International Blog Cup International Blog Cup International Blog Cup is a version of sports tournament for Bloggers. It is based on knock-out tournament format which means the blog with the most continuous support wins the monthly cup title.
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zParacha Wins 5th IBC
2008-03-01 15:20:00 Congratulations to zParacha for winning the 5th International Blog Cup! I would like to thank all participants of the 5th IBC. It was the first IBC competition that contained 64 instead of 32 blogs. This also caused some bugs, that were eliminated with your help. Don’t forget to nominate your favourite blogs for the future competitions! You ... More About: Wins
2nd Round of 5th IBC
2008-02-09 09:27:00 First round of the 5th International Blog Cup is over and there are 32 blogs in the 2nd round this month. There were no significant changes apart of the double number of blogs competing this month. The second round voting will be open for five days so there is still plenty of time to get ... More About: Round
Blog Lirik Lagu Wins 4th IBC
2008-01-30 10:22:00 Although we had a lot of troubles maintaining security of the voting process, we got a new winner of International Blog Cup. Congratulations to Blog Lirik Lagu who won the IBC competition this month. You might already noticed that we introduced another security check before anyone can vote, by requesting to enter the code and protect ... More About: Wins
Upcoming International Blog Cup
2008-01-13 11:32:00 4th International Blog Cup is well under way, but we are already preparing everything for the 5th International Blog Cup. As you might have noticed, we have a large number of nominees this time. There will probably be 64 instead of 32 blog in the competition next month, so it should be very interesting. Since we ... More About: Upcoming
Tough Competition in 4th IBC
2008-01-03 13:15:00 We are only two full days into 4th International Blog Cup competition and it is starting to get very exciting already. We have some very tough pairings in the first round like CarloCab.com vs. DaneMorgan.com. Here is a top 5 list by number of current votes (which does not mean much in a knock-out based competition, ... More About: Competition , Tough
All the Best in 2008
2007-12-31 10:46:00 First of all I would like to congratulate this month’s winner “Music For All Of Us” for winning the 3rd International Blog Cup. We had a fairly low number of voters in this round, especially in the final rounds of the competition. The most interesting duel happened in the 2nd round between “Music For All ... More About: 2008
Final Day for Voting in 3rd IBC
2007-12-27 21:04:00 It has been almost a month since my last post. This month’s International Blog Cup went by somehow quietly. In the finals we have two music blogs that don’t seem to attract too many voters. But there is still a few hours left to cast your vote. We crossed a magic line of 10 USD collected ... More About: Final , Voting
3rd International Blog Cup
2007-12-03 11:44:00 3rd IBC just started on 1st of December. According to number of votes in the first two days almost all participants took the competition very seriously in contrast to the 1st IBC. You can vote for your favourite blogs here. Also the 2nd IBC was a big success with number of visitors increasing by 50% in ... More About: International , Blog
Pointless Banter Attacks On The Last Day
2007-11-28 09:53:00 Congratulations to Pointless Banter for winning the 2nd International Blog Cup! It was won on the last day of voting when it all looked set for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Soda’s win. We could also say the cup was won in the last few hours of the day (see bandwidth chart below). Kevin showed once ... More About: Attacks , The Last , Atta
Final Two Blogs Left
2007-11-22 14:16:00 We arrived to the Final of the 2nd International Blog Cup with only two blogs remaining. Ades Blog, a big favourite (at least for myself) until the Semi-Finals, was outvoted by Pointless Banter who enjoyed constant support from myspace.com based fans. This way we have two “icanhascheezburger” type of blogs in the Final. You can expect ... More About: Blogs , Left
Semi-finals of 2nd IBC
2007-11-16 11:08:00 We had a very exciting quarter-finals during the last week. One of the most interesting voting battles was the one including Ades Blog and Reverse Turkey where Ades managed to get a win after Reverse Turkey was already leading during the last days of voting. You can read more in the following post on Ades ... More About: Finals , Semi
Quarter finals of the 2nd IBC
2007-11-11 12:28:00 We have 8 quarter finalists in the 3rd round of the 2nd International Blog Cup. The second round turned out to be very interesting with almost half of results being tied (see the results here). This just points out that it is important to nominate your blog as soon as possible for a new competition. So ... More About: Finals , Quarter
Improved Proxy Detection for IBC
2007-11-08 19:52:00 We are glad to inform you that iBlogCup.com is now using XIP proxy detection system for automatic blocking of proxy server voting. Thanks to guys at DEVELOPERA.COM! This way we will not need to disqualify people by hand anymore. There was also a problem of deliberately voting through proxies for your opponent, just to get him/her ... More About: Detection , Proxy , Improv , Prove
2nd Round of 2nd IBC
2007-11-06 09:38:00 After an interesting initial round of voting, we entered a 2nd round of 2nd International Blog Cup. As it looks like, we will see a tough battle between Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heats Club Soda and The Green Fingered Photographer, that both made a good promotion of their participation in IBC. Another blog with a lot ... More About: Round
First Disqualifications
2007-11-04 18:21:00 As I already mentioned in the FAQ section of iBlogCup.com, voting through proxies will not be tolerated at IBC. It is not acceptable that someone gets over 15 votes in a matter of minutes through open proxy servers, and not even mentioning his/her involvement in the IBC competition on the blog. Therefore we were forced to ...
