I think we might see it far more in round 2 as people start to hope to gain that extra edge over their competition while in Round 1 many people were just waiting to see what happens

@Kitsune

What I meant by that is that people aren’t voting based off friendships and reputation, well, most people aren’t, but on the actual design and writing capabilities.

I find it interesting that you mention quality, given the main criterion outlined in one of the first posts: “The criteria on which you should decide the winner is which would you prefer to read. If you could only read one or the other, which would it be.” A blog might be high-quality, whatever your definition is, but you might not want to read this blog because it is not relevant to your interests.

Nevertheless, the tournament itself does achieve it’s main purpose: exposure of anime blogs.

This is an interesting point. Every blogger in the tourney is very aware of this fact. The growing audience for the tournament will put increasing pressure on the participating blogs to write more and better. I’m already excited for the future posts we’ll be seeing.

That Colony Drop match of yours has been interesting to say the least. But hey, at least people are visiting the blogs in quesiton

@lelangir

Actually I think Ryan said specifically not to break down into categories but eh, it’s too late for that now either way. Besides, comparing one episodic to another is boring. Comparing Hanners to 2DT is interesting. At least, that’s how I see it.

@Yi

There’s certainly an element of truth in that. Sea Slugs, THAT and Kuorgane have all made posts about the tourney and have gotten somewhere in the realm of 200–400 hits from them. Now lets say some other people start ‘anti-episodic’ tirades, which is happening to a small extent on the tourney anyway, we might see something interesting happen.

@Poro

He’s made like, 2 posts this year.

It’s certainly exposed me to several other good blogs that I never really followed too closely.

Someone mentioned something about the big seeds mobilizing their base (Random C, Seaslugs… etc.). If they do, the goal of promoting good blogs become even more concrete. The vast majority of anime watchers rarely follow other blogs beside the biggest names. They read the blogs that rank high on google. If this can get even a percentage of anime fans to start reading blogs that rarely gets traffic from outside the blogosphere, that’d be fantastic.

Can’t wait for all the big guns to bare knuckles.