Mr. Hat'n'Clogs wrote:Skreyola wrote:Maybe it's silly and baseless, but as I said, if I voted only in rounds where I'd seen both shows, I'd be out of the voting for most of the tourney, and Mao would have fewer votes to tally.
Y'know, it would be great if we voted solely on the basis of show merit, but then we'd all need to have seen all the shows. I don't have time for that (and am not interested in all the shows that made it into the brackets), so I'd be out of the voting entirely.
The problem with your logic is that you assume the only scenarios are "vote for rounds where you've seen both" and "vote for rounds where you've seen neither." I've voted in most rounds because I've usually seen at least one of the shows, or I've specifically been trying to game it like blkmage or other people.
You seem to think promoting obscure shows is desirable, but if you haven't actually seen those shows you have no way of knowing whether or not you've just pushed a show that is worth your time. If a show makes it far because no one's seen it, you've essentially just recommended a show to people even though if you saw it you might find it garbage.
I'm not assuming that. I'm saying that a lot of people have said things (as reasons they're skipping a vote, or as reasons for dissing someone's gamist or underdog reasoning for a vote) that indicate they think people should vote only when they've seen both shows. I fully understabd having seen only one of the shows. It's one of my reasons given recently.
I do think promoting obscure shows is desirable. I'd be sad if next year, the only shows people voted for were, for example, Free!, Silver Spoon, and ServantxService. I don't think shows should sweep the tourney just because they're the only ones most people have heard of. I desire for the tourneys to bring some hidden gem that hardly anyone's seen but on its merits everyone should to at least the semifinals. Some of my votes have been for things I haven't seen because they're on my list of maybe, if I run out of things with better recommendation, I'll try this and wish I'd seen it sooner, in other words, looks interesting.
If it's not a good show, it won't win on the basis of game theory votes, anyway, unless it's up against a juggernaut everyone knows but nobody really likes in the finals.
Anyway, I've never seen these tourneys as being "shows I recommend." If I like a show, I say so.
We should probably take any further discussion of this to a separate thread or PM so we don't derail the tourney thread.