So we've done the Greatest of All Time Custom Chip Set and we've nominated plenty of members' specific casino sets to calendars, but what is PCF's favorite casino chip set of all time?
Not an individual member's set. @gopherblue's Riversides are stunning and @bergs' Dunes tourney set is truly epic (an overused word that is here absolutely appropriate), but we're not honoring about the ridiculous amount of time, effort, and money it takes to put these sets together, as unbelievable as some of them are. And we're not honoring single chips within sets. We're honoring the full, casino set itself. So we're talking about the casinos that have or had the best chips when viewed as a whole set including all denominations within a specific edition of their chips: Mapes; Dunes; Ritz; Tropicana; Aztar tourney chips; and all the beautiful currently live racks.
The process will be a standard sweet 16 bracket. Everyone will list their top ten in no particular order in this thread and I'll take everyone's nominations and seed the sweet 16 according to the support each set gets here.
The deadline for submission of top tens will be Monday, February 22, 2016 at 10am, EST. Guidelines for top tens are below. You must follow the below guidelines or your nominations will not be counted. See in particular number 5. PHOTOS ARE REQUIRED. I know this is a pain in the ass, but I promise it is more of a pain in the ass to have to determine which chips someone means when they just post "Terrible's". That could mean half a dozen different sets. For the sake of clarity, you have to include photos.
So lots of buzz-killing rules, but this should be fun. I have my money on a few specific sets making the Final Four, but we shall see.
And limiting it to 16 means not quite so many poll threads clogging up the forum. After this nomination thread there will be 8 in the first week, 4 in the second week, 2 in the third week, and the final single poll in the fourth week.
Not an individual member's set. @gopherblue's Riversides are stunning and @bergs' Dunes tourney set is truly epic (an overused word that is here absolutely appropriate), but we're not honoring about the ridiculous amount of time, effort, and money it takes to put these sets together, as unbelievable as some of them are. And we're not honoring single chips within sets. We're honoring the full, casino set itself. So we're talking about the casinos that have or had the best chips when viewed as a whole set including all denominations within a specific edition of their chips: Mapes; Dunes; Ritz; Tropicana; Aztar tourney chips; and all the beautiful currently live racks.
The process will be a standard sweet 16 bracket. Everyone will list their top ten in no particular order in this thread and I'll take everyone's nominations and seed the sweet 16 according to the support each set gets here.
The deadline for submission of top tens will be Monday, February 22, 2016 at 10am, EST. Guidelines for top tens are below. You must follow the below guidelines or your nominations will not be counted. See in particular number 5. PHOTOS ARE REQUIRED. I know this is a pain in the ass, but I promise it is more of a pain in the ass to have to determine which chips someone means when they just post "Terrible's". That could mean half a dozen different sets. For the sake of clarity, you have to include photos.
(1) All your nominations must be in the same post. Your first post to include any nominations will be your only post counted, so continue to edit it if you have to add/remove later. No nominations posted in second or third posts will be counted unless they are also edited into your first nomination list in this thread. Feel free to post plenty otherwise advocating for sets - just limit your nominations to one post.
(2) You are limited to 10 nominations. If you list more than 10, only the first 10 listed will be counted.
(3) Any list posted or edited after the above stated deadline is void and will not be counted.
(4) Nominations must be for certain casinos and certain editions of chips. So if someone nominates the Dunes, they must specify the edition (no need to know the nomenclature to refer to the specific issue - that's the purpose of the photo requirement below) that they intend to nominate and only chips within that edition will be considered nominated.
(5) Your list MUST include photos of at least one of the chips from each of your nominated sets. This is necessary to avoid confusion as to, for instance, which edition of the Tropicana rack you intend to nominate. ChipGuide is your friend. Feel free to sit back and just steal photos from others' lists, but your post must include photos. Any nomination without photos is void and will not be counted.
(2) You are limited to 10 nominations. If you list more than 10, only the first 10 listed will be counted.
(3) Any list posted or edited after the above stated deadline is void and will not be counted.
(4) Nominations must be for certain casinos and certain editions of chips. So if someone nominates the Dunes, they must specify the edition (no need to know the nomenclature to refer to the specific issue - that's the purpose of the photo requirement below) that they intend to nominate and only chips within that edition will be considered nominated.
(5) Your list MUST include photos of at least one of the chips from each of your nominated sets. This is necessary to avoid confusion as to, for instance, which edition of the Tropicana rack you intend to nominate. ChipGuide is your friend. Feel free to sit back and just steal photos from others' lists, but your post must include photos. Any nomination without photos is void and will not be counted.
So lots of buzz-killing rules, but this should be fun. I have my money on a few specific sets making the Final Four, but we shall see.
And limiting it to 16 means not quite so many poll threads clogging up the forum. After this nomination thread there will be 8 in the first week, 4 in the second week, 2 in the third week, and the final single poll in the fourth week.
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I only have 3 sample chips. 
