As Dylan mentioned, we are having the Blarch Badness Awards Ceremony this Friday, March 14th.

We’re sorry for the short notice, but we had some technical difficulties. (Which of course translates to me being lazy. Sorry!) In any case, we really hope you’ll come. Not only will the winner be announced, but they will be showered with fantastic prizes. Oh yes, prizes*!

For the non-champions, there will be snacks! And Dylan to abuse! And I owe several people beers (maybe you’re one of them)! And really, it’s 6:30-8:30, so it’s before you were going to go out anyway (and/or before your bedtime). So no excuses!

Skylark Cafe (all-ages)
Friday, Mar 14, 2008 ~ 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
3803 Delridge Way, Seattle
RSVP

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* Thanks to our very generous sponsors: The Hotel Max, Sub Pop, Neumo’s, and the Northwest Film Forum.

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Image above is entitled, “Mob Games,” and is Docutorial?’s winning NYE photo-contest entry. Will our party be as cool? Maybe not, but you won’t know unless you’re there.

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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.
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The last regional final starts now. Not Martha is not not done. Horse’s Ass becomes the last political blog to exit. So now….

U DISTRICT REGIONAL
Regional Finals
February 23
#4 USS Mariner vs #6 izzlepfaff
USS Mariner continues to move on. There could be two baseball blogs in the finals — and we thought support for the Mariners was dead. Meanwhile, izzlepfaff keeps right on going, further than three of the #1 seeds.

UPDATE: dpolls croaked. Switching providers. Hopefully, this will hold out. Keep in mind that with this new system you can vote as many times as you want, but PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THIS. If you do, I’ll stop the contest and we’ll settle it with a coin flip. Please only vote three times. Be a good ballot box stuffer and know when to say when.

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And, of course, the perfunctory reminder of the other three regional finals: West Seattle, Capitol Hill, and Ballard.

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And it’s official — this bracket is busted beyond all recognition. West Seattle keeps bringing the upsets, short-circuiting Electrolicious, while the usr/bin/girl robots stuff a sock in BlatherWatch. And now, the thrilling conclusion.

BALLARD REGIONAL
Regional Finals
February 22
#7 #!/usr/bin/girl vs #8 West Seattle Blog
And what’s remarkable is that for all the bellyaching about the “Ballard Regional” the West Seattleites are now just one vote away from the Final Four. But now, can the flannel-wearing, Admiral movie watching, Spud eating insurgency prevail over an anime army? The suspense is… no, that’s not a “killing me” feeling. I think that’s a kidney stone.

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UPDATE:
Dpolls apparently has given up the ghost. I’m not exactly sure who was leading at the time the poll stopped worked. In fact, WSB thinks /usr/bin/girl was winning and vice versa. So, at least this is easy.

Here’s a new poll. Cross your fingers that PollDaddy isn’t floating in the virtual fishtank tomorrow. Two things:

1. I’m extending the deadline one day — to Thursday. It will now close at the same time the U District closes. Hopefully.

2. To maintain the “vote once-per-day” attitude I elected to NOT cookie-lock the poll. That means you can vote as many times as you like. HOWEVER… since this will run three more days I ask you to please keep it to three votes per person. In fact, if I see clear evidence that someone’s been flooding the poll, I’ll kill it and we’ll draw a name from a hat. Got it? Be polite in your ballot box stuffing, please.

UPDATE #2:
What did I say up there? That if you start flooding it I’ll be pissy? Well, someone did. So, I blew away the results, and it’s now cookie-locked. Please act like grownups, OK? It’s just a stupid poll.

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Voting is still open in the second round of theU District regional, and also in the West Seattle and Capitol Hill regional finals. Tomorrow, on to the U District for the last of the regionals.

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The Slog has been routed. Football season is over. And now, two remain, capturing two of Seattle’s undying passions — whining about traffic and whining about transit! Kidding.

CAPITOL HILL REGIONAL
Regional Finals
February 21
#4 Seattle Bon Vivant vs #7 Lookout Landing
That’s right, it’s food vs. baseball! Viv rode our readership’s anti-Slog sentiments into the regional finals, while Lookout Landing is doing better than the M’s have the last few years. Both find themselves on the doorstep of the final four. So, baseball, or hot dogs and apple pie? (Sorry, we’re not Chevy people.)

