Blapril 2020 Rundown

Well folks, it is that time. The first running of Blapril has closed and all of the posts have been tallied. Before I get into the reason why you are all here, I wanted to talk a little bit about Blapril. This came together on the spur of the moment because of the situation we find ourselves in, and the goal was to give bloggers something to focus on while our own personal lives might be in a state of disarray. I think in some ways it absolutely did just that, because it gave us six weeks of focus. We had slightly lower participation than what would be a normal Blaugust, but of those who participated… we had what felt like significantly more output. During the entire series run of March 29th through May 9th we had 48 total participants and they crafted 1124 blog posts. This works out to be an average of roughly 23 posts per participant. Of course the grading period being extended over the full six week run caused a bit of mudflation in the numbers for those who are the most prolific.

Before we get any further in the process I just want to take a moment to thank all of the participants who joined me in this nonsense. While I have doubts at times about the process, I never once have doubted the absolute wonderfulness of this community that seems to magically appear each year. Lets take a moment to see the full list of everyone who signed up to join in this event.

Participation Award

Regardless of amount of content posted, each and every person who signed up and joined in this process gets to proudly wear the Blapril Particpation badge. It is colored blue, like the color participants are given in the discord. I appreciate each and every one of you for the time you took out of what is I am sure a crazy schedule right now dealing with all of the social changes we have experienced thanks to the pandemic.

Newbie Awards

Newbie Blogger Award

This next group of bloggers get to wear a special badge because they are first timers to the Blaugust/Blapril proceedings. Some of them might be brand new to blogging, and others might be new to trying to create content regularly. Whatever the case they have put themselves out there and this is their first time going through this process. As a result they get a bonus badge that is purple, the color of the group on the discord. Join me in congratulating our new players.

Bronze Awards

Bronze Award

From this point forward we are getting into the total post count based awards and while technically everyone that earns a rainbow award also has qualified for bronze, I am only going to list individuals under their highest achievement. This first group are bloggers who managed to get at least five blog posts during the entire event running from March 29th through May 9th.

Silver Awards

Silver Award

This next batch of bloggers managed to get at least 15 posts during the entire event running from March 29th through May 9th.

Gold Awards

Gold Award

This group of bloggers managed to get at least 25 posts during the entire event running from March 29th through May 9th.

Rainbow Awards

Rainbow Award

This last batch of bloggers managed to get at least 31 posts during the entire event running form March 29th through May 9th. This is potentially our highest number of individuals getting to this rank in a Blaugust/Blapril event, because we managed to get 21 bloggers up to this rank. The highest number of posts came from our dear Bhagpuss with 48, and the closest runner up was at 45 for MagiWasTaken who was a Newbie from last Blaugust. I am exceedingly proud at everyone for their accomplishments.

Final Thoughts

Due to the impromptu nature of Blapril, we had slightly lower participation than the last few years of Blaugust. However I still think we had a pretty fantastic turn out all things considered. There are folks who just didn’t have the cutlery to be able to handle a blogging event right now, and I absolutely get that. We are going through a very scary time, and because of that especially I am thankful to the community we have built here. As always I tabulate all of these results by hand, and am of course fallible. Some blogs are harder to read for the purpose of counting total posts than others, so if you feel I made some mistake in my mathematics, then by all means reach out to me and let me know what the actual count should have been.

August is only a few months away, and I can tell you with all certainty that we will not be doing a full Blaugust this year. However I have been talking with the other mentors and we hope to create some sort of mini-event to take its place. Until then however, just know that I am extremely proud of everyone who steps forward to take on the mantle of this challenge. I am happy to have you all as peers.

13 thoughts on “Blapril 2020 Rundown”

  1. Belated thanks Bel for organising! It’s been fun as always to have so much buzz in the blogging community for a spell 🙂

  2. Thanks again for putting this together! Due to another writing course and real life I couldn’t commit to the gold or rainbow level. But I’m happy to have doubled my earlier Blaugust totals.

  3. Thanks a lot for organising this event again, Bel! It was a pleasure to blog alongside everyone else, especially in our current times! 🙂 Thanks a lot! Looking forward to Blaugust!

  4. Thanks as always for organizing this. It’s such a staple of the calendar now, even if this time we did it in the off-season! It must be a ton of work for you and it’s very much appreciated. I’m a bit stunned to see just how often I posted. I might even take a day off in celebration.

    Congratulations to everyone who participated. There was some really great content this time and some excellent new blogs. Looking forward to whatever it is we get up to in August.

  5. Thank you Bel for once again organising this event and doing so much preparation. It was different this year for obvious reasons but the community has produced some excellent content and we’ve had fun. I hope the Discord channel continues to be active because, as Stargrace said, it’s nice to feel part of something, especially in the current times. And it is a really good community.

  6. Wow, so many! Well done to Bhagpuss and Magi in particular — but an even bigger thank-you and congratulations to everyone who was able to participate with an even bigger thank-you still for Belghast!

    It was a great event Bel, your leadership on these things is extremely appreciated. 🙂

    Now as things slow down a little… time to catch up on all the posts I missed. 🙂

  7. Woohoo! I’m silver baby!!!

    Was fun 🙂 And what a great community to make me feel eager to re-enter the blogging community!

    • Super proud since you effectively started late, created a brand new blog, and still managed to get up there in post count 🙂

  8. Thank you for running events like this. A sense of community is important to me, even when I can’t participate as actively as I’d like, it makes me FEEL a part of something and I need that so badly. Congratulations to everyone.

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