It's poll time again. I am accepting proposed ballots to be used for a Top 25 poll - ballots will be accepted from the present until May 11, 2002. E-mail your proposed ballots to the following address : actop25_at_.... (Delete "nospam," obviously.) All members of the academic competition are welcome to submit their ballots. Voters are allowed to consider a variety of factors when choosing a Top 25. Ideally they should be based on this year's results (as opposed to predicting those of next season) and take into account participation and finish in national tournament. Voters can and should weigh currently available tournament results (of whatever form) as they see fit. This poll is not rooted in any particular format of academic competition, but is intended to emphasize players currently playing for a given program in an actual rather than in a "masters" capacity. This is an important fact to keep in mind if one wishes to consider results of "masters" and/or "trash" tournaments, which often have broader eligibility rules than the tournaments this poll is designed to cover. Voters are asked to submit a ranked list of schools from #1 to #25, without ties. List each school with corresponding rankings, and list them only once. A vote for "Chicago A" at #3 and for "Chicago B" at #18 will be counted as a vote for Chicago at #3, with teams 19-25 being moved up. Make sure you specify which program you are voting for with sufficient specificity (some abbreviations, like "UIUC" or "MIT" will be sufficient, while "U of M" will not be ; certain abridged names like "Missouri" and "Washington" are best avoided since they are somewhat ambiguous.) Your ballot must contain at least 20 valid entries or it will be returned to you. Each #1 vote a school receives is worth 25 points, each #2 vote worth 24, and so on until 1 point is received for a #25 vote. Extreme outlier ballots will be excluded if they significantly skew the poll results in any way; in addition, individuals submitting such ballots will not be invited to any future panels. (This has not been a problem in quite some time, but it still helps to mention it.) In case of voting ambiguities, no accountants who ever audited Enron will be consulted. -Tim Young Poll Administrator
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