Voting is still open in the second round of other regionals: U District and Ballard, and also in the West Seattle Final. Tomorrow, one more time across the Ship Canal — the Ballard finals.

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Sound Politics got scorched, baseball and football prevailed, and the first round wasn’t all that buzzworthy. Meanwhile, the Slog squeaks out a very close win against jameth, filling the Stranger offices with indifference, ennui, and shoulder shrugs.

But now, Round Two is here, and with it new polls — and new questions. Are we a Seahawks blog town or a Mariners blog town? What do we love more, foodies or yellow journalists? And is Bon Vivant ever going to update her blog?

CAPITOL HILL REGIONAL
Regional Semifinals
February 14

#1 Slog vs #4 Seattle Bon Vivant
The Slog has been ignoring us. Maybe that’s good. Or maybe they’re just lingering out there looking for the right moment to strike at us with a misguided Erica C. Barnett screed, or a 5000 word Charles Mudede essay comparing me to Cecil Rhodes. Meanwhile, when exactly is Bon Vivant going to be updated? UPDATED: Right after I ask this question, of course.

#6 Field Gulls vs #7 Lookout Landing
And now, the showdown between this city’s two sports fan groups (since the Sonics are loading the moving vans). The pupil (Field Gulls) meets the teacher (Lookout Landing). Who can motivate their readers more?

Voting continues in West Seattle Round Two (through next Sunday) and U District Round One (through tonight!)

Tomorrow, onward to Ballard, where the West Seattleites will continue to ask the same question, and I will continue to ask why they can’t read.

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Well, here we go. 38 blogs to start, but there can be only one.

Today is the prelim round of voting, or “help us figure out what to do with the nine blogs we couldn’t decide on.” This is a one-day-only vote, so cast your votes now.

So, without further ado… click some links, make your decision, and vote away.

The “City Beat” Play-in (All blogs that talk about the city and its neighborhoods)
Winner advances to face Defective Yeti in Ballard Regional

Daily Weekly
They were really riding the bubble going in. Post-New Times Cultural Revolution, they’ve lost whatever “edge” they once had. But history prevails here, I guess.

Pike/Pine
We all love Jasmine’s photo-illustrated fashion aesthetics. We’re looking forward to her getting back to photos of Seattle people again.

West Seattle Blog
West Seattle… it’s like a whole other country!

Bus Chick
We had a hard choice here — do we really need a third P-I related blog on the list? But we all love her writing; she’s better than some of the staff bloggers at the other papers in town (Angela Valdez, I’m looking at you).

People Play-In (every person that you know… they’re known as nouns)
Winner advances to face Not Martha in U District Regional

Glitter Pissing
Rakka briefly wrote for Metblogs, but she’s mainly here because she’s such a geek — and a creative and crafty one at that.

Slumberland
Wendi Dunlap has been blogging in one form or another since before “blogging” was a word. And she has a Little Nemo obsession. Gotta love that.

Monkey Disaster
This would be John Moe. You might know him from such movies as “Stop! Or My Mom Will Blog About It!” Wait, that’s Troy McClure….

LiveJournal Drama Play-In (because what is life without LiveJournal drama?)
Winner advances to face Slog in Capitol Hill Regional

jameth
New Metblogger Kristen suggested we pair off two of the big local LiveJournal people in a battle to the death. I don’t have an LJ account, so I have no idea what the drama is about.

Jason Fortuny
Remember that big Craigslist controversy last fall? With the guy that ran the ad as a woman then put everything he was sent on the Internet? Yeah, this is that Jason Fortuny. And now, you have the opportunity to vote against him.

And there you are. Nine go in, three go out. Tomorrow, we start Round One with the West Seattle Regional.

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We took your input. We haggled over who should be in or out. And now, it’s time to announce the brackets for Blarch Badness. Who has the Best Blog In Seattle? Let’s find out.

Originally, it was going to be 32 blogs, but after some talking we decided to add three “play-in” rounds, bumping the total number of blogs to 38. We’ve grouped the extras into certain classes you’ll see in a moment.

And an apology to the 30 or so we also considered that didn’t make it, in addition to the thousands around the area we just didn’t know about. We’ll do better next year.

So, without further ado, let’s warm up Billy Packer, cue the theme music, and unveil the brackets!
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