Judgement Day 5: Meet Webmaster Alvin
As mentioned, we will be posting up the scores for the top 20 blog entries from our judges on a daily basis. Today, the last scorings done by Yours Truly, the friendly webmaster at Youth.SG will be revealed. It has been a long and ardrous journey for all… whether you are one of the participating bloggers or someone who have been involved in this blogging festival in one way or another.
The first Round started in December 2006 - and it's now May 2007 - a good 5 months!
I am indeed, happy to say that the quality of the blog entries keep getting better and better with each Rounds, cumulating to the current Top 20 we have now.
Anyway, here's my comments on judging for the top 20:
"A good variety indeed - there are 9 "old-timers" who were our bi-weekly top bloggers before and 11 fresh new faces. The age group is diverse… ranging from your secondary school students like Mr Otaku and Joyce Lee to the "older youths" like Thegreatsze and Uncle Sha.
In conventional medium-based competition (eg. essay-writing, video, singing, drawing competitions, etc), contestants will most likely be segregated by age group or other form of demographics to compete. However, this is not done so for our Blogging Festival as I believe that the sporadic and random nature of blogging will not be reflected if we segregate the contestants into categories.
To me, blogging is about expression - expressing one's opinion; beliefs; viewpoints; or even just cam-whoring or showcasing of your own self-created videos or artworks. And expression are all equals regardless of your age, sex, race or any other demographic modifiers. It is what constitutes a blogger as an individual - a voice, strong and clear that screams out "I am the one and only XXX".
Hence when judging - EXPRESSION is the key thing I was looking out for in the blog entries. I was particularly impressed by four bloggers who conveyed a strong sense of their identities in their blog entries - Uncle Sha, Soupcanfairy, Yuting and Juni.
For the other 16, great entries too. It is a great achievement to make it to the top 20, however, there can only be one grand winner. Since all the scorings are announced and cast in stone… let's see if the public voting make a difference.
Here are my scores for each of the top 20 blog entries:What do you think? Do you agree with my scoring? You can also help decide on the winner by casting your VALUABLE VOTE - VISIT WWW.VOTE.YOUTH.SG NOW and cast your vote! Voters stand to win a variety of vouchers, kindly sponsored by Borders Book, Miss Clarity Cafe, Matsu apparel, Uzumaki ice cream , Pitstop Cafe and Nokia.Oh… and look out for the TOTAL scores by all the FIVE judges tomorrow.
Archive for Grand Final
2 April 07 - Details of Grand Final Round
24 April 07 - Have you sent in your Grand Final blog entry?
26 April 07 - Latest Update for I am @ Youth.SG
7 May 07 - Top 20 Bloggers for Grand Final Round announced
8 May 07 - Judgement Day 1: Meet Charles Ng
9 May 07 - Judgement Day 2: Meet Alan Leong
10 May 07 - Judgement Day 3: Meet Angelique
11 May 07 - Judgement Day 4: Meet Rosalyn
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May 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
I think alvin hates me
May 12th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I think i did not express out my own opinions. I wrote using the newscaster style. Generalizing.
May 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Thanks to all judges. Everyone’s scored around the same range, but only 1 is over 90.
May 12th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
generali’S'ing. (sorry, had a strong urge to do that.)
May 12th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
SSSSSS is the sound of snakes,
ZZZZZZ is the sound of snoring.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
add sssss and zzzz and that would be a snake snoring!
May 12th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
mrortaku:haha.ok,alvin hates me too.lol (jk la alvin)
anyways.i think my scores are pretty much an average of 60-70.
and with probably much lesser votes,i declare myself out of this game and continue to support others =) grins.
can i vote too ? (not for myself.duh.) =)
good luck people !!
its nice reading all your blogs and knowing you guys,er…virtually.=P
May 12th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
[…] Alvin gives me an 86. […]
May 12th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I’ve bo liaoedly calculated the total average for everyone…
It’s on my blog, go check it out!
Anyway, scores are only half the battle. The other half’s still uncertain!
SO RALLY RALLY RALLY! Gambate!
May 13th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Wah, juni, you got so much time, ah?
May 13th, 2007 at 12:33 am
vote for my sister - the Soupcanfairy!
YEAH!
(and also because my face was in her clip)
May 13th, 2007 at 12:38 am
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May 13th, 2007 at 12:48 am
voxy: not much time was taken mah… haha!
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
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