Best Blog Competition: A report

The “Best Mumbai Blog Competition” got over on 17-03-09 with announcement of results. Here is a brief report about the competition.

Process

The competition happened in three steps.

I. Registration
The registration was open for 15 days and saw 59 people registering for the competition.
II. Voting
The voting was kept open for 3 weeks for registered users only. Every registered user was allowed to vote for upto 5 blogs. A total of 296 votes were casted in these 3 weeks.
III. Expert Judging
The top 5 blogs were judged by our expert judging panel. The final winners were decided based on public voting and Expert judging with an weighted ratio of 75:25.

Winners

The three winners were as follows.
1. Sudhindra
2. Pranjal
3. Satish

Detailed report about how winners were decided Here.

Sponsors

The competition got three sponsors. We had Inkfruit as premium sponsor, Moble4Mumbai as gold sponsor and Ennovata as hosting partner.

What did the winners get

The winners got-
1) Congratulation letter and gift merchandise from MumbaiBloggers
2) Full blogging package by Ennovata including domain name of winner’s choice, 1 GB hosting space, Wordpress installation and a premium wordpress theme.
3) Cool T-shirt by Inkfruit.

The Results

I know the results of “Best Mumbai Blog Competition” are very eagerly awaited. Sorry to keep you waiting. Here is the final tally and ranks. Hearty congratulations to all the winners from MumbaiBloggers Team.

PS: Don’t forget to collect the prizes during the MumbaiBloggers’ Meet on 21st March.


Rank Blog Converted

judges score
(on the scale of 25)
Converted

public score
(on the scale of 75)
Total
Score
(out of 100)
1 Sudhindra Rao 14.67 14.44 29.11
2 Pranjal Wagh 14.67 12.42 27.08
3 Satish 16.33 7.60 23.93
4 Ranjeet 12.83 8.11 20.94
5 Sonal 14.50 6.33 20.83

For detail analysis of the scores, kindly click on the following image.

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Whats Happening in Mumbai?

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We at MumbaiBloggers understand this concern. And thats the reason we came up with a place where we can collate info about various events for your info.

We’ve an Mumbai event calendar where we will keep adding events and their registration details for your info. You can also subscribe to our SMS alert service by visiting Mumbai events SMS alert page.

If you know of any event happening, please drop a mail to MumabiBloggers Events team. Alternatively just SMS your event details to 9890-SPIRIT and we will add your Event details to the calendar for the benefit of Community Event Enthusiasts in Mumbai.