2010 Alpha Coasterdraft [voting]

Im slightly drunk but I'll take Powder Keg @ SDC.

Originally posted by hyyyper

Originally posted by maxamaxam

Battlestar Galactica - Universal Singapore

I'm going to come back to my decision earlier. Since it wasn't clear in the Beta draft too wether BSG was a valid pick. Like ianko66 in the Beta draft, I'll consider your turn 'skipped' so you can pick two coasters next round.

But please guys, If you are unsure wether a pick is valid or not, check it out or send me a pm. This way we can avoid somebody missing a pick because of dumb misunderstandings.

RCDB.com was the only valid site for closed and operating, and there it stands operating so I do not agree with youre discision

edit: (since my post didn't have a pick I am allowed to edit right?)
I've read the whole story now in the Beta topic, and still I don't agree..... You say that the parks site is reeference, but we all know that it has been operating and it will be operating in the near future, presumingly next year. You said that RCDB.com is the reference unless it can be proven otherwise. That means that you must check now if every ride that has been picked was open on the date of pick. Some coasters don't operate for a fair amount of time becouse of maintenence... See this as a long period of maintenence. Troy (toverland) won't be open on tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays this winter....

but hey you're the judge you can overrule me, I have no problems with that, but I think that you should make this a bit clearer. So that there is only one reference.

You cant always trust RCBD. Besides, you can pick two rides next round.

The ride never opened to the public, rcdb is wrong. During initial testing a seat malfunctioned.

Originally posted by Jakizle

The ride never opened to the public, rcdb is wrong. During initial testing a seat malfunctioned.

If you do you're research (lets say, official anauncement by RWsentosa) you know that the ride opened for 2 weeks then an engeniring flaw in the seats was recovered during an early morning test routine, where stress coused a seat to break off the ride. But the ride opened and will be open in the future, just the seats are beiing revised for now. The coaster still is intact and will operate in the future and has been operating, so why on earth would it not be a valid pick. It's just temporarily closed for maintenence, as stated on their site (temporarely closed).

^ That's what I agree with. If RCDB was stated as the official site, it should be used as the reference site. The rule states that if RCDB says a ride is CLOSED, then the picker must prove it is open through other sources, not the other way around. Theorectically, during the Xcelerator issue, someone could have picked it and RCDB could have said it was open but someone could have come in and said that the park said it was closed so it's invalid. It seems to me like this decision is a direct conflict with what the rules state. The rule is for cases of soft openeings etc. This ride seems to have had a soft opening for a few weeks and was then shut down for maintenance, but it did open and RCDB confirms that. So what if RCDB is sometimes wrong? It is this site we are referencing.

Exactly, it was a soft opening, never opened to the general public. It looks like a shitty ride though so I don't care if he gets it.

In the rules though it states that soft openings could be grounds for it being valid. But like you said it doesn't look overly exciting so I would let him have it anyway.

[yoshifreak]

I'll take X/X2 at Magic Mountain.

[hyyyper]

I'll explain again. The ride soft openend and almost immidiatly after that some of the seats breaks and the ride goes out of commission for at least 7 months without any sign of it re-opening soon.
Now how several was Xcelerator's cable snap and how long was that ride out of the running? Also, Xcelarator was actually opened before it broke down.
BGS shouldn't have been open but somehow the faulty train made it past the inspection.

As for RCDB.com, it will be used as a reference, not a bible. Only if there is no other source of information, then rcdb.com will be used. In this case, it's almost common knowledge (amonst coasterfans) that BSG is still not operating.

Sheikra - BGT

^Quit stealing my picks! That's two rounds in a row, you bugger!

Yoshi just stole my pick! haha

[hyyyper]

Round 1

1. Tetsu - Boulder Dash (Lake Compounce)
2. Jakizle - Voyage (Holiday World)
3. yoshifreak - El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)
4. EElover2 - Prowler (Worlds of Fun)
5. Austin - Maverik (Cedar Point)
6. Vid_w - MISSED
7. cjd - Bizzaro (Six Flags New England)
8. maxamaxam - Blue Fire (Europa Park)
9. devilsrule911 - MISSED
10.gazag - Winjas (Phantasialand)
11.Jer - Phoenix (Knoebels)
12.Flickstah - Balder (Liseberg)
13.Jonny Richy - Hades (Mt. Olympus)
14.19121 - MISSED

