1. The difference between a blogger and an author of tournament articles.
Blogger is a user who publishes articles in the Blogs section.
Author of tournament articles is a user who publishes articles in the Tournaments section.
Tournament article is an article covering the current tournaments, as well as an article about the results of past tournaments.
One user can be a blogger and an author of tournament articles at once, enjoying benefits of both categories.
2. Information for authors of tournament articles
Authors of tournament articles do not take part in this competition, but can get some money rewards.
2.1 Terms and conditions
Articles must include:
- Description of a tournament, which is a unique text, not published anywhere before (at least 1000 characters without spaces)
- Final/current tournament table
- 1-2 photos (if possible)
Please see an example of a tournament article (1077 characters, the final tournament table, 2 photos)
The minimum level of a tournament an article can be written about is a regional championship. When in doubt, please check with the website administration on the level of the tournament. You can do it via Feedback section.
Articles should be prepared for publishing and posted to the website by authors! Please see the Instructions section. The website editor-in-chief is ready to help to post the first 2-3 articles and answer questions.
2.2 Rewards
Authors will get 50 RUR per article published from January 1st to December 31st, 2015.
At year-end 2016 the website administration selects the best articles. The authors of these articles will get extra 50 RUR as a bonus.
Payments are made after an author gets a total of 200 RUR for his/her articles. If an author doesn’t write enough articles during the year to get 200 RUR, he/she will be paid the amount scored at the end of the year.
Payment: money can be send to a mobile phone, transferred to an account in the "Yandex Money" system, or be personally handed
3. The terms of the "Best blogger 2015" competition
3.1 Participants
To take part in the competition, a person should write at least one article and post it in the Blogs section from January 1st to December 15, 2015. Please see the Instructions section. The website editor-in-chief is ready to help to post the first 2-3 articles and answer questions.
In December the website administration nominates 6 authors.
3.2 Announcement of the competition results
The places for these 6 nominees will be determined and distributed based on the survey held among the website visitors + on the decision taken by the judges. This system was tested last year.
Visitors of the site take part in the "Best blogger 2015" survey and following its results the nominees score points:
1st place - 10 points, 2nd place - 8 points, 3rd place - 7 points, 4th place - 5 points, 5th place - 4 points, 6th place - 3 points accordingly.
The judges are 4 persons who have 3 votes:
- AJLA (CEO): Vikulov Yuriy and Viktor Vereshchagin - 1 vote
- Editor-in-chief: Ivan Trofimov - 1 vote
- Deputy chief editor: pelikesha - 1 vote
The nominees get points from the judges who decide which place this or that nominee will take:
1st place - 8 points, 2nd place - 6 points, 3rd place - 5 points, 4th place - 3 points, 5 place - 2 points, 6th place - 1 point
The winners are decided based on the maximum number of points scored. In case of an equality of points, the decision is made by the editor-in-chief Ivan Trofimov
3.3 Prize fund
The prize fund is 5500 RUR: 1st place - 2000 RUR, 2nd place - 1500 RUR, 3rd place - 1000 RUR, 4th place - 500 RUR, 5th place - 300 RUR, 6th place - 200 RUR
Payment: money can be send to a mobile phone, transferred to an account in the "Yandex Money" system, or be personally handed