El Toro places 2nd in 2007 Wood Coaster Poll

* Close, but no cigar! El Toro placed second (by 6 votes) to Holiday World’s The Voyage in Mitch Hawker's 2007 Wood Coaster Poll. The poll is one of the most effective in ranking the best roller coasters each year. This is actually still a huge recognition for El Toro, as it moved up from third place last year. To give you an idea how much value this poll has, Mark Kane, the GM of Great Adventure, was urging our Great Adventure Source members to vote for El Toro in the poll at the exclusive GAdv.com Q&A session in October.

Voters in the poll, from all over the world, indicate which wooden roller coasters they’ve ridden and then are asked to rank them based on certain criteria. The poll then uses some crazy mathematical formulas to tabulate and compare voters’ responses to derive the final tally. It’s pretty reliable and has been around for fourteen years now.

Another positive note is that this web site ranked 23rd out of the top 32 web sites to refer voters. This says a lot about our member base and I thank all of you for contributing! To give you an idea…Screamscape referred the second highest number of voters.

* I’m going home for the weekend for a “Christmas weekend” where I’ll be seeing Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Wachovia Center on Saturday. My family tries to get to their show every year, but we didn’t make it last Christmas. Anyway, I’ll try and post something if I have some time, but if not stay tuned for the SFNE Dark Knight plans on Monday…

Have a great weekend!