Round 2

1. Jakizle - Expedition GeForce (Holiday Park)
2. yoshifreak - Intimidator305 (Kings Dominion)
3. EElover2 - MISSED (DQ)
4. Austin - T-Express (Everland)
5. Vid_w - Fireball (Happy Valley)
6. cjd - Diamondback (Kings Island)
7. maxamaxam - Millennium Force (Cedar Point)
8. devilsrule911 - El Toro (Freizeitpark Plohn)
9. gazag - MISSED
10.Jer - Storm Runner (Hersheypark)
11.Flickstah - Xcelerator (Knott's Berry Farm)
12.Jonny Richy - Joris en de Draak (Efteling)
13.19121 - MISSED (DQ)
14.Tetsu - Nitro (Six Flags Great Adventure)

Round 3

1. yoshifreak - Intimidator (Carowinds)
2. Austin - MISSED
3. Vid_w - iSpeed (Mirabilandia)
4. cjd - Thunderhead (Dollywood)
5. maxamaxam - Troy (Toverland)
6. devilsrule911 - Fahrenheit (Hersheypark)
7. gazag - Goliath (Walibi World)
8. Jer - Black Mamba (Phantasialand)
9. Flickstah - Boardwalk Bullet (Kemah Boardwalk)
10.Jonny Richy - Phantom's Revenge (Kennywood)
11.Tetsu - Montu (Busch Gardens Africa)
12.Jakizle - Manta (Seaworld Orlando)

Round 4

1. Austin - Ravine Flyer II (Waldameer)
2. Vid_w - Goliath (Six Flags Over Georgia)
3. cjd - Katun (Mirabilandia)
4. maxamaxam - Piraten (Djurs Sommerland)
5. devilsrule911 - Volcano The Blast Coaster (Kings Dominion)
6. gazag - Thunderbird (Powerland)
7. Jer - Stingray (Giant Wheel Park)
8. Flickstah - Griffon (Busch Gardens Europe)
9. Jonny Richy - Evel Knievel (Six Flags St.Louis)
10.Tetsu - Kawasemi (Tobu Zoo)
11.Jakizle - Nemesis (Alton Towers)
12.yoshifreak - Dueling Dragons (Islands of Adventure)

Round 5

1. Vid_w - Pyrenees (Parque Espana)
2. cjd - Raven (Holiday World)
3. maxamaxam - SKIPPED
4. devilsrule911 - Sky Rocket (Kennywood)
5. gazag - Atlantis Adventure (Lotte World)
6. Jer - Eejanaika (Fuji Q Highland)
7. Flickstah - Pheathon (Gyeongju World)
8. Jonny Richy - Whizzer (Six Flags Great America)
9. Tetsu - Lightning Racer (Hersheypark)
10.Jakizle - Powder Keg (Silver Dollar City)
11.yoshifreak - X2 (Six Flags Magic Mountain)
12.Austin - Sheikra (Busch Gardens Africa)

Round 6

1. cjd
2. maxamaxam
3. devilsrule911
4. gazag
5. Jer
6. Flickstah
7. Jonny Richy
8. Tetsu
9. Jakizle
10.yoshifreak
11.Austin
12.Vid_w

maxamaxam can pick two coasters this round.
cjd, you may start the next round!

Murg... this pick was giving me a headache when Austin took what I was after. So I guess I'll go for the last Intamin woodie and call it a day.

Colossos @ Heide Park

please hurry up and make your round 6 picks guys, im going away tomorrow morning and will have to do a skip for round 7, i thought the bloddy thing would of been over and done by now[:(!]

Wondering how these survived but I'll take:
Tatsu @ SFMM and Alpengeist @ BGE

Thats because Tatsu is a kiddie coaster.

Kanonen

Skycar @ Mysterious Island (Zhuhai, Guangdong, China)

http://www.rcdb.com/3466.htm

and the next round i will have to skip hyyyper

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by gazag


and the next round i will have to skip hyyyper

yup, no problem

This was a tough pick, and it's probably going to annoy some people I talked with but I want:

Twister @ Knoebels

[slosprint]

... It's your funeral...

haha Freddie hasn't even rode it, and I personally love it, so you can all suck my dick!

^ Twister is a good ride.