Expanding on Kip's original post, I was just brainstorming the following proposed voting structure:
Hopefully, the image is legible for everyone.
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And here would be an example (assuming 100 voter participation) of results:
Round 1 Results
Each Design would receive a score between (100 – 400) and then be ranked accordingly.
The top 10 move on to Round 2
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Round 2 Results
Candidates - Vote Totals
*Design B - 65
*Design C - 60
*Design G - 51
Design D - 37
Design J - 32
Design F - 21
Design A - 13
Design H - 9
Design I - 8
Design E - 4
The top 3 move on to the Final Round
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Final Round Results
Winner-Take-All
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Note #1, for each round there is the question of whether or not you would purchase the watch design. Just threw the idea in there since it seems like it would be useful to know what percentage of voters would actually purchase the watch. It's not necessarily needed for elimination voting but a good fyi.
Note #2, for round 2 if we wanted 5 watch designs to move to the final round instead of 3, the we can simply adjust it so that each voter would vote for no more than FIVE candidates in this round, then the top 5 move to the final round.
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Anyways, hope you guys follow my logic. If not, feel free to tweak and make adjustments accordingly. Only other thing we'll need to figure out is what to do in the event of a tie.
FLE is in my dreams
-pierre