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Holy crap, Thomas LeBlanc. Maybe he should be RPG Superstar 2013 Grand Champion Voter.

He's like Neil Spicer-lite.

Neil Spicer Zero?

LeBlanc spent roughly 120 hours voting? 15 8-hour work days? That's... a lot.

Wow, Thomas. I'm impressed. Or disturbed. I'm not sure which.

The poor 99ers. I know I slowed down a lot once I got to Marathon, so I'm not surprised there were 116 blue jeans voters.

I'm pleased I managed to get into the exclusive field of 84. Hopefully I'll still get into a more exclusive Superstar field, but I'll settle for that for now.

Gary, can we find out how many Champion voters we had?

Go Thomas!!!!

And glad I'm in an elite 84.

I think Thomas should get a little crown or something to go next to his voter tag. "Yeah, that's right. I'm the KING of voting. You all can feel free to worship at your leisure."

I'll take being in the slightly less elite, but still formidable "Dedicated Voters Division." DVD for short. I'm making t-shirts. :P

Marathon Voter Club! WOO!

Also: Thomas! Well played.

Whoops, forgot to include the Champion voters. The blog has been updated.

Was it possible to see how many votes I had made at anytime?

Respect to Thomas LeBlanc!

I suspect I might be one of the 50>1< votes. Whew :)

!!

But! Big respect to CHEERS and Feros too! :)

Dear Champion Voters,

Have you considered a career in gold farming? >:D

Yikes. I'm a seasonal worker (vineyard & horticultural nursery manager) so my off season hours are quite low giving me a lot of free time in the winter. But I had no idea...

Thomas, you are a mad man! :)

Thank you Paizo for the numbers. 4 years is a lot of dedication. Special Congrats to the Champion Voters!

Holy moly rigatoni! That'sa lota votes!

Grats Thomas, Cheers, and Feros! You gents are beasts!

I made the top 87! Wooooo! That's almost like making the top 32, right?

But seriously, half a million votes is incredible. Congrats on what I hope is a successful crowdsourcing experiment!

I didn't realize the Marathon Voter level would be such an exclusive club. Then again, probably the only reason I made it that far was that it took that long (about 2000 votes by my estimate) for me to see my own item. I think I only voted 3 times after that.

Now, how many of the marathon+ voters have a previous RPG Superstar tag? Or are guys like Anthony Adam who are always seriously invested in the contest?

At least one fits your question :P

Thomas LeBlanc, you are a trooper.

There are fourteen former RPG Superstar contestants who made Marathon voter:

• Andrew Black (MythrilDragon)—RPG Superstar 2008 Top 16
  
• Andrew Marlowe (Locke1520)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
  
• Eric Hindley (Boxhead)—RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 16
  
• Eric Morton (Epic Meepo)—RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32
  
• Jacob Kellogg (Jiggy)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
  
• Jacob Trier (Jacob Trier)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
  
• Jacob W. Michaels (motteditor)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
  
• Jerry Keyes (surfbored)—RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32
  
• Joshua Kitchens (Draconas)—RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
  
• Joshua Murphy (Teth Evik)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
  
• Mark Hart (Mark Hart)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
  
• Matt Banach (Ezekiel Shanoax, the Stormchild)—RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16
  
• Samuel Kisko (Core)—RPG Superstar 2008 Top 16
  
• Sean McGowan (DankeSean)—RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 4
  

Thanks Feros, CHEERS! and Thomas!
Thanks for the numbers Gary! :)

So if there were 1000 items, plus or minus, then each item was voted on around 1000 times. That should lead to some pretty reliable rankings!

500,000 votes of 2 items each = 1,000,000 item-votes, then divide by 1000 items = 1000 votes each item.

Nicely done Kilrex, we knew that it was going to be a lot; but we couldn't have guessed that it was going to be SHOCKING! ;-)

Wow! That's impressive! Congrats to everyone who voted!

O.o Thomas, you sure hace a FEROCIOUS clicking finger!

I was just happy to have a dedicated voter tag. Everyone in the top 3 voters, I have to say: Wow.

Impressive work Thomas, CHEERS and Feros!

Congratulations to all the marathon and dedicated voters as well.

There are fourteen former RPG Superstar contestants who made Marathon voter:

• Andrew Black (MythrilDragon)—RPG Superstar 2008 Top 16
  
• Andrew Marlowe (Locke1520)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
  
• Eric Hindley (Boxhead)—RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 16
  
• Eric Morton (Epic Meepo)—RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32
  
• Jacob Kellogg (Jiggy)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
  
• Jacob Trier (Jacob Trier)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
  
• Jacob W. Michaels (motteditor)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16
  
• Jerry Keyes (surfbored)—RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32
  
• Joshua Kitchens (Draconas)—RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
  
• Joshua Murphy (Teth Evik)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
  
• Mark Hart (Mark Hart)—RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
  
• Matt Banach (Ezekiel Shanoax, the Stormchild)—RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16
  
• Samuel Kisko (Core)—RPG Superstar 2008 Top 16
  
• Sean McGowan (DankeSean)—RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 4
  

Allright - Jacobs represent!

