Showdown
Every two weeks we set a topic. You submit a ranked list. We tally the community's collective answer and publish a Top 20 that no one person decided. No prizes, no leaderboards of people — just consensus.
How it works
We set a topic
Every second Thursday, a new prompt. Broad enough for range, narrow enough to argue about.
You submit a list
Build a ranked list of at least five films and tag it showdown. Only your first ten ranked entries count toward the tally.
We publish consensus
Points by rank across every list, tallied deterministically. The community Top 20 lands the following second Thursday after 8pm Pacific.
The scoring rule
A film in your #1 slot earns 10 points, #2 earns 9, down to 1 point for #10. Entries past ten are ignored, so ranking is real work. Every member's list is weighted equally — there are no power users here. Ties break toward the film that appeared on more lists, because breadth beats intensity. That's the whole algorithm, and it's on purpose: a consensus artifact, never a ranking of people.
Last fortnight's Top 5
Topic: Best final shot in cinema
Example tally · the scoring rule below is real and deterministic; this archive is an illustration, because the first Showdown of this build has not closed yet