Ballot: 2007 (15th Annual!) Internet Wooden Tracked Roller Coaster Poll The actual ballot is at the bottom of this file, after the instructions. If you are new to the poll and intimidated by these written instructions, you may want to look at the screen-shot illustrated instructions at http://www.ushsho.com/cpvisual.htm. If you are well versed in sorting with a spreadsheet, you may want to check the tips under "FASTEST METHOD" below. The following ballot contains wooden tracked rollercoasters that operated worldwide in 2007. A few coasters that are 'Standing But Not Operating' or in storage were also included in the hopes that the poll may help some of these great SBNO coasters become better known and possibly help them find a new home. The coasters are listed alphabetically by state, with non-U.S. coasters listed at the end. INSTRUCTIONS: PLEASE NOTE: When copying and pasting to e-mail you must ensure that all spacings within a line of the ballot are preserved. Using a straight text editor (such as notepad) and sending the ballot as an attachment is the most foolproof way of doing that. TYPOS/CORRECTIONS: If you find a mistake that is not in the known list of typos (http://www.ushsho.com/knownwoodballotproblems2007.txt), by all means let me know at wcoasterpoll@yahoo.com, so that it can be fixed in the final results, but DO NOT fix it yourself in your ballot as any changes will prevent a line (coaster) from being recognized on your ballot by the vote counting program. In past years there have been a few people who have found the instructions cumbersome, so I have added the following visual example of the voting process. The actual ballot is at the bottom of this file. Example Ballot before: --replace this text with your email address------ LOCATION FOLLOWS THIS LINE (LEAVE THIS LINE)_____ ~"state, province, or country" NAME FOLLOWS THIS LINE (LEAVE THIS LINE)_____ ~"your name between quotes" RANK THE FOLLOWING RIDING SENSATIONS <-LEAVE THIS LINE AS IS Abrupt Airtime_____________________________,y,y,0 Floating Airtime___________________________,y,y,0 Lateral Forces_____________________________,y,y,0 Out of Control Feeling/Directional Changes_,y,y,0 Positive G's/Loops_________________________,y,y,0 Sensation of Speed_________________________,y,y,0 COASTER NAME PARK LOC <--Please leave this My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere **,n,n,0 Rampage Visionland AL,n,n,0 Cannonball Waterville USA AL,n,n,0 Arkansas Twister Magic Springs AR,n,n,0 Giant Dipper Belmont Park CA,n,n,0 The Grizzly Great America CA,n,n,0 Roar Marine World CA,n,n,0 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA,n,n,0 ------------------------------------------------0 <--Please leave this Example Ballot after: --JoeRider@crashprone.com------ LOCATION FOLLOWS THIS LINE (LEAVE THIS LINE)_____ ~"Transylvania" NAME FOLLOWS THIS LINE (LEAVE THIS LINE)___ ~"Joe Coaster Rider" RANK THE FOLLOWING RIDING SENSATIONS <-LEAVE THIS LINE AS IS Abrupt Airtime_____________________________,y,y,1 Floating Airtime___________________________,y,y,2 Lateral Forces_____________________________,y,y,3 Out of Control Feeling/Directional Changes_,y,y,4 Positive G's/Loops_________________________,y,y,5 Sensation of Speed_________________________,y,y,6 COASTER NAME PARK LOC <--Please leave this My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere **,y,n,4 Rampage Visionland AL,y,y,2 The Grizzly Great America CA,y,y,2 Roar Marine World CA,y,n,1 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA,y,n,3 ------------------------------------------------0 <--Please leave this ^ ^ | | Marked all you have ever ridden 'y'------- | Marked all ridden this year 