by Stephen Agar

This is a repeat of an exercise I have done for some years now (originally back in Spring Offensive No.32) and I will update after every zine poll. This is a bit of fun and not to be taken too seriously – it just occurred to me that if you were to examine all the Top Ten results from all the Diplomacy Zine Polls, it would be possible to produce an overall ranking of one form or another. I opted for something simple and awarded points as follows: First = 20 Points; Second = 15; Third = 12; Fourth = 9; Fifth = 7; Sixth = 5; Seventh = 4; Eighth = 3; Ninth = 2; Tenth = 1. Joint positions picked up the points for two places divided between them (e.g. a Joint Fifth would get 7 + 5 = 12 points divided between the two of them = 6 points each). Since the Zine Poll began, 87 different zines have made it to a top ten position. This table published Jan 99.

Pos.	Zine	Total	Wins	Top Tens
1	Dolchstoß	219	5	21
2	Greatest Hits	146½	4	12
3	Mad Policy	113	1	9
4	Spring Offensive	98	3	7
5	Chimaera	78	2	7
6	1901 and all that	63		6
7	Take That You Fiend!	61½	1	10
8	NMR!	59		7
9	The Cunning Plan	58	1	5
10	Home of the Brave	54	1	6
11	Electric Monk	51	1	4
12	Cut & Thrust	50		9
13	Zeeby	49		5
14	Realpolitik	48	1	4
15	Puppet Theatre News	45		5
16	Ode	44	1	9
17	SNOT	43½	1	4
18	Hopscotch	41	1	5
19	Fall of Eagles	40		4
20	Y Ddraig Goch	39		4
21	Ethil the Frog	35	1	2
22	NERTZ	32	1	2
=23	Denver Glont	31		5
=23	On The Game	31	1	3
25	A Little Original Sin	29		5
=26	Jigsaw	25		3
=26	The Acolyte	25		3
28	War & Peace	23	1	2
29	Vienna	20		3
=30	A Step Further Out	19		3
=30	Smodnoc	19		2
32	C’est Magnifique	17		4
=33	Fifth Column	14		2
=33	One Man’s Rubbish	14		3
35	War Bulletin	13½		3
36	Prisoners of War	13		3
=37	Sprouts of Wrath	12		1
=37	Frigate	12		3
=37	Orion	12		1
=37	Thing	12		1
41	Lemming Express	11		2
42	Putty Riffo	10		2
=43	The Tinamou	9		3
=43	Arfle Barfle Gloop	9		1
=43	Die Poppel Revue	9		1
=43	Mr Gladgrind	9		1
=43	Trojan Horse	9		1
=43	The Freaky Fungus	9		1
49	Ad Nauseam	8		2
=50	Megalomania	7		2
=50	Back to the Dark Ages	7		2
=50	Hyperion	7		1
=50	New Statsman	7		1
=50	Pigmy	7		1
=50	Rats live on no evil staR	7		1
=56	Age of Reason	5		2
=56	Dib Dib Dib	5		2
=56	Pyrrhic Victory	5		2
=56	Grafeti	5		1
=56	Perspiring Dreams	5		1
=56	Watch Your Back	5		1
=56	BUM	5		2
63	Hannibal	4½		2
=64	Bloodstock	4		2
=64	Filibuster	4		2
=64	Buum	4		1
=64	Ripping Yarns	4		1
=64	Scorpio	4		1
=64	The Ides of March	4		1
70	Comet	3½		1
=71	GAME	3		1
=71	He’s Dead Jim!	3		1
=71	Our Enry	3		1
=71	Retief	3		1
=71	SFCP	3		1
=71	The Church Mouse	3		1
=71	U-Bend	3		1
=78	Chantecler	2		1
=78	Lokasenna	2		1
=78	Mach Die Spuhl	2		1
=78	Rocinante	2		1
=78	Son of Bellicus	2		1
=78	Obsidian	2		2
=84	20 Years On	1		1
=84	Court Circular	1		1
=84	Gallimaufry	1		1
=84	LiES	1		1

Editors with more than one zine in the above list include Mick Bullock (1901 and all that and New Statsman), Geoff Challinger (Home of the Brave and Hyperion), Toby Harris (Smodnoc and The Freaky Fungus), Richard Egan (Vienna and LiES) and myself (Pigmy and Spring Offensive).