2nd International Blog Cup
2007-11-02 20:58:00 After successfully completing the 1st International Blog Cup (IBC), the 2nd IBC just started and is ready after a few minor problems that were solved today. I apologise to all of the people who couldn’t vote yesterday. Everything works now and the voting can start. This month we have a lot of private blogs competing in ...
We have a winner of 1st IBC
2007-10-28 13:56:00 First of all I have to apologise that there were no posts lately - especially because it was the final week of the competition. I didn’t and still won’t have a decent Internet connection for the following week, but as it looks like IBC can run on “auto-pilot” very well :) Congratulations to the 1st winner ... More About: Winner
Changes at iBlogCup.com
2007-10-19 23:27:00 We have done some development on iBlogCup.com page lately. First of all - the voting system was corrected so that it is not possible to accidentally link visitors to directly vote for some blog. Another change was that we no longer accept E-Cards Blog Cup nominations as there was very little interest in this tematic Blog Cup nominations. Therefore we moved already nominated blogs to general IBC nominations and will be competing in the 2nd and 3rd IBC (November and December 2007). As it all looks like we will hold our first thematic Blog Cup in December, because there is not enough entrants to hold the SEO/Marketing bloggers competition already in November. You might have already noticed that it is already possible to see the entrants of the 2nd IBC at http://iBlogCup.com/blogCup2/main.php. Semi-finals of the 1st IBC are still not over. It seems it will be very tight between Peterandrej and Read/WriteBlog. So don’t forget to vote for your favourites. Share This More About: Chang , Chan
Semi-Finals of IBC
2007-10-16 21:46:00 After 15 days of voting we reached semi-final pairs at International Blog Cup. The remaining blogs are: Boing Boing vs. TMZ.com Peterandrej vs. ReadWriteWeb Don’t forget to vote and nominate your blogs for the 2nd International Blog Cup that starts in November! Share This More About: Finals , Semi
Another Surprise
2007-10-15 21:02:00 It all looked set for ProBlogger to win the 1st International Blog Cup competition, but as it looks like this will not happen. It looks like we will have to wait at least until the 2nd IBC to see ProBlogger winning the competition as Darren from ProBlogger decided to withdraw his blog from IBC. You ...
Nice Surprise
2007-10-14 12:07:00 It has been a long night for me as I got married yesterday, but it was really nice to see a recent visitor explosion to iBlogCup.com this morning. As you might have seen - ProBlogger is sending a huge amount of new iBlogCup fans our way and I would like to thank him and of ... More About: Nice
International Blog Cup - Quarter Finals Report
2007-10-10 11:43:00 After another short round of voting we have the new winners that managed to fight it through to the Quarter Finals of International Blog Cup. As you can see below it was interesting round again with slightly more votes than in the first round. We had only one case where earlier nominated blog advanced, although ... More About: Report
Only 16 Blogs Left
2007-10-05 12:02:00 After some minor troubles just after midnight, 1st International Blog Cup is running smoothly again. We are already in the second round and there are only 16 top blogs left. Unfortunately there were 3 situations where both blogs had the same number of votes and the highest seeded blog advanced to the second round. This ... More About: Blogs , Left
After first day of voting
2007-10-02 20:12:00 The 1st International Blog Cup finally started yesterday and you were able to cast your votes. After a few minor troubles in the first hour of voting everything seems to work ok for now. But since we cannot speak about enormous traffic :), we should wait and see how the system performs under some heavier ... More About: Voting
After first day of voting
2007-10-02 20:12:00 The 1st International Blog Cup finally started yesterday and you were able to cast your votes. After a few minor troubles in the first hour of voting everything seems to work ok for now. But since we cannot speak about enormous traffic :), we should wait and see how the system performs under some heavier ... More About: Voting
Warming up the fans
2007-09-30 20:59:00 It has been a week since all the participants in the 1st International Blog Cup have been informed that their blog will be competing in the 1st ever Blog Cup competition. There are only a few of them that have acctually published this information on their blogs. But as we are speaking about 32 Top ... More About: Fans , Armin
Warming up the fans
2007-09-30 20:59:00 It has been a week since all the participants in the 1st International Blog Cup have been informed that their blog will be competing in the 1st ever Blog Cup competition. There are only a few of them that have acctually published this information on their blogs. But as we are speaking about 32 Top ... More About: Fans , Armin
Blog Cup Format Explained
2007-09-28 17:31:00 In response to some questions from our visitors we would like to explain the format of International Blog Cup competition in details. At the moment you can only see the dates of opening and closing for the 1st round of voting at the voting page. A scheme (see below) showing the dates of all rounds ... More About: Format , Laine
Blog Cup Format Explained
2007-09-28 17:31:00 In response to some questions from our visitors we would like to explain the format of International Blog Cup competition in details. At the moment you can only see the dates of opening and closing for the 1st round of voting at the voting page. A scheme (see below) showing the dates of all rounds ... More About: Format , Laine
Blog Cup trophies just arrived
More articles from this author:2007-09-26 20:30:00 We are glad to announce the arrival of our Virtual Blog Cup Trophies for the first and second placed blog in each of our Blog Cup Competitions. You can see them at iblogcup.com or in the picture below. Only 5 days left to the beginning of the 1st International Blog Cup! Share This 1, 2 |
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