
The Blog Games Season 2: Week 9
First published: Wednesday February 2nd, 2022
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The Blog Games Season 2: Week 9!
Week of January 24th - 30th, 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 eight (8) days before the week's release and ends two (2) days before.
Blog Rank 5! - Every Pixar Movie - Ranked
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Ethaboo's Comments:
Controversial but ok. :)
ChineseChen's Comments:
I agree with most of these.
Blog Rank 4! - toowise: Some More of the Smaller British Isles
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Ethaboo's Comments:
interesting indeed.
ChineseChen's Comments:
Interesting.
Blog Rank 3! - cathlete: Most Liked Blogs (October - January)
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Ethaboo's Comments:
rip bg didn't make it lol if only it was still 10 likes and above
ChineseChen's Comments:
Great information! Only thing is that the table could use a bit of formatting by using
<table class="standard-table">
Blog Rank 2! - Aficionado: What if the Continents had their Own Flags?
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Ethaboo's Comments:
Sequel nice :)
ChineseChen's Comments:
Great flags! I like the explanation of their components too
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...
akjlddkjslfsd - Card Game 101 #7: Euchre
Definitely not chosen because I suggested it (promise), but it is a good blog about how Euchre is played. This got a 91/100
BigGeographyGuy - What if Gran Colombia Reunited Today?
Oh no everybody! BGG is an HR again. Still an amazing score which is the same as the Euchre blog, 91/100.
JamesVI - A Brief History of the Throne of England
A great first blog, and very descriptive! This earned a large 90.5/100
Blog Rank 1! - Einstein100102: Chinese New Year Explained/解释春节
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Ethaboo's Comments:
poor kitty cat
ChineseChen's Comments:
Great formatting! The audio is a nice feature that helps with understanding the blog better.
Awards
Here are the winners of the 3 weekly awards!
Best Informational - JamesVI - A Brief History of the Throne of England
Best Title - moonshot: Defining The United States's Enormity
Favorite of Judges - Einstein100102: Chinese New Year Explained/解释春节
Welcome New Bloggers
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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!
And where's my award? Give me the funniest one at least!
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Not all your efforts would be put on full display, because if that's to be the case I'd argue that a lot of other blogs deserve a feature too. And of course, earning one featured blog doesn't guarantee you anything.
I really hope you're not being serious now with that comment.
Sarcasm is also harder to detect on text anyway so not recommended unless it's made mega clear ¯\__(ツ)__/¯
What is that overly used thing? What have I overly used!? And one whole point for creativity? Ah.. I see you don't call self-made flags creative or maybe you didn't like my designs, right?
Why should I even write blogs at all if the real efforts aren't recognised huh? Why am I doing this? I think I should give up blogging. And to Bread, obviously that is correct. There are a lot of blogs which seem to have taken a lot of efforts and should've been featured but I was not talking about featuring. I knew it wasn't going to be featured because it could lead up to controversies or whatever.
I am now very much sure I will not be going to release any new blogs now. My efforts go to waste. Why should I waste my time writing all that stuff up? I am wasting my time writing this comment too, so goodbye.
Also, as Nio said, your goal wasn't right. If this was your definition of "waste", then I guess I've (so have many others) wasted a little too much time.
I'm aware that people, including me, naturally hope that their creation does well. But, you really shouldn't be mad if it doesn't (not like second is any bad to begin with).
Here's a quote from yourself. You should be happy with what you got.
I really think that you shouldn't get super mad over your scores. Yes, some grades have been "incorrect" before - I've had grades in the past that I thought weren't right, but I rolled with it.
Should you stop blogging after getting second place? No. As someone who has gotten 2nd, 3rd and 5th places, I'm proud of those. Because, I could have gotten worse scores but I didn't. Sometimes you have to be happy with what you have, because you can't always get what you want.
It's a very dangerous and petty outlook to have, because expecting success means you'll get resentful and aggressive later on when realising it did not meet your unrealistic criteria for "success".
In fact, from our perspective, the more people expect features and demand them, the less willing we are to give them. In fact, there have been many people which got one lucky feature early on with quizzes, and then proceeded to email QM with every quiz they made. Eventually they got officially blacklisted by QM and their quizzes unfeatured, because QM didn't want to deal with the constant drama they spawned.
Moral of the story? Create for yourself not for the expectation of others.
What I did was a very childish thing to do. I am stubborn and DO expect a lot for things that I have done. I've realised not to keep expectations with strangers living in continents seven seas apart whom I just know from a username. Not just strangers, I shouldn't have expectations even with the people I know. It hurts quite a lot when those expectations are broken. I am sorry and thankful at the same time.
Thank you everyone for those motivational posts!
I am not trying to point any hate at Aficionado for his comment, just that I would just like to make a point about all of this.
me creating non-existent words.... Sorry for thatAnd welcome back AFC!
Congrats to the winners, but I wanna know which is my grade for this week.
Aficionado stop being wroth. At least you was featured this week lolyes Ethaboo and Thread, start another chainyes ethaboo, thread and miecraftman, don’t start another chainor I'll make your stewartbanningmephobia even worsewe were warned. being banned is between my biggest fears of lifeokdone