Posted on 01/14/2008 4:54:47 AM PST by pookie18
After starting with >13,000 possibilities, the 3rd annual Best Of Today's Toons is over & all the votes have been tallied. Neither hanging nor pregnant chads were encountered & Diebold equipment was not used. First, a few stats. This was the closest voting to date. 29 of the 40 finalists received 1st-place votes. There were 82 valid entries received & thanks to all of you who took the time to vote!! Votes were cast, in order of preference, for between 1 & 10 of the finalists. Cartoonists Michael Ramirez(12), Sam Ryskind(3), Glenn McCoy(3), Eric Allie(2), Mark Thornhill(2) & Chris Muir(2) all had the multiple items in the finals. FReepers reagan_fanatic & ThePeoplesCube had one item apiece. The method of scoring was as follows: A 1st-place vote received 10 pts., a 2nd-place vote earned 9 pts., ..., down to a 10th-place vote which got 1 pt.
If you'd like to inquire about possibly helping (as one FReeper has already done) with the Best Of 2008, FReepmail me by the end of this month at the latest (shortly after which the Best Of January 2008 will be determined) & I'll tell you what would be involved. And now, the results:
#40 (51 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 22nd in the preliminary round):
#39 (52 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 17th in the preliminary round):
#38 (56 pts./1 1st-place vote; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#37 (56.5 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round): 
#36 (59 pts./0 1st-place vote; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#35 (60 pts./2 1st-place vote; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#34 (62 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round): 
#33 (63 pts./0 1st-place vote; finished tied for 22nd in the preliminary round):
#32 (64 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#31 (66.5 pts./3 1st-place votes; removed from preliminary round by moderator):
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#30 (67 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round): 
#29 (68 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 17th in the preliminary round):
#28 (71 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 13th in the preliminary round):
#27 (71.5 pts./0 1st-place vote; finished tied for 17th in the preliminary round):
#26 (72 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round): 
#25 (74 pts./1 1st-place vote; finished 8th in the preliminary round):
#24 (79 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 17th in the preliminary round):
#23 (85 pts./0 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#22 (85.5 pts./0 1st-place vote; finished tied for 13th in the preliminary round):
#21 (87.5 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 22nd in the preliminary round):
#20 (88 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#19 (93 pts./1 1st-place vote; finished tied for 10th in the preliminary round):
#17T (100 pts./2 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round): 
#17T (100 pts./3 1st-place vote; finished tied for 13th in the preliminary round):
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#16 (105 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 22nd in the preliminary round):
#15 (117 pts./3 1st-place votes; finished tied for 13th in the preliminary round):
#14 (123 pts./2 1st-place votes; finished tied for 10th in the preliminary round): 
#13 (129 pts./3 1st-place vote; finished tied for 22nd in the preliminary round):
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#12 (132 pts./4 1st-place votes; finished tied for 17th in the preliminary round):
#11 (133.5 pts./2 1st-place vote; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#10 (138 pts./1 1st-place vote; finished tied for 4th in the preliminary round):
#9 (142 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished 9th in the preliminary round):
#8 (145.5 pts./7 1st-place votes; finished 6th in the preliminary round):
#7 (150.5 pts./1 1st-place votes; finished tied for 27th in the preliminary round):
#6 (176 pts./5 1st-place votes; finished 3rd in the preliminary round):
#5 (180 pts./3 1st-place vote; finished 2nd in the preliminary round):
#4 (184 pts./6 1st-place vote; finished 7th in the preliminary round):
#3 (196.5 pts./7 1st-place votes; finished tied for 4th in the preliminary round):
#2 (208.5 pts./7 1st-place votes; finished 1st in the preliminary round):
#1 (217 pts./9 1st-place votes; finished tied for 10th in the preliminary round):
2006 Winner:
2005 Winner:
Pookie,
Thanks for all your hard work. I start each day with my fresh dose of Today’s ‘Toons.
Keep up the great work.
Kevin
As long as someone didn't crash into you while trying to read the fine print ;-) My pleasure, bigjoesaddle!
Thanks Pookie, & BTTT
Awesome Pookie!! And thanks Kevin for the great trophy design.
Thanks, mass55th! OK...let's do so...
Great thread Pookie. Thanks for the link.
WONDERFUL as always.
History prof at the college loves them. And his wife really loves them.
History prof at the college loves them. And his wife really loves them.
& they haven't become FReepers yet? ;-)
They have a 22 year old son with a 2 year old mental age. Kind of takes the edge off a lot of options.
Guess I’m their FR agent. I screen stuff and funnel it to them. They seem to appreciate that a lot.
Not sure why the wife hasn’t logged in, other than the above. Prof hubby is plenty super busy.
Oh...sorry to hear that...was going to suggest sending them the thread link (which is what I send out to my e-mail list)...
I do sometimes.
Doesn’t appear to be very functional for them, for some reason.
I missed the thread and the voting. I read about this thread on the PeopleCube. Is there a ping list for this cartoon thread?
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