2016 HOF Voting Thread (2 Viewers)

Pick four sets to be inducted into the 2016 Custom Chip Set Hall of Fame

  • Steel City

    Votes: 26 18.8%

  • Suicide Queen

    Votes: 55 39.9%

  • Colony Club

    Votes: 76 55.1%

  • The Boulevard

    Votes: 57 41.3%

  • Chateau de Noix (tournament)

    Votes: 39 28.3%

  • The Iron Bank

    Votes: 31 22.5%

  • Contreras Landa

    Votes: 34 24.6%

  • Cedar Room

    Votes: 32 23.2%

  • Silver Dust Casino

    Votes: 35 25.4%

  • Casino Antarctica

    Votes: 17 12.3%

  • The Red Room

    Votes: 30 21.7%

  • The Lounge

    Votes: 19 13.8%

  • C U Next Tuesday

    Votes: 27 19.6%

  • The Old Orchard

    Votes: 25 18.1%
  • Total voters
    138
  • Poll closed .
12thMan said:
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. :D


COME ON CDN!!!!!! @bivey I'm pulling for you!!
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I don't really see why you're frustrated. I haven't seen anyone say anything out of line. They've advocated for the sets they like just as you have here with the CDNs, totally fairly by them and by you imo.
 
It's also worth noting that some sets will get in first ballot and others may need 2-3 ballots or more. Doesn't take away from the sets that need multiple ballots anymore than MLB players that need 3-4 years of voting to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Sometimes you're up against a weaker class in the voting, sometimes (like this year) there are a bunch of really deserving (as voted on by the public) sets.
 
I've searched every page of this thread and the stump thread like 3 times. I can't even find pics of the CDNs. Am I missing them? Seems pretty unfair if they're not posted.

Also, what do you guys like about Contreras Landing? Not trying to slam it, we all have different things we like about chips, and my opinion is no more valuable than anyone else's, but I'm with @12thMan on this one. I just don't understand giant inlays. Whenever I'm playing live and I get a chip with a giant inlay, I literally pull it from my stack and can't wait to toss it in. It tilts me that much. What about those chips do you guys find appealing?

Is it the surprise factor? Like, when you look at them from the top, you're thinking 'sweet circular photos'! Then, you see the side shot and you're like, BOOM!! Surprise! Holy shit, they're poker chips too!!! ?

ok, obviously joking around here, but in all seriousness, what is it about these that you guys find appealing?

...now I gotta try to find these damn CDNs. I feel like I've seen them somewhere...
 
CDN is Chateau de Noix

Also I agree with giant inlays. Not my favourite. But the Conteras just appeal to me, the choice of colors and inlay design are stunning IMO.
 
I found the CdNs though. Thanks guys... I love em. Gonna switch one of my votes now...
 
stocky said:
CDN is Chateau de Noix

Also I agree with giant inlays. Not my favourite. But the Conteras just appeal to me, the choice of colors and inlay design are stunning IMO.
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They did do a nice job color matching the edge spots with the inlay colors. I guess I just missed that because I was so hyper focused on the fact that they were giant inlays. The Boulevard set does this as well, which is more my cup of tea. But It doesn't quite make my top four, which for me are Cedar Room, Colony Club, Suicide Queens, and now Chateau de Noix (now that I've found them)
 
Poker Zombie said:
Chateau de Noix (tournament) - Bivey
ASM 2013

In designing the set with J5, Bivey's main goal was to create a set that made the players feel classy and distinguished. Having been a long time fan of the original Bellagio poker room chips, he set out to create an inlay with a weathered and antique sort of feel. He also wanted to incorporate his home of Wenatchee into the theme. Agriculture is a huge part of Central Washington with tree fruit and wine being the major players.

What better way to convey classy than with a fancy wine label?

The problem was that the wide reaching appeal and recognition of the budding Wenatchee wine industry was lacking. Using the idea, but with French wine made perfect sense. The FDL mold was an ideal and somewhat fortunate choice as it fit the theme perfectly and allowed for the larger inlay on which to work.

Each chip represents a different wine region of France. The cash set is composed of regions known for the white wines, and the tournament set that was nominated, reds. Bivey attempted to place the names in an official rank of prestige. Because France also has a famous brandy region, Cognac, this was also incorporated.

In choosing colors and spot patterns, he had two goals. First was to make the chips fairly complex with lots of spots, doing this to keep with the theme of luxury. The use of a white spot in almost every chip was an intentional maneuver to keep the chips looking antique – in effect to mute their colors a bit. Few day glow colors were used. Traditional base colors were used.

John Faulhaber aka J5, did the art. Chips were produced by ASM (Vegas).

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Even though you found it here it is again.
 
Lots of great chips, and like many others have said before, it was very a very tough decision for the last couple chips. I just want to stump for one of my top four that hasn't gotten as many votes. I know some people are complaining about recency bias, and I get that, but if the sets are up for nomination, and I think they are one of the best, I'm going to vote for them. That being said...

I love the Iron Bank set. What a great theme, and if you haven't seen the show the set is based off of, please at least try to watch Game of Thrones (or better yet, read the books). Just a brilliant idea, and flawlessly executed at that. I'm not too worried, because I believe that it will eventually get in, but to me that was one of the two no-brainers. You'd have to be Stark raving mad not to think so. And looking out my window at the Snowpocalypse, winter is indeed coming.
 
@stocky, if you make a custom table for that game of thrones set, you should inlay the map of Westeros IMO...

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Mr Tree said:
We actually had this conversation! I said he should get multiple tables and make them all locations (King's Landing, Winterfel, Harrenhal, etc.)
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That'd be sick.

I love the show, and like the set concept. To me, something just isn't working though. Can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps I'm titled because i don't see House Stark or House Lannister in there, haha. Acutally, it might be the red felt the photos were taken on... Love red felt, but it's throwing off the colors in the pics for me.
 
RainmanTrail said:
That'd be sick.

I love the show, and like the set concept. To me, something just isn't working though. Can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps I'm titled because i don't see House Stark or House Lannister in there, haha. Acutally, it might be the red felt the photos were taken on... Love red felt, but it's throwing off the colors in the pics for me.
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Yeah my felt sucks. It's on my to do list.

Stark and the rest will be on the cash set. Coming soon. Or not so soon. One day.
 
12thMan said:
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. :D


COME ON CDN!!!!!! @bivey I'm pulling for you!!
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This seems like an overreaction. I don't see anyone complaining about the "right" sets not winning or any general consternation regarding sets more deserving than others. People are lobbying for the sets they like, plain and simple.
 
Maybe not complaining, but there's been plenty of whining. Just sayin'.
 
RainmanTrail said:
That's weird. I don't even have a post #6. I just checked back and it goes straight from #5 to #7 for me
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Did you block/ignore Poker Zombie by chance? I haven't "ignored"anyone but i assume this is what happens if you chiose to?
 
Voting is DONE!
Congratulations to The Boulevard, Chateau de Noix, Colony Club, and Suicide Queen sets for being the 2016 custom set HOF class. Thank you everyone for voting and look for the formal HOF entries for these sets in the next couple of months.
 
should close this thread and start a new one around 2016 inductees, this one doesnt need any additional comments

Congrats to the winners
 

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