Re: 2018 MCA's: Preliminary Round

Wow, usually I have trouble limiting to 10 but this year there were only 5
games that I felt enthusiastic enough about to vote for.  Clearly either I
am not playing enough games or I'm becoming curmudgeonly in my old age (or
both).

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 3:22 PM [email protected] [spielfrieks] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Alright, the Meeples Choice Awards are ready to launch!  We’ll start with
> the preliminary round of voting.  Thanks to everyone for their suggestions;
> we now have 208 games to choose from.  That’s a lot of games, but it’s only
> a fraction of the new titles that debuted last year.  I’ve uploaded a
> revised Excel spreadsheet to the Spielfrieks Files section to reflect the
> additions.  During the first round, everyone will be able to select up to
> 10 games to vote for and the top 25 vote-getters, plus ties, will receive
> nominations and will advance to the final round of voting.
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> By the way, in addition to the new games that were added, I made the
> decision to combine the two versions of Railroad Ink (the Deep Blue and the
> Blazing Red editions) into one entry.  The two built-in expansions make
> them separate games, I guess, but I felt that keeping them as two entries
> would be unfair, as it would just split the vote.  So whichever version of
> the game you prefer, you’ll have just one Railroad Ink game to vote for if
> it’s one of your top 10 designs.
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> You can vote by using our exclusive little voting application.  There
> haven’t been any changes, but if your memory is anything like mine, you
> won’t mind a refresher on how to use it.  First, go to the following
> website:  http://meepleschoice.win.  You’ll see five menu headers at the
> top right of the screen.  If you created an account last year, click on
> “Sign In”.  You’ll be prompted for your Login (that is, your Username) and
> your Password.  Put both of those in and you’ll be ready to cast votes.  If
> you don’t remember your password, click on the Forgot Password? prompt and
> we’ll get your password back out to you.  If you don’t have an account,
> click on "Sign Up" and you'll be asked to create a Username, provide your
> Email address, and create a Password.  You can also log in using either
> your Google or Facebook accounts.  Once you've filled out the fields, click
> on the Sign Up button and you'll be entered into the database.
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> Once you’re logged in, you can vote by going to the Home screen.  There
> are two big buttons there, labelled “Vote” and “See Results”.  Clicking on
> the “See Results” button won’t show you anything, because I’ve hidden all
> the earlier results to reduce the clutter during the vote.  (Don’t worry,
> I’ll put them back after we’re finished.)  So the button you want to click
> on is the Vote one.  Doing so will show you a screen with all 208 games
> listed.  To the left of each game is a green button that says “Add vote
> (10)”.  To vote for a game, click on the button.  The button will turn red
> and say “Remove vote”.  That shows that you voted for it.  Also note that
> all the other green buttons now have a (9) in parentheses, to show that you
> only have nine votes left.  If you want to change your vote, just click on
> a red button; it will change back to green and it, and all the other green
> buttons will have their parenthetical values increased by 1.  Once you’ve
> voted for 10 games, the text on the other games will change to “vote
> limited” and those buttons will be disabled, keeping you from voting for an
> eleventh game.  The only way you can add a new game is by removing your
> vote for one of the games you’d selected.
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> That's it.  There's no button to register your final vote, because the
> system records your votes automatically as you vote for games.  The app
> remembers your votes after you leave the screen and/or logout.  When you
> return to the application, you'll see all the choices you've previously
> made.  Because there's no formal way to finalize your vote, make sure
> you're happy with the selections on the screen before the voting deadline
> comes and I shut down the voting.
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> There’s one other thing to consider.  At the top of the voting page,
> there’s a statement about the voting preference you set last year..  It
> states whether or not you want to let other users see how you voted.  If
> you’re happy with the preference listed, just ignore it.  If you want to
> change your preference, or you haven’t set it earlier (maybe this is your
> first year voting), click on the “Change this” button.  Doing so will cause
> your preference to toggle between letting your votes be public and letting
> them be private.  Once all the voting is over, we’ll be able to click on a
> game and see the usernames of the people who voted for it, but only among
> those who don’t mind letting their votes be public.  That will let folks
> check out how their fellow spielfrieks voted, while still honoring the
> privacy of those who would rather their votes remain secret.
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> I’ll give everyone a week for the first round of voting, so sometime next
> Friday, I’ll shut down the voting.  Then I’ll announce what the nominated
> games are and we’ll continue with the final round of voting.
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> If there are any questions about the application, just post them here.
> Have fun voting and let’s pick a great group of nominated games!
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