2019 Site Battle Madness
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Hey guys,
If you've been around FP for a little while, you probably know of our super awesome site competition that we have every year during the season of college basketball and March Madness. This is our sixth time doing this! We've been doing this since 2014, and it's certainly turned into one of the big traditions of Forum Promotion.
We're also very excited to announce that we have secured a number of sponsors this year! WoltLab, Ionicware, and USHost247 have all agreed to assist us in providing awesome prizes to our wonderful community. We hope everyone enjoys this event. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Good luck guys!
All entries MUST be submitted through PM to @Cameron Taylor before March 11th at 12 PM EST.
Tournament Overview:
How does this work?
First of all, members will need to enter the tournament by submitting the below form to @Cameron Taylor via PM. When March 11th arrives, I will randomly generate a bracket to use for the remainder of the contest. After the bracket is generated, the tournament will start! All battles will range from 2-7 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 connection 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, and how far your website goes into this tournament. We don't truly know how many participants we will have, but somewhere around 32-64 is our goal, just like you'd see in the NCAA tournament. With that being said, we've got lots of great prizes up for grabs, so we really don't feel like getting submissions in will be a problem at all.
1st Place
- Entire WoltLab Software Suite: Forum, Gallery, Blog, Filebase, Calendar, Elasticsearch Integration ($340 Value)
- $100 SEOClerks Gift Card
- 1 year of the Ultimate Package web hosting at USHost247 ($113 Value)
- A TLD domain registered at USHost247
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt ($20 Value)
- 1,000 FP$
- WoltLab Forum Software & Choice of 3 Add-ons: Gallery, Blog, Filebase, Calendar or Elasticsearch Integration ($240 Value)
- $50 SEOClerks Gift Card
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt ($20 Value)
- 1000 FP$
- WoltLab Forum Software & Choice of 2 Add-ons: Gallery, Blog, Filebase, Calendar or Elasticsearch Integration ($190 Value)
- $25 SEOClerks Gift Card
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt ($20 Value)
- 1000 FP$
- WoltLab Forum Software & Choice of 1 Add-ons: Gallery, Blog, Filebase, Calendar or Elasticsearch Integration ($140 Value)
- $25 SEOClerks Gift Card
- Official Forum Promotion T-Shirt ($20 Value)
- 1000 FP$
- WoltLab Forum Software ($90 Value)
- Entered in Forum Promotion T-Shirt Raffle (Potential $20 Value)
- 750 FP$
- 500 FP$
- Entered in Forum Promotion T-Shirt Raffle (Potential $20 Value)
- $250 FP$
- 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, at voter's discretion.
- To submit your website to the Site Battle Madness Tournament you must follow these rules:
- You must have at least ten (10) posts on Forum Promotion.
- Your website must be older than one week.
- You must be an Administrator on the website that you are submitting.
- Guests must be able to view your website without logging into an account.
- All of the content on your website must follow our Board-Wide Guidelines and Acceptable Content Policy.
- You MAY ask members of your community to vote for you; in fact, this is encouraged.
- You may NOT create multiple accounts or pay another individual to create multiple accounts for you. If you or your members create duplicate accounts to vote in SBM, they will face a disqualification from the tournament and further moderation action.
- All members MUST have five (5) posts before voting in a poll. If your website continuously refers members here who do not follow our Board-Wide Guidelines, your forum will risk disqualification from the tournament.
- Last couple of years we had the "Save Round." Whichever website receives the most votes BEFORE the Final Four vote will be brought back into the tournament for a 48-hour battle.
- The Gambling Round is also back. As with the Save Round, this is 48 hours. All members will be able to wage a winner-take-all bet.
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.
Entry Form:
Please submit all entries to @Cameron Taylor through the PM/conversation system here at Forum Promotion.
Code:
[b][u][size=150]Entry Form[/b]:[/size][/u]
[b]FP Display Name[/b]:
[b]Number of Sites Submitting[/b]:
[size=50](REMINDER: When entering sites, remember that you are not guaranteed more than one site in the battles. 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. Best of luck, and may the odds be forever in your favor!)[/size]
[b][i][size=110]- Site #1 - [/size][/i]
Site Name[/b]:
[b]Site Link[/b]:
[b][i][size=110]- Site #2 - [/size][/i]
Site Name[/b]:
[b]Site Link[/b]:
[b][i][size=110]- Site #3 - [/size][/i]
Site Name[/b]:
[b]Site Link[/b]:Deadline: March 11th, 12 P.M EST
Get your submissions in ASAP!
Get your submissions in ASAP!
