Big ups especially to our winners, who blogged, video-blogged, cross-posted articles, voted on RightyBlogs and BlogNetNews, emailed family and friends about RightMichigan and added other great Michigan conservative blogs to their blogrolls... among other things!

So without further ado... our winners:

The GRAND PRIZE: An all expenses paid trip to Right-Online this August in Pittsburgh, PA...

The WINNER is: Ken from Bible, Math and Politics!

Ken also recently started a blog devoted to the activities of the Van Buren County Republicans, but he didn't need any credit for those pursuits to claim the top prize.  BM&P was online and updated every day, making and breaking news.  Even better, Ken was able to track down and interview nearly a half-dozen statewide candidates.  Anne Norlander, Cameron Brown, Tom George and others all sat down with BM&P to discuss the issues important to South West Michigan and the local Right Roots.

Ken blogged almost daily, cross-posted frequently, significantly contributed to other discussions here on Right Michigan and elsewhere and generally kicked all sorts of backside.

Now we can all look forward this summer to a weekend of live-blogging and updates from the nation's premier conservative bloggers conference. Congratulations, sir, and well done!

FIRST RUNNER UP: Free conference registration and all access media credentials to this September's Michigan Republican Party Mackinac Island Leadership Conference

The WINNER is: Steve from Motor City Times!  

Steve was a close second and was all over the Right Roots during the bloggers challenge.  We're talking original content, regular cross-posts, participation on other folks blogs across the sphere, a bucket-load of BlogNetNews voting... Beautiful work.  Congrats!

FINALISTS: A RightMichigan.com t-shirt. (Because that's really the only motivation any of us generally need anyhow!)

The WINNERS are:  Other bloggers who went above and beyond include...

Chris from The Blog Prof

Jason Gillman from the Michigan Taxes Too Much

Wendy Day from For a Better Day

Jen from  Jenneration X

The Wiz from  The Wizard of Laws

Lola from  Lola Sez

Rose from the  Wayne County Taxpayers Alliance

And...

Joan Fabiano from  The World According to Me

Congratulations again to everyone who participated in the bloggers challenge. I said it at the end of the challenge last year and I'll say it again now... we've got one heck of a great farm team of conservative political observers, citizen journalists, pundits and activists cruising at top speed here in Michigan.  Just about any state in the nation would be jealous of what we've got going on. Mad props and well done!

Now here's the trick... let's keep those juices flowing and the content coming on blogs across the sphere.  This was an above-awesome start.  Can't wait to see what comes next!