2012 5by5 Showbot Rundown

For a while now I’ve enjoyed listening to the live recordings of several of the 5by5 shows. As part of listening live there is a little game played where live listeners suggest titles based on the content on the show. Many hosts then use this list as the basis when naming their episodes.

I was curious how the “leaderboard” ended up for 2012 shows. I asked Jeremy Mack, the creator of showbot, for a database dump of the suggestions and then wrote a script to parse out the winners. Here is the result for all shows with more than 10 suggestion-chosen titles (top 3 suggesters shown). There have been 33,625 suggestions made in 2012 at time of writing.

  • Amplified: danbenjamin (5, 14%), Haz (4, 11%) & DentedMeat (4, 11%)
  • The B&B Podcast: DentedMeat (4, 15%) & DavidSmith (4, 15%), zaneman (3, 11%)
  • Back to Work: ploafmaster (8, 16%), DentedMeat (7, 14%), JayThrash (4, 8%)
  • Build & Analyze: DavidSmith (10, 24%), danbenjamin (3, 7%), DentedMeat (2, 5%)
  • The Frequency: afwaller (7, 16%), robmathers (5, 11%) & mikeyR (5, 11%)
  • Hypercritical: DavidSmith (10, 20%), swilliams (5, 10%), JayThrash (3, 6%)
  • The Ihnatko Almanac: danbenjamin (6, 21%), JayThrash (5, 18%), DentedMeat (3, 11%)
  • In Beta: UltraNurd (6, 30%), DentedMeat (4, 20%), crumpf (2, 10%)
  • Overall: DentedMeat (38, 11%), DavidSmith (31, 9%), danbenjamin (22, 6%), JayThrash (21, 6%), UltraNurd (13, 4%), swilliams (12, 3%)

I am oddly proud of strongly leading the lists for my two favorite 5by5 shows (Build & Analyze and Hypercritical). As these shows are winding down I will likely be in the 5by5 chatroom less and less (especially having discovered that I have made a staggering 1359 suggestions so far this year!).

I’ve enjoyed my time in the chatroom and will miss my fellow Jackals.

David Smith