The Blog of the month renovation idea
888 poker offers in its forum a nice little format for users that want to get their bankroll boostet.
Its the "Blog of the month".
users have, in conformation to the terms and conditions, to write a blog to changing topix every month.
The blog will be judged by a group of people and the winners will get one out of three prices
worth alltogether 400 $ and all participants get entry to a freeroll with 300 $ in pricemoney.
That sounds very profitable in the first view.
But if you follow the "blog of the month" history you will figure out that even if 888 is an international
operating company the winners of this contest are usully motherspeaking english and only 2 of them
have won 12 out of 39 regular prices , that is almost 1/3 of all price money.
That can`t be in the interest of 888 and the 888 forum.
exspecally foreigners that are not capable to write proper english, have no chance to be in the winners list.
Maybe one or two of them have won a price. Looks but as an alibi.
it has become a contest of a small group of users. A closed group. New bloggers are very soon encouraged
and they never come back.
For a vital contest , for a vital 888 forum, its nesassary to bring 888 users from all player countries together.
they all need the real chance to win prices, offered by 888poker, for their blogging. They deserve not only the
possible poker win in a tournament. ( where the winning amount is much lower than one of the
offered prices for the blogging)
So what is to do :
I see two cenario
no 1 is:
If a blogger wins a price in the contest , he can still blog the next two month, but he can not get
a money price, even if his blog is voted best blog. He will win the contest on a ideal basis.
The money will go to the next placed in the juging list.
no 2 is
all blogs that fullfill the terms and conditions are judged. The winner gets a trophy on a ideal basis.
All names of the participants will put in randomizer and the prices will be given out to three of them.
Both ideas for a renovation of the "blog of the month" format will bring, imo, more users to blog and
more users to the 888 forum. Exspecally non english motherspeaking.
Please share your thoughts in this forum thread ( my.888poker.com/go/thread/view/111122/30... ) instead of the blog comment here.
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