Ahadada is in the midst of the “Battle of the Blogroll Tour”, billed as “The Search For The Top Poetblogger”. An “American Idol”-style competition show in which the contestants compete against one another through trend analsysis and statistics culled from search engines and the like. To be considered for competition, get on our Blogroll!

There is absolutely no skill involved! The process is not in the least scientific! The points don’t matter! Just like your favourite TV reality shows!

From the squared circle of Googlefight, we’re moving into the hallowed halls of Blogpulse for this week’s feature, the Ahadada Rumble.

The Ahadada Rumble is a thirteen poet event, which begins with three poets in the ring. A poet is eliminated from the Ahadada Rumble when they trend lower in the Blogpulse trends over time graph, and are thereby virtually “thrown out of the ring” with both feet touching the floor.

The winners of this round are the last poets remaining after all others have been eliminated. They will move on to the Battle of the Blogroll: Round Three!

Blogpulse allows you to enter search terms to see mentions trended over time. You can enter up to three queries under the trend terms.

Click the following hyperlinks to reveal the trends.

Battle Royal #1:

Kevin Wood vs Ron Silliman vs Jim Behrle

Winner by anonymous decision, Ron Silliman!

Battle Royal #2:

Geof Huth vs Patrick Rosal vs Crag Hill

Winner by anonymous decision, Geof Huth!

Battle Royal #3:

Catherine Daly vs Jess Glass vs Ross Priddle

Winner, upon review, Catherine Daly!

Battle Royal #4:

Nick Piombino vs Jukka-Pekka Kervinen vs Mike Snider

Winner, upon review, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen!

Stephanie Young, by virtue of the fact that she is the odd woman out, and further, because she has a pretty cool blog, will receive free entry into the next round, thereby proving that this contest employs absolute-zero logic.

Thus, the winners, in no particular order, still fighting, drawn from the initial pool of twenty-six poetbloggers:

1. Ron Silliman
2. Geof Huth
3. Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
4. Catherine Daly
5. Stephanie Young

Stay tuned next week for more pugilism, romance and intrigue on Battle of the Blogroll, as our poet warriors are caught in an entangled web that brings the great poetic blogosphere head to head with… Stay tuned!