The Blog Games Season 2: Week 1

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First published: Tuesday November 23rd, 2021
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The Blog Games Season 2: Week 1!

NOTE: I see everyone's concern, but you don't have to make blogs about me to release the Blog Games lol. I obviously can't get out of this, but yes, I did forget to release the Blog Games. It was just a slight inconvenience of my neighbor wanting to play outside and making me freeze my toes in the cold air. I am deeply sorry, and will try next time to NOT FORGET. :)

Week of November 15th - 21st, 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! - MiecraftMan: The Three Little Pigs: Minecraft Edition

The Three Little Pigs: Minecraft Edition

MiecraftMan

Overall Score: 88/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 8/10

Grammar: 8/10

Appeal: 9/10

Content/Information: 9/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

A very creative blog.

ChineseChen's Comments:

Maybe I'm biased because it's Minecraft, but still a great blog

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 7/10

Grammar: 8/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 9/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10

Blog Rank 4! - adillman23: Taylor Swift's Albums, Ranked

Taylor Swift's Albums, Ranked

adillman23

Overall Score: 89/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 10/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 9/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

I'm not saying I like Taylor Swift, but the blog was beautifully designed and written lol

ChineseChen's Comments:

Although I'm not a big fan of Taylor Swift, it's interesting to see other peoples' opinions.

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 7/10

Content/Information: 9/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 8/10

Blog Rank 4! - MiecraftMan: Funny Newspaper Headlines

Funny Newspaper Headlines

MiecraftMan

Overall Score: 89/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 8/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 9/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

A very humorous read indeed.

ChineseChen's Comments:

Took a while to realize that they weren't real haha

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 8/10

Grammar: 8/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 8/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10

Blog Rank 3! - toowise: Capital City Origins ~ Europe Part 3

Capital City Origins ~ Europe Part 3

toowise

Overall Score: 90/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 7/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 9/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

Definitely an interesting way to inform us about the origins of many capitals that we all know ~~and love~~.

ChineseChen's Comments

Same as Ethaboo

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 8/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Blog Rank 2! - akjlddkjslfsd: Everything You Need to Know about the Sexagesimal Numeral System

Everything You Need to Know about the Sexagesimal Numeral System

akjlddkjslfsd

Overall Score: 92/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 8/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

Incredibly confusing, but also just as informative and interesting to read.

ChineseChen's Comments:

I quite enjoy learning about new number systems and conversions. Very informational and a great blog!

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 8/10

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 be rating them on the criteria. For the first honorable mention, I would like to present...

toowise - Capital City Origins ~ Africa Part 1

Since Europe Part 3 of this series was already in the Top 5, this blog cannot be, but it's still great! Very interesting to learn about etymologies in depth. 91/100

ElementalPixel - The Kingdom: A Short Story

A nice story, possibly could have a bit more formatting. 84/100

HeyItsRose18 - Contemplating the Mysteries of the World - Part 10: Television

Invokes a session of deep thought and reflection. 83/100

Blog Rank 1! - BigGeographyGuy: What if the Byzantine Empire Reunited Today?

What if the Byzantine Empire Reunited Today?

BigGeographyGuy

Overall Score: 93/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

Another great blog to make us see how large empires from the past can impact our lives today, and much more.

ChineseChen's Comments:

As always, very good blog. We just learned about the Byzantine Empire in school a few weeks ago. Interesting to see it from a JetPunk perspective!

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 10/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 9/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 8/10

Blog Rank 1! - cuotak: Let's Simplify English

Let's Simplify English

cuotak

Overall Score: 93/100 (-2 point penalty for swearing)

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

A very creative idea, and was pretty creative as well.

ChineseChen's Comments:

Very detailed process to making a somewhat new language. Good use of tables.

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 10/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 9/10

Blog Rank 1! - baptistegorce: Interview of a JetPunker #18 - overtired

Interview of a JetPunker #18 - overtired

baptistegorce

Overall Score: 93/100

Ethaboo's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 8/10

Grammar: 9/10

Appeal: 10/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10

Ethaboo's Comments:

I really enjoyed reading another one of these blogs. Although the formatting could use a little bit more work to make it feel a bit nicer, the interview really makes up for it.

ChineseChen's Comments:

Great interview.

ChineseChen's Criteria Grading:

Formatting: 9/10

Grammar: 8/10

Appeal: 9/10

Content/Information: 10/10

Creativity/Uniqueness: 10/10

Awards

Here are the winners of the 4 weekly awards!

Best Informational - akjlddkjslfsd: Everything You Need to Know about the Sexagesimal Numeral System

Funniest - MiecraftMan: Funny Newspaper Headlines

Best Title - Beckette: How To Roast Your Teacher Part II

Favorite of Judges - cuotak: Let's Simplify English

Blog News!

Time for the first-ever guest judge of Season 2! Please complete the form linked here and in the comments if you want to try and become a guest judge for Week 2! Also, the Season 2 bar chart has begun! It will be updated every week.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this week's Blog Games! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please state in the comments. We hope you enjoyed! Bye!

The Blog Games Season 2

68 Comments

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

wth 4 of you comment in the first minute lol

EDIT: 10 comments in 3 minutes

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

Guest Judge Form btw

Level 58

Nov 26, 2021

And the guest judge for Week 2 is... NiobiumVoid!

Level 70

Nov 23, 2021

FIRST!!!

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

good job.

Level 70

Nov 23, 2021

I've been waiting for this all day (and spying on MiecraftMan/TNT/McKenzieFam's comments)! Definitely lived up to expectations! I like how you and ChineseChen add your personal comments now :D

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

ITS HERE!!!

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

Aaaaaa!!!

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

Woohoo!!!!

