Keep Your Eyes on the Stars!

Thursday, December 18, 2014

All of the Round 1 RPG Superstar 2015 entries are in! Go get voting and help us find our Top 32! If you have any questions about voting, check out our Voting FAQ, or email us at contest@paizo.com.

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Star Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8

So how do you flag items, especially since the first two I got to vote for are wondrous items?

Star Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9

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The first two were more than likely a pair of last year's items (some posters verified the same thing happened last year, and I vaguely recall the same).

If you're still seeing them after that, write down the names and PM them to one of the Paizo guys (Mark Seifter or Owen Stephens, would be recommended).

Grand Lodge Dedicated Voter Season 8

These are really fun, this is my first go around. Certainly going to do it again next year!

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 8

Somebody in the know explain to me how this contest is fair? I've been voting since the contest has begun (about 5 hours a day), and some of the items have come up multiple times (At least 10), and some of the better items I've seen have only come up once. Now, some of those items that have come up so often are great, but most of them have been just Ok at best, but better than the competition they are up against. This makes me think that those mediocre items are going to get a pass because they come up so often. I hope I'm wrong and everything balances itself out, but its not looking good from my perspective.

Sovereign Court Star Voter Season 8

@valantrix I could be wrong but I think controversial items appear more often.

Example an item that "always" gets upvoted shows up less because they know its good

and item that always gets downvoted shows up less because they know it sucks

an item that constantly gets upvoted and downvoted needs to be pared against as many things as possible to determine where it lies

This would be my guess as to how the items are comming up

Marathon Voter Season 8

Valantrix1 wrote:
Somebody in the know explain to me how this contest is fair? I've been voting since the contest has begun (about 5 hours a day), and some of the items have come up multiple times (At least 10), and some of the better items I've seen have only come up once. Now, some of those items that have come up so often are great, but most of them have been just Ok at best, but better than the competition they are up against. This makes me think that those mediocre items are going to get a pass because they come up so often. I hope I'm wrong and everything balances itself out, but its not looking good from my perspective.

Essentially what Negative Zer0 said was right... I think...

If you check out the voting FAQ on the main page there is this link to explain the voting. http://www.cohp.org/records/difficulty/schulze.html

From what I get from what I get from the link, not seeing your item repeatedly it's because there are no real conflicts in where the item lies (from the text in the link) to sort out which would mean that most likely the item is either very high or very low on the list.

(This is just how I think it works from reading the information in the FAQ. The link will be more accurate than I will though)

Star Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9

That's roughly it, but bear two other things in mind:

1) You're only one of many, many other voters. Potentially upwards of several hundred, at the very least several dozen. So there are other rankings going on elsewhere/when that are factored into things. (More specifics can be found in the faq).

2) The popular vote won't determine the finalists; the public voting only serves to narrow down the field, whereupon the judges will ultimately determine the final 32. So even if an item proves very popular with the voters, it is not guaranteed to advance.

(And as an addendum to #2, there has in the past been a period of "culling," wherein the lowest voted items are dropped and voting then only takes place between the highest voted items. I don't know if there is an exact formula to it, but I want to say they drop the lowest 10% or something).

Champion Voter Season 6, Champion Voter Season 7, Champion Voter Season 8, Champion Voter Season 9

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Actually they have said they remove those items that don't get better than 40% up-votes over down-votes with the cull. So the exact number and percentage will vary with each year if they keep the same approach.

Dark Archive RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 , Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8 aka FaxCelestis

Also keep in mind that voting doesn't say "this item is the best". It says "this item is better than the one it's compared to". You're not determining which item is objectively the best, you're determining the sorting order of the entire spectrum of items. In order to make that happen, you necessarily need to see some items repeat.

Your votes determine A is better than B, and B is better than C, and D is better than B, which ranks your items as A=D>B>C. I would expect you would later see an A vs D vote to determine an actual ranking.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 8

Thanks for the info! I haven't voted this much before, and I was getting discouraged about how often some of the items were coming up.

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