Ok, good news and bad news.
Good news: there were over 1000 votes in one month and in the first 24 hours alone there were over 500 votes! This completely exceeded my expectations, I am blown away by how popular this was!
Bad news: almost no top players voted. I haven't compiled statistics yet, but it seems only 1-2 MIOM top 100 players voted. Out of the Smashboards top 200, I estimate less than 10. This seriously threatens the validity of the resulting list.
There are a few options. One, pester top players to submit a tier list vote to me (despite deadline being past). Two, use the data already provided but alter the acceptance criteria for the high level list. Three, abandon having a high level list and output a single community list. Four, abandon the project entirely.
I am leaning towards option two, as I don't feel like pestering players who had plenty of notice (I assume they weren't interested, harassing them wont change their mind). The main problem with changing the criteria is acceptance becomes highly arbitrary and dependent on my own biases. Option four is preferable to option three in my opinion, or at least equally bad. I would be willing to accept votes from players for the next month or so, but eventually it must end and the votes tallied.
First of all everyone needs to stop arguing about tier placement and actually address this issue. Sveet has put a lot of effort into this so help the guy out give him some suggestions. If this issue isn't solved, there is
no new tier list. All of your arguing will be in vein and will have no impact on the community.
I agree with option two being the best use of community votes, but I think we can pester some more high/higher level players to submit a tier list of some kind. The only problem is that with most of them, they either don't care or will only give you a top 9-12 characters. A lot of people here are already on their local Melee or Smash scene's Facebook page. We could ask people to survey the top players on there and explain the situation to them. I'm sure many will be indifferent, but I think we could get a few legitimate responses.
I think it'd be a good idea for people here on Smashboards to maybe submit a "resumé" of their qualifications for their vote. This might include stating which characters you main, which region you're in, other smashers that you play with often or have played with a lot in the past, how you place in tournaments, which characters you play most often in friendlies, which characters you're most unfamiliar with, etc. Probably have a requirement that states you need recorded footage if you're not a known player, and maybe give an in depth explanaition of 4-5 character matchups.
If someone submits all of these things, then it'd be a great way of weeding out people that throw their own personal tier lists up here for fun.
In summary, here is a tl;dr version of what I just said:
Step 1
Get more high-level players to submit their lists through outreach on Facebook or in person.
Step 2
Create a team dedicated to reviewing 2015 tier list applications from mid-higher level players due to most high level players inevitably not caring enough about a new tier list.
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