As one very alert person already has noticed, I've opened up voting!

Please add any remarks or discussions to this thread.

P.S.: that person has only 3 sites in common with my top 20!

And that was no. 2!

5 now, spread out over 62 sites

I just voted! I tried to be as objective as possible. I had only been to 5/20 of my selections, so it also entailed some research and considering some of the comments by other more experienced members.

In choosing 20 sites, I considered how iconic. outstanding, and what the site would add to the list. I also considered if the values of the property were not already represented on the list.

My assumption is that I had far more than 3 sites in common with you (Els) for our Top 20, no? I am excited to see the results.

I am purposefully not revealing any specific sites I voted for, to have no effect on current voting.

For the final list of 119 sites, there are technically 12 sites from the United States, 9 sites from India, 7 sites from France, and 6 sites from Russia. I wonder if this offers too great a temptation for "national-pride" voting? Hopefully, this does not occur.

You guys didn't want to watch any live updates of the score, but I can and am enjoying it!

We now have had 12 people voting, only 4 of them regulars of the forum.
They've voted for 89 different sites.
And a clear number one is already in the making....

And winterkjm: we have 8 in common!

How many do we have in common?

Wow, only 8! You were definitely right about there not being obvious consensus about 20 sites. So far, I am encouraged by how the voting is going, particularly on the 1st day!

Also 8, Khuft

I am too. Also happy about the number of non-Forum members voting.

As you'll have noticed, I already sent out the e-mail too, so everybody will know now (besides the 17 who had invalid email adressess....)

583 people are eligible to vote.
64 of them come from the USA
27 from Germany
24 from the Netherlands
23 from the UK
16 from China
14 from Sweden
13 from Canada
12 from Phillippines
12 from Austria
10 from India

and 186 don't want us to know or are "a citizen of the world"

It was tough to choose, but I voted. Most difficult was trying to avoid bias towards places that I have already been to, but I still had 9 of twenty in that situation.

I am more inclusive, and less restrictive, by nature, than what I have seen in comments by this site's regulars, so I would, in fact, be happy if all the choices eventually get inscribed. ;-)

Cheers, from a forum lurker,

Mike

I voted too but it was really tough for me to choose. First of all I check all the sites out on the internet and I really liked more than a couple of them which made the selecting phase even more difficult. In the end I managed to choose 20 and I can say I'm happy with the variety of sites I chose. Still there are some beautiful sites I left out as I considered them to be of outstanding national value.

PS: I'm really curious now; how many of the sites I selected are one you selected, Els?

We're no match, Clyde. We have only 5 in common....

mrayers
I've got 10 in common with you - best match so far!

Woken up by a severe storm blowing around my apartment... I could not wait to see what the progress has been throught the night:

- 30 voters now
- 108 different sites voted for
- number one still is the site that was up front from the beginning