International Blog Cup

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 again that he has a strong base of supporters from MySpace.com and as you can see, most of his voters started voting just five hours before the end of voting.

Congratulations to both finalists again and good luck to everybody competing in the 3rd International Blog Cup that will start on 1st of December!

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 some minor changes in December edition of IBC as we will be changing the voting page and voting dates structure a little bit in the coming days. More info on this will follow here.

Let the best blog win!

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 Blog that is also the most responsible for the sudden turn and overtaking of Reverse Turkey during the last day of voting.

You can vote for the final 4 blogs here.

Don’t forget to nominate your blogs for the 3rd IBC that will start in December!

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 don’t wait too long as you can still nominate your (favourite) blogs for the 3rd IBC starting in December!

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 disqualified that is now solved.

Happy voting!

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 of support is Ades Blog who will  have to wait a round or two for tougher opposition as it looks like at the moment.

Don’t forget to vote for and/or nominate your favourite blogs!

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 disqualify three blogs. Let’s hope this will be enough to discourage that kind of behaviour in the future.

Greg

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 contrast to 1st IBC where most of the blogs were huge corporate blogs who didn’t care too much about the competition. I hope the 2nd IBC will be much more interesting.

You can proceed directly to voting page by following this link: http://iblogcup.com/blogCup2/main.php.