- 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
- Krikket – Nerd Girl Thoughts – 24 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.
- Belghast – Tales of the Aggronaut – 28 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
- 22 out of the 45 participating made at least 25 posts qualifying for Gold
- 20 blogers made at least 31 posts qualifying for Rainbow Diamond