The Blog Design Madness competition is now officially underway! There are 64 blogs that have been chosen, and the participants are all listed in this post. Because each competition requires a separate poll, I decided to break up the first round into 2 parts. There are 16 matchups in this post involving 32 outstanding blog designs, and the second half of round one will come in a few days (but I did list the other 32 participants at the end of this post for those of you who are curious).
Each matchup includes a poll, links and a screenshot of both blogs. Please vote for as many of the matchups as possible (if you’re reading in an RSS reader or in email, you’ll have to click through to the post to be able to vote, as you’ll see below). Voting will be open for 24 hours (until 9:00 PM Tuesday, Eastern time - US).
Thank you to everyone who voiced their opinion over the past few days by nominating blogs for the competition. I apologize to the last few commentors because I set the participants yesterday before your comments came in.
I initially said I would seed the competitors, but I quickly realized that was not feasible. So, I separated a few of the “favorites” and tried to balance them out so they could meet up against each other as late as possible, but for the most part the matchups are fairly random. If you’re interested in seeing a bracket, I created a makeshift Excel sheet that will be updated as the tournament goes.
Just a reminder, the winners from each round will move on to face each other. Enough talk, let’s get to the voting.
GROUP 1
Freelance Switch
Mark’s Digital Farm
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Vocino.com
You the Designer
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Pro Blog Design
Tim Kadlec
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9513 
Webstock
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Grand Sierra Magazine
Elitist Snob
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The Big Noob
Blog Design Blog
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Reflections
TrailerFlick
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David Airey
Kollermedia
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GROUP 2ProBlogger 
Sully’s Design Studio
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Artico
Young Go Getter
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Cult Foo
N. Design Studio
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Robert Beerworth
Noupe
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Laura Alter
Loon Design
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Rob Goodlatte
A List Apart
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Josh Spear
Mostly Lisa
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PSDTuts
Bart-Jan Verhoef
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The rest of the participants will get in on the action in a few days. These blogs will finish out the second half of round one (images will be included when the voting occurs).
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