We're participating on the Site Battle Madness 2019

**Kaynil** · March 14, 2019 at 12:44 AM Official Post

Current Status: Defeated.

Thank you for your participation. It's been quite enjoyable, even if our journey was shorter. We can prepare and make sure to make a comeback next time. Good luck to all our visitors still have your site going in Forum Promotion.

PAST ROUNDS:
2nd Round: Battle #22: Zelda Community Vs Admin Loop - DEFEAT ;(

Admin Loop I believe is owned by kingcool52, so I feel pretty lucky we get to share this match. It's a pretty nice resource blog and community for webmasters and I am not going to lie, between both choices I am pretty sure folks at FP are more familiar with them than us, haha. This is going to be really though.
Result: We we lost by four votes.

1st Round: Battle #11: Zelda Community Vs Fireside Chats - VICTORY! :D

This first battle is already tough, and it is against a blog from a very nice member. I meant what I said in the thread. It is pretty cool to coincide with her for our first encounter.
Result: That was a close call, guys, but we won by two votes.

Boring Explanation

Deja Vu! I can't believe it is already time to be making this thread again!

A year ago I decided to enroll Zelda Community in a event held on in another community I have been part of for a long time called "ForumPromotion", which is a hub community for webmasters to come interact and find ways to help their communities. This event was a voting contest to help promote some communities. You can read how it was for us when we entered to the SBM 2018. Since it seems like typically Forums have better reception than websites, I decided one again to enter our lovely community. With the change of software and the tweaks that Link has been doing, I am confident we have something new to offer for people visiting us from Forum Promotion.

Site Battle Madness 2019

The tournament has kicked with 32 websites. Divided in two groups. Each group will be divided with vote battles between two contestants. The one with more votes wins and pass to the next level of the tournament. You can read all the details in Forum Promotion's thread: SBM 2019 Official Rules & Prizes.

As for Zelda Community, we are nested inside the second group, You can see our progress at the top of this post and through this thread.
I will do my best to keep you updated on how we fare through the competition.

How to help

1. Join Forum Promotion.
( If you participated last year, you are probably already with enough posts to participate. :/)

2. Make 5 posts in their community before voting.
(If you are unsure, I'd say go to try first to create a thread in "New to FP?" and introduce yourself. Then for the other 4 posts you can head to intelectual talk as it is their general talk section. Forum games don't increase your post count. And since you are there feel free to check the other sites and vote or explore the community.)

3. Head straight to the current Battle poll with Zelda Community in the title

4. Make sure to vote for us!

**Kyde** · March 14, 2019 at 9:15 PM Official Post

I voted. I am excited. We were final four last year.

Claraviolet · March 15, 2019 at 9:59 AM Official Post

Voted for Zelda community.

I hope I would remember to vote for the remaining battles as well. We won this round as far as I am concerned

**Kaynil** · March 20, 2019 at 9:42 PM Official Post

Quote from Claraviolet

Voted for Zelda community.

I hope I would remember to vote for the remaining battles as well. We won this round as far as I am concerned

Aaah, Claraviolet. Thank you so much!! :D

**Kaynil** · March 22, 2019 at 8:07 AM Official Post

RESULTS:

That was a close call. Surviving the sweet sixteen is going to be a challenge.

If you want to support us, you can vote for us in this thread:

Battle #22: Zelda Community Vs Admin Loop

Admin Loop I believe is owned by kingcool52, so I feel pretty lucky we get to share this match. It's a pretty nice resource blog and community for webmasters and I am not going to lie, between both choices I am pretty sure folks at FP are more familiar with them than us, haha. This is going to be really though.

Feel free to keep us updated how the votes are going. Thanks again for your support.

**Kyde** · March 22, 2019 at 5:37 PM Official Post

I voted again.

Claraviolet · March 25, 2019 at 9:33 PM Official Post

I can't access FP.

An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.

