Here you can nominate Who you think is the most broken-hearted member of the sports world for last week, and then try to cheer them up or give them some advice.
Due to the recent strain on my voting power, I'm scaling back to a 50% upvote to all qualifying entries but I'm increasing the prizes to 50 total SCR.
1st place will receive 25 SCR
2nd place will receive 15 SCR
3rd place will receive 10 SCR
@Swolesome will be our guest judge this week!
Are you writing good blogs but still struggling to get noticed on Scorum? Or maybe you have already had some success but you are finding it hard to find something to write about? Then this is the contest for you!
This is the place where you know that you will have one new subject every week, because we are sure to have plenty of losers and mishaps to write about, plus you are assured that your blog will get some extra views.
This Week's Winners!
I loved every entry this week and was very glad that I had a volunteer victim... Judge for this weeks contest. Each blog had something special about it, but in the end, a choice had to be made and so here are the results.
First Place 20 SCR winner
Second Place 10 SCR winner
Entry: "HAPPY MOAN DAY "THAT AWKWARD MOMENT"."
Third Place 5 SCR winner
Entry: "Happy Moan-day Milestone match ended in defeat for Polish King Lewy"
The prize money is increasing, enter and become next weeks Happy Moan-Day Winner!
- The power of this competition is in recognition, by entering a blog in this contest you are sure to have some readers checking it out. I will upvote every qualifying blog as soon as I see the link posted below so that it gets bumped up on the trending pages. My hope is that readers will soon begin to recognize the blog title and make it a practice to support the entries. To enter this contest you must write and publish your own blog with the Title "Happy Moan-day ______________!" Fill in the blank with the name of a person, group, place, or team. This must be concerning something that has happened during the previous week prior to the contest blogs posting. So this current contest is for sports-related items that have happened between last Monday a week ago and yesterday, Midnight Sunday.
- Next include a photo, meme, short video clip, a screenshot or something similar that best represents the subject that you used to fill in the title blank. Make sure that you have usage rights and provide any necessary links.
- Now you need to write a blog of at least 450 words to describe what happened and who was involved, as well as the reason that you are nominating them for moaners of the week.
- Provide a link back to this blog somewhere in your Moanful Monday Blog.
- Last you must say something at the end, one final quote or comment that is meant to cheer up or encourage the subject of your blog. This could be something simple like "C'est la vie," or a quote from a famous author or poet, a proverb or religious text, or best of all your very own words of wisdom or consolation. You are welcome to have your own signature encouraging comment and use it on all of your Moan-day blogs, or give a different comment or quote every week that best fits the situation.
- Once your Moanful Monday blog has been posted then leave a link to it in the comment section below so that I will know that you have entered the contest and I can then visit and upvote your blog.
- Your blog can be posted at any time before midnight Sunday night, but the content must be from the previous weeks sporting events.
Everyone is encouraged to read and support as many of the Moanful Monday blogs as possible during the week. I will try to get these blog posts out early every Monday so that you can begin posting your blogs. I encourage you to write about an event that happens during the week and save it as a draft so that you will be ready to post it on Monday as soon as the new contest blog has been added.
(This contest is all about Sports Losers, Fails, Muffs, Falls, Goofs, or anything else that would make a player, coach, fans or spectators moan and groan. Please, no post that would cause us to mourn, like fatalities or serious injuries. This is meant to be in fun, there are always funny fails that happen and there are losers that need to be cheered up. This is simply a way to cheer up all of those losers of the week who are trying to pull themselves back together for the next competition.)
Here is my "Just For Fun" entry for this weeks contest.
Happy Moan-Day to the Ohio State Buckeyes!
Saturday, October 20th was another crazy and wild football day for NCAA football. Everyone was wondering how bad #1 ranked Alabama was going to beat a Tennessee Volunteers squad that was coming off of an amazing upset over the top 10 ranked Auburn Tigers. The same feeling was pervasive for the #2 ranked and highly touted Ohio State Buckeyes who were facing a struggling Purdue Boilermakers team that was 3-3 on the season. Alabama quickly took care of their side of this dynamic duo of powerhouse teams by racing to a 28-0 first quarter lead over the Vols and they never looked back. I'm so sorry to say that things did not go as well for the Buckeyes who fumbled, bumbled and miscued their way into one of the most embarrassing defeats in school history.
When a loss of this magnitude happens and when you see what is normally a very prideful and aggressive program just give up late in the game and appear like they are not even trying, then you have to get the idea that there is more to this loss than just a bad turn of luck or an inferior team playing way over their head on that beautiful day. No, more than likely this loss goes to things that happened off the field, a breakdown in team cohesion in the locker room, and a disconnect between the players and their coaches.
There is no doubt in my mind that this loss goes back to the events that made embarrassing headlines before the season ever started. Headlines that included domestic abuse, cover-ups, loss of leadership control, lies, and a failure to protect those who were weak and vulnerable. I'm sure that there was some loss of respect, some dissatisfaction with how things were handled, and a whole lot of insecurity about the future of the program and about the careers of everyone involved with Ohio State Football.
This team has been living under a dark cloud and the setup for this dismal performance was laid out weeks ago. A lot of people seem to think that you can get away with doing wrong forever, that deceptions and lies will never catch up to them, but alas they always do and the ramifications invariably hurt both the guilty and the innocent. This is one Moan-Day that will hang around for a long long time, and some will carry it to their grave with much grieving and regrets in between.
But take heart Buckeyes fans, all of life has its ups and downs and this week has been a very deep down point for you. The time that you spend in the valley can be dark and trying, I can tell you also that the climb back up to the top is often long and arduous. There is no need for despair though, because those who keep their head up and put in the hard work and effort will eventually make it up to the top of that mountain, and when you do the view will be even that much sweeter and more beautiful.
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