I just submitted the article announcing the winner of the tournament. You can expect that tomorrow (or tonight, if you stay up late enough.) But in the mean time, I thought I'd show you the results of the bonus survey. As I've said before, we had a really good response rate of almost 4/5ths of the voters; we had 94 voters and 74 agreed to take the bonus survey.
In the first section of the Bonus survey, I asked what the favorite card idea was from each of the original sets of sixteen. Here are the top five (5) from each of those polls:
Question #1: Favorite TNG Card Idea
Question #2: Favorite DS9 Card Idea
Question #3: Favorite Voyager Idea
Question #4: Favorite Enterprise Idea
Overall, just looking at number of votes, the top 5 most popular cards were:
The final question asked for which of the primary source episodes (those from which multiple card ideas were drawn) they would like to see as a future boutique product's inspiration. Voters could check any number of the options. Here are the top five (5) choices based on that vote:
If I get the chance in the next few days, I'll come back and give you my analysis of these results and how they compare to the original bracket. In the mean time, I'm very eager to hear your thoughts. And, most of all, I want to thank all of you for voting, discussing, and participating in March Madness 2021. One thing is clear: we'll be back next year.
-crp