This is a silly contest that takes place in April. The winner gets bragging rights.

IMBC 2006 Winners:

• Finley (Finley’s Blog) and full_absolution (Bradley Drawn)

IMBC 2005 Winner:

• Beefy (Beefyness.com)

Well, IMBC 2006 is over. Finley and F.A. have emerged victorious in a surprising tie and have both set a new IMBC record of 47 consecutive daily posts. Congrats, guys!

Participants for IMBC 2006:

• hjo3, Upsidaisium.com
  April 20th post less than 300 words.
• Beefy, Beefyness.com
  Conceded on May 10th.
• Jones, Jonesrilla’s Journal/Beefyness.com
  Conceded April 28th.
• full_absolution, Bradley Drawn
• Tim, Spiffy Randomness
  April 7th post just barely came up short of 300 words.
• Ben, Spiffy Randomness
  Voluntarily withdrew March 31st.
• M.C. Jamez, M.C. Jamez Blog of Doom
  Resigned on May 11th.
• Posyden, Posyden Journal
  April 23rd post was made after EST deadline.
  Posting past the midnight deadline in your own timezone was ruled illegal and this requirement was made retroactive (though it was a tie, precedent says it defaults to a “yes” vote). (Ballot, votes.)
• Finley, Finley’s Blog
  Almost disqualified for failing to post on primary blog April 12th, but the majority voted that he stay in the competition.

(This list will be updated as contestants fail or withdraw from the competition.)

If you want to participate, contact Hank or Beefy with your blog URL and name.

Rules:

• Each participant must make at least one valid post per day, every day.
• Each post must meet the following criteria to be considered valid:
• The post must contain a datestamp.
• Text:
  At least 300 words. (If in dispute, MS Word’s word count function, using default settings, will be the official measure.) If the post contains quoted text, only the first 75 words of the quoted material may count towards the post’s minimum of 300.
• The following things do not count towards a post’s official word count: Post titles, signatures, time stamps, date stamps, a wordcount statistic, or any text automatically provided by the blogging tool/platform (e.g. “posted by Bob,” “17 comments”).
  (This was decided by a vote amongst all the active competitors in the 2006 IMBC on 4/9/06. Here is the ballot and the voting records.)
• Media:
  At least every other post must contain a picture, video, or Flash file. That is, two media-less entries may not be posted consecutively. The media in question must be hosted somewhere where you have control over the files (i.e. you can upload, delete, and rename freely). Media is valid only if it has not been previously posted or linked to on the blog.
• Obviously pointless material, like the word “narf” copy-pasted three hundred times, or a scribble made with MS Paint in under three seconds, will not count towards text or media content. Subject matter must have at least a grain of substance.

Anyone who fails to make a valid post every day, once the competition has begun, loses. The winner’s declared when only one person remains whom hasn’t broken the rules. After the winner is declared, all other participants have a window of ten days (240 hours) to appeal the decision (a new winner may be declared if it can be proven that the participant in question failed to make a valid post every day of the competition). After the ten day window, the winner’s title is completely secure and permanent for that year — even if proof exists that they did not follow all the rules.