'y'--------- Note: you have deleted all coasters that you have never ridden, you added your e-mail address to the first line, rated favorite coaster as '1' etc., rated My Favorite Steel as if it were your favorite steel coaster but did NOT change the name, and first and last lines remain untouched. Then e-mail ballot to wcoasterpoll@yahoo.com Subject:2007 Wood Poll Ballot If you are updating your ballot from a previous year: - You may find last year's ballots at http://bestrollercoasterpoll.com - You may use decimals to make reranking easier. - Also please be aware that the following lines have changed on the ballot and the new lines must be used: Lines Changed (from 2006 ballot): Mega Zeph (SBNO) SF New Orleans LA,n,n,0 added (SBNO) Big Dipper (SBNO) Geauga Lake OH,n,n,0 added (SBNO) Raging Wolf Bobs(S) Geauga Lake OH,n,n,0 added (S) The Villain (SBNO) Geauga Lake OH,n,n,0 added (SBNO) Zingo (S) Bell's OK,n,n,0 added (S) Cyclone SF New England MA,n,n,0 was Riverside Cyclone Blue Streak (SBNO) Conneaut Lake Park PA,n,n,0 added (SBNO) Zippin' Pippin (S) Libertyland TN,n,n,0 added (S) Aska (S) Nara Dreamland JP,n,n,0 added (S) Scenic Railway Dreamland UK,n,n,0 removed (S) King Solomons Mines Pleasureland (S) UK,n,n,0 added (S) Added: Starliner Cypress Gardens FL,n,n,0 Renegade Valleyfair! MN,n,n,0 Kingdom Coaster Dutch Wonderland PA,n,n,0 Boardwalk Bullet Kemah Boardwalk TX,n,n,0 Meteor Little Amerricka WI,n,n,0 Troy Toverland NL,n,n,0 Removed: Starliner Miracle Strip FL,n,n,0 Comet (SBNO) Lincoln Park MA,n,n,0 Flyer Comet (SBNO) Whalom Park MA,n,n,0 Sky Princess Dutch Wonderland PA,n,n,0 Cyclone Pleasureland UK,n,n,0 HERE ARE THE FULL WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS: Step 1: Put your email address on line 1 of the ballot (REQUIRED) Step 1A: Put your State/Province or Country between the quotes on line 3 of the ballot Step 1B: Put your name or nickname between the quotes on line 5 of the ballot (Optional) Step 1C: Rank the six riding sensations 1-6 (Optional) Step 2: Mark The Coasters That You Have Ridden Please delete all coasters from your ballot except those that you have ridden. Please change the left 'n' at the end of a line to a 'y' for each of the coasters you have ridden. Change the right 'n' to a 'y' for each coaster you rode in 2007. It is important that you mark ALL coasters you have ridden. Please try to keep each line 'as is' except for the aforementioned changes. You may change the ordering of the lines if that makes it easier for you to complete the ranking. A ">" in column 1 as often happens in a reply is OK. Step 3: Rank The Coasters You Have Ridden Using Method A or B. Treat the line "My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere **,n,n,0" as if it were your favorite steel coaster and rank it accordingly. DO NOT change the line except for the n's and the 0. DO NOT, Repeat: DO NOT change it to the real name of the steel coaster. If you can't place your favorite steel coaster in relation to wooden coasters, just delete that line. The idea is simply to see where the poll respondents would rank their favorite steel coaster in relation to the wooden coasters. Method A: Individual Ranking Replace the '0' in the last column with a numeral representing its' rank, '1'=best through '175'(or however many you have ridden)=worst e.g. Cannonball Waterville USA AL,y,y,1 Arkansas Twister Magic Springs AR,y,n,4 Giant Dipper Belmont Park CA,y,n,3 The Grizzly Great America CA,y,y,2 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA,y,n,5 Method B: Group Ranking If you cannot decide between two coasters or a group of coasters, give them the same rank. You may choose to group as many or as few as you