The fact that some no-name also-ran might emerge victorious because the big names beat each other to a pulp is part of the fun. It rarely happens, but the possibility adds spice to the game.Lots of axe-grinding so far. I guess it's too much to ask that people focus on downvoting the obscure, no-name also-rans before tackling the big-name authors. We get it, you think super-popular-legendary-iconic-author is over-appreciated. Does that mean that they deserve to fall before Sterling-fricking-Lanier, whose greatest claim to fame is appearing in Appendix N of the AD&D DMG?
The way things are going now, we're going to end up with Andrew Offutt, Fletcher Pratt, and Manley Wade Wellman in the final 3, and people are going to wonder WTF happened.
Without tactical voting, irrational vendettas, dogpiling the leader, and people casting "kill" downvotes out of sheer bloodlust, Survivor threads would be very dull indeed.
