Mitch Hawker vs My Awful Tastes!

Well, the Mitch Hawker 2012 Internet Wooden Tracked Roller Coaster Poll results are now in so lets get the bitching and moaning started... Outside of the now typical trip swaying aside I'll say I do agree with the overall results and can say I'm happy where most of my top coasters stand. 

Here's what I placed as my top 15 coasters in the 2012 wood coaster poll. With both Boulder Dash and El Toro being my "#1" (and yes, I can have two favorite coasters :P)

Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT,y,n,1

El Toro SFGAd NJ,y,n,1

Lost Coaster of SM Indiana Beach IN,y,n,2

Cornball Express Indiana Beach IN,y,n,3 

Thundercoaster Tusenfryd NO,y,n,4

Troy Toverland NL,y,n,5

 (((((I DONT HAVE A 

PHOTO OF RENEGADE 

ON MY FLICKR YET 

.......SORRY!)))))

Renegade Valleyfair! MN,y,n,6

Kentucky Rumbler Beech Bend KY,y,n,7

Dania Bch Hurr (S) Dania Beach FL,y,n,8

Ozark Wildcat(SBNO) Celebration City MO,y,n,9

Yankee Cannonball Canobie Lake Park NH,y,y,10 

Cyclone (SBNO) Williams Grove PA,y,n,11

 Comet Great Escape NY,y,n,12

Hell Cat Clementon Lake NJ,y,n,13 

Silver Comet Martin's Fantasy Is. NY,y,n,14

Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA,y,n,15

And here we have the top 15 placed wood coasters of 2012 overall.

1 El Toro SFGAd NJ 297 167 0 0 1.0000 

2 T Express Everland KR 19 164 1 1 0.9910 

3 The Voyage Holiday World IN 202 164 3 0 0.9820 57 

4 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT 174 164 3 0 0.9820 52 

5 Phoenix Knoebel's PA 242 163 4 0 0.9760 

6 Balder Liseberg SE 86 160 5 1 0.9669 

7 Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA 145 158 8 1 0.9491 

8 Dauling Dragon-L Happy Valley CN 11 154 7 4 0.9455 

9 Dauling Dragon-R Happy Valley CN 11 154 8 3 0.9424 

10 Colossos Heide Park DE 122 156 9 2 0.9401

11 Fireball Happy Valley Song CN 18 155 10 1 0.9367

12 El Toro Freizeitpark Plohn DE 35 153 11 1 0.9303

13 Troy Toverland NL 120 154 12 0 0.9277

14 Wood Coaster Knight Valley CN 11 146 7 10 0.9264

15 Thunderhead Dollywood TN 184 152 14 1 0.913

Of the top 15 wooden coasters I've been on 7 of them (in italics), damn you China! 

My top 15 placed in order of the overall results would list as so....  Bold being where they fell in order and the italicized number on the right being where I placed it.

1 El Toro SFGAd NJ 297 167 0 0 1.0000 (1) 

4 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT 174 164 3 0 0.9820 52 (1)   

7 Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA 145 158 8 1 0.9491 (15)

13 Troy Toverland NL 120 154 12 0 0.9277 (5)

19 Renegade Valleyfair! MN 78 147 20 0 0.8802 (6) 

20 Ozark Wildcat(SBNO) Celebration City MO 38 162 19 4 0.8865 (9)

27 Kentucky Rumbler Beech Bend KY 89 141 24 2 0.8503 (7) 

34 Comet Great Escape NY 110 133 32 2 0.8024 (12) 

42 Cornball Express Indiana Beach IN 129 126 40 1 0.7575 (3)

45 Thundercoaster Tusenfryd NO 57 121 44 1 0.7319 (4)

45 Dania Bch Hurr (S) Dania Beach FL 58 139 41 3 0.7678 (8) 

48 Silver Comet Martin's Fantasy Is. NY 69 120 47 0 0.7186 (14)

64 Yankee Cannonball Canobie Lake Park NH 77 101 64 2 0.6108 (10)

78 Hell Cat Clementon Lake NJ 64 86 75 6 0.5329 (13)

88 Lost Coaster of SM Indiana Beach IN 116 80 84 3 0.4880 (2) 

156 Cyclone (SBNO) Williams Grove PA 34 30 148 6 0.1793 (11)

three of them being SBNO and therefore being omitted from the overall results would have placed as such... 20 Ozark Wildcat(SBNO) Celebration City MO, 45 Dania Bch Hurr (S) Dania Beach FL, and 156 Cyclone (SBNO) Williams Grove PA... So I added them myself.

 I'm glad both El Toro and Boulder Dash fall where they do, both truly deserve to be there. Ravine Flyer made it into my top 15, not surprised its in the top 10. Troy, Renegade ,Ozark Wildcat ,Kentucky Rumbler all being GCI's and in the overall top 30 make me happy... even with GCI's BIG CLUNKY LAPBAR! Yankee Cannonball placing 64th overall makes me happy... I'm glad a ride turning 83 this year and a personal favorite of mine is still well liked. As far as my bottom three top 15 rides... Well, I know I have odd tastes in coasters and I know I'm one of the few who really likes Hell Cat (J2) (but I also rode it before most of it's re-tracking and before all of its heavy trimming... So I placed it based off memory lane) Lost Coaster? Don't ask... I just really like how different it is from pretty much, anything.. and then we come to Williams Grove Cyclone which at 156th would have placed 12th to last in the world.....had it not been SBNO! (I put it as 11th BEST) and I used to be questioned on it often before falling off the face of mainstream coaster enthusiasm. Reasons behind my placement would be, there is NO OTHER ride like it, there never will be, ever! It truly made me feel like I was dieing and yet I kept getting back in line again and again. and it was one of the extremely few rides (honestly) to scare me, ever. ((honestly))
 

And based off the results, the top 15 I've ridden would list as this... Bold being where they placed in the over all results, the number next to the bold number is what my top 15 now becomes

1 1 El Toro SFGAd NJ

4 2 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT

5 3 Phoenix Knoebel's PA

6 4 Balder Liseberg SE

7 5 Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA

13 6 Troy Toverland NL

15 7 Thunderhead Dollywood TN

17 8 Prowler Worlds of Fun MO

19 9 Renegade Valleyfair! MN

23 10tWooden Warrior Quassy CT

23 10tRaven Holiday World IN

25 11 Shivering Timbers Michigan's Adventure MI

26 12 Zippin Pippin Bay Beach WI

27 13 Kentucky Rumbler Beech Bend KY

29 14 Hades Mount Olympus WI

30 15 HellCat Timber Falls WI

Outside of say..... Raven and Prowler (and maybe Timbers) I'd be OK with that as my 15 and really only Raven bugs me being so high up there, I place it near the bottom of my real coaster rankings. ew.

So yeah, 2012 Wood Coaster Poll, woo! I wonder if there will even be a steel poll for 2012, I don't think it ever even happened in 2011... in fact, the 2011 wood poll ended up being so late I never even got to send in my ballot... that was only semi-completed anyways. 

 

 Very exciting stuff, I know! The full results of the 2012 wood coaster poll can be seen here - http://www.ushsho.com/detailedwoodrollercoasterpollresults2012.htm 

with even more info here - http://www.ushsho.com/bestrollercoasterpoll.htm 

and a bunch of my wood coaster photos can be seen here -  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canobiefan/sets/72157602671205902/

((First update of 2013?!))

ok, bye 

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