want. e.g. Cannonball Waterville USA AL,y,y,1 Arkansas Twister Magic Springs AR,y,n,1 Giant Dipper Belmont Park CA,y,n,2 The Grizzly Great America CA,y,y,1 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA,y,n,2 You may combine the two methods. e.g. Cannonball Waterville USA AL,y,y,1 Arkansas Twister Magic Springs AR,y,n,2 Giant Dipper Belmont Park CA,y,n,3 The Grizzly Great America CA,y,y,4 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA,y,n,4 Method A is preferable if you can do it, as more of your individual coaster vs. coaster preferences can be gleaned from it. In any case, PLEASE RANK AS MANY AS YOU CAN. NOTE: All coasters you give a numerical rank to, even if that rank is "999", are treated as ranked better than any coasters left ranked as "0". Step 4: E-Mail Your Ballot To wcoasterpoll@yahoo.com Subject:Wood Poll Ballot NOTE: if using 'reply' from r.r-c you must remove "DELETE" from my address. FASTEST METHOD: Copy and paste ballot into a spreadsheet (in Excel you may need to update your "text to columns" setting under "Data" menu to ensure that the commas separate the data into columns). Follow the instructions for steps 1 to 2 above, then sort just the coasters by whether you have ridden them and delete those you haven't. Rank those you rode as specified in step 3. Copy back to the editor and change all tabs to spaces. Send as .txt file as specified in step 4, (note that you should never save the ballot as anything other that a pure text file or the formatting will become corrupted). DO NOT SEND SPREADSHEET. The spreadsheet method is quicker because you can move from cell to cell replacing data more easily, sorting by rank as some prefer to do is accomplished much more easily, and deleting unridden coasters is very easily accomplished. As well as posting the results to the website, I will e-mail a copy of the results (using bcc: for privacy) to all those who took the poll unless they indicate on their ballot that they do not wish to receive the results via e-mail. A LITTLE ABOUT HOW THE BALLOTS WILL BE TABULATED Coasters will be ranked by best head to head record against all others with ties broken by head to head preference between those tied. In other words, each coaster is compared against every other coaster on the ballot based on only those people that have ridden each pair of coasters. Therefore each coaster's ranking depends ONLY on the opinions of those that have ridden it and not at all on HOW MANY people have ridden it. This method avoids the arbitrary point assignments AND the bias towards more ridden coasters that is inherent in total point ranking schemes and, to a lesser extent, in average point ranking schemes. DEADLINE: Ballots will be accepted until the end of November, results will be posted very soon thereafter. I look forward to receiving your ballot. Results from previous years and much more about this annual poll can be viewed at http://bestrollercoasterpoll.com Thanks....Mitch Hawker NOTES: (S) or (SBNO) indicates coasters that did not operate in 2007. Those of you with websites or who are members of various message boards can help 'get out the vote' by posting a link to the main poll page http://bestrollercoasterpoll.com on your site. Please don't post the ballot itself to message boards, as the formatting is easily messed up and having just one place for people to obtain the ballot makes it easier to update, if necessary. As in previous years, a reciprocal links page will be made to credit the sites that have referred the most people to the poll. Note that links made directly to the ballot cannot be credited as it is a text page with no web statistics available. The results become more