Okay, time for something a little different, and a lot less taxing on me, the thread-runner.

We will do a countdown of the 15 Dream Theater studio albums. No live albums or EPs (A Change of Seasons) will be included.
I will count down the 15 albums in order, and they will be taken from lists of anyone who wants to send me theirs via PM. Do not post them on the forum here. Send them to me via PM. I will take all of the lists and come up with the cumulative list and do the countdown from 15 to 1.
The rules:
-Albums must be listed from 15 to 1 in order (in reverse order), with no ties. No having three albums at number 4 or anything like that. DO NOT list your albums with the points total. List them in your order (I will figure out the points on my end). Any list submitted with the albums not numbered will be ignored.
-All 15 studio albums must be ranked with no ties. Any list that lists more or less than 15 albums will be ignored.
-Anyone wanting to submit a list must do so by the end of day, Tuesday, September 20th. I will then begin the countdown shortly thereafter. This should give anyone and everyone time to listen to all or most of the albums.
-The list will be tallied numerically in a simple way. On each list, whatever album is at number 1 gets 15 points, number 2 gets 14 points, number 3 gets 13 points, etc.
-PROOFREAD YOUR LISTS BEFORE SENDING THEM. Any list with the same album mentioned twice will be not be counted. And given how few choices there are in this one, I reserve the right in this thread to shame anyone who sends a list with an album listed twice or with a live album or EP listed.

Feel free to post in this thread as well that you have PM'd me, if for no other reason than to bump this back up for others who may want to participate who may not have seen the thread yet.
This ranking engine link below works great if you have too much difficulty making one on your own. You can input all of the albums, and then you pick your favorite of every 1 on 1 matchup and then it spits out your list.
https://rankingengine.pubmeeple.com/Studio albums to be ranked:
When Dream and Day Unite
Images and Words
Awake
Falling into Infinity
Scenes from a Memory
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Train of Thought
Octavarium
Systematic Chaos
Black Clouds and Silver Linings
A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater
The Astonishing
Distance over Time
A View from the Top of the World