Reality on Bravo

Project Blog is an ongoing competition that coincides with Bravo’s Project Runway. Every week, blogtestants from all over the blog-o-sphere compete in blogging challenges. Every week, the top blogger wins a special prize and, more importantly, immunity and the blogger with the lowest score is eliminated. There are prizes for readers too! And you can play along on your own blog if you’d like email me at allison.boyer-at-yahoo-dot-com with your entries, and I’ll show you a little link love AND give you an additional entry in the prize for that given week!

In this past week’s challenge, blogtestants were asked to give us a post in just 50 words, and then to expand on it. Bloggers were also judged on their awesome commenting skills. You can find a list of their entries here.

You guys voted to pick the reader’s favorites, who get points, which are added to the judges’ scores to create a final score for each player. Project Blog Judges are Beth (the winner of the Reality on Bravo “Create your own Reality Show” contest), April (a freelance writer and the blogger for Life as a Christian Woman), and myself.

Imagine, if you will, that the bloggers are lined up on a virtual runway, because it’s time to announce the winner! There was some stiff competition this week, but the person with the highest score is….

Once again, we found it totally hard to judge this week, and their were so many awesome entries. Winnie, we can’t deny that you have the reader following, though, and that knocked you over the top this week. We were also impressed with the insightful comments you left on other sites and the linking your did in your post.

Finishing second in the judging was Kate. We really liked your style during week one - it was an unusual and interesting take on the challenge that said a lot in not a lot of words. Third Place went to Jodie this week - says one judge, “Your 50 words really packed a punch!”

Congratulations, Winnie. You and your blog, Watching the View, win week four of Project Blog!! You have immunity next week and will be getting a cool prize in the mail in the next week or so.

And now for the part I don’t like…the elimination.

Sigh.

You’re all wonderful bloggers, but we do have a few comments for the bottom two before making an elimination. Congratulations Kara and Sally. Your scores have qualified you to remain in the competition; you may leave the virtual runway.

That leaves us with the bottom two. Mark and Cynthia, let’s bring out your models…er…blogs so we can make a few comments.

Mark, we have to give you props for the video. I personally could not stop laughing. However, even though your posts are funny, sometimes we have to wonder “what’s the point”? Every post has to have a distinct purpose in order to make readers come back every day. Your post this week was a bit long with a lot of linking that felt a bit forced.

Cynthia, we did like your post idea - it was very creative. The nail in your coffin this week was not meeting the first deadline. We also would have liked to see more linking in your posts.

Now here’s the hard part…this week, we’re eliminating:

It was a tough call, but in the end, we’re worried that perhaps Cynthia doesn’t have the time for this competition every week. Although we did like your idea and thought you bounced back well, it just wasn’t enough to bounce back completely.