The Blog Games Season 2: Week 8
First published: Wednesday January 26th, 2022
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The Blog Games Season 2: Week 8!
Week of January 17th - 23rd, 2022
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 nine (9) days before the week's release and ends three (3) days before.
Blog Rank 5! - toowise: Some of the Smaller British Isles
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
wow. smol islands have big histories lol
ChineseChen's Comments:
Great information
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 8/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Fuse's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 9/10
Appeal: 8/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Fuse's Comments:
As a Brit, I definitely found this blog interesting. Many of the islands featured in the blog were new to me, but this blog made me learn a lot. Great job!
Blog Rank 4! - Iluvbread123: Feminism
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
controversial, but overall good blog and keeping the comments controversy free lol
ChineseChen's Comments:
May be slightly controversial, but I agree with your opinions
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 7/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Fuse's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 8/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Fuse's Comments:
Interesting and controversial topic to write about, but the blog was definitely executed very well.
Blog Rank 3! - adillman23: What is Toki Pona?
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
pls tell me there is toki pona keyboard
ChineseChen's Comments:
Hmm... makes me want to work on Sawiwi again...
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 8/10
Content/Information: 9/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Fuse's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 8/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 9/10
Content/Information: 8/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Fuse's Comments:
This blog was very informative.
Blog Rank 2! - Gassu: Gassu's Interesting Facts, Vol. 2
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 8/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
dont mess with canadians, bad idea. as an american, i can confirm
ChineseChen's Comments:
'Twas very interesting...
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 10/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 8/10
Fuse's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 10/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10
Fuse's Comments:
Ah, Gassu. How you never fail to amaze us with your blogs! I really like your fact blogs because the large majority of the facts are new to me.
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...
BigGeographyGuy - Every Major Colony of the British Empire Explained (P1)
129/150
akjlddkjslfsd - Card Game 101 #6: Cheat
128/150
HeyItsRose18 - Musical Mondays: Mamma Mia!
126/150
126/150
Blog Rank 1! - Simon1006: How Random is the JetPunk Randomizer?
Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Ethaboo's Comments:
ye
ChineseChen's Comments:
Amazing
ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 9/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Fuse's Criteria Grading:
Formatting: 10/10
Grammar: 10/10
Appeal: 10/10
Content/Information: 10/10
Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10
Fuse's Comments:
Fantastic, flawless and fabulous first blog. Highly deserving of a high score - it was a very interesting read.
Awards
Here are the winners of the 3 weekly awards!
Best Informational - Gassu: Gassu's Interesting Facts, Vol. 2
Best Title - HeyItsRose18: Musical Mondays: Mamma Mia!
Favorite of Judges - Simon1006: How Random is the JetPunk Randomizer?
New Bloggers
Milestones
GeoSmartKirbyXD - 2,950 takes and counting plus a important announcement.
Congratulations!
Blog News!
Welcome Fuse as the guest judge for this week! Next episode, a sign-up form for guest judging during Week 10 will be posted. The Season 2 bar chart might be updated.
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!
May I ask what score my Curse of Binding blog got?
So funniest award is canceled?
Ethaboo: I would like to introduce the 3 honorable mentions for this week!jbro: Burh
It was already written in the stars Simon would win. That blog was the best I ever saw on RUB on the past months. Gassu and adillman also did a great work. Well, everyone here did! Congratulations to the winners!
And again, BGG only on honorable mentions... hope the rubric help on Week 9...Yes, the third and fourth blogs only count as half an Honorable MentionJoking... loliluvbread: 15
adillman: 8.5
Gassu: 5
BGG: 17
akj: 13.5
HeyItsRose: 3 or 4 I'll count later
Jbro: 1 or something (I'll see later lol)
Simon: 6
Leaderboard
1. Stewart
2. Toowise
3. BGG
3. Aficionado
4. Thread
5. Cuotak
can you make me the official scorekeeper lolCongrats!
Mwahahahahahahahaha
Proceeds to list four
Just like to reiterate what others have said, The #1 position was spot on and rightly deserved, that blog must have taken a lot of work.
I also recently hit level 40, so another 5 months or so and I can make a blog myself :)
First place: 5 points
Second place: 4 points
Third place: 3 points
Fourth place: 2 points
Fifth place: 1 point
Awards: 1 point
Honorable Mention: 0.5 points
New Blogger Bonus: 0.5 points