My time at the Aniblog Tour­ney was deci­sively ended (23/77 ouch); well, I had known I stood no chance against the mega­lo­cor­po­ra­tion led by the pointy-haired trap Impz over at THAT Anime Blog, but they deserve the win fully and even I was tempted to vote for them xD. Nev­er­the­less, I was pleas­antly sur­prised I made it all the way to round 4 given my noob sta­tus. A big thank you to every­one who voted for me \o/. But instead of giv­ing any lec­tures today, I need to ram­ble… Read the rest of this entry »

I was hardly the biggest fan when the Aniblog Tour­ney started. Suc­ces­sor to OEG? Those elit­ist chan­ners. Pop­u­lar­ity con­test? There are eas­ier and far more reli­able ways to do this than E-PEEN stroking (what would one call the girls’ ver­sion?), like com­pil­ing indi­vid­ual blog’s pageviews, read­er­ship (feeds), com­ment den­sity, etc. The fact I got rolled into it made me par­tic­u­larly uncom­fort­able: this was sim­ply not the type of com­pe­ti­tion I enjoyed, espe­cially if I have to face off against a friend on the first round.

But now that the tour­ney is on the road, I feel like the efforts of Scamp, meflo­raine, and RP are actu­ally com­ing off as very worth­while. The haters have entrenched them­selves far too deep in their own opin­ions to real­ize some­thing: the Aniblog Tour­ney is doing what the OEG should have done — pro­vid­ing spec­i­fied crit­i­cism that comes with con­struc­tive val­ues. The gems… lay within the comments.

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