Cusm

With respect and props to turborobb and Chew, is there any interest in seeing a revamped Sci-Fi tournament with the shows actually seeded versus randomly drawn? It would be the same 4 bracket matchups. Ratings/seedings would have to be voted on, and this time we could do away with non scifi/cult like Friends.


I (or if anyone else wants to they are welcomed ot it)can take charge of this if there is any interest. I, and others have asked for this, so I will make an attempt.

Here is my 64, please note that shows that I watched but have not fallen in love with yet (B5, Buffy) are low because of this.


1 Farscape
2 Mystery Science Theater
3 Star Trek The Next Generation
4 Twin Peaks
5 Monty Python's Flying Circus
6 X-Files
7 Futurama
8 The Young Ones
9 Family Guy
10 Twilight Zone
11 Aqua Teen Hunger Force
12 Battlestar Gallactica
13 Star Trek Deep Space Nine
14 Land of the Lost
15 Invisible Man
15 Star Trek
16 Mr. Show
17 Sliders
19 First Wave
20 Outer Limits
21 Alien Nation
22 V - The Series
23 Space Ghost Coast to Coast
24 Brimstone
25 Buck Rogers
26 Good vs. Evil
27 Space: Above and Beyond
28 Highlander
29 Sifl & Olly Show
30 Doctor Who
31 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
32 Babylon 5
33 Battlestar Gallactica - The Miniseries
34 Star Trek Voyage
35 Night Stalker
36 Six Million Dollar Man
37 Quantum Leap
38 The Incredible Hulk
39 Angel
40 Space 1999
41 Battle of the Planets
42 Lost in Space
43 Stargate SG1
44 American Gothic
45 The Avengers
46 Hercules
47 Star Trek Enterprise
48 Roughnecks Starship Troopers
49 The Prisoner
50 Xena
51 Dead Like Me
52 Dark Shadows
53 Andromeda
54 Beastmaster
55 Lexx
56 Jake 2.0
57 Charmed
58 Firefly
59 The Visitor
60 Kindred The Embrace
61 Ultraviolet
62 John Doe
63 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
64 Manimal

Chew

There's plenty of people who think some of the best shows got shut out early (myself included).

But, there certainly didn't seem to be a whole lot of interest in the last two rounds. Big part of that was either due to the "do-over" or the time gap between them (or even the choices). I'm not so sure doing it all over again will bring more responses even with a seeding.

But, I'll be here to vote if there is.

Brain Stew

I wouldn't really classify these as Sci-Fi.

das Monkey

Not a great interest, but I'll vote as long as the thing is run in a fair manner, where one person's bias isn't dictating results.

That said, it's a bit laughable to call it "seeding" them when you have Frist Wave at 19 and The Prisoner at 49. This is the inherent flaw, I guess, since trying to "seed" them is about as arguable as the tournament itself.

das

Cusm

That was just one persons' (however wrong it is) ranking, not to be used just to start it. Looking for a more fair Sci Fi/cult tournament that did not have the top shows knocking each other off in the first round. My initial thought was to poll everyone, than make a consensus poll and seed from there (kinda slow now during the holidays).

das Monkey

My intent wasn't to criticize your seeding so much as to point out the issue that we'd all seed the shows differently, and the act of seeding them could be as arduous as the actual tournament.

Perhaps to seed, you could have everyone assign a value from 1 to 5 to each show they've seen, average those out, randomize on ties, and go from there?

das