Who is mitch hawker

For a while, I was super gung-ho about putting serious thought into my Mitch Hawker ballots, but I realized that a the list came out mostly the same as something like CBuzz though without the nods to the super obscure foreign coasters and b I didn't care enough about the outcome to invest my time because "coasters. I think by the end of my Mitch Hawker voting days, I was just filling in my top 20 or so and then adding coasters that I knew others love but I didn't to the bottom like Ravine Flyer 2, Beast, and Magnum.

I just used the same ballot yearly for both wood and steel and added in the few credits I got each year. Meh, it still lacks statistical significance, and if you account for that, it's a lot of work to get results not entirely unlike other polls.

Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz. After you have ranked your coasters, the instructions on Mitch's Website tell you how to submit your ballot. Mitch tells me for an even MORE accurate poll, break out your top 5 and bottom 5 coasters and give them a separate ranking. Follow these steps: 1.

Take your 1 grouping from above, and select your five favorite coasters and rank them 1 through 5. Change ALL your remaining coasters in the 1 category to 10 3. Change ALL your coasters previously ranked 2 to 20 4. Change ALL your coasters previously ranked 3 to 30 5. Change ALL your coasters previously ranked 4 to 40 5.

Choose 5 of your least favorite coasters and rank them 56 to 60 5. Change ALL your remaining coasters in the 5 category to 50 So your ballot should look something like this:. I stress the importance of filling out this ballot as this is seems to be the most accurate ranking system of any 'coaster polls'. By all means you do not have to fill it out using my method, but a lot of people find the ballot difficult or time consuming to rank each coaster individually.

You also do not have to limit your groups from 1 to 5. It can be 1 to 10, etc. I hope this guide was helpful! You need a sense of humor to view our site, if you don't have a sense of humor, or are easily offended, please turn back now!

What's New. PARK Photos. STEP 2: Replace the "N" with a "Y" in the first column of ALL your coasters so it looks like this: Since you have a list of only the coasters you've been on, it's easy to go down the list and mark them all with a "Y" At this point, you should have all "Y"s in the first column, and all "N"s in the second. There are a number of different ways to rank see below : You could either rank your coasters 1 through or whatever your final number may be or you could choose the "grouping method" what I use.

Here is the breakdown of my ranking categories: 1 — Coasters that I would go out of my way to ride.