It’s time for another epic contest to see which kids ministry blogger will become a champion. You may even discover a few new blogs you’d like to follow. We will have three rounds, mirroring the NCAA basketball tournament.
This opening round has closed, click here to see round 2. Then go rally support for your friends.
This is all just for fun, but there will a big prize. Hint — it rhymes with my dad and has the number two in it’s name. The official announce will come in the second round. This round will close on March 19th and the top four blogs in each bracket will advance.
West Regional
- Go Fish Guy (Jamie Statema)
- Lemon Lime Kids (Amy Dolan)
- GinaMcClain.com
- Leader 2 Leader (Jim Wideman)
- Relevant Children’s Ministry (Dale Hudson)
- Life2gether
- Kidmin1124
- CM Buzz
- Creative Kids Pastor
- Sunday School Revolutionary!
- A Heart After Children
- SojournKids
- What Matters Now Blog
- Roger Fields
- Dick Gruber
- Molded
- Kid Trek
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Southeast Regional
- Kid Inspiration (Dave Wakerley)
- Children’s Ministry 1234
- Orange Leaders
- Kidologist.com – Karl Bastian
- Justyn Smith
- Elemental Children’s Ministry
- Legacy Blog (Brian Haynes)
- Michael Chanley
- Kidmin360.com
- Inside Northpoint Kids
- JC is ONLINE
- Effective Childrens Ministry
- CentriKid Camps Blog
- The Thursday Blog
- Cap City Kids
- Jeremy Mavis
- Kids Pastor Cathy
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East Regional
- sam luce
- Matt McKee Live
- Dad In The Middle
- Children’s Minister BLOG
- Children’s Ministry Magazine Blog
- JamieDoyle
- DiscipleBlog.com
- Kids Ministry 101
- Kidhelper.com
- Family Regeneration
- Revival Fire For Kids Blog
- Acacia in the Desert
- nickblevins.com
- Commander Bill
- Children and God
- Caroline Bergeron
- About the Children’s Department
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Southwest Regional
- Children’s Ministry Online (Kenny Conley)
- jonathancliff.com
- PreteenMinistry.net Blog (Nick Diliberto)
- Growing Kids Ministry
- The Inclusive Church
- West Coast CM (Anthony Prince)
- Free CM Stuff
- Scripture Lady
- Train Up The Child
- It’s a kids ministry Revolution baby!
- Christianity Cove
- DOPCANDY
- Todd McKeever
- Small Town Kidmin
- Cory Center
- Glen Woods
- Victory Circle
- Joe McAlpine
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Seed selection was ranked based on our previous Top 100 ranking plus some adjustments for recent consistency. The selection committee included only me. This was much more difficult than previous years and many good blogs just were left on the bubble.
If you’re not happy with your ranking, this is your chance to prove me wrong by turning out the vote. You can also leave a comment below to offer your feedback.
Can’t wait to see and vote on Round Two. Thanks for this fun competition Tony!
The buzzer has sounded. We had a little overtime thanks to the “super moon” and walking along the beach. Next round will be up soon. Go celebrate for 10 minutes then get ready to start scouting the competition.
Come on Tony. Hurry and finish supper already!
He must have gone to the buffet and is still eating :-D
If he’s like me, he’s crying because Pitt’s loss messed up his bracket. Oh well, I still have my hopes set on Free CM Stuff taking it all!
Actually, everyone in Indiana had Butler winning that one… it was just a little close than we expected.
Today is the close of round one I think. I appreciate anyone who voted for my blog but apologize that I have been gone the whole week and could not work it at all and will not be going into round 2.
Looking forward to seeing all the great blogs who make it to round 2 and casting our votes for them now.
Have fun.
Excited to see the outcome!
I didn’t set a specific deadline, but it will probably be around 8 PM tomorrow night when the polls close in this round with the official round two going live about 30 minutes later. It all depends on when I get back from dinner.
Here’s hoping Tony goes to MickeyD’s and not a buffet :-P
I finally pulled one vote ahead of Greg in my friendly showdown with my buddy. Whoho! At the Kidology Gathering at CPC Iasked him if it would be cheating for me to put a banner ad on kidology.org for this – and he said “If any of us had that network and traffic we would” but I haven’t yet!! Trying to resist!! Ha! Last year I did nothing and got creamed, so I’m trying to be more proactive this year.
You should save your big guns for the next rounds. We saw this last year where competitors left it all on the court and didn’t have anything left for the finals.
This is very cool! Can’t wait to see who wins
Tony,
I guess you got my check.
I also take PayPal.
Hello Tony,
I have people trying to vote today, but it tells them “error on page”
:^(
Sweet, my evil plan to block votes for other blogs is finally working! :)
:^)
The competition this year is much tighter and we’ve been seeing Facebook drive significant traffic to the polls.
I was just comparing last year’s round one. The lowest vote totals to move on last year were 60, 67, 46, 66. The highest vote totals after round one were 89, 133, 159, 99. Only four blogs in the first round achieved 100+ votes.
This year the average 4th place in each division is already 70 votes. For several divisions, 80 votes will not even be safe to advance.
I blame the “secret” grand prize… :)
Holy Cow! Is the winner getting on iPadd2?!?!?! That is incredible! Since I already have one – I already know who I will be giving the one I win to if I win this… a very worthy kidminer… so vote to kidologist.com so I can give my prize away! Wow, this is exciting!
It’s a bit of a riddle, but that is the best guess I’ve heard so far about the prize…
Thanks for including my blog despite my horrible consistency with blogging lately!
He writes, “This is all just for fun, but there will a big prize. Hint — it rhymes with my dad and has the number two in it’s name.”
And iPad 2 fits that hint…. so I think all those already with an iPad should vote offer their votes to those of us who could use one ;-)
The tournament is off to an exciting start! Don’t despair if you’re a little behind the leaders – you just need to make the top four in your division to move on to the next round.
Tony are you really giving away an iPad 2 this year?
Let’s just say the winner will be very happy
Wow, I’m getting hammered! Not that I expected much more, look who’s in my regional!
But seriously, vote for me. Everyone loves a good comback story and I’ve already started on the script for a full length feature film about my rise from the ashes after a good pummelling the first two days to go on to victory and be hoisted upon the shoulders of bloggers everywhere as they sing, “For he’s a jolly good blogger.”
Of course, I don’t want to give too much about the screenplay away, but there will be romance (starring my hot wife), action, sci-fi, comedy, and a little bit of film noir flair. I’m only making the movie if I win (because I’ll shoot it entirely on the ipad 2), so you need to vote for me.