SCFZ Wuxia! genre poll
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:58 am
This is a poll to determine SCFZ's favorite wuxia! films.
You can include up to 100 films on your list, and it's up to you to decide what qualifies as a wuxia! film, though I would imagine that in almost all cases we're discussing films with a martial arts focus produced in mainland China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, irrespective of when they were released.
I'm stealing Flip's scoring system, which is simply copied below from one of his earlier polls:
-- Partly-ranked ballots make for better polls. If you want to partly rank your ballot (strongly encouraged!), divide it into 'tiers' or 'blocks' of equal size. You can use two, three, four or five (recommended!) tiers. So if you post a ballot of 60 films, you could divide it into five tiers, 12/12/12/12/12 films each, four tiers, 15/15/15/15 films each, or three tiers, 20/20/20, or two tiers, 30/30, or leave it unranked.
-- Scoring system is the same as for earlier genre polls, each ballot awards an average of 3 points per film, for 5-tier ballots 5/4/3/2/1, for 4-tier ballots the scoring is 5/3.5/2.5/1, for three-tier ballots 5/3/1, for two-tier ballots 4/2, for one-tier, 3 points to everything.
-- There's no expectation that many people will post a 100-film ballot, so don't feel obligated to vote for films you don't like just to make your ballot longer. But to ensure that short ballots don't unduly influence the results, ballots with fewer than 30 films in total will award fewer points per film than longer ballots.
Please list your films in this format:
Title (Director's full name, year)
Keep in mind that I don't read Chinese so if you post titles in Chinese I'm going to ask you to please use the most common English title, as listed on Letterboxd, and if you don't, I won't be able to count your ballot. Because I don't read Chinese. Director's name is mostly to confirm which film you're referring to in the case of similar film names, so it's fine if you list family names either before or after given names.
Deadline: probably sometime in August, though I'll give you a head's up a few weeks in advance
You can include up to 100 films on your list, and it's up to you to decide what qualifies as a wuxia! film, though I would imagine that in almost all cases we're discussing films with a martial arts focus produced in mainland China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, irrespective of when they were released.
I'm stealing Flip's scoring system, which is simply copied below from one of his earlier polls:
-- Partly-ranked ballots make for better polls. If you want to partly rank your ballot (strongly encouraged!), divide it into 'tiers' or 'blocks' of equal size. You can use two, three, four or five (recommended!) tiers. So if you post a ballot of 60 films, you could divide it into five tiers, 12/12/12/12/12 films each, four tiers, 15/15/15/15 films each, or three tiers, 20/20/20, or two tiers, 30/30, or leave it unranked.
-- Scoring system is the same as for earlier genre polls, each ballot awards an average of 3 points per film, for 5-tier ballots 5/4/3/2/1, for 4-tier ballots the scoring is 5/3.5/2.5/1, for three-tier ballots 5/3/1, for two-tier ballots 4/2, for one-tier, 3 points to everything.
-- There's no expectation that many people will post a 100-film ballot, so don't feel obligated to vote for films you don't like just to make your ballot longer. But to ensure that short ballots don't unduly influence the results, ballots with fewer than 30 films in total will award fewer points per film than longer ballots.
Please list your films in this format:
Title (Director's full name, year)
Keep in mind that I don't read Chinese so if you post titles in Chinese I'm going to ask you to please use the most common English title, as listed on Letterboxd, and if you don't, I won't be able to count your ballot. Because I don't read Chinese. Director's name is mostly to confirm which film you're referring to in the case of similar film names, so it's fine if you list family names either before or after given names.
Deadline: probably sometime in August, though I'll give you a head's up a few weeks in advance