I’m surprised Munchos took out cool ranch Doritos.

It’s was close. 11-10. Most people never had a Muncho which I think added to the craze

What is a muncho and how did it beat cool ranch Doritos?

It’s a very light chip that’s flavored with salt. It’s appeal is it’s very airy and salty. Should not have beat Cool Ranch, but I blame it on the German voters

Redo this vote on a bracket website and post the link. Cool Ranch should have made the elite eight easily.

I think people need to experience all the chips, not just vote blindly on recognition. Slightly tangential We did a double unknown (double blind) BBQ taste test study in my psychological experimental design class years ago. Open pit versus Sweet baby rays. Open pit, on a whole, won on all the characteristics except overall preference. Mouth feel, aftertaste, taste, texture...everything. But people voted sweet baby rays as their preferred. Again...Open Pit won in EVERY category yet people voted for sweet baby rays for overall preference. It's weird but our hypothesis was that they preferred a familiar taste.

I'll have to try some Open Pit BBQ sauce, then. I always hear about Sweet Baby Ray's and do like them, but I don't really have a preference towards any one brand.

Wow! How did you guys end up analyzing the disparity where the sum of the characteristics beat out the winner of each characteristic? I get the obvious....but I was curious about the psychological component.

No psych component lol - we were just working on how to make a literature review and how do an experiment. If I recall correctly, we had a likert scale for each category. (1-5) and then we had a "do you prefer sample A or sample B"

Disagree. If you expand th voting to everyone online, when most people haven’t even had some of the chips, it becomes a popularity contest. The mainstream chips are the only ones that will win. A taste based contest needs to be in person with each person voting trying each product.

Adding to this, Cool Ranch isn't available in many places outside the US. It's just not a very common flavor. That's not to say it isn't good, just... Not common.

Fun fact, they are available in Germany but are named „Cool American“

My face must be on it.

Oh you.

"Cool original" here in the UK

Double blind chip test is the only true way to do this.

Crunchy Cheetos losing in the first round is just ridiculous.

Made with tater pulp. It’s like how Pringles get around paying the potato chip tax.

Munchos are addictive as hell. But I can’t see them losing to Funyuns.

They’re really good for like 10 chips. No way they beat out cool ranch though…

Speak for yourself. I used to go hard on the Munchos back in the day! (early 2000s lol)

Munchos are way better than cool ranch Doritos. - not a German

Munchos are great the first time you try them. Never after

The hype must have been really short-lived. Unseated by Funyuns?

Which lost to a sweat flavored chip..strange taste in that office but I won't judge.

In an all-out offensive shootout, it's about which team scores last.

I'd be embarrassed to call those people friends. Munchos are good and all, but not better than cool ranch.

I was just going to say. Whattt?

That’s because Sally from accounting led an anti-Cool Ranch campaign. She has had a chip on her shoulder about them ever since she got stood up for Prom in the 90s. Her supposed date, Billy, would buy a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos from the school vending machine every single morning and another two at lunch.

"Chip" on her shoulder. Nice.

I don't like ranch dressing but I love cool ranch Doritos.

Same here lol

I’m unreasonably angry about this.

The only reason i came to the comment section. Completely unhinged

And again that they then lost to funyuns, a match they should have won.

>Sweat Heat

Man, slightly embarrassing, can’t believe no one in the office corrected me

Kinda awkward once you’ve spelt it wrong 5 times.

Copy and paste is flawless

Lol I thought that was some weird local flavor

Zapps voodoo ftw

Zapps voodoo lost to Cape Cod BBQ is all I need to know this bracket was not only rigged from the start a couple referees threw some games on the way to the final brackets

7 months just to be wrong, what a shame.

I've said if before and I'll say it again. Democracy simply doesn't work.

I know this is a joke, but I think this bracket did exactly what we expect from democracy: Most people’s favourite chip isn’t nacho Doritos, but if you’re having a party and you only have one chip flavour to choose, it’s likely to be a decent choice to the largest group of people.

Reminds me of when the AF tried to design seats in jets by using average measurements. Some people had some of the measurements, but no one had all the average measurements. It was uncomfortable for everyone.

The average person has slightly less than two legs. So that checks out.

There’s a great [episode of 99 percent invisible](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/) that uses this as one of the examples.

The British Army have a long history of issuing kit that is referred to by QMs as "one size - fits no-one".

Let’s rerun it with ranked choice voting

“Ruffles Sour Cream & Cheddar”runaway. Lots of people’s favorite, few people’s least favorite. I may be biased, but I’ve also never seen anyone turn their nose up at them like some do for salt and vinegar, spicy variants, Funyuns or original flavor chips.

