due to respect for Tom and the hard task of moving forward. Now that we are past the first year should the discussion about rules, committee membership, etc. be revisited? There were a few highly respected chippers who felt strong enough about the process to chime in. I didn't disagree with many points made by Jeff and payback but do not in any way want that to be a dig against the 2015 committee. They made good points too.

Edit - I'm curious about one thing. Should the owner of a set accompany the nomination or it's creator? Hungry Frog is in but sold and now we have Suicide Queen, a very worthy set now owned by the good doctor. Should meatboy get the nod in the event it is nominated?

Weird case. Also I believe Mark designed a new 100 for the set. In that case I think both should be mentioned.

As for the process, there were those against the HOF in its entirety. They are entitled to their opinion of course but we will continue to move forward in this format.

 

[jbutler]

I liked some of the discussion that was first raised by payback, then was dropped due to respect for Tom and the hard task of moving forward. Now that we are past the first year should the discussion about rules, committee membership, etc. be revisited? There were a few highly respected chippers who felt strong enough about the process to chime in. I didn't disagree with many points made by Jeff and payback but do not in any way want that to be a dig against the 2015 committee. They made good points too.

Edit - I'm curious about one thing. Should the owner of a set accompany the nomination or it's creator? Hungry Frog is in but sold and now we have Suicide Queen, a very worthy set now owned by the good doctor. Should meatboy get the nod in the event it is nominated?

Weird case. Also I believe Mark designed a new 100 for the set. In that case I think both should be mentioned.

As for the process, there were those against the HOF in its entirety. They are entitled to their opinion of course but we will continue to move forward in this format.

Agreed on both points. I really like the way Mark put it when he posted pr0n:

Conceived by Meatboy, designed by J5, tweaked by me - the Suicide Queens

I'm sure none of the above parties would be opposed to having the set listed as it is above were it inducted.

As to the arguments against the HoF or against the organization of the committee, I think they are best addressed outside this thread if at all. I'd be glad to give all the reasons why I think the committee as organized by Tom (not trying to lay blame, in fact the opposite: to give credit) is at least one of the best ways if not the best way to assemble the HoF. But the discussion should be taken to another thread if it is desired.

 

[bergs]

I liked some of the discussion that was first raised by payback, then was dropped due to respect for Tom and the hard task of moving forward. Now that we are past the first year should the discussion about rules, committee membership, etc. be revisited? There were a few highly respected chippers who felt strong enough about the process to chime in. I didn't disagree with many points made by Jeff and payback but do not in any way want that to be a dig against the 2015 committee. They made good points too.

Edit - I'm curious about one thing. Should the owner of a set accompany the nomination or it's creator? Hungry Frog is in but sold and now we have Suicide Queen, a very worthy set now owned by the good doctor. Should meatboy get the nod in the event it is nominated?

I'm of the opinion that it's the creator. They had the inspirational spark to create the set and saw the work through to design it and get it made. The owner just shelled up some money for some chips. Note that having a design idea and seeing it through differentiates from a J5 or someone of that ilk that just helps with the artwork.

EDIT: If the person that acquired the chips then contributed to the set from a design & add-on perspective, then they should also be mentioned too, obviously.