A few weeks ago, I reported on the blog competition that was going on here. Well the competition closed yesterday and the winners were announced. It turned out that I was one of the judges of the competition (I didn't know I would be when I wrote before) so I did read all of them in great depth, and they are a fantastic bunch of very different, very interesting, well written, well put together blogs.
There were 10 entrants and 6 of them would all have been worthy winners. In the end the winners were:
Under 18 category:
First place- Visit Csikszereda! This one is great and really has some superb photos on it, and has used the visuals in a very good way.
Second place- Aagota's Hometown Again very good, a nice variety of stuff and a different kind of format.
Over 18 category:
First place- Csixereda!? Another really excellent blog. Some really nice pieces of writing (and excellent English). I urge you to watch the video by local band "Los Colorados"
Second place - Ikarosz Grocery Different, varied, great design, very original. Good mixture of items
Public online vote:
A Piece of Harghita. I loved this one, and actually it was my top choice for the competition, so I'm glad it won the public vote, after being pipped in the under 18 category. Very interesting, well written, great design, I loved the way he uses video. Highly recommended.
Not to forget:
Zsu's Blog. Sadly there were only 5 awards made, and as it turns out there were 6 really excellent blogs, so this one missed out, but it is still worth your attention. Well thought out, good design, nice writing and presentation. Good use of pictures.
So, I'm actually about to go on holiday for the next ten days or so, and anyway, it's not like I've been around a lot of late, so, I'd like to recommend that anyone who is in the vaguest bit interested in Csikszereda/Miercurea Ciuc take a look at these blogs. And I'd like to urge the authors to keep at it, since they're doing a great job and they shouldn't stop when the competition is over.
To finish, shamelessly ripped from "A Piece of Harghita" a video presentation of this town. Manages to achieve in 4 minutes what I have failed to do in 5 years of incessant rambling on here
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2 comments:
I'm in love with this competition and thanks Andy for this post because now I can follow issues about Csikszereda by special bloggers.
And well, I want let u know that my blog is www.csikszereda.blogspot.com and I started this blog when I lived for 8 months two years ago in this wonderful place and in spite of being now my hot city Barcelona I still write my blog (in Catalan)about szeklers, romanian and gipsies from the distance.
Now I understand! A competition... Great idea! I hope this blogs will have a long life because I'm curious to see the evolution of this city. I came for the last time in 1998... and I was only 16! I was visiting friends in Sâncrăieni/Csíkszentkirály.
Thanks for all this blogs!
Lou, from Belgium.
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