VARBuzz is sponsoring a Real Estate Blog Brawl.

A single-elimination winner-take-all competition. A fight-to-the-death blog battle where VARbuzz readers determine the winner. Here’s how the Blog Brawl will work:

Today begins the call for competitors. At the bottom of this blog post, you’ll find a single-field form. Simply enter the URL of the REALTOR® blog you’d like to nominate for the Blog Brawl. You can nominate as many REALTOR® blogs as you want, as many times as you want. You can nominate your own or others’ blogs. Multi-author blogs are permitted to join the brawl, provided that a majority of its authors are REALTORS®. VARbuzz may exclude blogs from the brawl at its sole discretion. We’ll take the top 64, 32, or 16 nominees and seed the Blog Brawl bracket in the same manner that the NCAA seeds its tournament bracket. As the Blog Brawl sponsor, VARbuzz will not participate.

Never a participant in any of the ‘Carnivals’ that make their way around the blogosphere, they’re just not my bag…can’t ever seem to follow when and where they are. However, if someone likes my lingo I do appreciate the ‘hat tip’. Recently, an altruistic soul (or two) has been nominating some of my posts to BHB’s weekly Odysseus Medal competition, for which I’m flattered. Any self-promotion I may personally engage in is limited to this site…until now.

I’ve nominated myself (thexbroker.com) due to the format and it’s apparent competitive spirit. Hopefully I’ll make the big dance…the post on VARBuzz calls for Realtor participation, which I’m not (owned a brokerage for 5 years in a former life), The XBroker is technically classified as a ‘mortgage blog’ but I do posses a pretty deep knowledge base, and post on real estate centric topics about as often as mortgage news. Maybe I can get an exception

So, if anyone would be so inclined, nominate me for the Big Dance. At the very least, I promise to make my participation memorable for all