Blarch Badness 2008: The Brackets
Posted By Dylan On January 31, 2008 @ 12:00 pm In tournament | Comments Disabled
So, the selection committee has met for the last few days trying to decide who is in and who is out of the tournament. There was the usual yelling, fighting, chair-throwing, and occasional moments of harmony. But finally, late last night, the committee emerged from their pizza-and-beer-induced stupor to put in my hands the lineup for this year’s Blarch Badness.
First off, the eight blogs that will be seeded in the bracket. Four of them, as mentioned before, were semifinalists last year and therefore have been awarded byes into round two:
USS Mariner [1]
Lookout Landing [2]
West Seattle Blog [3]
Seattle Daily Photo [4]
Four additional blogs were chosen by the Seattle Metblogs writers as being sufficiently meritorious to earn a bye (that is, their bribe checks cleared):
Capitol Hill Seattle [5]
Defective Yeti [6]
Hillku [7]
Vintage Seattle [8]
The two “regions” have been dubbed “Coyote” and “Squirrel.” (thanks Michael)
The remaining 42 blogs will be playing in out of category-specific groups:
Religion/Politics/Great Pumpkin (i.e. the environment), Music, P-I bloggers, Food, People, Art/Fashion/Photography, Hood (neighborhood blogs), Friends/Enemies of Metblogs
You might notice that the “Sports” group has been replaced with “People.” Don’t worry, there are still sports blogs in the tourney.
The winner of each group moves into the bracket in Round Two. I know this is complicated, but bear with me. Here’s how Round Two looks:
Squirrel Bracket
USS Mariner vs. Religion/Politics/Great Pumpkin winner
Vintage Seattle vs. Food winner
Lookout Landing vs. Music winner
CHS vs. P-I winner
Coyote Bracket
West Seattle Blog vs Friends/Enemies winner
Hillku vs People winner
Seattle Daily Photo vs Hood winner
Defective Yeti vs. Art/Fashion/Photography winner
So, here are the groups:
Religion/Politics/Great Pumpkin
Brave New Leaf [9]
Eugene Cho [10]
Horse’s Ass [11]
Orcinius [12]
Seattle Bubble [13]
Seattle Transit Blog [14]
Music
KEXP Blog [15]
Line Out [16]
Seattle Powerpop [17]
Sound on the Sound [18]
Three Imaginary Girls [19]
P-I
Art to Go [20]
Bus Chick [21]
Digital Joystick [22]
Ear Candy [23]
Huskies Fan [24]
Food
Accidental Hedonist [25]
Cocktail Chronicles [26]
Gluten-Free Girl [27]
Orangette [28]
Seattle Bon Vivant [29]
People
Chris Pirillo [30]
Electrolicious [31]
Izzle Pfaff [32]
Kirida [33]
Nerd’s Eye View [34]
Art/Fashion/Photography
Glitter Pissing [35]
I Make Things [36]
I See Seattle [37]
Not Martha [38]
Pike/Pine [39]
‘Hood (Neighborhood Blogs)
Ballard Avenue [40]
Blogging Georgetown [41]
Capitol Hill Triangle [42]
Mid Beacon Hill [43]
Miller Park Neighborhood Association [44]
Friends/Enemies of Metblogs
Big Blog [45]
Citizen Rain [46]
Enjoy the Enjoyment [47]
Field Gulls [48]
Seattlest [49]
Slog [50]
Two of the groups have six blogs, while the rest have five. Yes, I’m insane. And I had to go find the URLs for each of them. I miss my family.
So here’s how this will play out over the next six weeks:
OPENING ROUND
Mon., Feb 4
Food Group
Religion/Politics/Great Pumpkin Group
Tues., Feb 5
Music Group
P-I Bloggers Group
Wed., Feb 6
Enemies/Friends of Metblogs Group
People Group
Thurs., Feb 7
Art/Fashion/Photography Group
Hood Group
SECOND ROUND
Mon., Feb 11
USS Mariner vs. Seattle Bubble [51]
Vintage Seattle vs. Accidental Hedonist [51]
Tues., Feb 12
Lookout Landing vs. Three Imaginary Girls [52]
CHS vs. Huskies Fan [52]
Wed., Feb 13
West Seattle Blog vs Citizen Rain [53] VOTE NOW!
Hillku vs Kirida [53] VOTE NOW!
Thurs., Feb 14
Seattle Daily Photo vs Blogging Georgetown/Mid Beacon Hill [54] VOTE NOW!
Defective Yeti vs. Glitter Pissing [54] VOTE NOW!
ELITE EIGHT
Mon., Feb 18
Seattle Bubble vs. Accidental Hedonist [55] VOTE NOW!
Tues., Feb 19
Lookout Landing vs. Huskies Fan [56] VOTE NOW!
