So we tried launching a vote for the TWIPYs today but it turned into a slow and painful train wreck. Much debate over which games should be included, etc., and I realized that the free Survey Monkey will only let me see 100 votes and the $35 monthly charge only allows 1,000 votes for the month. So we are using a different polling service and restarting and NEED YOUR INPUT!

So FRESH start, which of these games should be included:

Aerosmith
Alien
Attack From Mars Remake
Batman '66
Dialed In
Houdini
Guardians of the Galaxy
Lexi Lightspeed - Escape from Earth
Pirates of the Caribbean
Star Wars
The Jetsons
Thunderbirds
Total Nuclear Annihilation

Thoughts on questions or breakouts of these:
Best Theme of the Year (based on theme ONLY)
Best Theme Integration
Best Sound/Callouts
Best Artwork
Best Rules/Code
Best Lightshow
Best Toys/Gimmicks
Best Playfield Layout and Gameplay
Best Display/Animations
Best Game of the Year

Thoughts on additional questions?
Favorite pinball podcast? (write in)
Favorite Twitch streamer? (write in)
Favorite pinball YouTube channel? (write in)
Favorite new mod (write in)
Favorite code update (write in)
...

Open to any and all ideas, let's get this thing ready for a do-over.

From frolic in different thread:

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Let's try to make this better than The Dundies:

Thanks for all the input, keep it coming.

Rest assured it won't happen again. After this debacle, several people in our organization were fired including our Director of Polls, Director of TWIPY Awards, and VP of New Ideas.

I left off Lexy by mistake and is part of the reason we're redoing the poll. That and Survey Monkey was limited to only 1,000 voters. Also we've lined up an interview with Gerry at Multimorphic to explain more about the P3 platform.

It was in alphabetical order dude.

Here is what I'm thinking after receiving input from several others - the games that are eligible will be those that were/are shipping in 2017, and exclude remakes. That leaves:

Aerosmith
Alien
Batman '66
Dialed In
Guardians of the Galaxy
Lexi Lightspeed - Escape from Earth
Star Wars
The Jetsons
Total Nuclear Annihilation

The questions will be:

Best Theme of the Year (based on theme ONLY)
Best Theme Integration
Best Sound/Callouts
Best Artwork
Best Rules/Code
Best Lightshow
Best Toys/Gimmicks
Best Playfield Layout and Gameplay
Best Display/Animations
Best Game of the Year

Favorite pinball podcast? (write in)
Favorite Twitch streamer? (write in)
Favorite pinball YouTube channel? (write in)
Favorite new mod (write in)
Favorite code update (write in)

Any suggestions or changes? Let me know!

I could see favorite code update question getting a little convoluted...

We're doing a new poll, should be ready to go in the coming days.

I'm planning to use Google Forms unless anyone else has a better suggestion?

*T*his *W*eek *I*n *P*inball *Y*early awards.

Steve Bowden of Fun With Bonus came up with the name.

A negative part of Google Forms - in order to limit it to 1 vote per person, the voters have to have a Google account. Another option that wouldn't require a sign in is to require an email address which would help me weed out obvious fakes or repeat voters.

I think both would be preferable to allowing people to vote as many times as they want. Which option would be least annoying?

Leaning towards making voters have a Google account. It is free and would eliminate any duplicate votes to ensure the integrity of the voting system.

Yeah I have a couple as well. I'm more concerned with someone voting like 100+ times. Though really, it isn't like we're giving away a free pinball machine to the winners or anything.

I meant we're NOT giving away big prizes, so I'm less worried about ballot stuffing. But still want to avoid it as much as possible.

I'd hate to get complaints, so far everything has run so smoothly with this

Leaning towards no... We may try to do a live TWIPY Awards show and wouldn't want to ruin any surprises

Ok everyone we are locked and loaded and ready to launch the TWIPY Awards voting tomorrow! Again! Thanks for the help and input.

It has been rumored that we here at TWIP headquarters have a personal bias against TNA.

We here at TWIP headquarters have also talked to Spooky (Charlie) about making TNA our first NIB pin purchase (waiting to decide until we play it at a nearby location that has one on order).

So we believe the rumors of bias to be unfounded.

You should see it, it looks really similar to Apple's HQ.

The voting is live now, I started a thread this morning that I'm trying to get "stickied": https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-2017-twipy-pinball-awards-live-awards-show-vote-now

Here is the direct link to vote: https://goo.gl/forms/5tUPMcGcVPiZe0Eo2

Thanks again for all the input.