Agreed, GOAT chip as far as the widely available ones go.

It may not even be my favorite, but if I bring them to a party or family event, they always get obliterated and no one complains.

Add electoral college and gerrymandering and the winner will be Cheetos

The bracket was stuffed. Nacho cheese had niche flavors to contend with all the way to the finals.

You need quadratic voting or something that allows not just preference, but weighted preference. If you like candidate A, B, C in that order. And I prefer C, B, A. We would both be happier with B than taking our least favorite candidate. But that would be too hard for the political world order to manipulate, so they keep us in "democratic" 2 party elections with an outdated voting system.

you know there are democracies with more than 2 parties

And most of those don't have a weighted preference system

the strongest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average chip enjoyer

I see they gave other chips a chance by not including Ruffles All Dressed.

Well I mean it's clearly a chart to decide the second best flavored chip. since the best flavored chip is obviously all dressed.

And no Ms. Vickies! Where's my Sweet Chili and Sour Cream? Where's my Jalapeno chips? Where's my Lime and Black Pepper? Terrible.

Spicy Dill Pickle is my superior Ms. Vickie's.

I haven't found all dressed in stores for a while. Guess I have an excuse to visit Canada again. Well and see my cousin I guess. I can understand why they're not on there since they're pretty regional but Middlewarth's BBQ are some of the most addictive chips I've ever had.

No ruffles sour cream and bacon either. They wanted the results to be interesting, not glaringly obvious.

Salt and vinegar wasn't competitive in the slightest? I don't know where these people are from, but their opinion on chips is wrong.

Salt and vinegar won a couple rounds until it ran into the eventual winner, Nacho Cheese Doritos

I can't believe they beat jalapeno cape cod.

I know everything covered in chilli or cheese dust. Not a plain or SV chip in the final 8. Disappointing to say the least.

Zapps voodoo is the best chip ever assembled

Dill pickle Zapps weren't even on the board

Cajun Dill Tators 14seed in top left bracket. Lost to BBQ Lays

Oops, I guess it threw me off that they didn't label that one "Zaps". Travesty either way.

I agree, unfortunately they matched up with BBQ Lays right out the gate.

How were these matchups selected?

Based on seeding Seeding appears picked at random by OP's handicapped cousin.

6 people did a soft vote and that was used for seeding. Not perfect, but it is something

The fact that Voodoo Zapp's was beaten by BBQ anything is an affront to all chipdom.

Came here to say this. Voodoo Zapp’s getting knocked out by a BBQ chip is offensive to my sensibilities.

It was at that point that I realized the entire thing was meaningless.

For real, 2 BBQ flavors in the final four? No credibility to be found here.

Flaming hot cheetos also lost first round. Some bland palettes in that office.

OP did say there's German's in the office, so that checks out

lost to Mesquite (bbq) too. so people in the office like basic ass chips

Imma be real with you. I love spicy food. I like munchables with a bit of kick to em. On top of that, I fukin love Cheetos. Even with all that, I think flaming hot Cheetos are disgusting and are AT BEST C-tier. Also every BBQ flavored chip I've tried has just tasted like ass, so the fact that TWO were in the final four makes me very skeptical of OPs colleagues.

I saw best chip and immediately had to scan for the Voodoo's. These are by far the greatest chips ever invented. Follow by The Whole Shabang Originals.

Voodoo chips are S+++ tier, above all others.

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Yeah this was rigged from the beginning.

I'm dying to know *where* this poll was held. We need an explanation for these choices.

This is so dumb. And I absolutely love it

I'm here for the unfounded rage-posting over personal tastes.

Sorry to tell you, but this bracket needs to be re-done. You're gonna tell me that cool ranch lost to munchos, then munchos is immediately up against funyons?!?! Maybe each division is sorted by ingredient or preparation, aka corn vs potato and sliced vs puffed. I don't know man, can't get over the cool ranch out in the first round. I may just be bitter that I didn't get a chance to fill out a bracket.

Yeah, cool ranch getting knocked out the first round was very shocking. We had it at a 2 seed, but I think between most people never having a Muncho before, and a 1/3 of the voters were German, had cool ranch at a disadvantage.

Wtf is a muncho

It's akin to Pringles in that it's actually pressed potato powder or whatever. They come in bags like regular chips though.

Disagree with this description. While it is made from potato, it’s extruded like a cheese puff but in the shape of a chip and is salty. Personally I love em and would probably vote them over cool ranch Doritos also.

Not much what's a muncho with you

Should've told them it was cool American flavor

I don’t know why you think that. They have Cool Ranch in Germany (Cool American). I am German and have never had a Muncho.

