As of Sunday September 1st the running of the 2019 edition of Blaugust was finished. Yesterday I spent some time going through all of the blogs that had participated and tabulated the number of posts. Bonus points for Nait for helping me find a few posts that were not clearly visible on the front page of a few of the participating blogs. By final tally here are some of the statistics for 2019.
- 1305 posts were made by Blagust 2019 Participants
- 66 Individuals Participated
- 11 Newbie Bloggers Participated
- 55 out of 66 made at least 5 posts qualifying for Bronze
- 36 made at least 15 posts qualifying for Silver
- 31 made at least 25 posts qualifying for Gold
- 27 made 31 or more posts during the month of August qualifying for Rainbow
We had one outlier this month and I went back an forth about it, but Data_Error embarked upon a project of making a post for every Pokemon and as a result wound up with a nonsense 83 posts during the month of August. Wilhelm and Bhagpuss both came in with over 40 posts with 49 and 42 respectively, making me think I need an entirely new award for over 40. I was however super impressed with the fact that Three of our newbies made 31 posts or more and one Newbie got the 25 or higher needed for Gold.
Without further ado, lets dig into the awards.
Bronze Award
- 12 posts – Telwyn – Gaming SF – Participant
- 11 posts – Angie – Backlog Crusader – Mentor
- 11 posts – Quin – Where The Monsters Are – Newbie
- 11 posts – Rohiaux – All the Ampersands – Participant
- 11 posts – SunnyBunny – Can I Play Too – Participant
- 11 posts – Tea – Cooler on the internet – Newbie
- 8 posts – AvvaN – TechJoy2Day – Participant
- 8 posts – Braxwolf – Gaming Conversations – Mentor
- 8 posts – Kronick – Watching Snow Fall – Newbie
- 8 posts – WordWitch – Wordy Introvert – Participant
- 7 posts – John DeWeese – Leeterati – Participant
- 6 posts – Kabalyero – Kabalyero – Participant
- 6 posts – KnifesedgeGames – Knifesedge Blogs – Participant
- 6 posts – Krista – LeeksEverywhere – Participant
- 6 posts – Neri – Neri Approves – Participant
- 6 posts – neschria – The MMOist – Participant
- 5 posts – rumorsmatrix – Blog of the Idle – Participant
Silver Award
- 22 posts – Sandrian – Aeternus Gaming – Participant
- 18 posts – UnwiseOwl – Leaflocker – Participant
- 16 posts – komorebi – MMOJuggler – Participant
- 16 posts – Shintar – Participant
- 15 posts – Mailvaltar – Mailvaltar – MMOs and other stuff – Participant
- 15 posts – Rakuno – Shards of Imagination – Participant
Gold Award
- 30 posts – TheRoyalFamily – Dating Sims on the Holodeck – Newbie
- 29 posts – SDWeasel – Unidentified Signal Source – Participant
- 26 posts – Belghast – Tales of the Aggronaut – Mentor
Rainbow Award
- 83 posts – Data_Error – Dextraneous – Participant
- 49 posts – Wilhelm Arcturus – The Ancient Gaming Noob – Mentor
- 42 posts – Bhagpuss – Inventory Full – Mentor
- 33 posts – Paeroka – Nerdy Bookahs – Mentor
- 33 posts – Syp – Bio Break – Mentor
- 32 posts – Jen – Book of Jen – Participant
- 32 posts – Kaylriene – Kaylriene – Newbie
- 31 posts – Aywren – Aywren Sojourner – Mentor
- 31 posts – Chestnut – Gamer Girl Confessions – Mentor
- 31 posts – Dan/Magimos/Magi – Indiecator – Newbie
- 31 posts – Discgrace – Daily Creative Thing – Participant
- 31 posts – Dragonray – Azerothian Life – Participant
- 31 posts – everwake – Everwakes Internet Journey – Newbie
- 31 posts – Izlain – Me vs. Myself and I – Mentor
- 31 posts – Kim and Phil – Later Levels – Participant
- 31 posts – Kluwes – Im Not Squishy – Participant
- 31 posts – Krikket – Nerd Girl Thoughts – Participant
- 31 posts – Mike Azariah – A Missioneer in Eve – Participant
- 31 posts – Naithin – Time to Loot – Participant
- 31 posts – Psychochild – Psychochilds Blog – Mentor
- 31 posts – Rambling Redshirt – Beyond Tannhauser Gate – Participant
- 31 posts – Roger Edwards – Contains Moderate Peril – Mentor
- 31 posts – Shadowz – Shadowz Abstract Gaming – Participant
- 31 posts – Stargrace – NomadicGamersEh – Mentor
- 31 posts – Stingite – The Friendly Necromancer – Participant
- 31 posts – Stroeb – Galumphing – Participant
- 31 posts – UltrViolet – Endgame Viable – Participant
- 31 posts – WelshFox – Whats Occurin? – Participant
Honorable Mentions
These folks signed up and in a few case built brand new blogs, but didn’t quite make it to at least five posts. However I applaud anyone for signing up and making an effort.
