Originally Posted by
Mocucha
Well, it is a part of the public vote, and I don't think it is only because of the fan votes. When you watch every places with public votes, not only in Toribash and this event especially, you can see that the experts vote are not always the same as the public vote. I think it is because of the general vision. An amateur don't watch the same things as an expert. I think, for example, in their mind they give more credits to epic actions like a cork, than just the quality of each steps in a run like an expert could do.
I think it is a part of the public vote and bring something new, that is why, even with complications because of that kind of vote, I want to keep the public acting in the rating process.
As I said, I am open to all ideas about improvement, this is a first test, we have to start somewhere. The real Ninja Warrior event (with real humans) is more simple to rate because only the time used to finish a stage is important, not the style. We can't to the same for Toribash or we will collect badly but fast made replays.
I too want to keep the public in the voting system. What I mean by all of this is that there is an obvious potential issue for bias. I don't want to see someone with a replay 2 times as good as someone else's not move on because someone chose to vote on their replay because they know them. Maybe in the second stage we could have a system like so: instead of posting the replays on the thread (of the Ninja warrior stage 2) we pm you the replays and then in note pad you can change the bout name 1 to something other than their name to keep the players name that made the replay anonymous. Then in the voting poll just have the replays numbered 1- whatever to eliminated most of the bias. I know that would be a lot of work going through all of the replays in note pad, but it would make it more fair. Hope this makes sense.