FMF decides who competes against each other. I guess it’s to do with blog size more than it does post content. There are a lot of participants (he does this every year and announces it in the financial blogging forums) and he figures out which blogs are pit against each other.

I used to win, but I am not winning as much in recent years. Sometimes, it has depended on how hard you campaign against your opponent and I’m not very good at that….

Sometimes they are on vastly different topics so instead of the better article, one may lead to just voting on the article related to one’s interests.

Did you choose your competitor or how was that decided?