- 4 posts – Alli – The Parent Trope – Participant
- 4 posts – Beau – Home of Beau Hindman – Participant
- 4 posts – Detached – A Hobbits Journey – Mentor
- 3 posts – Ammo – Ammos Rambles – Participant
- 3 posts – Easha – Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming – Newbie
- 3 posts – RandomGamerX – RandomX – Participant
- 2 posts – ezBreezy – Play Casually – Newbie
- 2 posts – sqwarlock – A Technical Rejoinder – Participant
- 1 posts – Ashgar – Ashs Adventures – Participant
- 1 posts – Lorelei – I Care a Lot – Participant
- 1 posts – Serum7six – Enjoying Overload – Newbie
- 0 posts – Sita Dulip – Synthetic Dulips – Newbie
I’ve always updated the media kit to include links to the various new award images. At some point I will dig through the backlogs of Blaugust and upload all of the previous awards there also. I think it was a really great year. We had a little less attendance than last year, but we also had a significant chunk of our participants make it to Rainbow. More important than anything is that it infused new life into the community with us branching out and reaching several folks who were brand new to Blaugust.
I want to take an extra moment to thank all of the Mentors who have watched the Discord and answered so many questions over the past two months. They also added support in so many other ways behind the scenes.
2019 Mentors
- A Hobbits Journey
- Aywren Sojourner
- Backlog Crusader
- Bio Break
- Contains Moderate Peril
- Gamer Girl Confessions
- Gaming Conversations
- Inventory Full
- Me vs. Myself and I
- Nerdy Bookahs
- NomadicGamersEh
- Psychochilds Blog
- Tales of the Aggronaut
- The Ancient Gaming Noob
Here is hoping that we have a great year of blogging and that I will see you all next year for another Blaugust. During the months between please stay active in the Discord so we can hang out and continue the Blaugust magic for the entire year to come.
’83’ feels like kind of an unfair number since every one of those was doubled up in a post covering 2-6 topics. 😅
It’s lovely to see so many participants and so many qualifying – plus a crazy amount of people hitting the post-a-day mark. The medium is very alive and very well – tons of talented and hard-working writers on display! Cheers all round!
This was an incredible experience! Thank you so much to everyone for their help, and visiting my blog. It was so very refreshing having someone actually read what I write. It can get a little lonely out there, but you are all awesome.
Wow… Have we ever had that many participants with 31+ posts? In my case, I know that being in “home office” helped a lot when writing more blog posts than usual. :p
I had fun blogging more again and getting in touch with the blogging community again, so it was definitely worth it!
Thanks again for hosting this Belghast, I’ve been looking forward to the event since I made a return to blogging earlier in the year and it did not disappoint. Hah.
And well done to everyone who participated, regardless of number of posts made! Especially all the new starters! 😀
Getting started in the flurry of Blaugust activity is awesome, but the important part now? Keeping it going! It’ll be those that can do that that’ll prove the most successful now. 🙂
Side note: So many with 31+ posts! That’s awesome!! 😀
Thank you very much to all participants.
As blogging newbies we certainly did appreciate the help with tricky blog building, CSS-magic and the load of experience which was shared with us. And it was not only about the blogging, but about being a community as well. For us it has been a month of learning together, gaming together and writing together.
Thank you for the journey and until next year.
Princess Poppy and Easha Dustfeather
Congratulations everyone! It was another fabulous year and it’s so neat to see all of the participants. <3 Can’t wait for next August!