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On 7/10/2017 at 2:08 PM, Tripper said:

 

This year's tournament does seem quieter. The website traffic has been falling for a few years now so that plays a part. One other change is that we don't get as much traffic from Facebook or Twitter as we used to. People on the forum used to wonder why the voting didn't seem to match what seemed like popular opinion here. Often it was because there was a different fan base on FB and TW. They used to drive more people to the episode tournament pages, but changes to their algorithms seem to have meant not as many people see those posts now.

I have the data for tournaments going back to S1-6 in 2013.

That is a bummer. The last thing I want is for the tournament to turn into an echo chamber of forum opinion. It is always refreshing to see something that doesn't reflect the forum  opinion completely. 

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26 minutes ago, serena_1995 said:

That is a bummer. The last thing I want is for the tournament to turn into an echo chamber of forum opinion. It is always refreshing to see something that doesn't reflect the forum  opinion completely. 

S. 10 tournament actually ended in a very different way than what we thought in the forum. Most of the people here would have preferred 10.7 to win, but apparently 10.24 was a much more liked by casual fans.

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The season finales have proved to be popular in the past. Obviously we're running these tournaments, particularly the season specific ones, not long after the episode aired so maybe they are more firmly lodged in people's memories.

424 won back the Season 4 tournament back in 2011 even as an episode which tended to split opinion on the forum.

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38 minutes ago, Tripper said:

The season finales have proved to be popular in the past. Obviously we're running these tournaments, particularly the season specific ones, not long after the episode aired so maybe they are more firmly lodged in people's memories.

424 won back the Season 4 tournament back in 2011 even as an episode which tended to split opinion on the forum.

Oh I wasn't talking of finales in particular. Completely unrelated to the latest match.  I was referring to a very early post by you.  Just that it was mentioned that the traffic to the website is falling and unable to reach as many Twitter and Facebook folks due to algorithm changes. So that left me wondering . 

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In any case their are far stronger Finalies then 10.24 imo. So it's about Quality for me. Looks like it's going to beat Barbarian Sublimation. Not because of Supeior Quality. But I have to suggest a lot of Shamys are voting because Sheldon proposed.

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My top 10 episodes are pretty much what is top rated at IMDB atm (except Robotic Manipulation, i didn't like that ):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/eprate?ref_=ttep_ql_3

2.11 The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis

9.11 The Opening Night Excitation 

3.22 The Staircase Implementation;

3.8 The Adhesive Duck Deficiency

2.15 The Maternal Capacitance 

2.3 The Barbarian Sublimation

7.9 The Thanksgiving Decoupling

2.7 The Panty Piñata Polarization

4.1 The Robotic Manipulation

7.3 The Scavenger Vortex

@Tripper thank you for the information about finale of 4. 24 . Thats very unexpected. BTW, Did 4. 24 also win season 1-4 tournament  ? 

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4 hours ago, serena_1995 said:

Thats very unexpected. BTW, Did 4. 24 also win season 1-4 tournament  ?

Here's your conversation from last year's thread with all the winners:

On 3.8.2016 at 10:15 PM, Tripper said:

Last year was won by The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis. It's won almost all of the multi-season tournaments we've done dating back to 2009. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency, which is usually the runner-up, won the Seasons 1-5 tournament back in 2012.

Here's a list of the episodes which have won the single season tournaments. Apart from for Season 1, which was run late in 2009, all the individual tournaments took place in the summer months following the season finale.

Season 1: The Pancake Batter Anomaly

Season 2: The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis

Season 3: The Adhesive Duck Deficiency

Season 4: The Roommate Transmogrification

Season 5: The Beta Test Initiation

Season 6: The Love Spell Potential

Season 7: The Locomotive Manipulation

Season 8: The Prom Equivalency

Season 9: The Opening Night Excitation

On 3.8.2016 at 10:32 PM, serena_1995 said:

Tripper,  thank you :)

So Bath Item Gift Hypothesis has won every year, save for 2012 when Adhesive Duck won ? I'm assuming Bath Item would have been a runner up that year then right ?

On 3.8.2016 at 10:38 PM, Tripper said:

Yes, Bath Item Gift Hypothesis has won every year except 2012. I looked it up and actually The Staircase Implementation was the runner-up that year. The back story to that was that Bath Item was knocked out in the first round by Adhesive Duck.

The seeding was not ideal that year after a rewrite of the episode tournament system, a flaw vividly displayed by that pairing. So that year the #1 went up against the #2 early on. The system was changed to the current one (#1 vs. #9, #2 vs. #10, etc.) the year after. In all tournaments before that it went #1 vs. #5, #2 vs. #6, etc.

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10 hours ago, 3ku11 said:

But I have to suggest a lot of Shamys are voting because Sheldon proposed.

Actually, despite being a huge Shamy fan (not that anyone would've thought I was :icon_biggrin: ), I went for Barbarian.

1 hour ago, bfm said:

I went for Herb Garden but that was a hard choice.

For me, it was one of the easier choices, and not because Herb Garden is a Shamy episode. I voted Barbarian over Long Distance.

I just felt Panty Pinata was an episode full of nastiness, plus, Herb Garden is just a terrific episode.

The next two rounds will be very easy choices, but the final round will be another hard choice.

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Never liked Herb Garden. I felt Shamy were a tad creepy. And diddnt like them manipulating their friends like that.

Panty superior to  me. Just a lot of classic comedy between Sheldon and Penny sparring. Johnnys delivery the whole episode too was world class. 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, Stephen Hawking said:

Really, 43 over Earworm?

I guess this one really depends on ships... But I think the B plot of 43 is also better than that of Earworm... I also think Earworm is a bit too sacharine. Of course my major draw to 43 is that amazing ILY scene... Kaley and Johnny were so so great.

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8 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said:

Really, 43 over Earworm?

Well yes IMO 43 Pec is the far superior episode writing wise. I agree it prob comes down to what ship your invested in. As I'm more invested in Lenny. It comes Down to personal preferences. But you got Penny telling Leonard ily for the first time. One of the all time iconic moments from this series. And the B plot of Howard/Raj finding out what Sheldon is up too, is just hilarious. And far stronger then the B plot in Earworm. As it is Earworm has Shamy getting back together. So it's winning by allot logically.

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Next two I'll prob go Luminous Fish and Scavenger. I was never a big fan of Prom Equivalency. Just a persons preference. But it was too much like How I met your mother for my tastes lol. The whole limo. Dancing at prom. Not the tbbt I'm into.

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4 minutes ago, 3ku11 said:

Next two I'll prob go Luminous Fish and Scavenger.

I'll definitely go Prom, but choosing between Scavenger and Gorilla is going to be really hard. :( 

6 minutes ago, 3ku11 said:

But it was too much like How I met your mother for my tastes lol.

I've never seen HIMYM, which is odd, given how much I like Alyson Hannigan.

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Prom vs Luminous Fish will be hard for me because I like them both because of very different things. 

I like Scavenger way better than Gorilla. Gorilla was funny but I thought the way they ended it was meh...

 

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