Quoted from drfrightner:Some of these options to vote on are ridiculous. Who came up with this stuff?
Favorite Pinball Location? Favorite Pinball League?
The people who live in that city are voting for that cities league or location. Someone in St Louis isn't voting for a place in San Antonio. Let me put it to you another way, if you have a location in Chicago and another in Memphis clearly Chicago is going to win because the market has 6 million people living there vs 1 million.
Pinball is fun but you seriously don't have someone from Kansas City going to a league in New York, no they're playing local. These are simply ridiculous categories because every city in America has a league or spot where people play. C'mon! These are local events and will be voted on by locals. Cities with the most players will win! Dumb category.
I also think there should have been an award for best of the Decade considering we transitioned from 2019 to 2020
Best game of the decade should be added right now! Best New Mod of the Decade! Ect... someone should have thought of that.
This has been a big decade for pinball, one that btw might never be repeated so it should be honored rather than what city has the most voters for a local league.
Just saying.
Best Pinball Company 2010 - 2019
Best Pinball Game 2010 - 2019
Best Pinball Designer 2010 - 2019
Best Mod of the Decade
Lets put more thought into honoring those who've done the most during the single more transformative decade in the history of pinball.
Oh and yes Best Local League of the Decade lets not forget that one. LOL
I have to agree with this. Some of the categories I had to leave blank, not because I wanted to, but because there wasn’t an option for anyone in the northeast (unless they’re a “pinball traveler”).
NEPL was an option for best league, and obviously only people in New England will be voting for that. But in said league there are a half dozen collectors with un-freggin-real collections that don’t make this list, and then we also have a handful of kickass public locations with killer collections. Not one makes it. So the league makes it, but this hotspot region for pinball that makes this category possible gets no love for locations.
Also, it killed me to see F’ing Cosmic Carnival listed so many times in so many categories. That should only have a spot under artwork and NO other mentions. FFS, they had to redo the PF layout when people thousands of miles away like me took 1 quick look of the PF and reminded those geniuses that there’s no reason to have top rollovers if there’s no way to get up there after plunge! They had to introduce a drop bank with nothing behind to allow a ball to get back up top, and the resulting “orbit” shot just went back into the shooter lane to get up there. That company was dead on arrival. Their ramps, toys, MSRP, and YouTube streams should be in their own category for “biggest laugh of the year”. My local bowling alley with 1 pin has more of a case to be in the “best location” category than Cosmic Carnival has a case to be in the “best layout” category.
...Just so everyone knows how I really feel.