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'Mario Kart' Tracks Pre-March Madness Seed Thread (The Beginning)
 
Good Day Everyone! March Madness is coming up and frankly, we might start a little early on this. The theme this time is Mario Kart Tracks and regardless of when we begin this thing, I need help narrowing down all 145 Mario Kart tracks into a nice 64 track bracket. That's where all of you come in!

Please click the link to the survey below and follow it's simple instructions. The top picks from folks out of this seeding will end up in the bracket as we move forward. The survey is (I guess) done in a question and answer form… I dunno, I chose a funky Google Forms template. Regardless, please just choose as the rules request and we'll be on our way. I am planning to cross-promote and cross-vote with Negative World and with NinTemple. I don't know how that'll shake things up but it'll ensure that folks can't figure out which picks are truly in the lead unless they happen to follow both threads at both places. I do not know if there will be a lot of support for this at NinTemple but alas, I enjoy my time there and I want to spread the love.

Without further ado… here is your seeding survey. Please be sure to use your Username at the start as well. Oh, and be sure to dabble in the bonus bracket set…

Mario Kart Track Seeding for March Madness

Lastly, I should reiterate… this is not about ranking anything. Please just pick your favorites based on whatever criteria you want to use.

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01/28/17, 18:43    Edited: 01/28/17, 18:57
 
   
 
@ploot

Sure. All this gets dumped into a file I need to sort out a bit anyway. I'll remember to add +1 to Ribbon Road when processing. I'll be voting for that too when I put my opinion in this thing. Still need to sit down and do so...
01/30/17, 01:48   
Voted!
01/30/17, 16:55   
So, in an interesting bit of trivia, we have had eighteen different folks submit seed information on this whole thing. So thank you first of all for that. I'll hold out a little longer before looking at the results and preparing for the beginning of this whole thing.

Having said that though I did look at the results for the 0s. The tracks with no votes. I won't say which ones for fear of somehow swaying future votes (and also spoiling some of the fun of the beginning of this thing). However 18 tracks from the series received no votes so far. One track for each person who voted so far. Funny how that worked out. So a surprisingly high (or low?) percentage of 12.4% of the tracks in the series didn't even get a vote. Of course it takes more than one or two in order to rank high enough to be a part of this whole thing so it's no biggie.

Really excited to do this one folks. Stay tuned.

And if you haven't voted yet, please do so!
01/31/17, 03:41   
@DrFinkelstein

When I get home and have time to go through it properly
01/31/17, 04:05   
Am I the only one for whom a lot of the tracks sort of blur together? Especially in the games I didn't sink heaps of time into.

I picked out my memorable ones particularly from MK Wii and MK64, then scattered my votes around elsewhere.
01/31/17, 15:16   
@Shadowlink Nah some definitely blurred together for me, especially...

1. Almost everything in SNES MK, which is weird because I spent a LOT of time playing it, but there are only like 4 or 5 different environments for the courses so I don't really remember which was which.

2. Almost everything in the GBA MK, but that makes more sense, since I barely played it.

3. Bowser's Castle / Rainbow Road from Double Dash to the present. I usually like these courses, but they all kind of use the same few tricks nowadays so I can't remember which is which.
01/31/17, 15:41   
Edited: 02/03/17, 00:07
I didn't want to vote for anything on GBA, but it made me.
02/02/17, 21:00   
@Mop it up

None of the GBA tracks were enjoyable to you?

Not even Ribbon Road as a remake in MK8?
02/02/17, 23:24   
@DrFinkelstein Super Circuit is the very bottom of Mario Kart games, I didn't like it. Ribbon Road is the one I ended up choosing as my forced option because of the MK VIII inclusion, but I wouldn't place it above the 40 I wanted to choose. It's visually interesting, but the track itself... meh.
02/03/17, 00:01   
@Mop it up

I actually see you as having chosen 39 tracks… is there one you want to throw a vote for that you may have forgotten? (A tall task of memory probably.)
02/03/17, 02:55   
@DrFinkelstein That's odd. Maybe I accidentally unticked two when I had to choose the GBA track.

Which tracks from Double Dash!! did I not choose? Probably one of them.
02/03/17, 19:50   
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