I wish I could remember the voting...I would love to vote for Zelda community again

**Kaynil** · March 25, 2019 at 11:19 PM Official Post

Quote from Claraviolet

I can't access FP.

An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.

I wish I could remember the voting...I would love to vote for Zelda community again

Yeah, unfortunately they were having some issues. I spoke with some of the staff and they are working on it.

Right now it is giving a server error, but seems the theme loaded so hopefully in some hours we can have some news.

ADDED: I think they are transferring to a different server so it might be longer before it becomes available again.

**Kaynil** · March 26, 2019 at 6:11 PM Official Post

Claraviolet Silent Lion, Kyde and everyone that has been helping us with your votes so far. I might need you to vote again.

Because of a Database Failure at Forum Promotion, they lost 40 hours of posts, so if you voted after Friday chances are that your vote has been lost, so I want to ask you guys to double check the thread and see if your vote is still there. I think Link's vote is safe according to his post above. Haha.

Battle #22: Zelda Community Vs Admin Loop

Also, I've updated the first post on this thread so it looks neat and straight to the point where we are... and how far we could make it.

Silent Lion · March 27, 2019 at 5:25 AM Official Post

I think their forum is down again!

**Kaynil** · March 27, 2019 at 7:13 AM Official Post

Ugh. I am sorry. It is a big bummer. What's going on is that they are moving to a different host, because of timezones I am assuming they had to pause before letting it be open to the public again. Once they open again it should be good.

**Kaynil** · March 28, 2019 at 12:10 AM Official Post

Silent Lion, Claraviolet and everyone thinking about voting:

Forum promotion is back online. Because of the downtime they are extending the poll for extra 3 days.
Battle #22: Zelda Community Vs Admin Loop

Claraviolet · March 30, 2019 at 4:35 AM Official Post

Quote from Kaynil

Silent Lion, Claraviolet and everyone thinking about voting:

Forum promotion is back online. Because of the downtime they are extending the poll for extra 3 days.
Battle #22: Zelda Community Vs Admin Loop

I made my vote and hopefully we would win this round.

But we are still lagging almost 5 votes.....and I really hope we could get them somehow.

**Kaynil** · March 31, 2019 at 6:47 AM Official Post

Thank you so much for voting.

Yes. I would love if we could pass to the next round. If we're behind five votes that can be a challenge.

**Kaynil** · April 4, 2019 at 12:07 AM Official Post

I am sorry guys, we have been defeated: Admin Loop beat us by 4 votes.

What about the save round?

To spice things up SBM has been bringing a save round each year and today is not an exception. For the save round the community with more votes is given a second chance to fight.

To be honest I am not sure how it works so I don't know if we have a another chance. If it is just counting on what we have been voted so far in the rounds, probably the ones that lose in the Elite Eight will have more chance to return for a rematch, since they'd accumulate more votes. Just counting the sweet sixteen we're second more voted of the sweet sixteens behind Funjoint. They missed with 17 votes, I checked their previous round and they won it with 17 votes, so that's a good solid 34 votes. I haven't checked each other project that didn't make it, but just going by this, to be honest, I don't think we're close to have a second go for this year. Zelda Community has accumulated 24 votes between both rounds, so just against them, we're 10 votes behind.

Even if this year we couldn't make it as far as last one, I am still glad we entered the contest and really grateful to you all for supporting us with your votes and being such a good sports. I am hoping to use the steam we collected with the contest to promote our community more openly in ForumPromotion and try to get people interested in trying our community. Next year we are entering for sure, and I'd love to make some noise.

Now, even if it is over for us, you guys can still go and have some fun with the tournament. If you'd like, can keep you up to date on the general results as they come in the replies. Maybe we can have some fun watching just how far each project goes. In my case I am curious on battle #25 since it is pairing two very good general gaming forums and in battle#27, where Admin Loops is fighting against Nightly Frights, the funny thing is that this forum is also Grimalkin's, same owner we shared our first round with. So I am very curious what the final score will be there.

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