September 2019 - Page 7 of 7 - Tales of the Aggronaut

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

These are individuals who made at least 5 posts during the month of August 2019.

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

These are individuals who made at least 15 posts during the month of August 2019

22 posts – Sandrian – Aeternus Gaming – Participant
18 posts – UnwiseOwl – Leaflocker – Participant
16 posts – komorebi – MMOJuggler – Participant
16 posts – Shintar – Participant
- Going Commando – A SWTOR Fan Blog
- Priest with a Cause
- Neverwinter Thoughts
15 posts – Mailvaltar – Mailvaltar – MMOs and other stuff – Participant
15 posts – Rakuno – Shards of Imagination – Participant

Gold Award

These are individuals who made at least 25 posts during the month of August 2019

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

These are individuals who made at least 31 posts during the month of August 2019

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

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.

Blaugust 2019 Wrap up