February Blog of the Month - WINNERS

[donkbee]

Congratulations to Vi-Zer0Skill for winning the February Blog of the Month! You have won the FTR gear of your choice, a Full Tilt Poker shirt, and a custom forum title.

The other two finalists for February will also receive runner up prizes of an amazingly sexy Full Tilt Poker shirt! Congratulations to bikes and LuckySlevin.

Here's the FTR gear: Wear FTR Poker Clothing/Clothes!. Vi-Zer0Skill please PM me with your FTR gear selection, your shirt size, and your custom title of choice. I also need your shipping address.

Bikes and LuckySlevin please PM me your shirt size and your shipping address.

Thanks to everyone for contributing to this contest! If you have any suggestions for the March contest, please let me know in this thread. I look forward to running it again! The nomination thread will go up in two weeks

[Donachello]

Grats doods!

[StarGrinder]

I got dibs on Slevin's since we know he's not coming back for at least another 6 months.

[Penneywize]

just a thought - and I mean no disrespect to the winners/nominees etc. but does it really make sense to have a winner AND two runners-up? I mean, there are maybe 12-15 really active blogs per month, I'd imagine, so we're talking about up to 20% of them winning in any given month? Seems to take a bit away from the lustre of winning.

How about only 1 winner per month, and that if a blog wins, it shouldn't be eligible to win again for another 4-6 months. Also, potential winners should be judged by contributions for that month in particular, not on the entire blog itself (otherwise a single blog shouldn't be able to win twice at all). Thoughts?

[philly and the phanatics]

yea right...FTP shirts for all i say...

[philly and the phanatics]

but i agree about not winning twice, and being judged on that month of posting...just think there should be at least 1 runner up but i am ok with 2

[Muzzard]

just a thought - and I mean no disrespect to the winners/nominees etc. but does it really make sense to have a winner AND two runners-up? I mean, there are maybe 12-15 really active blogs per month, I'd imagine, so we're talking about up to 20% of them winning in any given month? Seems to take a bit away from the lustre of winning.

How about only 1 winner per month.

Also, potential winners should be judged by contributions for that month in particular, not on the entire blog itself (otherwise a single blog shouldn't be able to win twice at all). Thoughts?

I agree with this.

I edited out the 4month rule for the winner, which I don't agree with. But everything else +1

[donkbee]

just a thought - and I mean no disrespect to the winners/nominees etc. but does it really make sense to have a winner AND two runners-up? I mean, there are maybe 12-15 really active blogs per month, I'd imagine, so we're talking about up to 20% of them winning in any given month? Seems to take a bit away from the lustre of winning.

How about only 1 winner per month, and that if a blog wins, it shouldn't be eligible to win again for another 4-6 months. Also, potential winners should be judged by contributions for that month in particular, not on the entire blog itself (otherwise a single blog shouldn't be able to win twice at all). Thoughts?

Thanks for the thoughts.

I don't necessarily think that small consolation prizes take away the lustre of winning. It's more a token of appreciation for having an active blog on FTR. I agree with the point that we don't have all THAT many active blogs on the forum right now, though. Perhaps next month just one consolation prize to 2nd place?

I agree that we should try to look at the contributions for a particular month. So if someone doesn't post at all in March, they probably shouldn't be eligible for a March nomination.

I also agree that we don't want the same blog winning month after month. I don't know how many months we should wait before a winning blog can be nominated again, though. I kind of like 3 months. I'll think about this in the next couple of weeks, though. If anyone else has an opinion about this, feel free to post!