Diamondback vs Georgia Scorcher

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

Diamondback takes it 4–2, and the 2 Georgia Scorcher does win are the whole of its case.

Diamondback is a steel Hyper Coaster coaster at Kings Island, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Georgia Scorcher is a steel Stand-Up Coaster coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, US, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

Both are in US, which puts them in the same conversation for anyone planning a trip there.

They come from the same drawing office: Bolliger & Mabillard. That makes the gaps below a question of brief and budget rather than engineering house style.

Both are steel-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Diamondback at 230 ft against 107 ft — more than double.
• Speed goes to Diamondback at 81 mph against 54 mph — a long way clear.
• Georgia Scorcher inverts 2 times against nothing at all from Diamondback — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Diamondback at 1,620 rph against 1,300 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Diamondback at 22 $m against 11 $m — more than double.
• 10 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Georgia Scorcher (1999) that banks the point, not Diamondback (2009).