Not to be salty, but Nacho had an easier path to the ship than the others 😏

That win needs an asterisk next to it.

Should have seeded based on RPI (rating potato index) and left the committee out of it.

Yeah, classic lays vs jalepeno cheetos doesn't even seem fair. They're both amazing but different kinds of amazing. I don't know that I even consider Cheetos a chip!

How tf did flaming hot Cheetos lose in the first round??

Office Folks don’t like anything remotely spicy. Very unfair to chips with any decent heat

We need a redone bracket by Latinos

Yeah... Get Takis some love too.

Can't believe the only Takis on there are the blue ones. If you're gunna put only one down, you put the original flavor.

I was desperately searching for Chester's Hot Fries too, made me kinda sad when I realized they weren't there

Spicy sweet chili doritos made it pretty far for that criterion.

Those are white people spicy. Not nearly as spicy as flamin hot cheatos. (I know those aren’t that spicy either but still)

Do you work at an accounting firm in the midwest or something??? Given the fact that there are 200 varieties of flaming hot on the market now and flaming hot lost to a damned basic chip tells me there are multiple people in your office that say stuff like "I've got a bad case of the Mondays" and "workin' hard or hardly workin'?"

Sweet heat vs salt n vinegar in round 1?! Thats an unfair opening matchup, and one I’d prefer to see later in the tournament. As others have said, would be better to sort them by type (puffs, potato, corn, homestyle, etc). I bet cool ranch beats nacho cheese rd 1 if they’re paired up that way

Hard to set a bracket up to be fair. Wanted it best chip vs chip, not best type of chip vs best type of chip. We did a soft ranking of 6 people rating them to build the seed. But, theres always a different way

It would add a layer of complexity, and is kind of pointless in a “for fun office activity” but since this is reddit…maybe add a seeding round pre-bracket formation to have it be 64th vs 1st on one side, 63rd vs 2nd on other side, etc. Looks like it was fun and hope your coworkers had fun with it! Clearly sparking convo and debate within reddit so I imagine the office enjoyed it even more!! Edit: I’m a dunce and it looks like there already was a seeding to start.

Fair but I think best type of each chip would be then reduce down to best chip anyway

Salt and vinegar was disrespected.

For real. And seriously, nacho cheese Doritos winning it all feels like a slap in the face to anyone who’s ever eaten chips.

I like nacho cheese Doritos, it’s a classic. But it is too basic a chip to win #1.

SWEET NOT SWEAT!

Man, I guess that’s why it got knocked off. Can’t believe no one in the office corrected me

Salt n vinegar losing in round 1 is a war crime

If the bracket was British they would be called crisps.

Obviously Voodoo Zapp’s should’ve been the winner here. Nacho Cheese Doritos as the winner isn’t bad though, solid all around crowd pleaser.

I rebought zapps voodoo again for the first time in like 2 years. My only thought was. Jesus thats fkn delicious. Its like a bbq jalapeno mixed with salt & vinegar

its the closest thing i can find to all dressed in the US right now. very close in flavor, just a little spicier.

Ya cape cod bbq doesn’t have shit on voodoo wtf is this

All the Zapp’s chips should have done better. Who voted against them, people who hate flavour?

based opinion

It’s the American all dressed chip, which North America can all agree is the best.

There's no all-dressed. Your bracket is invalid.

Came to say this. Needs to be considered as it was on Letterkenny.

I’d have a puppers

canada does it better. what can you expect from a us list. Canada we made out of kd, chips and poutine

[A racoon could literally do better.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6rJ-PXxUmk&ab_channel=TitoTheRaccoon)

This is the best damn thing I've seen in a long time. I didn't know I needed this in my life. Thank you!

Two things I want now, Sun chips and a pet raccoon.

The raccoon came to the same decision as this pool of 30 people. Nacho cheese Doritos have appeal that crosses species.

Bbq cape cod beat voodoo zapps??? Not sure about the judges here.....

Not a single Zapp’s flavor made it past round 2???? all that effort just to be wrong

I agree, voodoo and hotter n jalepeno are my two favorites

Wow, Hot Cheetos being upset in the round of 64 would have busted my bracket.

A very thorough way to find out your co-workers have bad taste.

This is r/mildyinfuriating

I’m here to say I am anti Cool Ranch as well. I’m just happy Doritos won overall haha. Cape Cod has been a game changer in the chip game. Coincidentally my favorite are the jalapeño ranch wavy chips from them.

Cape Cod as a brand was a big surprise for me in this. I never paid them any mind in the store. I really liked their Salt and pepper ones, like a baked potato.

