Best of luck controlling the actual criteria voters will use.
Host: “So, the tournament is TV themes.”
Person A: “I vote Better Call Saul.”
Host: “No, not shows, just the themes at the start of shows.”
A: “Better Call Saul.”
Host: “I’m not even sure it has a theme. You mean the little jingle at the beginning?”
A: “I, uhh, have always had a deep passion for five-second jingles. Anyway, didn’t you see that one episode in the desert? Holy shit, right?”
Host: “But isn’t it up against a better theme maybe?”
A: “Register my vote now, motherfucker.”
I’m not trying to control it. I’m just doubting that “I had a bologna sandwich at The French Laundry that blows away every other sandwich I ever had” is going to come up a lot.
If people are naturally thinking about “overall this sandwich is pretty good” then that’s fine. I just want to plant the seed to think only about ceilings and not worry about medians or floors.
This competition should be about taste, not consistency. I don’t want Katz’s to get dinged because Bob’s deli down the street makes a crappy pastrami sandwich. When I think of “Jewish deli pastrami sandwich”, I think of Katz’s or Langers.
Ok looks like Choripan won the meet in tube form competition. I’ll give it a couple more days for wildcard sandwich submissions, since I’m likely to be pretty busy until Sunday anyway.
Then I’ll see how many wildcards we have. I’ll have a play-in tourney to whittle it down to 24 entries if necessary (since we already have 40 from the graphic in the OP that no one ever looks at).
Regarding criteria, obviously you can vote however you want, but my suggestion is to think of the best version of this sandwich. So, something like Katz’s for pastrami, Geno’s or Pat’s for cheesesteak, etc.
Which means there is still room for 4 more nominations. So the next 4 nominations are in, then I’ll start the brackets. If we don’t get any I’ll do 4 byes.
For posters who nominated sandwiches w/o pics, feel free to add the most appetizing pics you can find along with any writeup you think will increase your entry’s chances.
