Metropolitan College Blog-It Competition
Metropolitan College launched Blog-It! competition for its 20th anniversary celebration. The competition is divided into two parts, blog writing and blog design.
There are many prizes for the winners such as NextG Prepaid Card, hamper, magazine subscribtion, MP3 player, and handphone. This competition is open to all Upper Secondary (Forms 4-6) students of any public or private secondary school in Malaysia.
Unfair game?
Since I am not a good writer, I don’t comment about the blog writing competition. But for blog design competition, the rules and regulation is not complete.
There is no rule that your blog design should be designed by you. Meaning, you can use any pre-made, free blog template. And, the best blog design will solely be decided by number of votes garnered. Meaning, no professional judge.
So, if I want to win the “Best Blog Design” award, I only need to find a good looking blog design for my blog and ask my friends to vote for me everyday. That’s easy!
Take a look at the current Top 5 “Best Blog Design”
All the blogs are using pre-made template or other’s design! Only Tan Wei Le, the current Top 1, is using own designed blog banner. The 3rd place, Lee Jun Haw is using a “Vistered Little” free wordpress design.
Now, please tell me who should win the “Best Blog Design” award?
This is really very unfair… they should prevent such things from happening… downloaded theme wordpress? haha… funny… then everybody can use professionally-designed themes… oops…
Yeah – organizers is a bit blur…. if i were them i would take out the blog design category… it’s too easy to rip someone else’s design and take out the author credit just to win the competition
Yea agree with Friedbeef, they should have taken a judge from the blogsphere, i mean common how hard is it to find a good blogger from malaysia when you have places likes malaysiabloggers and petalingstreet to name a few.
blur people :P
That’s disgraceful. With such huge sponsors, you’d think they’d look through the rules a bit more carefully. Or hire someone who knows what he is doing.
Rule #9 made it blatantly clear that it’s not the design that matters; it’s the number of votes.
Now that we’re all done agreeing how unfair this is, is anyone writing to inform the organisers of this little flaw?
i’ve already mailed the guy… but the reply is that, “you could ask youf family or relatives or friends to vote for you”….
wtf… are they qualified as judges..
@ikram_zidate: the winner is fully based on the number of votes. So, one can pay people to vote for his/her website to be a winner. No judge at all.
that’s what i would call unfair..
Oh well, didn’t expect much for the competition. Just for the sake of joining it. Totally agree about the flaw in the judging part.
they’re just trying to make it more accessible to the masses. for those not computer/tech savvy, it would be hard(er) to come up with a blog design and template of their own.
they’re valuing number of contestants over the quality and originality of blogs. simple reason. obvious too, since they’re a business college. all business minded people there =)
the whole point of the competition isn’t really there.. they say blog design, but it’s more of a “who can get more votes” competition.. there’s nothing much on designing, more on plagarism..
This is interesting… Let’s see how many plagiarists we can catch…
The design that won grand prize wasn’t close to be a good one at all! and the other two winning ones (except blurrx) were ugly too. Sorry, but, that’s what I personally thought.
Think, web design competition is mirroring Malaysian AF already….. most popular vs. best talent.
Hi there, I stumbled upon your page here and I must say, I totally agree about the terrible judging criteria. I was nominated to join the competition, and I so did. I was a contestant too.
When I browsed through almost all the blog designs, they were either pre-made layouts, or free blogskins.. none was original and fully designed by the blogger. Got pretty ticked off and thought that it’s merely no use joining that competition anymore. The panel judges should seriously consider re-planning their criteria, rules and regulations..