Pay It Forward Curation Contest - Week 2 - Win SBI & Steem-Bounty

Wow! Thank everyone for all your support and entries for the first weeks contest. Some great content was featured by everyone who entered the contest and it was great seeing so many people take their time to write a curation post featuring other steemians.

Winners will be announced tomorrow and @steem-bounty will be awarding the Bounty rewards after post payout.

This contest is open to everyone including anyone who entered in week 1. The contests main focus is to help smaller members gain some extra visibility and hopefully a few extra votes. Really hope that people will look at the #payitforward tag and look at some of the entries and show some support to those that have been featured.

Changes for Week 2

If you were part of Week 1's contest please note there are a couple minor changes.

• First the 2 groups will include all of those who are members for under 90 days and then second group is over 90 days. This change will help even out the 2 groups.
• Second we will be that 1 SBI sponsorship will be awarded per 8 entries in a given pool. So if there are 1-8 entries in a reward pool there will be 1 winner, but if there are 9 entries there will be 2 winners in that pool.

Curation Contest Overview

Contest will run for 7 days and ends at post payout.

There will be at least 2 Winners each week and it's based on how long you have been on Steemit. Below in "How to Win" will explain this further.

This contest is truly here to help gain exposure for posts that deserve more of the reward pool then they are currently getting. Curate bloggers who clearly put effort into their posts and deserve to get more attention and votes.

Your Entry will be a single Curation Post that needs to highlight 3 other bloggers and link to at least 1 of their posts. This is your opportunity to share why we should visit these bloggers and what drew your attention to them.

Each Blogger Featured must be the same or smaller rank then you. That is I am currently level 55 so I could feature anyone that is level 55 or below.

Of the 3 bloggers you feature at least 1 of them must be someone you DO NOT currently follow. You need to go out and find at least 1 new blogger with great content. Feel free to add them to your follow list once you find one you like, just mention that you started following them after reading their post.

You must Upvoted and Comment on all 3 of the posts you feature in your curation entry. Highly suggest sharing the link to your post once you have featured them. You found their work worth sharing with all of us, let them know they are doing a great job!

You will be writing 1 post in which you talk about the 3 bloggers and one of their most recent posts. Below is what is required to be in the post.

• Write a review of the blogger and 1 of their most recent posts, link to the post
• Explain why this blogger was chosen and a summary of their post
• Make sure you have upvoted and commented on the post you link to for each of these bloggers
• Your post should also link to this post showing you are part of this weeks contest.

Requirements for a valid entry

Only 2 things are required for a valid entry:

• Use the tag #payitforward on your entry post
• Comment below with a link to your entry you are entered.

Optional, but we could use your Help!

What would be great is if you could help us spread the word and help keep this contest growing. How can you help? Simple give an upvote to this post, resteem this post, and let others know about the contest. Consider tagging some other members in your entry to help draw attention to the contest.

How to Win

There are at least 2 winners each week. 1 person that has been here for less then 90 days and 1 person who has been here for 91+ days will be chosen each week. I will look based on how many days you have been active starting Today April 10th CST US to decide which category you fall in.

All those who comment below are given an entry number. From there all Valid Entries will be added split into their over/under 90 days groups and then a random number generator will be used to select the winner.

Judges

@lynncoyle1, @energyaddict22, and @thedarkhorse. If you have questions feel free to ask below or reach out to me on discord and my # is 6765.

The Prizes

Each week at least 2 winners are going to get a sponsorship for @steembasicincome which means a lifetime of votes on future posts from @steembasicincome. I will also autovote 1x per day for 7 days at 50% power.

*** Fair Warning: If your content is low quality I will let you know my issues with it, you can either choose to fix this or I will pull the autovote part of the prize. Sorry not voting on spam or stolen content

Bonus - Steem-Bounty

@steem-bounty runs a great service that allows bloggers to create a SBD reward that all commenters can share in. Everyone that has an upvote from me will get part of the #steem-bounty (3 SBD) . You can also upvote each other and help people with great entries get more of the bounty.

** Fair warning spammers I have no problem flagging you if you are trying to boost your comment to get more of the bounty.

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Next week I will post the winners of this week's contest on Wednesday April 18th CST US.

Next Week's Contest will start with a post on Tuesday April 17th CST US around the same time as this post.

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If anything isn't clear please ask for clarification. This will help me make the rules a little more clear for next week. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Current Entries - Please Visit!!!

This is the real purpose of this contest, visit these posts and help upvote the bloggers featured. This list will be updated as new entries are added.

Under 90 Days:
@wolfhart -- Entry #1
@bananamemos -- Entry #2
@freedomshift --- Entry 3
@iexplore -- Entry #4

Over 90 Days:
@viking-ventures -- Entry #1
@bengy -- Entry #2
@davemccoy -- Entry #3
@bashadow -- Entry #4
@pundito -- Entry #5
@tryskele -- Entry #6
@wanderlass -- Entry #7
@vipnata -- Entry #8
@fitinfun -- Entry #9