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2022 Coaster101 Park Mania: The Semi-Finals
Missouri Loves Company. A Metal Pig vs. A Metal Gator Hybrid Thing. FINALLY, Four Parks Remain.
This. Is. March. You know what March means? It’s that time of year at Coaster101 where we fill out a college basketball bracket, have it bust after the first two days of the college basketball tournament, and shift our focus to what some (no one) call “The most important bracket in March.”
This year, we’ve brought back our annual bracket event called Park Mania! (cleverly named in an effort not to get a cease and desist letter!) with a few twists.
Just like the “real” bracket, we’ve included 68 parks from across North America to vie for the coveted Park Mania trophy. However, this year, at the suggestion of our twitter followers, there are no rankings and no geographic regions. With the exception of the “vote-in” rounds, the parks were randomly selected for their match-ups. Just like the basketball tournament, we’ve created a “Vote-In” round where 8 parks will have the chance to be voted into the final 64-park field. This year, “vote-in” rounds work a little differently, as several multi-property parks have been split up to determine who will advance into the main bracket. Each region is named for RMC Tracks!
Instead of the parks facing off against each other on the hardwood, we’re going to let you, the readers of Coaster101.com, decide your pick for your favorite park in North America!
We have updated our voting process slightly and are closely monitoring spikes in votes. We will not be reporting exact results on social media during this year’s Park Mania, and voting percentages will be hidden this year. We reserve the right to remove any potentially fraudulent votes from the results, which kind of defeats the purpose of this being fun. Bottom Line: Don’t cheat and ruin this for your favorite park and everyone else legitimately voting for them!
Each voting round will take place over several days, and the schedule will be as follows. We’ll create a post each day with new polls for voting. All voting will be done right here on Coaster101.com, and will end at approximately 8:00pm Eastern time on the specified date.
Vote In Round Voting: Monday, March 14-Wednesday, March 16
Round One Voting: Thursday, March 17-Sunday, March 20
Round Two Voting: Monday, March 21-Wednesday, March 23
Regional Semi-Final Voting: Thursday, March 24-Sunday, March 27
Regional Final Voting: Monday, March 28-Wednesday, March 30
National Semi-Final Voting: Thursday, March 31-Saturday, April 2
Championship Voting: Sunday, April 3-Tuesday, April 5
Winner Announced: Wednesday, April 7
Semi-Final Round Voting
Due to multiple fraudulent/spam votes for multiple parks, the C101 Park Mania semi-finals have been suspended. The finals will be a Final Four “winner take all” format that will begin on Saturday 4/2. Results will not be shown, and IP addresses will be monitored and limited. We feel this is the fairest way to conclude.
Voting goes through Saturday Night at 8:00pm Eastern. The Regional Finals will begin Sunday Morning, April 3!
Join the conversation on social media by using #C101ParkMania!
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Go IB!!!
How is Indiana beach significantly beating BGT??????
Because Indiana Beach is posting about it on social media?
yeah but bgt has one of the best coasters in the world (or so people say) in iron gwazi, one of the best inverts in montu and a above average dive coaster. Not even including a small intamin blitz, one of the best B and M loopers and a handful of family coasters. IB has two standard CCI roller coasters a weird CCI roller coaster a el loco and a pair of schartzgoh loopers. Also their is a family coaster coming according to rcdb. Indiana beach looks solid but they don’t have an answer for most of the Bgw lineup, it doen’t make sense
Because voting opened early, Indiana beach somehow knew, and pounced on it…
😂. Somehow knew? You must not be on Twitter.
Indiana Beach is a great park! I’ve grown up there, and it’s an amazing place to spend the day and give you that “Boardwalk Theme Park” vibe a la Coney Island…
Me, too, Dave! TL class of 78
Because WE LOVE INDIANA BEACH!!!!!!!!
Maybe because Indiana Beach has a cleaner and friendlier park.
I’m still shocked about how far Worlds of Fun has gone. It seemed like an average park when I visited in 2017. Has anything changed since then?
it is because cedar point got knocked out early by darien lake, which is probably gonna close within the decade
Ib is getting a lot of votes because they are broadcasting all over social media and local news stations across several cities. News articles. It’s all about getting it advertised to the people.
Indiana beach has alot of people sharing. With the new coaster and all the improvements. Bringing back the ski show. Lots of people and the community care to see its success.
Who is that desperate to win a for funsies online contest that they would fraudulently vote?
Closed voting? Just because IB is putting up a great fight against bigger parks? Not cool…your ruining your own competition.
True.. true
Our small town community is sharing this like crazy – why is it shut down?
i think bg tampa is goin to win out of these
how did cedar point get knocked out so early
I live reasonably close to Cedar Pointĺ, Kings Island and Indian Beach. I go to Indiana Beach at least once a month.
We vote again on April 2 for the same final 4?
All the old votes removed? Then the one with the highest votes wins? I don’t understand.
I think Cinderella park has just embarrassed the major theme park . We will see the true vote who wins. Go I.B
It’s obvious admin has a love fest for Busch gardens. Pretty sure they will win now since results wont be shown or votes be shown. Bad attempt to rig ib from winning. This will look really bad for the website. I don’t get because didn’t holiday world Win one year? Also parks like world of fun and Darien lake and silver dollar city made it this far and they aren’t big parks either. I think admin has a problem here not seeing big parks win it it. After all this is nothing more than a vote count thing. Also ib has shared this to Indianapolis, fort Wayne, Logansport, Lafayette and other cities News sites. That’s a few million people per day views and admin thinks 4,000 votes is at? LOL get real. Also that this has never been a issue in past years????? Lol
Hi. Admin here. I’d have responded to your comment via email, but seeing that you gave a fake email, I can’t do that. My email is [email protected] if you’d like the real story.
How is there fraudulent votes when only one vote can be submitted per ip address? You try to vote twice it’ll know and not count the vote. What a joke.
Seymour like to me that Busch Gardens Tampa was going to make an outrageous come back and they wanted to spare Indiana Beach and its fans from it.
Angry we have a large following that comes from states and even countries away? Didn’t you figure out how our park was saved when Apex tried to kill it? We don’t die easily.