Blog Awards Challenge

Eligibility

* The Competition is open to everyone with a blog
* Bloggers who wish to compete should be writing in English or Filipino.
* The blogger should have a minimum of five entries in his blog to be eligible
* The Blogger should write an entry in a challenge s/he wishes to compete in
* Entries submitted after the set deadline will not be honored
* The judges and eliminating panel reserve the right to exclude any entry for whatever valid reasons
* Judges and guest judges are disqualified to join the present challenge.
* Ex-judges are qualified to join future competitions

Voting

* To promote peer-to-peer recognition and respect only bona fide bloggers can vote for the competition. Anonymous voters without a valid blog will not be added to the tally of votes.
* Voters must be blogging for at least three (3) months with a minimum of thirty entries in his blog prior to his voting in the competition. This will eliminate phantom voters and reduce incidence of cheating.
* One vote is tallied as 100 points. A voter is allowed to pick three best entries among the finalists.
* The votes are added up and the winner is declared with a Reader’s Choice Award citation.
* The total number of votes (converted into weights) are added to the other weight points as set in the Winner Selection Criteria: (see criteria below)

Competition Rules and Posting Guidelines

01. Once a month a Challenge will be posted for bloggers to write about. Along with the challenge is a deadline covering the date and time for submission and voting. Submissions after the set deadline will no longer be honored and the blogger is encouraged to join the next challenge.

02. Bloggers can write in either Filipino or English in any style s/he wishes to write (humorous, sentimental, romantic, argumentative etc).

03. Blog entries should be having a minimum of 700 words and a maximum of 1,500. (Longer entries will only be considered upon judges discretion, or if it really upholds the caliber of excellence to merit consideration.)

04. Bloggers who wish to compete may leave a message of intent to join the particular challenge and an exact link/URL to the entry in the comment section (please do not use the chatbox to submit you entry link). Entry links will not appear in the comment section until the deadline date to prevent idea theft.

05. After the entry submission is closed a core panel of 5 regular judges will select and nominate the best entries as Finalists for the said challenge.

06. The list of Finalists will be posted in the Blog Awards Challenge website. It will be open for peer voting. Fellow Bloggers can vote for their favorite entries from the list of Finalists by leaving a comment in that particular Challenge’s Comments field. To prevent Pollhost cheating we’d rather count the valid votes manually. Votes should be posted WITHIN the voting period. Votes cast after that period will not be honored.

07. After the voting is concluded the judges will enjoin three (3) guest judges to help determine the challenge winners. The three guest judges will ensure objectivity and bring in fresh/outsider’s perspectives into the winner selection.

08. The identity of the five regular judges will be kept confidential to preserve the integrity of the competition. The identities of the three guest judges will be revealed with brief write ups and link to their blogs alongside the declaration of winners.

09. Each blog challenge will have three major winners and 2 merit winners to be selected from the set of nominated finalists. The distinctions will be recognized as follows:

a. The Blog Challenge Winner (Excellence)
b. The 1st Runner Up (Distinction)
c. The 2nd Runner Up (Achievement)
d. The 2 Finalists (Merit)

Check out the winners' badges.

10. Criteria for selection will be as follows:
a. quality/content - 30%
b. writing style - 25%
c. point of view/insight/logic - 15%
d. grammar skills 10%
e. non-competing blogger votes 20%
f. parameters a-d are exclusively judges discretion; parameter e are blog voters choice

11. Bloggers can join as many challenges as s/he wants. S/he will only be disqualified from the competition if his entry does not conform to the set parameters for eligibility or in the case of him/her already winning the Hall Of Fame distinction.

12. The competition is open to everyone regardless whether s/he was eliminated/not included in past set of finalists or lost in previous challenges.

13. Hall Of Fame Achievement is awarded to the blogger who won five challenges.

14. Bloggers through participation in this competition allows the organizer the right to publish or use the entries in any way they deem fit with full credits and recognition due to its author.

15. Judges decision/s is/are final.