Anyone up for a Presidents Tournament?

**mae** · 07-22-2015 06:06 AM

So with the 2016 US Presidential election cycle now starting to heat up, I was browsing this fine article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor..._United_States

One thing that jumped out at me was the aggregate ranking of the Presidents. It seems to be fairly balanced, taking into account and melding all these previous rankings, but I thought, since we all love tournaments up in here, wouldn't it be fun to devise a tournament based around the 43 US Presidents.

It should be a fairly short event. There could be a number of ways to do it. We can rank each one, say, from 1 to 5 or something, kinda like our Constant Reader Awards polls, or just do plain elimination, like the movie/television polls.

**RainInSpain** · 07-22-2015 11:23 AM

Cool idea, pablo!

Not that I am especially proficient in the US history in general and Presidents in particular (growing up in the USSR during the Cold War did not really lend itself to that

) but I would jump at the opportunity to participate and to educate myself in the process.

So count me in!