You heard it here... the official medal counts are making their triumphant return to the site.
There will be some very significant changes, and here is the list of all the new things that will be happening:
-Medals will be separated by 6 categories... one for each simulator plus a combined.
-There will be two separate divisions of medal counting... one running count which counts all medals ever earned, and one that resets at the beginning of every year.
-At the end of every year, there will be awards handed out for overall achievment based on the yearly lists.
-I will also be delving into the past by posting the final yearly tabs from 2003, 2004, and 2005, and handing out the appropriate awards.
-The medal lists will be kept safe in an Excel file rather than simply written on pieces of paper, so that I don't lose them again.
-Eventually, I will be doing all of the above for what I call 'designer ratings', where each coaster a person submitted for weekly contests will be averaged to give the designer a score to award quality in contrast to the quantity-based hard counts. There will be yearly awards for this as well.
So, I'm working on all of these at this very moment. I will post the appropriate yearly awards from the site archives as I finish the counts from each year, and then the running count and 2006 medals will be posted and I'll start working on part 2.
Questions? Comments? Post them up.