Mike Rundle October 26, 2006 ¦ 
To say that our Round 5 with 1,190 submissions was big is a real understatement. We got blog submissions from all over the world, on a variety of different platforms, on dozens of different subjects, all from people who are passionate about the blog they own, run, and love.
Here’s a graph depicting how Round 5 stacks up against our first four membership rounds:
Round 5 was by far our largest round, but it’s also many other things. Here are some statistics I thought were pretty interesting:
(Paul says he went to bed right before 9am)Now just because we got over one thousand applications doesn’t mean that we’re accepting anywhere close to that, of course who knows, maybe every single one is amazing! Traditionally we’ve added between 8-16% of the total number of submissions to 9rules, so if that holds true then “you can assume” we’ll pick about 160 blogs this time, but obviously that’s totally up in the air right now so no promises can be made. One thing I can say is that with every round the blogs who submit get even better, making our jobs all that more difficult
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Wow! It just keeps getting better every round!
Pretty graph.
Looking forward to the results
Hey Mike, thanks for the update and great metrics.
Your graph is much better then the timezone image Scrivs had up 
Any idea on a time frame for announcing the new blogs coming into the world of 9rules?
This was very interesting, thanks for the update!
WOW. Sounds like the competition could be tough this round. I can’t wait to see all of the amazing blogs that make it.
Thank you mikey.. for answering my q, reagrding what percentage will be accepted…
8%-16%… that is great… 9 rules will be huge…
Well we’ll see what the real percentage is, we can’t really estimate until we’re in there looking at the blogs. It could be much higher, it could be lower, we just don’t know — we take every blog we think is great and if a lot more than 16% are great then we have no qualms about taking those
Great stuff, and the graph is pointing upwards.
wish I got in on Round One submissions! Chances would be much, much higher.. especially if your standards are higher each round with the “quality” increase that you mentioned!
Amazing. I can’t wait to see the list because I’ll most likely be adding even more RSS feeds to my reader!
Congrats guys, just goes to show that you’ve built-up a great community!
Really looking forward to seeing new faces in this community, I’m sure all finalists will have great blogs!
Make me an hourly graph, Mike. Pout. 
Congratulations! This is truly a testament to the quality of your organization and site, proving that belonging is something to be proud of.
You guys really got this network going strong. Those are some crazy stats. If you got blogs from all over the world, and content is important, I’m just curious if any of you guys speak chinese?
@Shawn Blanc: Just enough to order food… from Mr. Wong’s. (Starting to make my way into Mandarin, though. The language, not the orange.)
Congratulations indeed.
Is there a plan for getting through all of them? Or will you be using that old stand by of working late and ordering in?
Excellent! I’m impressed!
I wonder though, do you guys ever get concerned about indirectly obfuscating individual members as the community grows ever larger?
this network is becoming bigger and better
That was a cool post. Counting down to the new round was the most fun I had in ages. 
as you said, the blogs get better every round .. does that mean you migh consider addind more from this round ( or maybe in the future ) and getting rid of sum that are in your community that arnt up to scratch???
I agree Veronique, it was a great time 
i was there
I’m dying to see the results already… tough work checking out 1,190 blogs (glups), but I’m sure you’ll get a blast out of it
I can’t wait to see the results.
And of course, congratulations on such a wonderful turn out.
Congratulations!! How exciting, and I love the cool graph. Can’t wait to see the results and find new, great blogs to read!
That’s the prettiest graph I’ve seen this week!
Great numbers. Looks like we’re going exponential…
I so want to see the hourly breakdown of the 24 hours.
Going exponential.
I like that, Andrew.
It would make a great post title.
What did you use to make that graph? It’s so clean.
Hey Johnny, nothing fancy, just Photoshop and a little bit of help from the onscreen ruler
Mike Rundle you’re my hero with your Photoshop Fu.
This is a huge effort on your part. I and the other 1190 appreciate it, {I do whether I am among those accepted on not}. HUGE.
Compared to the first 4 rounds, in which the submissions grew at a steady pace, this 5th one is definitely a surprise, and a great one in fact.
If the 6th round proves to be any similar, in terms of growth, we may very well see almost, or over, 2000 submissions.
Ugh I cannot believe I missed it AGAIN!!! I’m so stupid!
I’ve heard rumors there won’t be a 6th round.
The suspense is KILLING me
Where did you hear that, Shawn?
Mike?
Rumors are overrated
I can’t believe I completely forgot to submit my site …dangit!
No round 6? What will I do with my life if there’s no round 6?
Shawn you know something I don’t know?
Look at all these rumors, surrounding me every day. I just need some time, some time to get away from - from all these rumors, I can’t take it no more…
:)
i think its in the best interest of 9rules to have round 6 and keep having them each yr .. unless they dont want the site to keep growing
We’ve talked in the past about revamping our submission process, making it more democratic, but nothing is set in stone. Right now we’re concentrating on this current Round 5 and if/when a Round 6 will occur is still up in the air.
When do we hear if we have been accepted into 9rules? and can we re-submit on the next round if we are not sucessful this time?
I am eagerly awaiting the results. Can you tell me when they will be out?
Congratulations all for being an enviable network of great writers!
You can submit any round you want. We haven’t nailed down a date since its hard to determine how long it takes to go through 1100+ sites.
Let’s make an educated guess.
50 blogs a day. (assuming the whole 9rules crew is involved and ‘distributed computer’ is done.)
1100 submissions.
3 weeks?
mid Nov’s my educated guess.
Unless Scrivs is gonna run another competition on when the ~160 acceptances might be announced.
:)
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