All-SpursTalk Awards: The Play-In

[Blackjack]

All-SpursTalk: The Play-In


With the first ever All-SpursTalk poll now concluded, the Third Team is set and we've found eight members make a five-man team; call it a maiden voyage or an infancy ... this concept has taken it's bumps and dealt with growing pains along the way. But, be that as it may, it's begun to take shape and work itself out.

Given that this is something for the people and by the people, your comments have not fallen on deaf ears. Therefore, in an effort to be as transparent and fair as possible, I've decided to put the nominees that received between 6-8 votes together and allow you, the SpursTalk community, to decide which five of these nominees will have an opportunity to compete for First Team honors. As for the transparency, I'll withhold the names for now but hear's how the vote totals look:

First-place: 13

Second-place: 11

Third-Place: Three tied with 10

Sixth-place: Two tied with 9

By virtue of the first-place's clear edge and win of the initial poll, this member has already been named to the First Team. Receiving 13 of 21 votes simply can't be ignored and the reward of First Team honors seems not only fair but appropriate.

The second tier of nominees breaks down like this:

Eighth-place: Three tied with 8

Eleventh-place: Two tied with 7

Thirteenth-place: Two tied with 6 (Pistons < Spurs and Solid D)

Upon All-SpursTalk's first poll, Pistons < Spurs and Solid D were to be placed on the Second Team and joined by the five nominees with the lowest vote total in the final poll. But as one famous college football analyst might say:

NOT SO FAST, MY FRIENDS!

Given the convincing win of Solid D and the impressive second-place finish of Pistons < Spurs, it seems only fair to give them the same opportunity the nominees with 7 or 8 votes have. So this poll will decide two-sevenths of the Second Team and set up a final poll where the remaining eleven nominees look to fill six First Team slots and five Second Team slots.

Top-5 move on to compete for the First Team, the two remaining will be named to the Second Team. Fair? I thought so! When it comes to making deals or compromises, I find things go much easier when you just tell the other party what to do.

With that said, gimme ...





(Wait a second! Just to be clear . . .)



Gimme 5, poll ends Monday night (or, technically, Tuesday morning).

[Fpoonsie]

Woo-hoo! Let's go, Shoog!

[Blackjack]

The same tiebreaker rules still apply, as well.

[Blackjack]

Remember, you're picking 5. The five leading vote-getters will compete with six others for six spots on the First Team and the 5 remaining spots on the Second Team.

[Mel_13]

That was a really difficult choice.

Creative solution, Blackjack

[Fpoonsie]

Aw, .

RiF, and all that, I suppose.

Edit: So THAT's what all those "5"s were about.

[Blackjack]

And there's still seven people yet to be named and six that will be thrown into a hat with the five winners from here to decide their fate. I told y'all these were some worthy nominees.

[Blackjack]

Aw, .

RiF, and all that, I suppose.

Edit: So THAT's what all those "5"s were about.

I take it you've had a better Friday night then I.

[Fpoonsie]

Well, there was a graduation party (which ended up just depressing me), so I came back home, continued to imbibe my body weight in wheat beer, and watch "Lock, Stock..."

So, yeah, the night eventually picked up..

[Blackjack]

Nice choice of movie. But you probably knew I'd approve.

[Chieflion]

You are witholding the names just to piss me off, Blackjack.

[Blackjack]

A little bit. A little bit . . .

[polandprzem]

ChumpDumper
duncan228
Piston < Spurs
ShoogarBear
Solid D

not particular order

[Dro210]

Let's be real....

Phila should be the leading vote getter, no way he should be out of the Top 5. So I only voted for him... Can you really say anybody has better or more unique takes? The answer is no. He's usually pretty on-point with the current stuff, but what I love even more is he comes with all these old-school stories that you've never heard of anywhere else that are just badass. I think he may even have some inside sources! Legit ones. lol.

Seriously, I've never really checked for a specific poster on any forums, but this guys basketball knowledge and love of the game rivals my own... except his knowledge of the deep history of the game far exceeds my own!... and for that, Phila... Mad respect brother.



And what exactly makes ChumpDumper 1st team?... Is this based on the past?... Cause all I ever see from that guy is just him acting like a jerk. Putting other posters down cause he thinks he has some elite status. Some deserve it, some just don't know. It's usually pretty uncalled for tho, and the thread would be better if he just kept it to himself... either way, I've rarely, if ever seen any basketball takes from him. Just my observation.

[Blackjack]

I'm not voting for some pretty obvious reason and I don't want to say anything that could possibly skew the vote (even if it's highly doubtful I could -- I don't have that kind of pull), but damn . . .

mountainballer might be the most underrated poster on this board. (But I guess he could just be suffering from the OG vote. )

[Dro210]

I haven't noticed mountainballer enough, but I've been seein him in the think tank recently... He has good takes, no doubt.

[ShoogarBear]

Screw the play-in. I'll coattail on the other six and kick the First Team's ass.

[ShoogarBear]

Woo-hoo! Let's go, Shoog!

Aw, .

RiF, and all that, I suppose.

Edit: So THAT's what all those "5"s were about.

And this is my vote demographic.

[Fpoonsie]

And this is my vote demographic.

I know. Not my best showing, thread-wise.

Ah, well. In my defense, you were running away w/ it at 100% after I put my vote in...thus, the premature celebration.

[HarlemHeat37]

I'm going with Shoogar, Solid D, 228 and mountainballer..I'm waiting on the 5th..I'm going to wait and see if Pistons < Spurs will bring one of his great humility speeches to the thread before I vote, they're inspiring..

[Shastafarian]

mountainballer is probably the best European poster here. He gets my vote

[dbestpro]

Polls aside, Bruno remains the one indivdual in here that I would believe before any one else.

[Chieflion]

Hey Blackjack, I vote for Dro210 all 5 times.

LOL at Phila with 1 vote outside the top 5.

[Blackjack]

Screw the play-in. I'll coattail on the other six and kick the First Team's ass.

Oh, no, he di-int!?! We gonna have West Side Story up in this biatch . . .

Hey Blackjack, I vote for Dro210 all 5 times.

Sounds to me Dro210 should've probably come forward with this revelation about a week earlier.

[Fabbs]

Let's be real....

And what exactly makes ChumpDumper 1st team?... Is this based on the past?... Cause all I ever see from that guy is just him acting like a jerk. Putting other posters down cause he thinks he has some elite status. Some deserve it, some just don't know. It's usually pretty uncalled for tho, and the thread would be better if he just kept it to himself... either way, I've rarely, if ever seen any basketball takes from him. Just my observation.

Does this awards poll have a safeguard to keep multipersonality mul roll multiprofiles from voting for themselves multiple times? Is the answer an obvious "no"?

*I'm not aiming this just at Humpy.