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

~~little dig at me at the start~~

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

lol but next time dont listen to tnt to make a blog about it k?

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

~~No promises~~

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

~~i was jokinggggg~~

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

lol

Level 65

Nov 23, 2021

Yeeeeesssss! And 5th and 4th! Thank you so much!

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

Level 65

Nov 23, 2021

I think I tried to hard on formatting on FNH, and I didn’t try enough on TLP.

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

Aha!! BGG and Baptiste in the top!

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

Yay! Great! So many comments!

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

not the best thing in the world.

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

You noticed us in the Blog Games intro didn't you

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

i got 31 notifications so yes.

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

Also, why does cuotak have more points than the other rank 1s?

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

read his description. also before you judge me, it was chinesechen's idea lol

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

If your talking about the points in the bar chart, it's because cuotak also won an award, which is 1 point.

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

Thanks, that's what I was thinking about lol, now I realized.

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

Ok guys calm down I'm trying to set up a new television with my dad and cook dinner for my family while my brother is at taekwondo lol, calm down please

Level 43

Nov 23, 2021

Poetic

Level 76

Nov 23, 2021

You gave -2 for swearing lol.

Thank you for your work in the BG! It’s always great.

Also, in regards to your note at the beginning, this is why I think we should be allowed to set a certain time to release a blog. (Given the new blog update I don’t think we’ll have to worry about spam)

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

I don't care too much about the scheduling idea too much anymore, even though this happened lol. But for the last time, ChineseChen gave -2 points, not me lol

Level 76

Nov 23, 2021

I just think it's funny, I'm not saying it's bad!

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

Me too lol

Level 70

Nov 23, 2021

How does it work if a guest judge has a blog in that week? Will they not be able to grade it? Will it be an honor system? Or will you just leave out the blog/include it in the subsequent Blog Games?

Because whether or not a guest judge intends to be biased towards their own blog, more likely than not, their subconscious is going to be influenced into grading the blog higher than would be normally...

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

Yes, we forgot to mention it, but you will have to sacrifice your blog if you post a blog that week, and therefore it cannot be graded. If this isn't a good idea, I and ChineseChen can figure out a way to possibly include it anyways if so.

Level 43

Nov 23, 2021

But they won’t appear at least at Honorable Mentions (without the guest judge grading it)? I also need to see my agenda for see when I can set my bid. Maybe on Week 4. I still wanna post two blogs and see how they will be out.

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

Or maybe the guest just won't rate that one?

Level 43

Nov 23, 2021

Yeah

Level 43

Nov 23, 2021

YAAAAAAAY! BG IS BACK! I need to post my blogs quickly. Is there an award for the blog that we’re posted in a certain interval of time (during the break of Blog Games)? Congrats to everyone!

*read the note* CHEN, I’M GONNA KILL YOU!

Level 67

Nov 23, 2021

hides

Level 43

Nov 23, 2021

@Pandora49...

Level 77

Nov 23, 2021

What

Level 43

Nov 24, 2021

I mean, the blogs that were posted during the break of Blog Games, can receive some Honorable mentions.

Level 65

Nov 23, 2021

How many points do awards count for? Or is the scoring system different from what was established in episode three?

Level 65

Nov 23, 2021

It appears they are worth 1 points, since Rank 5=1 Pt, Rank 4=2 Pts, but on the graph I have four points total.

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

You got 1 for the Award.

Level 65

Nov 23, 2021

Oh and also toowise has 3.5 points, not just 3.

Level 58

Nov 23, 2021

1st - 5, 2nd - 4, 3rd - 3, 4th - 2, 5th - 1, awards - 1, new bloggers - .5, hrs - .5

Level 77

Nov 23, 2021

What's hrs

Level 66

Nov 23, 2021

Honorable

Level 77

Nov 23, 2021

Oh okay

Level 73

Nov 23, 2021

Yippee! The Blog Games are finally here! I wasn't active in blogging during the last season, so I'll try my best to get in a blog or two.

By the way, what about the blogs from September and October? I'd really like an October blog of mine to be graded.

And also congrats to the winners of this week!

Level 79

Nov 24, 2021

Wow thanks for the 2 mentions. I am truly humbled.

Level 76

Nov 24, 2021

This is simply an idea I just had, so you don’t have to take it, but I think it would be cool to have an additional award for the blog with the most likes (by the end of the week or by Tuesday when BG are posted).

Level 65

Nov 24, 2021

They thought about it last time, but decided it didn’t represent the actual blog (people who forgot to like, people with no account, stuff like that).

Level 62

Nov 24, 2021

Amazing! It's good to have the BG back and running again lol. I can't wait for the second week :)

Level 55

Nov 25, 2021

Thanks for having mentioned my blog!

Level 58

Nov 25, 2021

Your welcome

Level 67

Nov 27, 2021

"Are there any bugs?" "Where?" Uno reverse card haha (inside joke)

Level 58

Nov 27, 2021

...

Level 54

Nov 27, 2021

Congrats to the winners!

Level 67

Nov 30, 2021

Okay here we go! Two hours left! (If I'm incorrect plz someone tell me!)

Level 66

Nov 30, 2021

30 min!

Level 65

Nov 30, 2021

Ten min!

Level 66

Nov 30, 2021

Now!

~~deja vu~~

Level 67

Nov 30, 2021

Four minutes ago!! But not here!! ~~Be like last time~~

Level 67

Nov 30, 2021

I guess with mine and MiecraftMan having our blogs today & yesterday means he, Chen and Void have more ranking to do..

Level 65

Nov 30, 2021

No, our blogs are graded next week. The week ends on Sunday at 9 P.M. Pasta Sauce Time. Therefor, any blog posted on Monday or Tuesday would be counted toward the following week.

Level 67

Dec 1, 2021

Oh right