And Gary, there are actually 15 former Top 32 who made Marathon. One of us just went the extra distance. Thomas, you are a man of pure adamantine. Feros and CHEERS too.

Funny, I don't remember any of them as Internet Forum Warriors worthy of being my peers. They must be doing something right!

I am impressed. I knew there was a lot of heavy-duty voting going on, but I never imagined that kind of scale. Great job, everyone!

*Hands Thomas LeBlanc a golden trophy*

*slinks away with his Star Voter and a "I Participated!" sticker*

Was it possible to see how many votes I had made at anytime?

Or can I see my total now that it is over? I am curious to see my count

That is an ungodly number of votes, and time spent voting for Mr. LeBlanc.

Wait a second...almost half a million votes? As in, just under 500,000? That would mean...

My voting alone accounted for over 1% of the vote.

Meep.

I'm confused. I admit I haven't been following the superstar contests, but how can you cast a thousand votes in one ongoing contest with obviously less participants? Can you vote as often as you like for the same contestant now?

Next year, we need to make a 'Thomas LeBlanc, what are YOU looking for in a wondrous item?' thread.

I say award the three Champions a penny per vote in store credit. That was just an insane amount of effort.

I'm confused. I admit I haven't been following the superstar contests, but how can you cast a thousand votes in one ongoing contest with obviously less participants? Can you vote as often as you like for the same contestant now?

you didn't vote for contestants at all in the first round, you were just given two anonymous items from the pool to rank against each other... again and again and again (with different item pairings each time though).

I'm confused. I admit I haven't been following the superstar contests, but how can you cast a thousand votes in one ongoing contest with obviously less participants? Can you vote as often as you like for the same contestant now?

We weren't voting for individual items. We were ranking two items at a time. We would see two items and pick which one was better. Then we would see another pair. When you match every item up to every other item, you get thousands of pairings with only hundreds of items.

EDIT: D'oh! Ninja'd!

Ah I see, I didn't know that there was voting in the first round. In previous contests, I think, the winners of round one were chosen by the judges. Interesting method! :)

Wow. Just wow.

Well done to everyone who voted with huge props to our three Champion Voters: Thomas LeBlanc, CHEERS and Feros. Completely awesome!

Gary, if possible can you say who had the most votes out of the Marathon voters? I think like a few, I got to Marathon and then eased up but are there any voters who went for Champion but didn't quite get there?

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

The winners of round one are still chosen by the judges, all of our feverish voting was just to determine the order in which the judges look at the items.

Thanks all! (mumbling)for making me feel like I had nothing better to do for the entire voting period

When a number is attached, the time sinks seems so much larger. I was pretty close to Marathon by the end of the first weekend. I would have earned Dedicated just voting at stop lights traveling to-from work.

Last Thursday at the game store, we played a game where someone would read off an pair of items and I had to be able to give a synopsis for each item from memory. I was accurate about 80% of the time.

Well voting is over and I am going through withdrawal. Gary was my pusher and the damn smart phone was an enabler...

Last Thursday at the game store, we played a game where someone would read off an pair of items and I had to be able to give a synopsis for each item from memory. I was accurate about 80% of the time.

Some friends were making characters recently for a PFS-like Shattered Star game, but while everyone else was thinking of PFS-legal item options for their characters, I just couldn't get the endless list of RPGSS items out of my head! I seriously need to recover from this voting process, and I wasn't even one of the top voters.

Shine on, you crazy voting diamonds.

Thomas LeBlanc wrote:

Last Thursday at the game store, we played a game where someone would read off an pair of items and I had to be able to give a synopsis for each item from memory. I was accurate about 80% of the time.

Some friends were making characters recently for a PFS-like Shattered Star game, but while everyone else was thinking of PFS-legal item options for their characters, I just couldn't get the endless list of RPGSS items out of my head! I seriously need to recover from this voting process, and I wasn't even one of the top voters.

Shine on, you crazy voting diamonds.

My gf came up with the idea for a one-shot involving opening voting pages and then equipping the characters with no magic items other than one or the other of those items. Before the cull, it would have been a bit of a comedic one-shot for sure...

Will total item rankings be ever released?

The voter titles are cool and all, but how about titles for those of us who have submitted to the contest every year? I'm certainly a "Dedicated Submitter," but I don't think you can call me "Champion Submitter" since I fail to crack the top 32 every year.

I'd be interested in to see statistics on that. I hope I'm not the only chronic hopeful that has entered every year and not made the top 32. Maybe this will be my lucky year. It is certainly my most "Superstar" item based on the judge's preferences.

Wow.
Well, if they aren't at least SOMEWHAT close to the proper order now, they're never going to be. I bet our top three voters have had a discernible impact on this competition all by themselves. They account for like, what, 4% of the total vote cast??

And hats off to everyone over Star Voter status! I tried to make time for it, but I would always start nodding off in my chair.

Impressive! I guess I have a lot more free time on may hands than I think.