Hot/Not update and bracket idea...

[azgreg]

Polls will be open for 1 week.

I do not recall if it has been brought up before but I am sure that it has. Should votes be cast based on the women in their "prime", "today", or however the individual voter sees fit?

That has always been up to the voter.

[Longhorned]

Where's Katz? He always throws a new wrinkle into the matter.

[catgrad97]

Well, since Facebook got started this way, this idea should be interesting if it has legs.

[JMarkJohns]

Polls will be open for 1 week.

I do not recall if it has been brought up before but I am sure that it has. Should votes be cast based on the women in their "prime", "today", or however the individual voter sees fit?

You're determining. I like to approach from a "did I ever find them hot" angle first, recalling prime, and then factor in longevity, timelessness, etc.

If you aged hard and/or quickly, were fucked up via plastic surgery, or drugged/boozed yourself into ugly, then you had better have been such a stunner in your prime the long-term Notness is overruled by shortterm Hotness.

For KV maybe that was Baynes. For others, Lohan or Spears, or even Pam Anderson.

I voted no on all four.

[JMarkJohns]

My thinking is:

Master 1-64 bracket.

After each round, we look at who remains, reshuffle so remaining top seed always plays remaining bottom seed, and so forth. We have the master list of percentages. It'll be pretty easy.

If we start next week on the bubble bracket, the schedule will be:

Oct 1-7: Bubble Rounds 1
Oct 8-14: Bubble Rounds 2/Play-In game
Oct 15-21: 32/30/28/26/24/22/20/18
Oct 22-28: 16/14/12/10/8/6/4/2
O/29-N/4: 31/29/27/25/23/21/19/17
Nov 5-11: 15/13/11/9/7/5/3/1
Nov 12-18: bottom remaining 8
Nov 19-25: top remaining 8
N/26-D/2: bottom remaining 4
Dec 3-9: top remaining 4
Dec 10-16: bottom remaining 2
Dec 17-23: top remaining 2
Dec 24-30: Title

This looks like it works.

This is what the schedule will look like. Coming Wednesday or Thursday will be lower seed even rankings.

[JMarkJohns]

First round complete:

1) Kate Upton ... Upton ... Upton
64) Sharon Stone
32) Penelope Cruz ... Cruz
33) Megan Fox

17) Cindy Crawford ... Crawford ... Crawford
48) Julianne Hough
16) Faith Hill
49) Zooey Deschanel ... Deschanel

9) Daisy Fuentes
56) Jane Seymour ... Seymour
24) Jessica Biel
41) Raquel Welch ... Welch ... Welch

25) Alice Eve ... Eve
40) Cobie Smulders
8) Alyssa Milano ... Milano ... Milano
57) Heather Locklear



4) Charlize Theron ... Theron ... Theron
61) Rachel McAdams
29) Ashley Judd ... Judd
36) Brooke Burke

20) Jennifer Connelly ... Connelly ... Connelly
45) Keira Knightley
13) Eliza Dushku
52) January Jones ... Jones

12) Jennifer Love Hewitt ... Hewitt
53) Yvonne Strahovski
21) Scarlett Johansson ... Johansson ... Johansson
44) Jennifer Lopez

28) Halle Berry ... Berry
37) Hayden Panettiere
5) Salma Hayek ... Hayek ... Hayek
60) Kate Hudson



6) Emmanuelle Chriqui ... Chrigui
59) Emma Stone
27) Shania Twain ... Twain
38) Lucy Liu

22) Mila Kunis
43) Marisa Tomei ... Tomei
11) Alison Brie ... Brie
54) Maria Sharapova

14) Catherine Bell ... Bell
51) Rashida Jones
19) Freida Pinto
46) Jennifer Aniston ... Aniston

30) Kristen Bell
35) Eva Mendes ... Mendes
3) Elisha Cuthbert ... Cuthbert
62) Kaley Cuoco



7) Kate Beckinsale ... Beckinsale ... Beckinsale
58) Jennifer Lawrence
26) Alexandra Daddario ... Daddario
39) Angelina Jolie

23) Catherine Zeta-Jones ... Zeta-Jones ... Zeta-Jones
42) Carmen Electra
10) Evangeline Lilly ... Lilly
55) Tiffani Thiessen

15) Liz Hurley ... Hurley ... Hurley
50) Natalie Portman
18) Olivia Wilde ... Wilde
47) Sophie Marceau

31) Beyoncé
34) Isla Fisher ... Fisher
2) Jessica Alba ... Alba ... Alba
63) Kate Mara

[JMarkJohns]

First up:

7) Kate Beckinsale ... Beckinsale
58) Jennifer Lawrence
26) Alexandra Daddario ... Daddario
39) Angelina Jolie

23) Catherine Zeta-Jones ... Zeta-Jones
42) Carmen Electra
10) Evangeline Lilly ... Lilly
55) Tiffani Thiessen

15) Liz Hurley ... Hurley
50) Natalie Portman
18) Olivia Wilde ... Wilde
47) Sophie Marceau

31) Beyoncé
34) Isla Fisher ... Fisher
2) Jessica Alba ... Alba
63) Kate Mara

[JMarkJohns]

I'm thinking we should re-bracket after For the Sweet 16, where #1 plays lowest, #2 2nd-lowest, and so-forth.

The Theron bracket is honestly a Final-4 matchup right now.

What do you think?

[PieceOfMeat]

I kind of like that some brackets might be more loaded than others. Gives it an NCAA-esque type vibe.

[Coop Cat]

I say keep it as is. That is just how it comes out sometimes. If you want to be the hottest you gots to be the next hottest at some point.

[pokinmik]

Yep the choices are going to be difficult at some point regardless. Whoever is the hottest will rise to the top.

[JMarkJohns]

Alright...

The Sweet 16 reps all get included automatically in the next year's bracket.

For the remaining, they will need to sit out of the vote for a year, then can be re-voted as Hot/Not and, if qualified, can be included in bracket a few years from now.