The Bloggies 2026
A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.
The Bloggies are almost here...
It's time for a re-introduction: Welcome to The Bloggies. A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games. It's one part celebration and one part battle royale. Dust off your blog-reading eyes and stretch your repost fingers, The Bloggies are about to begin.
Submissions opening soon...
Check back January 1st for the form.
Important dates
The Bloggies are not as serious or big-budget as the other award shows. After all, it's not about the voting and winning, it's about the reading and writing. However, the past few years have followed the same rough schedule:
- Submissions open: January 1st, 2026
- Submissions close: January 31st, 2026
- Voting opens: Mid-February (TBD)
- Winners declared: Late-February (TBD)
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Updates, results, and forms will be published here for easy reference.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's eligible for submission?
Anything written between December 1st 2024 and December 31st 2025.*
*Last year the cutoff was November 31st, hence why you can submit posts late 2024. That said, I love a simple criteria, so I'm extending the deadline to December 31st.)
Who's this year's host?
The Bloggies are like a cursed crown — wearing it means carrying its burden. You know, like The Dutchman, The Red Hood, The Lich King, Death, or Santa Claus. That means the person hosting the Bloggies this year, won platinum last year, and the person who hosts next year, is foolishly trying to win this year.
In case you didn't know, the host role is passed from one platinum winner to the next. The 2024 host was Sacha Goat who won The Bloggies in 2023. Before them it was Zedeck Siew. Before Zedeck it was Prismatic Wasteland — who started The Bloggies.
If you want to see all the past winners from platinum to copper, you can find them all on the winners page. This year's host is Clayton Notestine (hello!) of Explorers Design. I won 2024's Bloggies with a silly post about combat without hit points. I'm proof you can win so long as you have an idea, nothing better to do, and a social media account to pester people with links.
Next year's host will be whoever wins The Bloggies 2026.
How do blog posts compete?
The Bloggies are an unserious affair. It operates like the Thunderdome with a bracket-style tourney. 32 to 64 blog posts go in. Four golds, silvers, and coppers leave. Then the golds fight each other for platinum. It's chaotic fun.
How are blog posts selected?
The community nominates blog posts in January. Then the host winnows it down to just 64 finalists. This is not an easy task — which is why the host might lean on the number of nominations, the guidance of previous hosts, and dangerous amounts of caffeine.
This year, I'm calling for aid from the other 2025 finalists.
Prismatic Wasteland, Amanda P of Weird Wonder, and Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club.
How does voting work?
The Bloggies change from year to year. (That's what happens when the mantle changes hands.) This year, the plan is for the brackets to run concurrently over the course of one week. It's going to be a lot of reading. Then, once we have our winners, they'll compete one last time for The Bloggies crown.
All of these plans are tentative. The number of submissions will decide the final shape of this year's Bloggies.
Is campaigning allowed?
Yes. It's encouraged. But there's a golden path to Bloggies greatness — boost another post at the same time. So, if you're hyping up your theory post, try to hype up someone else's post at the same time. If you fail to uphold this one rule, your URL will be cursed with inane comments, typos, and long load times for all eternity.