meaningful with each additional person's ballot that goes into them. STEEL POLL: I hope to run the steel poll again this year also. --replace this text with your email address (required)------ LOCATION FOLLOWS THIS LINE (LEAVE THIS LINE)_____ ~"your state/province or country between these quotes" NAME FOLLOWS THIS LINE (LEAVE THIS LINE)_____ ~"your name or nickname between these quotes (optional)" RANK THE FOLLOWING RIDING SENSATIONS <-LEAVE THIS LINE AS IS Abrupt Airtime_____________________________,y,y,0 Floating Airtime___________________________,y,y,0 Lateral Forces_____________________________,y,y,0 Out of Control Feeling/Directional Changes_,y,y,0 Positive G's/Loops_________________________,y,y,0 Sensation of Speed_________________________,y,y,0 COASTER NAME PARK LOC <--Please leave this My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere **,n,n,0 Rampage Visionland AL,n,n,0 Cannonball Waterville USA AL,n,n,0 Arkansas Twister Magic Springs AR,n,n,0 Giant Dipper Belmont Park CA,n,n,0 The Grizzly Great America CA,n,n,0 Roar Marine World CA,n,n,0 Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk CA,n,n,0 GhostRider Knott's Berry Farm CA,n,n,0 Colossus S.F. Magic Mountain CA,n,n,0 Psyclone S.F. Magic Mountain CA,n,n,0 Twister II Elitch Gardens CO,n,n,0 Cyclone Lakeside CO,n,n,0 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT,n,n,0 Wildcat Lake Compounce CT,n,n,0 Gwazi-Tiger Busch Gardens-Tampa FL,n,n,0 Gwazi-Lion Busch Gardens-Tampa FL,n,n,0 Starliner Cypress Gardens FL,n,n,0 Triple Hurricane Cypress Gardens FL,n,n,0 Dania Bch Hurricane Dania Beach FL,n,n,0 Grt Am Scrm Mach SFoG GA,n,n,0 Georgia Cyclone SFoG GA,n,n,0 Cannonball Lake Winnepesaukah GA,n,n,0 Cheetah Wild Adventures GA,n,n,0 The Legend Arnolds Park IA,n,n,0 Tornado Adventureland IA,n,n,0 Outlaw Adventureland IA,n,n,0 Underground Adventureland IA,n,n,0 Timber Terror Silverwood ID,n,n,0 Tremors Silverwood ID,n,n,0 American Eagle SFGAm IL,n,n,0 Viper SFGAm IL,n,n,0 Little Dipper Kiddieland IL,n,n,0 The Legend Holiday World IN,n,n,0 Raven Holiday World IN,n,n,0 The Voyage Holiday World IN,n,n,0 Cornball Express Indiana Beach IN,n,n,0 Hoosier Hurricane Indiana Beach IN,n,n,0 Lost Coaster of SM Indiana Beach IN,n,n,0 Roller Coaster (S) Joyland KS,n,n,0 Kentucky Rumbler Beech Bend KY,n,n,0 Thunder Run Kentucky Kingdom KY,n,n,0 Twisted Twins-Lola Kentucky Kingdom KY,n,n,0 Twisted Twins-StellaKentucky Kingdom KY,n,n,0 Mega Zeph (SBNO) SF New Orleans LA,n,n,0 Thunderbolt SF New England MA,n,n,0 Cyclone SF New England MA,n,n,0 Roar SF America MD,n,n,0 Wild One SF America MD,n,n,0 Excalibur Funtown USA ME,n,n,0 Shivering Timbers Michigan's Adventure MI,n,n,0 Wolverine Wildcat Michigan's Adventure MI,n,n,0 Zach's Zoomer Michigan's Adventure MI,n,n,0 High Roller Valleyfair! MN,n,n,0 Renegade Valleyfair! MN,n,n,0 Ozark Wildcat Celebration City MO,n,n,0 The Boss Six Flags St Louis MO,n,n,0 Screamin' Eagle Six Flags St Louis MO,n,n,0 Timber Wolf Worlds of Fun MO,n,n,0 Hurler Carowinds NC,n,n,0 Scooby Doo Carowinds NC,n,n,0 Thunder Road Carowinds NC,n,n,0 Yankee Cannonball Canobie Lake Park NH,n,n,0 Jack Rabbit (SBNO) Clementon Lake NJ,n,n,0 J2 Clementon Lake NJ,n,n,0 El Toro SFGAd NJ,n,n,0 Rolling Thunder SFGAd NJ,n,n,0 Great White Wild Wheels Pier NJ,n,n,0 New Mexico Rattler Cliff's NM,n,n,0 Cyclone Astroland NY,n,n,0 Predator Darien Lake NY,n,n,0 Comet Great Escape NY,n,n,0 Jack Rabbit Seabreeze NY,n,n,0 Silver Comet Martin's Fantasy Is. NY,n,n,0 Dragon Coaster Playland NY,n,n,0 Kiddie Coaster Playland NY,n,n,0 Blue Streak Cedar Point OH,n,n,0 Mean Streak Cedar Point OH,n,n,0 Big Dipper (SBNO) Geauga Lake OH,n,n,0 Raging Wolf Bobs(S) Geauga Lake OH,n,n,0 The