Blog Network 9rules reports receiving more than 500 submissions for their third round of membership:

Before every round, the 9rules team gets together and makes bets on how many submissions we will get. First time around I think I guessed around 27 and we ended up with over 100. Second time my guess was more around 87 (don’t ask me about the 7s trend) and we broke 150 if I recall. For the Spanish round it was a little more difficult because I never dealt with another community/culture before, but let’s just say I wasn’t even close to guessing that they would break 220 submissions.

Sunday night it was time to guess the results for Round 3. I am an optimist, but I am also a realist (is that possible) so I figured we would break 100, but it wouldn’t come close to the Spanish Round simply because maybe we have hit our saturation point or maybe our audience reach has gotten to as far as it can go. Also I hate to be disappointed so I came up with a reasonable number of 187. I was wrong.

Like not even close to being in the same ballpark. Round 3 submissions totalled 509 sites.

Our competitor puts this into perspective:

Lets put this into perspective. Most bloggers, would love to get 500 page views a day on their blog. 9rules had 500 plus bloggers submit there blogs to its network in just one day. Scrivs and the folks over at 9rules are definitely doing something right.

That’s a ton of submissions. Can’t wait to see how many actually make it in.