Highbeam
Minister of Fire
I am a disbeliever in the top down method, it's a novelty at best in my experience. I tried it a few times with terrible experiences. Nothing is better than a good ol' log cabin started from the bottom. Remember that whole heat rises thing. The method of fire starting has little to do with this thread though. If you have aren't able to cleanly start a fire from the bottom then you've got other problems.