Villain (SBNO) Geauga Lake OH,n,n,0 Racer Kings Island OH,n,n,0 Beastie Kings Island OH,n,n,0 The Beast Kings Island OH,n,n,0 Son of Beast Kings Island OH,n,n,0 Screechin' Eagle(S) LeSourdsville Lake OH,n,n,0 Teddy Bear Stricker's Grove OH,n,n,0 Tornado Stricker's Grove OH,n,n,0 Sea Dragon Wyandot Lake OH,n,n,0 Wildcat Frontier City OK,n,n,0 Zingo (S) Bell's OK,n,n,0 Blue Streak (SBNO) Conneaut Lake Park PA,n,n,0 Thunderhawk Dorney Park PA,n,n,0 Kingdom Coaster Dutch Wonderland PA,n,n,0 Comet Hersheypark PA,n,n,0 Lightning Racer - L Hersheypark PA,n,n,0 Lightning Racer - T Hersheypark PA,n,n,0 Wildcat Hersheypark PA,n,n,0 Rollo Coaster Idlewild PA,n,n,0 Jack Rabbit Kennywood PA,n,n,0 Thunderbolt Kennywood PA,n,n,0 Racer Kennywood PA,n,n,0 Phoenix Knoebel's PA,n,n,0 Twister Knoebel's PA,n,n,0 Leap the Dips Lakemont PA,n,n,0 Skyliner Lakemont PA,n,n,0 Comet Waldameer PA,n,n,0 Cyclone Williams Grove PA,n,n,0 Red Streaker (S) Willow Mill PA,n,n,0 Swamp Fox Family Kingdom SC,n,n,0 Hurricane Myrtle Bch Pavilion SC,n,n,0 Thunderhead Dollywood TN,n,n,0 Zippin' Pippin (S) Libertyland TN,n,n,0 Boardwalk Bullet Kemah Boardwalk TX,n,n,0 Judge Roy Scream SFoT TX,n,n,0 Texas Giant SFoT TX,n,n,0 Rattler Fiesta Texas TX,n,n,0 Roller Coaster Lagoon UT,n,n,0 Hurler Kings Dominion VA,n,n,0 Rebel Yell Kings Dominion VA,n,n,0 Scooby Doo Kings Dominion VA,n,n,0 The Grizzly Kings Dominion VA,n,n,0 Timberhawk Enchanted Village WA,n,n,0 Roller Coaster Western Wash. Fair WA,n,n,0 Big Dipper Camden Park WV,n,n,0 Lil' Dipper Camden Park WV,n,n,0 Meteor Little Amerricka WI,n,n,0 Cyclops Mount Olympus WI,n,n,0 Hades Mount Olympus WI,n,n,0 Pegasus Mount Olympus WI,n,n,0 Zeus Mount Olympus WI,n,n,0 Avalanche Timber Falls WI,n,n,0 Coaster Playland BC,n,n,0 Tree Topper Upper Clements Park NS,n,n,0 Wilde Beast Canada's Wonderland ON,n,n,0 Ghoster Coaster Canada's Wonderland ON,n,n,0 M.Can.Mine Buster Canada's Wonderland ON,n,n,0 Le Monstre La Ronde QU,n,n,0 Serpiente de Fuego La Feria MX,n,n,0 Medusa Six Flags Mexico MX,n,n,0 Hochschaubahn Prater Park AT,n,n,0 Wild Mouse Aussie World AU,n,n,0 Beastie (SBNO) Australia's Wonderl. AU,n,n,0 Bush Beast (SBNO) Australia's Wonderl. AU,n,n,0 Scenic Railway Luna Park-Melbourne AU,n,n,0 Wild Mouse Luna Park-Sydney AU,n,n,0 Loup Garou Walibi Belgium BE,n,n,0 Montezum Hopi Hari BR,n,n,0 Colossos Heide Park DE,n,n,0 The Bandit Movie Park DE,n,n,0 Rutschebanen Bakken DK,n,n,0 Falken Farup Sommerland DK,n,n,0 Rutschebanen Tivoli Gardens DK,n,n,0 Stampida Port Aventura ES,n,n,0 Tomahawk Port Aventura ES,n,n,0 Magnus Colossus Terra Mitica ES,n,n,0 Coaster-Express Warner Bros. Movie W ES,n,n,0 Vuoristorata Linnamaki Park FI,n,n,0 Thunderbird PowerPark FI,n,n,0 Tonnerre de Zeus Parc Asterix FR,n,n,0 Anaconda Walygator Parc FR,n,n,0 Hullamvasut Vidam HU,n,n,0 Little Dipper Esselworld IN,n,n,0 Cyclone Nicco Park IN,n,n,0 Sierra Tonante Mirabilandia Park IT,n,n,0 Elf Hirakata Park JP,n,n,0 White Cyclone Nagashima Spaland JP,n,n,0 Aska (S) Nara Dreamland JP,n,n,0 Jupiter Kijima Korakuen JP,n,n,0 Regina Tobu Zoo JP,n,n,0 White Canyon Yomiuriland JP,n,n,0 Pegasus de Efteling NL,n,n,0 Troy Toverland NL,n,n,0 Robin Hood Walibi World NL,n,n,0 Thundercoaster Tusenfryd NO,n,n,0 Balder Liseberg SE,n,n,0 Big Dipper Blackpool UK,n,n,0 Roller Coaster Blackpool UK,n,n,0 Grand National Blackpool UK,n,n,0 Wild Mouse Blackpool UK,n,n,0 Zipper Dipper Blackpool UK,n,n,0 Scenic Railway Dreamland UK,n,n,0 Roller Coaster Great Yarmouth UK,n,n,0 Antelope Gulliver's World UK,n,n,0 Megafobia Oakwood UK,n,n,0 King Solomons Mines Pleasureland (S) UK,n,n,0 Runaway Coaster (S) Rotunda UK,n,n,0 ------------------------------------------------0 <--Please leave this