User blog:RA2/Ranking Game Idea, please comment if interested

I've watched groups of people do a "rankdown" game for Survivor and Pokemon, and I was wondering if people would be interested in doing it for Robot Wars? The idea is that we're trying to rank every single robot - partitioned by each of its series - to find out who ranks where. This means bots like Behemoth will be ranked 11 times - one place for each of its Series & Extremes. To play, you'll be taking turns ranking robots from bottom to top, and writing a little bit about your decision. Here's how it works...

Say there are 11 participants, and a population of 1000 robots. Player 1 will nominate 20 robots (# of other players x 2). Player 2 will then select one robot to "cut," locking that robot into dead last, 1000th place. They will explain their decision & speak their piece, then select one other robot to "save." The saved robot is safe from being cut, and gets immunity from nomination in the following round. Next, player 3 takes his turn, making 1 cut and one save from the remaining 18, and so on and so forth. When Player 11 takes his turn, he doesn't have very much choice to make there, but after making his cut/save choice, he immediately makes a new pool of 20 (remebering that robots "saved" this round cannot be nominated). And thus, the new round begins with Player 1 making the first. Once the population is too depleted to make anymore pools, we'll all take a private vote on how to rank the remaining robots, and the averages will determine the final top rankings.

This will be a long game that will require pretty frequent participation, as well as a good knowledge of every series there is - the pool is something like 1,000 robots, I haven't taken a complete tally. I'll explain the specifics later on, for now I'd like to get a headcount. If you're interested, please comment, and tell me if you're game for just the UK season, or the entire franchise (Dutch, German, US, Nickelodeon). And while you're at it, tell me if you'd prefer to start at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE, or END of the player order - keeping in mind that it rotates so everyone will get to do every position at least once.

I will be keeping a spreadsheet on Google Docs that everyone can refer to for ease choosing nominees/tracking who's still in. Thanks, and have fun.

'''R A 2 ; aka Resetti's Replicas. ( My Talk )''' 01:36, February 7, 2018 (UTC)