Right then; it’s 1st May, and I have the results of this poll!
In total,
19 members ranked
37 different roller coasters in their lists, so I had a fair sample size to work with; I was certainly able to work out relatively decent results! Speaking of the results, they’re interesting to say the least... in terms of how I calculated the rankings, I gave each ride a final score, which was calculated by dividing mean ranking by the amount of people who included a ride in their list (in order to take into account the percentage of the site that rates a ride highly); the lower the score, the higher the ride ranks. Also, I should clarify a few things; for Winjas, I was unsure what to do, as some people bunged them together and some people didn’t. To make things a bit simpler, I did end up bunging Winjas together and just going with your highest Winjas ranking if you did separate the two rides. Also, I inserted rides in in the order that you wrote them down. If there were less than 10 in your list, I just left the boxes after the end of your list blank. If there were more than 10 in your list, I did cut it off at 10, I’m afraid.
So without further ado, here are CoasterForce’s Top 10 German Rollercoasters:
- Taron at Phantasialand (Intamin, 2016, Final Score of 0.1172839506)
- Expedition GeForce at Holiday Park (Intamin, 2001, Final Score of 0.204 recurring)
- Schwur des Karnan at Hansa Park (Gerstlauer, 2015, Final Score of 0.2142857143)
- Black Mamba at Phantasialand (B&M, 2006, Final Score of 0.2629757785)
- Silver Star at Europa Park (B&M, 2002, Final Score of 0.36)
- Wodan at Europa Park (GCI, 2012, Final Score of 0.3673469388)
- Colossos at Heide Park (Intamin, 2001, Final Score of 0.46)
- Blue Fire at Europa Park (Mack, 2009, Final Score of 0.5972 recurring)
- Fluch von Novgorod at Hansa Park (Gerstlauer, 2009, Final Score of 0.68)
- Heiße Fahrt at Wild-und Freizeitpark Klotten/Cochem (Gerstlauer, 2004, Final Score of 1)
So that’s CF’s top 10 German rollercoasters! I certainly thought the results were quite interesting; Taron being on top wasn’t particularly surprising, but some of what was below surprised me, I’ll admit! It’s also quite a diverse top 10 manufacturers-wise, with 3 Intamins, 3 Gerstlauers, 2 B&Ms, 1 Mack and 1 GCI in the mix! I’d also say that compared to the UK poll I did, there’s a more diverse range of parks seen here; a lot of smaller places are getting a look in here as opposed to being mainly overpowered by the big players like in the UK’s top 10!
If you’re interested, here’s the full spreadsheet:
docs.google.com
So, that’s that! Thank you all for participating, and I hope you enjoyed the poll! If you guys want to participate, I’m going to start doing one of these each month; this month’s poll is
CoasterForce’s Favourite Florida Rollercoasters, as I thought it was about time I let some of the USA members join in, and I’d be intrigued to know the current favourites in the state before VelociCoaster and Iron Gwazi fever inevitably invades later this year! So stay tuned, as that thread will be coming shortly!
