World Birding Destination Cup 2013 (1 Viewer)

Second round of the unofficial World Birding Destination Cup 2013 is up and running. http://birdingblogs.com/2013/Gunnar/world-birding-destination-cup-2013-second-roun
Voting closes at midnight 24.00H GMT on Sunday.

These were the results a few days ago.

Half time results:
South East Peru 28 or Borneo 24
Ecuador 34 Antarctica 18
Australia 33 Pantanal 19
New Guinea 43 South East Brazil 9
Costa Rica 31 Galapagos 21
North Peru 30 Alaska 22
Kenya 29 South Africa 23
Madagascar 31 Colombia 21

You could also enter the voting section directly:
http://birdingperu.polldaddy.com/s/birding-world-cup-round-2

Have fun!!

Gunnar

Seems the survey is a bit fixed to me - who chose the pairs? Gee, don't South American destinations figure a lot! Almost impossible for Peru and neighbours not to come top!

Jos Stratford said:

Seems the survey is a bit fixed to me - who chose the pairs? Gee, don't South American destinations figure a lot! Almost impossible for Peru and neighbours not to come top!

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I was only surprised that Central Peru and Amazonian Peru didn't feature more more prominently!

cheers, alan

Jos Stratford said:

Seems the survey is a bit fixed to me - who chose the pairs? Gee, don't South American destinations figure a lot! Almost impossible for Peru and neighbours not to come top!

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Jos, this is how the selection process was done to get to the second round:

1. We first listed over 100 destinations on Birdingblogs Facebook page. and people could mark there top 10 ones. https://www.facebook.com/questions/450039028379043/
2. We seeded the top 25 on basis of number of votes and added 7 destinations from suggestions that we received too late to be included (there was a roof of 100 destinations).
They were all seeded into 16 matches in the first round. http://birdingblogs.com/2013/Gunnar/world-bird-cup-2013
How the votes played can also be seen in that same blog post. We now had 16 destinations which qualified to the second round.

I have enclosed a screenshot as an attachment of the statistics from the first round, showing that the majority of the votes were from the US and the UK. Additionally, the Peru and Ecuador games were pretty clear favorites regardless. I can assure you that the second round is far tighter for many of the South American teams.
I am not doing particular promotion in Peru and Ecuador for this round as it would scew the results.

Hope this helps..

The more people who vote the fairer the game. Every voter has to vote in each game.

Saludos

Gunnar

lewis20126 said:

I was only surprised that Central Peru and Amazonian Peru didn't feature more more prominently!

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Alan,

Central Peru didn't make it to the first round. Amazonian Peru is somewhat included in SE Peru, but of course the Iquitos area is not mentioned.. and did not even get a nomination.

Gunnar