As of Sunday September 1st the running of the 2019 edition of Blaugust was finished. Yesterday I spent some time going through all of the blogs that had participated and tabulated the number of posts. Bonus points for Nait for helping me find a few posts that were not clearly visible on the front page of a few of the participating blogs. By final tally here are some of the statistics for 2019.
1305 posts were made by Blagust 2019 Participants
66 Individuals Participated
11 Newbie Bloggers Participated
55 out of 66 made at least 5 posts qualifying for Bronze
36 made at least 15 posts qualifying for Silver
31 made at least 25 posts qualifying for Gold
27 made 31 or more posts during the month of August qualifying for Rainbow
We had one outlier this month and I went back an forth about it, but Data_Error embarked upon a project of making a post for every Pokemon and as a result wound up with a nonsense 83 posts during the month of August. Wilhelm and Bhagpuss both came in with over 40 posts with 49 and 42 respectively, making me think I need an entirely new award for over 40. I was however super impressed with the fact that Three of our newbies made 31 posts or more and one Newbie got the 25 or higher needed for Gold.
Without further ado, lets dig into the awards.
These folks signed up and in a few case built brand new blogs, but didn’t quite make it to at least five posts. However I applaud anyone for signing up and making an effort.
I’ve always updated the media kit to include links to the various new award images. At some point I will dig through the backlogs of Blaugust and upload all of the previous awards there also. I think it was a really great year. We had a little less attendance than last year, but we also had a significant chunk of our participants make it to Rainbow. More important than anything is that it infused new life into the community with us branching out and reaching several folks who were brand new to Blaugust.
I want to take an extra moment to thank all of the Mentors who have watched the Discord and answered so many questions over the past two months. They also added support in so many other ways behind the scenes.
Here is hoping that we have a great year of blogging and that I will see you all next year for another Blaugust. During the months between please stay active in the Discord so we can hang out and continue the Blaugust magic for the entire year to come.