MMA Best of Year 2017 Voting Thread (CLOSED)

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   MMA Best of Year 2017 Voting Thread

Who Can Vote?

Unlike previous years where the MMA best of year vote was restricted to site collaborators and metal reviewers, this year we have opened the vote to anyone. This means that everyone from new members to site admins will be eligible to vote. 

When is the Voting Deadline?

The deadline for submitting your votes is February 1st 2017.

You may edit your submission at any point up until the closing date. 

There is a little leeway for last minute edits, dependant on what time of the day we can look at the results. The vote only ends once an MMA admin posts in this thread saying that it is closed. After that point no new votes or edits will be counted. 

What Can I Vote For?

You may vote for any release that is tagged as 2017 on Metal Music Archives with some restrictions:

Release Sub-Genre: Non-Metal and Proto-Metal. The latter is likely to only have been used for any archival releases that may have come out during the year. These are not be counted among the best 2017 albums. Unlike some previous years, Metal Related tagged albums are permitted this year. We expect voters to use their discretion with such albums and considered whether a Metal Related tagged release really deserves to be placed on a metal website's best of year list.

Release Type: Live Album, Single, Boxset/Compilation, Demo, Promo/Other and Split unless that split can be considered a full, unique record in its own right and is not just random tracks taken from the contributor's other releases. An example from this year that is OK is Pure Wrath and Onirism's Endless Journey. If in doubt, ask an admin before voting. EP's are generally okay so long as they are made up entirely of new studio material. Again, ask an admin if in doubt.

You cannot vote for something that is not in our database at all. If it should be, then please suggest the artist for inclusion as soon as possible, or if the artist is here but not the release, report the need for an update.

Additionally, while recording musicians are welcome to take part, you may not vote for any release in which you took a part in recording. 

Making Your Votes

You may vote for up to 30 releases in your submission. There is no minimum, but it is preferably that you get as close to the maximum as you can. 

Please only post one submission and edit it if you change your mind. We will work through adding everyone's votes from the start of this voting thread which means that your earliest submission will be the one that is counted. We will not go back and edit the one we have already taken if we encounter a second from the same member. 

Please lay your submission out in the following format only - others will not be counted.

Artist – Release
Artist – Release 

And so forth, where the album you list first is your top album of the year. 

To be perfectly clear, this means no numbering, no Release – Artist lists, no spaces between each line (your list should be a maximum of 30 lines long, one for each album) and no commentary on your choices, at least in line (you may talk about your choices separately to your heart's content). And especially important: no reverse lists even when the rest of this is taken into account: you don't want us to count your opinion in the wrong order and give the most points to your 30th ranked album instead of your first. 

Sticking to the requested format speeds up tallying the result considerably, so please be considerate and stick to it. Admins may edit the formatting before the tally but do not count on it!

How Will the Submissions be Scored?

This year we will be using a score range of 1 to 100 points, rewarding higher places albums on everyone's list with more points. The exact breakdown from 1st placed to 30th is as follows:

Place - Points
1 – 100
2 – 85
3 – 70
4 – 60
5 – 55
6 – 50
7 – 47
8 – 44
9 – 41
10 – 38
11 – 35
12 – 32
13 – 29
14 – 26
15 – 23
16 – 20
17 – 18
18 – 16
19 – 14
20 – 12
21 – 10
22 – 9
23 – 8
24 – 7
25 – 6
26 – 5
27 – 4
28 – 3
29 – 2
30 - 1

How Can I Help Promote This Vote?

The best way that you can help out is just spread that it is happening via word of mouth. If you know others who like metal, both online and off, invite them to take part. 

This is the Google shortened URL for this access to this thread: https://goo.gl/LgHG56

Edited by adg211288 - 01 Feb 2018 at 2:03am