Forum Promotion's 2016 Site Battle Madness
Entry Round
Hello, Forum Promotion!
I'm very excited that we're able to bring back the Site Battle Madness Tournament for its third straight year. Year after year, this contest has proven to be the ultimate bracket-style tournament to decide the best forum/website on Forum Promotion! This competition is always a ton of fun for everyone! This year, the tournament will be bigger and better than ever before; we're offering prizes to everyone who participates; including people who don't submit websites! I highly recommend that everyone participates, as everyone wins a prize this year! If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this topic or send me a Private Message (PM).
All entries MUST be submitted through PM to Belthazar before March 13th at 5 P.M. EST. Best of luck to everyone who competes!
Tournament Overview:
How does this work?
Members enter the tournament by submitting the below form to John via PM. Once March 13th hits, I will randomly generate a bracket to use for the remainder of the contest. You can view last year's bracket by clicking here: Click. After the bracket is generated, the tournament has started! All battles will range from 4-7 days (the time is dependent on the round). In the case of a tie, a panel of unidentified staff members (who will have absolutely no connections to either of the forums or websites) will vote to determine the winner. The more battles you win, the better your prizes will become!
What are the prizes?
Prizes are awarded accordingly to your placement (if you win or loose). Since we do not know how many websites/forums will be entering, we cannot present a set-in-stone prize example. However, here is a rough estimate of placement winnings. The bottom line of this is this: the more battles you win, the better your prizes will become.
- 1st Place
- $50 PayPal
- 800 FP$
- One Month Sticky PD Topic
- Free CoTM Advertisement Space
- Free Blog Write-Up
- Free Ultimate Review
- 2 Free Ruby Packages
- 3 Free Service Passes
2nd Place- $25 PayPal
- 500 FP$
- One Month Sticky PD Topic
- Free Billboard Auction Advertisement Space
- Free Blog Write-Up
- Free Advanced Review
- 1 Free Ruby Package
- 1 Free Service Pass
Final Four- $10 PayPal
- 200 FP$
- 1 Free Service Pass
Elite Eight- 100 FP$
- Free Sapphire Package
- 50% Off Service Coupon
Everyone Else- 50% Off Service Coupon
"Best" Battle- Free Forum Sponsor Group prize for six (6) months.
- Awarded to the users who are "saved", by having the most votes while losing a battle.
Large Prizes- $100 on SEO Clerks.
- $50 on SEO Clerks.
- ×2 WoltLab Burning Board Blog & Forum licenses.
What are the rules in this tournament?- Normal Site Battle Rules do not apply to this tournament. Members do not need to give a reason why they voted a particular way, nor do they need to publicly declare who they voted for. Both of these are optional.
- To submit your website to the Site Battle Madness Tournament you must follow these rules:
- You must have at least 10 posts on Forum Promotion.
- Your website must be older than one week OR clearly "active".
- You must be staff on the website that you're submitting.
- Guests must be able to view your website without logging into an account.
- All of the content on your website must follow our Site-Wide Guidelines and Acceptable Content Policy.
- You MAY ask members of your community to vote for you, as this is encouraged.
- You may NOT create multiple accounts or pay other to create multiple accounts for you. Doing either of these things will result in a disqualification and further moderation action.
- All members MUST have 10 posts before voting in a poll. If your website continuously refers members here who do not follow our Site-Wide Guidelines, your forum will risk disqualification from the tournament.
What's new this year?- The first applicable thing is the gambling round. Immediately following the inception of the single elimination bracket, there will be 48 hours to bet on who you think will win. All of these bets will be all or nothing, bet on one winner style bets. More on this will come!
- The "save" is the next thing that's brand new to SBM this year. The forum/website that has the most votes in their losing battle, on their side of the bracket BEFORE the Final Four battle, will be eligible to come back into the tournament. They will then face the winners of the "Final Four" round.
How many websites can I enter?
You may only enter three (3) websites. To keep this tournament as fair as possible, we prefer to have it run with 32 or 64 websites in it (unless otherwise decided later on). Since we do not know how many websites will be submitted, please mark your websites as "Site 1", "Site 2", and "Site 3" to ensure we know which of your websites should have the highest priority in getting into the tournament. If we have any unfilled spaces in our bracket, the extra spaces will be on a first come, first serve basis in order of who submitted first.
Important: If you submit multiple websites, there's a chance that they'll unavoidably battle each other. In this case, only one of the websites can emerge victorious.
Entry Form:
Please submit all entries to Belthazar through the FP PM system.
Code:
[b][u][size=150]Entry Form:[/size][/u][/b]
[b]FP Display Name:[/b]
[b]Number of Sites Submitting:[/b]
[b]Have you taken the 2016 FP Community Survey?[/b]
[size=50](REMINDER: When entering sites, remember that you are not guaranteed more than one site battle. Therefore, if you enter more than one site, please mark your "Site #1" in the entry form as the site that you want to compete the most, "Site #2" as the one you want to compete the second most, and "Site #3" as the third most. Good luck!)[/size]
[b][i][size=110]- Site #1 - [/size][/i][/b]
[b]Site Name:[/b]
[b]Site Link:[/b]
[b][i][size=110]- Site #2 - [/size][/i][/b]
[b]Site Name:[/b]
[b]Site Link:[/b]
[b][i][size=110]- Site #3 - [/size][/i][/b]
[b]Site Name:[/b]
[b]Site Link:[/b]Deadline: March 13th, 5 P.M EST
Best of luck to everyone!
Best of luck to everyone!
Thank you to our sponsors WoltLab and SEOClerks.
