This is brilliant @anomadsoul I know what it means to attend steemfest a total achievement, a step up past normality and definitely surpassing all challenges and barrier to attend the most illustrous gathering of steemit topmost people no matter the status. I'm glad you and blocktrade is bringing this, I love the fact that it's a two phase contest and definitely it will NE intriguing, you don't know how happy I am that somebody will eventually be empowered to attend steemfest and you've made this possible no matter what. There's definitely nothing bigger and better than this. Cheers my friend I'm so elated by this.