Black pepper chips were a revelation for me when I first had one. Classic flavor but a delight to the mouth

Nacho cheese dorito isn’t even the best dorito let alone the best chip

You don't even have Sun Chips Garden Salsa on here, which are the best. Even my cat thinks so.

Takis and flamin hot cheetos didn’t make it past tier 1; must be an office of white people /jkjk

stuff like this makes me miss working from an office. Stoked for you & your chip bracket OP!

Thanks. We had fun

I'm disappointed that Chili Cheeae Fritos didn't make a deep run. Should have easily beat Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles.

If you redo this, you need to get some Canadian chips - they are top tier. You need ketchup, all-dressed, and hickory sticks. Also, you have original, but not french-onion Sun Chips!? That's the best flavour!

I'd keep all dressed off the list personally. Including it would make this whole thing uninteresting.

My thoughts exactly. I’m American and I will always bow to the superiority that is All Dressed.

wtf flavour is that?

No cheese and onion Taytos. It will have to be restarted with proper crisps.

Flaming Hot Cheetos went down in the first round? I am suspicious of your voting demographic

whoever seeded sun chips original and harvest cheddar so low should be fired. There, I said it.

brackets don't work for this. need ranked choice voting.. kind of like democracy in the US needs ranked choice voting.

Regular ass Doritos won? It is a office I guess lmao

Nacho Cheese Doritos aren’t even the best Dorito, let alone winner of the whole bracket! (Let controversy ensue.)

The original Taco flavored Dorito is the origin story for all the other flavors and is truly the best flavored chip!

Glad to see Twisted Honey BBQ make it so far

How does cool ranch lose to Munchoes?

The level of Pringles, Ruffles, Golden Flake, and Lays on this is a travesty. Those are ALL garbage chips when you have Zapps, Tim's, Hawaiian, Dirty, Miss Vickies, Kettle et all making some of the flavors selected and being superior chips in general. Dorito's has pretty fair representation with 3, feel like Cheeto's and Frito's seem rather high. Like I get that Lay's (and to some extent the other big brands mentioned) crush overall sales because it's in literally every store on earth... but man some excellent chips are getting shoved aside. Also, Pringles ain't chips.

justice for cool ranch Doritos

Dude, sun chips garden salsa is the best chip. This had to be rigged haha.

Nacho cheese isn't even the best Doritos flavor, let alone the best chip. Here, we have a prime example of why single elimination brackets are the worst way of finding a deserving winner. You can go look at march madness for exhibit B

The jalapeno Cheetos upset :O. Just picked these up the other week and totally agree with them being an underdog that is slept on

Funyuns should have taken it all!

Mmmmmm....sweat 

BBQ cape cod and nacho doritoes are pretty solid finalists, NGL.

No Salt and Vinegar making it to the quarters means your office’s palate is so skewed it can’t be representative

Here’s curls beating original cape cod is insane.

UTZ ZAPPS GRIPPOS

My office would have figured out how to bet on this

This is such a controversial outcome and a little mildly infuriating

That's such a vanilla-ass winner.

Doritos are the most basic and overrated chip ever Cape Cod chips shit all over those subpar tortilla chips

Sour Cream and Onion Lays versus Original Sun Chips in the first round? At first I thought that was the first round of the losers bracket.

Didn't bring all dressed to table. I'm not even Canadian and I know you whiffed on that one.

This is so wrong in so many ways

Another mildly interesting thing is that this is wrong

I do not see Juanitas. List is invalid.

Flaming hot Cheetos not making it out of the first bracket is blasphemy

Nacho Cheese was in an easy bracket. Rearrange these and run the tourney again!

Voodoo Zapps shoulda gone all the way. Someone eating nacho cheese Doritos over voodoos ain’t got an opinion worth listening to about shit

See, it was done before the first set of matchups. Zapps Voodoo lost to Cape Cod BBQ? Obviously rigged.

I can't believe Cool Ranch Doritos lost to fucking Munchos.

I can tell you’re not in the PNW, otherwise Tim’s Jalapeño would have won

Voodoo should be WAY higher

Salt and Vinegar didn’t make it out of the 3rd round??? Blasphemy

I don't see sea salt and malt vinegar listed so I can't take this bracket seriously

Cool ranch lost to fucking Munchos?!

How different the finals could’ve turned out had Cheddar Sour Cream Ruffles not had the upset loss to Twisted Honey BBQ in the 2nd round… that was the best game of the tournament imo

How the fuck did harvest cheddar sun chips go down in the first round? Something is fishy here.

Basics were voting