The first round begins tomorrow so before we begin I’d like to make it as clear as possible how to vote in this Tourney. Each match up will look like this.
Blog A vs Blog B
So you do a quick read of the two blogs competing, vote in the poll and that’s it. Each poll stays open for a week. For the first round there will be two match-ups per day. There will also be a link to those blogs competing tomorrow, a link to the poll from 6 days ago that’s closing tomorrow, in case you forgot to vote, and the poll results to last weeks match up. So it will look something like this.
Polls closing tomorrow: Blog X vs Blog Y
Closed Polls:
(The poll will be the one from a week ago and should be closed so all you will be able to see is the results of the poll)
The reason we have two match-ups is we didn’t want the Tourney to drag out too long. If every day only had one match-up it would have lasted well over 3 months. The reason we kept it down to two is because if you were bombarded with so many links in one day readers would have been put off and not actually read the blogs in question. If you do not want your blog in this Tourney then either leave a comment or e-mail me at 5camp at live dot ie and your blog will be replaced by another one. If you have any questions please ask.
Tomorrow: Loli Salad vs Calamitous Intentand The Cart Driver vs Sekijitsu
I have a question.
Do you have schedule showing which when each blog pairs will be up for voting? I just want to know when mine will be up. Thanks
Probably would be a good idea for advance weekly schedules to be prepared, so that blog owners will know when to have their campaign posts ready and encourage readers to vote.
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I was wondering if you had tried putting your bracket onto http://www.bracketmaker.com/ or anything. It’s kind of a crude bracket manager, but you can update in HTML the bracket, as well as post when the matchups will take place, etc.
Heck, I could go in and throw one together for you if you’d like
I went ahead and made one, if for no other reason than to see what it’d look like:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=360785
It would be useful to include some additional demographic (sex, age, country, etc.) and, possibly, anime preference questions to assess the electorate.
I don’t think it would be good to sway the votes based on things like gender or country.
K is totally superior to J.
I’m surprised A and B isn’t a closer match.
It would be cool if we could build a bio of the participants I think. I’ll ask.
I am not sure what you mean by swaying the votes. Such an information would describe your sample to some extent and provide you a better picture.
Perhaps, I was not very clear… Electorate are people who are voting, not people who are candidates…
You’re right, I didn’t understand properly.
I think a brief description of the blog would help serve the advertising function of the tournament. More people will be tempted to go to the sites if they get a little teaser about each one, and even if they don’t visit the site, they’ll still come away with some knowledge about it.
Could Blog A or Blog B ever hope to be Random C?
That was the original plan but trying to write 96 blurbs while keeping all hints of bias out of them? Not possible. No, the aniblog tourney will stay nuetral at any cost
Hey, can you please remove my blog, animealmanac.com, from the tourney? Thanks!
Right, will do
If someone has the time, you might consider putting a dataset of all these 96 candidates together with some variables that might predict outcome. Age of a blog might be one of them, along with some others such as number of feed subscribers, post frequency, traffic statistics, etc. Quantcast seem to be relative good at estimating traffic. This way you could use first two rounds to fit a model to see what factors contribute the most. Then you can try to see if you can predict future rounds based on the available data.