Hey Friends! We did it! We made it through another August and with that another Blaugust. We had a pretty solid turnout this year with forty-five participants making at least one new blog post during the month. During this one month, we introduced the world to nine hundred and eighty-one new blog posts, which seems like a pretty big success to me. More interesting though is that this seems to have rekindled the fires in a few latent bloggers that I am happy to see back in the fold. Ultimately that is the part of Blaugust that gets lost in the mix, that it is a festival of blogging and that maybe just maybe it will prove to people that they can post on a schedule… then figure out whatever schedule actually works for them. While Nait somewhat disagrees with me about it, I personally do think that setting a schedule helped me to keep this blog active over the years.
However, you are likely not here this morning to listen to me wax on about blogging to a schedule but are instead here for the unveiling of the awards. As always I give the disclaimer that I am sometimes bad at math, and if I somehow missed a post here or there, let me know and I will correct the record. First let’s take a moment to review the definition of each award.
- Newbie Blogger Award – You did it! You created a new blog and we are extremely happy to welcome you into this raucous community. As a result we are going to recognize your efforts just for signing up.
- Bronze Award – You made at least 5 posts during the Month of August 2021.
- Silver Award – You made at least 15 posts during the Month of August 2021.
- Gold Award – You made at least 25 posts during the Month of August 2021.
- Rainbow Diamond Award – You did it, you posted 31 or more posts during the month of August 2021.
Newbie Class of 2021
This year we had four folks start the challenge as newbies, but two of them didn’t leave the starting gate. However, the two newbies that did manage to complete the challenge, did so at a rainbow level which is pretty freaking spectacular.
- Blockade85 – A Page Where My Brain Leaks Onto – 31 posts
- Thyanel – Thyanel Plays – 31 posts
Bronze Club 2021
This year we had nine bloggers that got started on the challenge and made at least five blog posts during the month. Often times we set ourselves to a goal but fall short, however, if you think about it this way that is an average of one post a week!
- Easha and Poppy – Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming – 5 posts
- Mailvaltar – Mailvaltar – MMOs and other stuff – 6 posts
- Rakuno – Shards of Imagination – 6 posts
- Knifesedge Games – Knifesedge Blogs – 9 posts
- Rowan – I Have Touched the Sky – 9 posts
- Solarayo – Ace Asunder – 10 posts
- Telwyn – Gaming SF – 12 posts
- Jaedia – Dragons and Whimsy – 13 posts
- UnwiseOwl – Leaflocker – 14 posts
Silver Club 2021
This year we had seven bloggers that made at least fifteen posts during the month of August. One of these is a little different given that it is scattered between three sites, but the count is tabulated for them combined.
- Nogamara – Battle Stance – 16 posts
- Wolfyseyes – Through Wolfys Eyes – 16 posts
- MMOJuggler – MMOJuggler – 18 posts
- Rambling Redshirt – Beyond Tannhauser Gate – 18 posts
- Mike Azariah – A Missioneer in Eve – 20 posts
- Shintar – 20 posts
Gold Club 2021
This year we had two bloggers, myself included… that got really close to thirty-one posts but didn’t quite make it across the finish line. However, they did have at least twenty-five posts qualifying them for the gold award. [Edit] – A miss count happened and as such Krikket is bumping up to gold.
- Belghast – Tales of the Aggronaut – 28 posts
- Krikket – Nerd Girl Thoughts – 24 posts
- Syp – Bio Break – 29 posts
Rainbow Diamond Club 2021
We had a phenomenal twenty bloggers finish the month with at least thirty-one posts. We had several overachievers in the group with probably the most staggering being Aywren who came in at forty nine posts.
- Blockade85 – A Page Where My Brain Leaks Onto – 31 posts
- Chestnut – Gamer Girl Confessions – 31 posts
- Jen – Book of Jen – 31 posts
- Magi – Indiecator – 31 posts
- Roger Edwards – Contains Moderate Peril – 31 posts
- SDWeasel – Unidentified Signal Source – 31 posts
- Shadowz – Shadowz Abstract Gaming – 31 posts
- Stargrace – Nomadic Gamers Eh – 31 posts
- Stingite / Tom – The Friendly Necromancer – 31 posts
- Thyanel – Thyanel Plays – 31 posts
- WelshFox – Whats Occuring – 31 posts
- Wilhelm – The Ancient Gaming Noob – 31 posts
- Naithin – Time to Loot – 32 posts
- Nimgimli – Dragonchasers – 32 posts
- Tipa – Chasing Dings! – 32 posts
- UltrViolet – Endgame Viable – 32 posts
- Bhagpuss – Inventory Full – 33 posts
- Kaylriene – Kaylriene – 35 posts
- Endalia – Narratess – 37 posts
- Aywren Sojourner – Spot of Mummery – 49 posts
Honorable Mentions
We had a number of bloggers who for one reason or another didn’t make those five posts in order to qualify for bronze, but I feel like it is important to give them some recognition for putting themselves out there in the first place.
- Zapp – Leeterati – 1 posts
- Alli – The Parent Trope – 3 posts
- everwake – Everwakes Adventures – 3 posts
- Kluwes – Many Welps – 3 posts
- Ashgar – Ashs Adventures – 4 posts
Final Thoughts
One of the things I have done in past years is to post some statistics, so let’s begin this section by mirroring the items tracked during 2019, which was effectively the last “normal” Blaugust. In 2020 we had Blapril instead and a much shorter and more low-key Blagust.
- 981 posts were made by Blaugust 2021 Participants
- 45 Individuals Participated in the event and made at least one post
- 2 Newbie Bloggers Participated and both made 31 posts
- 40 out of the 45 participating made at least 5 posts qualifying for Bronze
- 31 out of the 45 participating made at elast 15 posts qualifying for Silver
- 23 out of the 45 participating made at least 25 posts qualifying for Gold
- 20 blogers made at least 31 posts qualifying for Rainbow Diamond
It is a smaller year than some of those in the past, but it is also a year where the community is recovering from the state of the world right now. I talked about it yesterday, but we no longer have Stropp and Psychochild with us and both participated in Blagusts past. I am extremely proud of those who participated or even thought about participating. It takes a lot to put yourselves out there, and I am hoping as we keep this institution rolling that it will gain traction with entirely new audiences. My wife runs her own Blaugust mirrored after ours, and it did not happen this year because it was just too much stress on their community. So the fact that we managed to make it happen and be extremely successful is a testament to you all.
As always if I have made some errors in my calculations, please get with me and I will sort it out. Additionally, if you want the full-sized version of the awards to use on your blog, you can find them on the Blaugust Media Kit page. Thanks so much for participating, and I will as always see you for Blaugust 2022.
