Vote for Writer of the Month – April 2011 + TRAFFIC STATS

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April showers bring May flowers… and May flowers bring the new SixPrizes Writer of the Month Poll!

This month we had a record 24 different writers step up to the plate! I think it’s awesome how many people contributed this month, and I want to thank you all for the support. It’s contributors like you that keep the site going strong.

I’ll throw a little tidbit out there from one of J-Wittz’s Underground articles: Almost every great Pokemon TCG player out there has written an article or tournament report for a Pokemon TCG website at some point of their career.

Just something to think about…

As always, the top 10 vote getters will receive a FREE month subscription to SixPrizes Underground!

I may even expand that to more than 10 this month since we had so many contributors. If the voting gets close down to the 10th person, I’ll probably go with the top 12 or 13.

If YOU would like to become a contributor to the site (and have a chance to snag one of those free UG memberships), check out the instructions here.

Vote for your 5 favorite writers from last month (April 2011).

NOTE: Usually it’s vote for your top 3 favs, but this month I decided to expand voting to your top 5 since we had more contributors than usual.

Poll closes Wednesday May 5th at 11:59 PM EST.

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Who were your 5 favorite writers from April 2011?

  • Kenny Wisdom (Kenny’s Wisdom: B/W Rule Change and Set List Thoughts + Random Notes, The Face of Modified: Regionals 2010-2011, Lost Remover... (54%, 44 Votes)
  • Aydan Aires (The Epic Tale Of Regionals! – Gyarados LOCK) (30%, 25 Votes)
  • kn3ll_ (10 Card of the Days) (27%, 22 Votes)
  • Michael Sison (Money and Mathematics: Booster Packs) (26%, 21 Votes)
  • TomO (Pokemon For Parents – Part 1, Getting Into The Game, Part Two - Deck Anatomy, Pokemon 2010 World Championship Deck Analysis – Boltevoir) (18%, 15 Votes)
  • Perry Going (PGMCSSKATER’s Season Report and Quinton, Virginia First Place Regionals Report) (17%, 14 Votes)
  • Jay Hornung (The New Black & White Rules – What They Mean For You) (16%, 13 Votes)
  • Tony Smith (Magnezone Tone’s 5-3 Philly Regional Championship Report: A Spiritual Journey) (15%, 12 Votes)
  • Matt Ludwigson (MewPerior Goes 5-2 at Wisconsin Regionals, Pokémon Limited Analysis: A Look At Black & White Sealed) (15%, 12 Votes)
  • Logan Herbort (Pokemon TCG Online Beta Review, So Pokemon Changed The Rules…, 8 Different Decks at Texas Regionals, 1 Card of the Day) (13%, 11 Votes)
  • Versilaryan (Missouri Regionals – 4th Place with VileGar) (12%, 10 Votes)
  • Dane Carlson (ChampDos for Regionals? – A Rogue Deck Analysis, 5 Card of the Days) (12%, 10 Votes)
  • The Purple Pro (My Take on The Metagame plus Preparation for Regionals, Wisconsin Regionals Report) (10%, 8 Votes)
  • Zack Ayello (Zack “Cabd” Ayello’s CA (Masters) Regionals Report: Terrible with “Yandere”) (10%, 8 Votes)
  • Frank (The Little Rogue That Could – Mewcario, All’s Fair in Legendary War – Entei/Suicune Rush) (10%, 8 Votes)
  • Genguy (Genguy’s Regionals Report + Deck List!) (9%, 7 Votes)
  • Ian Asplund (A Risky Choice – 6th at Utah States with Gyarados + List!) (9%, 7 Votes)
  • a hahn (Missed the Zone – Missouri Regionals Report, Ok Great, We’ve Heard the News! So Now What?) (7%, 6 Votes)
  • Derek Coontz (The Art of the “Trading” Card Game, Why Not to Play The New Rogue Deck You Found 2 Weeks Before a Big Event) (7%, 6 Votes)
  • Peter Bae (Donk Format is Here? The New Black & White Rule and its Effects) (7%, 6 Votes)
  • Ross Gilbert (So, Machamp / Donphan Can’t Win States? – Nottingham, UK States Report, Complete Set Review! Call of Legends! Epic!) (6%, 5 Votes)
  • Alex Holdway (Southern California Regionals – A Stranger in a Stranger Land) (4%, 3 Votes)
  • bittyboy72 (A Strong Opinion on the Rotation News) (4%, 3 Votes)
  • Merrisa (Sunnyvale, CA Regionals: Lantharos Loss Report) (4%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 82

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Make sure you click “Submit” after you check off your selections!

In other news…

TRAFFIC STATS

I thought people might be interested in seeing how much traffic SixPrizes gets, so here’s what we’ve got… this is all for the month of April:

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And then here is the traffic from July 7th 2009 (the launch of 6P) until April 30th 2011:

I can post the traffic stats again next month if anyone is interested. I thought it would be fun to share with you since most websites don’t post their traffic.

It’s pretty crazy how many visitors we get right now, and I can only see the site getting bigger in the future especially with the release of Pokemon TCG Online. I feel so lucky to be in the position of running this site, and I’ll do my best to keep it going strong far into the future.

Thank you so much to every single person out there reading this, it means a ton. :)

-Adam

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  • Anonymous

    Wow, that’s quite a lot of traffic. Wish my site got that much lol.

    But anyway, it’s really cool to see 6P growing!

  • Anonymous

    yeah it’s really cool to see the traffic take off

  • Anonymous

    How on earth do I choose 5 from that many people lol?

    That growth is really impressive, it’s a steady increase as well which is in general a lot better than random fluctuations :)

    • http://adamcap.com/ Adam Capriola

      I think next month instead of a poll, I might just tally up the combined ratings from each writer’s articles. I can definitely see it getting confusing with so many choices in the poll, so that might be a little simpler. I’ll make an announcement after this poll ends.

      • Anonymous

        Just an idea, but would using a rating per article average be better. Some people write a butt load of articles. Whereas, other people only write one or two a month but put a lot of work into them.

      • http://adamcap.com/ Adam Capriola

        Yeah that’s definitely a possibility, I’ll think things over. I’ll probably compare the final results of this poll to what the standings would have been with total rating and average rating for the month, and see how accurate both measures are.

      • http://twitter.com/kwisdumb Kenny Wisdom

        For what it’s worth I think that would be a bad idea. I know that I personally never rate articles on any sites. If I like them I participate in polls like this, or link the article to FB, twitter, etc.

        Seeing if the results from this poll would line-up with the ratings is a great idea to test the waters, but I think that this system is much better.

  • Anonymous

    NUMBER ONE 10-CotD COOLGUY

    • Anonymous

      I helped with that! :)

  • http://www.teamomar.com/ Ed

    Thanks for the traffic stats. I find that stuff interesting. OneHitKO.com (formerly TeamOmar.com) isn’t quite at the same level. :)

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the votes, guys!

    -Logan Herbort

  • http://profiles.google.com/werdnareztips Andrew Valren

    Dang, I missed the month cut off by 2 days XD. Meh, I probably wouldn’t have gotten more than one vote anyway :P

  • Anonymous

    YES!!!!!! I barely made it in to get the Underground Subscription. WOOOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!! :D