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Board 8 Ranks Pokemon is a meta-project with the goal of getting an accurate representation of Board 8's tastes in Pokemon. This project was partially inspired by junk's "Most Excellent Pokemon Contest", which was criticized for meta voting and questionable rules for each round. starfox2245 and others discussed more accurate ways of determining what Board 8's favorite Pokemon are, which led to the idea of having each user rank every Pokemon.

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rdfs:comment	Board 8 Ranks Pokemon is a meta-project with the goal of getting an accurate representation of Board 8's tastes in Pokemon. This project was partially inspired by junk's "Most Excellent Pokemon Contest", which was criticized for meta voting and questionable rules for each round. starfox2245 and others discussed more accurate ways of determining what Board 8's favorite Pokemon are, which led to the idea of having each user rank every Pokemon.
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abstract	Board 8 Ranks Pokemon is a meta-project with the goal of getting an accurate representation of Board 8's tastes in Pokemon. This project was partially inspired by junk's "Most Excellent Pokemon Contest", which was criticized for meta voting and questionable rules for each round. starfox2245 and others discussed more accurate ways of determining what Board 8's favorite Pokemon are, which led to the idea of having each user rank every Pokemon. Since there were over 700 Pokemon, they had to be divided up into their gens for this project to actually be feasible. For each gen, Board 8 users would submit lists that rank every Pokemon from 1 to X, where X is the number of Pokemon in that gen. The Pokemon at #1 is that user's favorite Pokemon of that gen, while the biggest number corresponds to their most hated. The host then adds up all of the lists to create a master list, which is once again from 1 to X. The #1 Pokemon is the board's favorite Pokemon, and so on. While this ranking process required quite a bit of time and thought from users (hopefully), and a lot of time from the host, the end result would ideally be much more accurate than other contests since it factors in love, hate, and even apathy. For example, Arcanine normally does great in other contests, but was only #14 in Gen 1 due to receiving lots of middling ranks. In addition to ranking Pokemon, starfox and Steiner invited users to submit writeups on each Pokemon as well. A user could write no writeups whatsoever, 1 for every Pokemon, or anything in between. These were meant to be short, although some users would go on long stories about Pokemon they felt strongly about one way or the other. starfox2245 created and hosted the first 4 generations, and opened list submissions for Gen V. However, perhaps due to the enormous amount of work that hosting this project demanded, starfox left GameFAQs and closed his account. He offered to send and explain his spreadsheet tools to someone who wanted to take over the project, and Steiner stepped up to the task. After close to 2 years, we arrived to the originally planned final ranking, where 100 Pokemon that ranked the highest from gens 1-6 were ranked to find which Pokemon were the most popular of all.

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