Hello Squawkers! Had an idea that could turn into a pretty fun contest in March. Now I am not a college basketball fan, but I have definitely had fun filling out a bracket or two over the years when the March Madness tournament rolls around. It's always fun to see upsets and such and I was thinking, "could we do that somehow with our customer base?"
I found a site that will allow people to enter with just an email address (will need to be the same email as your Motion RC account to be eligible for any prizes). Then upon entering you will get to vote on each first round match-up. After a set time, Rd.1 will end and the aircraft with the most votes in their match-up will advance to round 2 and everyone can then vote again, and so on and so forth. It will award points for each correct pick all the way until the end and keep a running score/leaderboard throughout and you won't be able to see the results until each round ends.
Overall I think it would create some wildly fun debate because the reason people love certain aircraft over others is totally arbitrary. You can like a plane more than another simply because of looks rather than historical significance etc, etc. These debates are happening throughout all of our forums anyway, so why not turn that into something competitive?
So let me discuss how I created the bracket above. First I was thinking of best airplane ever regardless of military/civilian etc and quickly realized there are far, far too many great aircraft and getting to just 64 of them would leave many out. So then I thought about best Warbirds, just planes that "served". I found numerous lists which again were written by various writers who "ranked" aircraft and again is totally biased per writer, but comparing many lists you start to see certain patterns like the Mustang on top etc. But still when I tried to get to 64, many aircraft I love and I see discussed in droves here were left out as well, so I then decided I would eliminate WW1 craft, Helicopters and unmanned aircraft. Then aggregating the lists, I decided to come to 32 WW2 or later prop-driven birds and 32 jets as most of our customer base has an affinity for those two niches of aircraft. Then based on the aggregate ranks of all the lists I found, I seeded them with 2 warbirds and 2 jets in the #1 seeds, 2 warbirds and 2 jets in the #2 seeds and so on and so forth so as each region above (north/south/east/west) has 8 prop-driven aircraft and 8 jets.
Even in doing so, there were still many aircraft left out, but heck even the NCAA tournament isn't perfect and teams complain about being left out all the time.
So what do you guys think? Would you take part? I already see a ton of fun rd. 1 matchups...C-47 vs C-130? P-38 Lightning vs F-35 Lightning? MiG29 vs Su-27? Oh the battles that will ensue.
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