That's right, submissions are now open for week 17 of SGL! The SGL team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, it's been amazing having you with us for our first big holiday season.

Not to mention just having you with us while we were starting up this contest, I never expected to see people join us so willingly and share their music with us each and every week - so another massive thanks to the entire SGL family!

Before we jump into things I wanted to mention that we have been seeing an increase in entries from ThreeSpeak, I wanted to ensure all our entrants that this is absolutely welcomed and supported by SGL.

We do ask you continue to add the youtube link as well, so we can easily review and embed your posts - but we have no issues with entrants using these awesome steem services and in time we may be able to arrange a permanent switch, but for now with how things are set up we do still need the proper youtube link <3

SGL Social Media

SGL have created a few social media accounts to help spread the word of SGL and Steem in general, but we haven't really been sharing those details actively on here. So here are some links to our new accounts, please feel free to follow and or like and share to help get the word out.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/sonicgroovelive

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sonicgroovelive/

We are also looking at starting a youtube account and we have started setting up an Instagram account, but there are some issues for us to use this with the way the site is structured. We want to share and help spread awareness, not only of SGL but also of our amazing entrants.

It's really up to our entrants if we try to use Instagram, the main issue is we can't just share links to your recordings. Which is what we do on Twitter and Facebook, Instagram would require us to upload the performance as if it were our own content. So we really felt iffy about even moving forward at all, but I figured I would mention it in here and see if our community has any opinions on this.

We don't want to present work as our own, our main goal is to get attention on our brilliant artists. So were happy to stick with platforms that don't make us compromise on this, but were definitely open to suggestions on other platforms to spread awareness about SGL.

Let us know what social media accounts you think we should look into and feel free to connect with us on the ones we have going already.

Communities Choice

We have started to have some traction on the Communities Choice, but I would again like to remind everyone that anyone can now be a judge for SGL. All you have to do is find the best valid entry you can and ensure they have the highest promotion value, this means specifically just the promotion cost (does not include general post pay out).

You can search to see what posts have been promoted here and check how much by either clicking the post payout and it will show what portion is promoted, or you can go to the @null account for Sonic and check there.

We have been loving watching our entrants all supporting one and other, but remember absolutely anyone can choose a winner - all they have to do is ensure the post they want to win, has the highest promotion payout by the end of the judging window!

Rules To Enter

1. Submit a post that meets all criteria within the allocated 48-hour window for your entry to be considered a valid entry, all entries submitted before or after this window will automatically be disqualified.
2. Your post must be titled "Sonic Groove Live", the week number, state whether it is a cover or original and the name/title of the piece.
3. Your entry post needs to be tagged #sonicgroove and #SGL.
4. Each valid entry must contain a live recording made specifically for this contest, it must include the live playing of an instrument or vocalist.
5. Every video entry requires an intro where you state your username, "Sonic Groove Live" week no # and the name of the piece you will be performing(we must be able to clearly see and hear you especially during this time).
6. You must have a youtube link included in your entry post.
7. One entry per person per week.
8. Each performance that has vocals requires the lyrics to be included in the post.
9. All types of music are valid.

For more detailed information on the rules and why we have them please feel free to check out our how to enter post!

Discord

If you haven't already, please consider joining the SGL discord server, we will now be using it as a method of announcing open and closing times for the contest. This includes the judge's window and early announcement of the weekly winners!

This is not only a place to go to find out when things are happening, it is also a place we want to see start having some things to do there. We will be hosting a variety of mini-contests, karaoke nights, games nights, random SONIC giveaways for people actively chatting in rooms.

Sponsors

Before you go and wow us with your music, I wanted to also mention our amazing sponsors. The people that make SGL possible each and every week, @ausbitbank, @sonicgroove, @creativecoin and @helpie. They are the reasons we are able to host this contest each week, they are responsible for all the prizes the winners and Communities Choice winners get.

So if you have any witness votes available please consider supporting the witnesses that are our sponsors, @ausbitbank and @helpie are both witness sponsors and if you have any spare votes for witnesses we would all greatly appreciate it if you would consider supporting them, so they can continue to support you!

There is really so much in the works, you really will be missing out if you don't jump in. This is also the perfect place to go so you can ask any questions you may have, talk about entries from the week or even just come along for a hangout. This is your community, it's up to you to get involved and to help make it all it can be. Yes, we're even open to suggestions, so please drop by say hi and see what's happening!

Don't forget entries for week 17 are now Open!

Please check out our amazing artists that performed this week and show them some love <3