The Blog Games Season 2: Week 2
First published: Tuesday November 30th, 2021
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The Blog Games Season 2: Week 2!
Week of November 22nd - 28th, 2021
Please read our introduction blog for information if you are new to this event. The rules in this season are the same as the previous one so if you are new or have forgotten, it is advised to read the Rules section of the blog linked above. The accepted time for blogs is Monday at 12 AM EST/9 PM PST (Sunday)/5 AM UTC to Sunday at 11:59 PM EST/8:59 PM PST/4:59 AM UTC (Monday). In other words, the valid time for blogs starts eight (8) days before the week's release and ends two (2) days before.
Blog Rank 5! - Einstein100102: Thanksgiving Explained
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 8/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
Feels like too many photos in one place, but really nice blog.
ChineseChen's Comments:
Nice facts. It's also interesting to see which countries celebrate Thanksgiving. One thing though: the heading font is slightly too large in my opinion.
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 8/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
NiobiumVoid's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Blog Rank 4! - ElementalPixel: How Will China Be Remembered in History?
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
The formatting is really nice in my opinion, but looks a bit bland, but the colors really brighten up the blog.
ChineseChen's Comments:
I've seen many perspectives about this topic.
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
NiobiumVoid's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Blog Rank 4! - toowise: Capital City Origins ~ Africa Part 2
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
Formatting is starting to get slightly repetitive, but the entire blog makes up for that mistake.
ChineseChen's Comments:
Great, as always.
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
NiobiumVoid's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Blog Rank 3! - Geopro: Dawn of the JetPunk Empires - Part VI
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
Formatting is a bit not-existent, and sort of brings the blog down in the rankings a bit.
ChineseChen's Comments:
Very entertaining read! Could use a little more formatting though
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
NiobiumVoid's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 7/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Blog Rank 2! - squidpsyco: Some Cool Mathematical Proofs
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
Although I get nightmares about proofs every night, thing lightened my dreams up a little bit, just a little :).
ChineseChen's Comments:
I like math. A very thorough walkthrough
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
NiobiumVoid's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Honorable Mentions
Before we get into the number one blog this week, I would like to introduce the 3 honorable mentions for this week! Also, I did forget to say that the Honorable Mentions will NOT actually be based on the criteria, just my opinion on the blog, but I will still be rating them. For the first honorable mention, I would like to present...
toowise - Capital City Origins ~ Africa Part 3
Same excellent quality. 136/150
QuizzerBros - Empire Blog - Palapyan/Botswanan Caliphate
A nice fan-created (a fandom you could call it) post with plenty of information. 129/150
HeyItsRose18 - Contemplating the Mysteries of the World - Part 11: The Alphabet
Another thoughtful addition to the series. 127/150
Blog Rank 1! - cathlete: Lesser-Known Board Games
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
A quick and easy to read blog, very appealing formatting, and overall a very good blog.
ChineseChen's Comments:
Ticket to Ride is great! Will be sure to try some of these out in the future
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
NiobiumVoid's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 10/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Awards
Here are the winners of the 4 weekly awards!
Best Informational - squidpsyco: Some Cool Mathematical Proofs
Funniest - Beckette: Funniest, Weirdest, & Dumbest People Names
Best Title - Einstein100102: Thanksgiving Explained
Favorite of Judges - Geopro: Dawn of the JetPunk Empires - Part VI
Welcome New Bloggers
Milestones
(sort of)
Blog News!
Welcome NiobiumVoid as the guest judge for this week! Next week, a sign-up form for guest judging during Week 4 will be posted. toowise will be on cooldown next week. The Season 2 bar chart has been updated again! And again, thanks to NiobiumVoid for being the guinea pig for this new addition to the blog games.
And finally, if you want to give or take criticism to hopefully get better at blogging and help others as well, join the JetPunk group down below to do so:
Conclusion
I thank you for reading this week's Blog Games! Hopefully next week the blogs can be better than ever. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please state in the comments. We hope you enjoyed! Bye!
Woah, when I wrote this comment I was 1st, then by the time I submitted there are 10.
Congrats everyone! Wanna throw my bid for Week 4. Can’t the guest judges leave their comments?
and the main reason being that Chinesechen forgot to add it to the form that NV took lol.I was expecting to see Stewart's blog receive some type of award
I'd like to thank my family, my subscribers and all those who helped me to get this point in my life.
It has been a life goal to achieve this prestigious Award, even if it's not a top 5 Blog Games of the week.
Thank you! :)
That said, I was kinda hoping for a mention given it's my first blog in a while and got a lot of likes, even if it was satirical.In reply to your comment about the formatting. Since all the blogs are part of a series, I decided to make them all look similar to each other. I think if they are different it would look a little haphazard or untidy as a series. Thats my opinion anyway, rightly or wrongly.
Once again thanks for including my blogs.
One of toowise's blogs would be likely, but I am going to place my bet on camus's German chancellors blog.
that's ethaboo's memeI knowoops