Sorry for the delay but here are the last two sets of poll results:
For Party of One: 26 people voted 5, 4 people voted 4, no-one voted 3 or 2 and 1 person voted 1.
For The Best Night Ever: 23 people voted 5, 6 people voted 4, 4 people voted 3, 2 people voted 2 and no-one voted 1.
Which, after getting the average for those two results, leaves us with this final ranking of the best episodes of season 1 as voted by PonyGAF:
1. Party of One - 4.74
2. Suited For Success - 4.73
3. The Cutie Mark Chronicles - 4.7
4. Sonic Rainboom - 4.68
4. Dragonshy - 4.68
5. Winter Wrap Up - 4.54
6. Green Isn't Your Color - 4.52
7. The Best Night Ever - 4.43
8. A Bird in the Hoof - 4.34
9. A Dog and Pony Show - 4.3
10. Swarm of the Century - 4.28
11. Bridle Gossip - 4.07
12. Friendship is Magic Part 1 - 4.06
13. The Ticket Master - 4.05
14. Griffon the Brush-Off - 4
15. Look Before You Sleep - 3.81
16. Stare Master - 3.71
16. Friendship is Magic Part 2 - 3.71
17. Fall Weather Friends - 3.69
18. Applebuck Season - 3.67
19. Boast Busters - 3.58
20. The Show Stoppers - 3.5
21. Over A Barrel - 3.48
22. Feeling Pinkie Keen - 3.45
23. Owl's Well That Ends Well - 3.22
24. Call of the Cutie - 3.15
Say what you will about how the polls have gone but personally this seems like a good ranking to me. There are a few episodes near the bottom of the table that I would rate a bit higher, but the top ten of the ranking seems solid to me with all of them being episodes I consider really good.
Before I mention the results of the contest, I'd once again like to thank Orcastar for offering a prize this week and n8BitMan for offering one last week. I only really did the other two contests in the past because I had a free game to give away and the summer sale meant good games were really cheap and I really didn't expect people to offer prizes off their own back. I'll certainly keep more contests in mind when it comes to streaming season 2.
Anyway, I ran the six entries I got for this contest through a random number generator and
the winner is Ambiguous Cad! Unfortunately Cad you neglected to PM me your Steam ID and unless you have a different name on Steam I can't see you in the Steam group or on my friend list, so all you need to do now is send me your ID in a PM to pass along to Orcastar or PM him your ID yourself to cut out out the middle man and he can gift you your copy of King's Bounty: Platinum Edition.
With all that out of the way, it's time to decide what (if anything) we do with the Synchtube until season 2 starts. No matter what I'd like to keep doing the weekly TF2 games. Playing with the rest of PonyGAF has breathed new life into the game for me and it's way more fun getting killed by people I know instead of complete strangers.
For the actual Synchtube though, I think there are four options we have right now:
1. Start streaming season 1 all over again, whether we start next week or have a break and start again in a few weeks. It's worth noting that current opinion seems to be that season 2 will start around October (Although nothing is confirmed now) and that, if keep streaming two episodes at a time, starting next week would have us finish at the start of November. So if we had a break or even if we start next week and season 2 starts early in October we would have to watch more than two episodes for some or all of the weeks to make sure we finish before season 2 starts.
2. Stream old generations of MLP. There were a fair few people requesting this in the Synchtube yesterday, and I'm not sure if they like suffering or don't know what they are unleashing but the few episodes of old MLP I saw during various Ponygoons suffering streams were terrible. If enough people want to do this we could all suffer together I guess, who knows, it might even end up being like a mass Mystery Science Theater or it could just be really awful. I'd like to preface this with a warning specifically to Rainbow Dash fans though, the previous gens were
especially not kind to her.
3. Do nothing with the Synchtube and just have a long break until season 2 starts.
4. Watch all the episodes of season 1 in one big marathon stream. This would last over 9 and half hours (Not including any fan videos) so obviously not everyone would want to or could watch the whole thing but it might be neat to do this right before season 2 starts so people could see how much they can endure or pop in the room to watch a couple episodes throughout the day. It would be pretty redundant to do this and option 1, but there's nothing stopping us from doing this as well as option 2 or 3.
These are just the things I can think of and that were suggested yesterday so if you have a better idea or want to voice your opinions on those four options go right ahead. After we get a general consensus on the issue, then we can continue streaming or not depending on what everyone thinks.
And lastly, I'd just like to say thanks again to everyone who has ever watched one of the Synchtube streams. It's been really fun re-watching the series with you guys and I can't wait until we can watch some new episodes together.
Myke Greywolf said:
So, this was brought up in yesterday's Synchtube, and it got me thinking, so I'd really like to see some discussion on this.
Why did fans take to Octavia so much?
http://i.imgur.com/drqI3.jpg
Is it because she's cute? Because she has a distinctive hair style and color scheme? Because of the snobbish attitude and eyes with a shape resembling Twilight's and color matching her cutie mark? The upright position? Her amazing magnetic hoof holding the cello bow? The fan speculation about her relation to Pinkie Pie? Her expression when Pinkie asks her to play the Pony Pokey?
What do YOU see in Octavia, if anything?
It's probably down to the design. She's got a pretty unique colour scheme and hair style and she always looks calm and collected even when Pinkie is jumping around messing stuff up.
