First of all, I have to say "Wow!", the participation in this contest was really off the charts, at least by my standards!
And I'm happy to see that there were also many prominent steemians who did the challenge declining to participate in the contest, giving minnows a better chance at earning some SBDs.
I'd really like to thank everybody who upvoted the post and especially the non-participants which allowed a very nice reward pool. I'd also like to thank @futurethinker who really helped popularize the contest and him and @deirdyweirdy for taking the time to look through and upvote entires! Of course, I also tried to do the same, but my upvote was really stretched thin.
Altogether, there were almost 50 entries which meant a total of almost 300 posts for me to go through to determine the winners. This was hard not only because it took a lot of time, but also because narrowing it down to just a few winners was pretty much impossible. There were literally tons of outstanding posts.
To help me reward some additional people, I also posted a promo video for the contest on DTube with 60% of the SBDs from that also going to rewards! This means I will be able to reward a total of 5 participants. 3 people are going to split the reward pool generated by the orginal post, and two more people are going to split the smaller reward pool generated by the dtube video.
The original post generated 13.968 SBD resulting in 8.381 SBD designated for rewards leading to 2.794 SBD per winner.
So without further ado, here are the winners in no particular order:
@raj808 - Entry
@kristyglas - Entry
@senorcoconut - Entry
Those winners have already been paid:
The payouts for the other two winners will be calculated and paid out after the promo video post pays out, but here they are:
@yahialababidi - Entry
@stanleyc-md - Entry
Edit: Second batch of payouts done! :)
My DTube video post has paid out so it's time to relay that to the winners.
60% of that is 0.482 SBD or 0.241 SBD each. Not huge, but still something.
Couldn't resist altering the amount a tiny bit to get a palindrome ;)
Thank you! It was a pleasure to participate :D
And your new contest is hilarious!
I'm very happy to hear that! Hopefully I'll see an entry from you in that as well? ;)
Definitely :D
I assume the contest lasts till payout?
Yep! :) I guess I forgot to mention that in the post, I'll add that, thanks!
Congrats @kristyglas. I just wrote this under @raj808's reply here:
How shall we celebrate? Maybe we could collaborate on a Winners Post Their Happiness post with an obvious mention of @rocking-dave and his contests....
Whould you like to join in?
Wow, @rocking-dave, just seeing this purely by chance (gotta figure out how to get notifications)!
Congrats to all the winners - proud to be one 🤓
Also, what a great idea the promo video, thanks!
There are external services that offer notifications I think, but yeah, that's not easy.
I'm happy with how the promo video turned out, but unfortunately it didn't manage to generate huge rewards.
It's nice to participate and the exposure is my 'huge reward'. Looking forward to having some fun with your new contest :)
Rock on, @rocking-dave!
Oh, I'll be very happy to see your entry for that too!
Oh my god... Sorry to be late to this party!
Thank you so much for making the contest (congats on it being your first too).
This is amazing, I really didn't think I would make it in the top 3 there! That makes me very happy and I really hope you keep on creating help for the little fish to grow!!!!
Also I would like to thank the people who took the challenge but declined to participate for us to have more chances to win!
I had seen the winnings and kept looking at your page to see who the winners were and than life got busy till today and I am catching up!!!
Thank you thank you thank you! Happy you enjoyed the posts!
Cheers
Ps: for those who liked the Travelers Honeymoon post, episode 4 is comong out within the next couple days!
Thank you again @rocking-dave
It was a real pleasure, mate! Deciding on the winners was super hard and there were a lot of contenders, I can't even claim to have been truly objective as the standard was really high and it was really a matter of personal preference in one way or another. After all, everybody was competing with their best posts which really raised the bar. Obviously I really enjoyed all of your posts and that's why I selected you as one of the winners.
I'm sure it was hard....and time consuming!
It was! I didn't expect even half the turnout. And i underestimated how time consuming it would actually be to read 6 posts per entry. But I'm not complaining - it was really rewarding and I found a ton of interesting new steemians to follow and make friends with so it was absolutely worth it. I'm also happy that the post managed to raise enough for the main rewards to not be super tiny.
Hard work but also rewarding! Thanks again, I also found some new friends and interests!
Thanks so much for running this competition @rocking-dave I will be checking out the other winners and am very pleased to be among them 😃
It's really my pleasure! The contest got a ton of amazing entires, not just the winners. The response was awesome really!
Cheers @raj808! How shall we celebrate? Maybe we could collaborate on a Winners Post Their Happiness post with an obvious mention of @rocking-dave and his contests....
What do you think?
Congrats to the winners!
Congrats to them indeed and thank you for your support!
Congrats to the winners. :)
Congratulations to the winners.
Better luck for us next time
Thanks. Looks like I'll be doing more contests
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