OTF World Cup of Flags

[Bruno]

GROUP A



Egypt



Suriname



Canada



Venezuela



Lebanon



Central African Republic

[S. aureus]

What are we doing here? Ranking all 6, picking our favourite(s)?

[Bruno]

I'm open to suggestions on methodology.

[pebblethefish]

There's no Eurovision this year, so I would say ranking all six. I've already decided my nul points for this round.

[Sporting]

Can't we do regional and local/city flags to avoid overlap with the other thread? Just an idea...would be good to see some unfamiliar designs.

[S. aureus]

Can't we do regional and local/city flags to avoid overlap with the other thread? Just an idea...would be good to see some unfamiliar designs.

That's a good idea.

Given the general public's clear evidence of blindness on the twitter tournament it might be nice to have a definitive otf competition for the national flags. I suspect there'll be almost as many strange results though.

[S. aureus]

My ranking (best to worst):
Canada
Suriname
Egypt
Lebanon
Venezuela
CAR

[Hot Orange]

1. Suriname
2. Canada
3. Venezuela
4. Egypt
5. CAR
6. Lebanon

[San Bernardhinault]

My ranking

Suriname
Canadia
Lebanon
Egypt
Vuvuzela
CAR

[Fussbudget]

1) Egypt - I'm starting to realise that I'm dead into vaguely modernist eagles on flags, let's not dig too deep into this shall we
2) Suriname
...
3) Canada
...
4) Venezuela
5) CAR
6) Lebanon

[pebblethefish]

Canada
Suriname
Venezuela
Egypt
Lebanon
CAR (I bloody hate that red stripe)

[Bruno]

So would it be sensible to assign points, 5-4-3-2-1-0, to everyone's lists, then tally it up? And how long should each group stage be open? I was thinking #1-2 should progress, but maybe that draws things out too long (there are 33 groups).

[S. aureus]

Maybe with 33 groups we should be running 2 a day in parallel?
So 17 days for round 1.
11 groups of 6 in round 2 in 6 days.
Giving us 22 flags after that, we could divide into 4 groups (6,6,5,5, or include 2 highest scoring 3rd placers from round 2) and have a final 8?

[Fussbudget]

This is almost exactly like being in an SFA board meeting isn't it. Whatever happened to roryfsmith I wonder, I'm sure he would have some tremendous outside-the-box suggestions.

I would give a greater weight to people's top 2 picks a bit like at Eurovision, so allocating points something like 7-5-3-2-1-0

[Balderdasha]

My ranking.

1. Canada
2. Suriname
3. Egypt
4. Lebanon
5. CAR
6. Venezuela

[pebblethefish]

Or we could take the 66 top twos from each group and put them into a straight knockout of 64 teams, drawn randomly.

Which would mean a break of a day for a full-on OTF Hate to decide which two qualifiers should miss out. If that goes ahead, my shot in the sweepstake for most Ignore Poster requests as a result of that to be 11.

[Bruno]

Another thing we could do is run a fresh competition four times annually with different randomly selected groups to see if there's any consistency of excellence....

7-5-3-2-1-0 works for me. As for who progresses and plays whom in the next round, I figured I would generate new random groups once we'd sorted this one out. Doing it World Cup style seems too Byzantine. I don't know how it's being done on Twatter.

[Bruno]

I can put up 2 groups a day and leave the voting open for a few days (3?) before posting the final tallies.

[Nesta]

Suggestion- to make the voting and tallying of scores more manageable, and to keep things moving, set a limit on the number of votes- only count the first 10 or 20 or whatever, then move on maybe?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Egypt
Canada
Surinam
Lebanon
Venezuela
CAR

[ad hoc]

My order here is the exact order you've pit them in in the OP. From Egypt to CAR

[Bruno]

Suggestion- to make the voting and tallying of scores more manageable, and to keep things moving, set a limit on the number of votes- only count the first 10 or 20 or whatever, then move on maybe?

Sure maybe. Let's remember it's going to be a long pandemic though.

[Bruno]

CAR hoping for a consolation goal before it's all over.

[Nesta]

Lebanon
Canada
Suriname
Venezuela
Egypt
CAR

[Bruno]

Canada
Suriname
Venezuela
Lebanon
Egypt
CAR