Wed., Feb 20
West Seattle Blog/Friends/Enemies Group winner vs Hillku/People Group winner
Thurs., Feb 21
Seattle Daily Photo/Hood Group winner vs. Defective Yeti/Art/Fashion/Photog Group winner
FINAL FOUR
Tues., Feb 26
Squirrel Bracket Semifinals
Thurs., Feb 28
Coyote Bracket Semifinals
THIRD-PLACE GAME
March 6
FINALS
March 7
WINNER CROWNED: March 14
Each round will be open for one week, just like last year.
Unfortunately, a number of blogs didn’t make the final cut. Sorry Buzzworthy, Postman on Politics, Slumberland, all the Seattle Weekly blogs, all the Seattle Magazine blogs (but surely you could have voted us best of something this year, I mean, come on, you pretty much named everyone else I’ve listed best of something), Daily Score, Daily Grist (though, honestly, if you’d hired me for that job I interviewed for last fall…), Gothic Charm School, Rain City Guide, Radical Congruency, Scootin’ Old Skool, Sound Politics, Sonics bloggers, Rise and Fall of Mark Driscoll, those MyZIP blogs like 98122.net, and all the Livejournalers and Voxers that live in Seattle. Maybe next year. Or maybe someone will offer a Blog NIT?
So there you have it. That’s the six weeks of hellfun that’s ahead of us! I’ll take any questions you have in the comments.
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URLs in this post:
[1] USS Mariner: http://ussmariner.com
[2] Lookout Landing: http://lookoutlanding.com
[3] West Seattle Blog: http://westseattleblog.com
[4] Seattle Daily Photo: http://seattle-daily-photo.blogspot.com/
[5] Capitol Hill Seattle: http://capitolhillseattle.blogspot.com/
[6] Defective Yeti: http://defectiveyeti.com
[7] Hillku: http://hillku.blogspot.com/
[8] Vintage Seattle: http://www.vintageseattle.org/
[9] Brave New Leaf: http://www.bravenewleaf.com/
[10] Eugene Cho: http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/
[11] Horse’s Ass: http://www.horsesass.org/
[12] Orcinius: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com
[13] Seattle Bubble: http://seattlebubble.com/blog/
[14] Seattle Transit Blog: http://seatrans.blogspot.com/
[15] KEXP Blog: http://blog.kexp.org
[16] Line Out: http://lineout.thestranger.com/
[17] Seattle Powerpop: http://www.seattle-powerpop.blogspot.com/
[18] Sound on the Sound: http://www.soundonthesound.com/
[19] Three Imaginary Girls: http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/
[20] Art to Go: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/art/
[21] Bus Chick: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buschick/
[22] Digital Joystick: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/digitaljoystick/
[23] Ear Candy: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/earcandy/
[24] Huskies Fan: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/huskiesfan/
[25] Accidental Hedonist: http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/
[26] Cocktail Chronicles: http://www.cocktailchronicles.com/
[27] Gluten-Free Girl: http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/
[28] Orangette: http://orangette.blogspot.com/
[29] Seattle Bon Vivant: http://seattlebonvivant.typepad.com/
[30] Chris Pirillo: http://chris.pirillo.com/
[31] Electrolicious: http://electrolicious.com/
[32] Izzle Pfaff: http://www.izzlepfaff.com/
[33] Kirida: http://www.kirida.com/
[34] Nerd’s Eye View: http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/
[35] Glitter Pissing: http://glitterpissing.blogspot.com/
[36] I Make Things: http://www.imakethings.com/
[37] I See Seattle: http://iseeseattle.blogspot.com/
[38] Not Martha: http://www.notmartha.org/
[39] Pike/Pine: http://www.pikepine.com/
[40] Ballard Avenue: http://ballardavenue.blogspot.com/
[41] Blogging Georgetown: http://thepapernoose.blogspot.com/
[42] Capitol Hill Triangle: http://chtriangle.blogspot.com/
[43] Mid Beacon Hill: http://midbeaconhill.blogspot.com/
[44] Miller Park Neighborhood Association: http://millerparkseattle.blogspot.com/
[45] Big Blog: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/
[46] Citizen Rain: http://blogs.king5.com/citizenrain/
[47] Enjoy the Enjoyment: http://www.enjoytheenjoyment.com/
[48] Field Gulls: http://www.fieldgulls.com/
[49] Seattlest: http://seattlest.com
[50] Slog: http://slog.thestranger.com
[51] USS Mariner vs. Seattle Bubble: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2008/02/blarch_badness_29.phtml
[52] Lookout Landing vs. Three Imaginary Girls: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2008/02/blarch_badness_31.phtml
[53] West Seattle Blog vs Citizen Rain: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2008/02/blarch_badness_32.phtml
[54] Seattle Daily Photo vs Blogging Georgetown/Mid Beacon Hill: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2008/02/blarch_badness_33.phtml
[55] Seattle Bubble vs. Accidental Hedonist: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2008/02/blarch_badness_35.phtml
[56] Lookout Landing vs. Huskies Fan: http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2008/02/blarch_badness_36.phtml
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