Week 19: Pay It Forward Curation Contest

As always check back to this post often and scroll to the end to see a list of this week's curation entries!

A couple changes this week including a change in the Judges. @energyaddict22 has been having great success with his business and needs to step back from being a Judge, but promises to visit entries and lend support with his votes.

With the loss of @energyaddict22 I kind of realized this might be a great opportunity to expose our contest to some people of influence who are all about making steemit grow. At the same time as they are exposed to @pifc hopefully we can in return take a look at whatever projects these great steemians are running creating a win-win for all involved!

The idea will be to find influencers who are running a project or contest that is designed to help steemit and it's users in some way. This week's Guest Judge runs @steem-bounty and the witness account "steem-bounty". He has been a friend to the Curation Contest giving some very critical votes during weeks where there wasn't sponsorship support needed to cover prizes. Those votes helped keep this project alive and running.

This week @knircky will be our first "Guest Judge" and we are very excited to have him helping out this week!

Second small change going forward. It has been mentioned to me on discord and on a couple older posts that there ends up being to much clutter on the contest page and it gets hard to find the entry posts. We are now going to ask people to try and keep comments to being related to the contest and entries only. Feel free to leave short comments related to someone's entry, it's not that we want to remove interaction. We just don't need comments promoting other services, contests, or a long conversation back and forth with someone (yes I'm guilty too!) making it harder for people to find the actual entry comments which we all want to upvote to reward those taking the time to enter the contest.

Thank you all for being understanding about this!

What is the Pay It Forward Curation Contest?

The Curation Contest is here to allow Community Minded Steemians the opportunity feature 2 great blog posts written by Level 55 and below Steemians. To do this you will write a single curation style blog post like this entry by @viking-ventures from week 16 which won a Judges Choice Award.

Contest Date Range

This contest run from Now until 08/11/18 at 11:59pm CST (USA, Chicago). The winners will be announced on Wednesday 08/15/18 at 12:01am

Week 19 Rules (No Changes)

For week 19 you will need a curation style entry that includes 2 High Quality Original Content Blog Posts from Steemians with a reputation score of 55 or under.

• Curation Style Post of 2 Bloggers who are posting Quality Original Content
• Link to 1 recent blog post per featured blogger. Keep in mind that many will follow this link and upvote so pick a post that isn't close to payout!
• Include a link to this contest in your entry post
• The 2 bloggers you curate need to be rank 55 or below
• You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how I track everything!

👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈
We are looking for Quality Original Content. We want to see no less then 200 words of original written content. So a single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it. 200 words is about 12 lines of content. Posts from Parley and dmania are not acceptable.

Prizes: Steem Basic Income

This week at least 14 winners are going to get a sponsorship for #steembasicincome!

There will be 1 SBI Sponsorship per 8 entries into the contest on a random basis (minimum of 2). These SBI shares are currently purchased by @pifc.

There will be 4 Judges Choice Awards based the quality of the bloggers you feature in the eyes of our Judges, @knircky, @tryskele , @lynncoyle1, & @wolfhart. Each Judges Choice will get 1 SBI share for winning from the Judge that picked them.

All 8 of the featured bloggers from the Judges Choice Winners posts will also get an SBI Share. These shares are purchase by the sponsors listed later in the post.

@steembasicincome is run by @josephsavage and is a great program designed to provide a lifetime income to members who have SBI Shares.

Prizes: Steem-Bounty

@steem-bounty of 2 SBD has been created. We will only upvote entries for the Author's 80% of the Bounty. No other comments will be upvoted as the goal is to reward those who enter the contest.

@steem-bounty is also a witness account and is run by @knircky. To set @steem-bounty as witness you can go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses and enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.

Steem Monsters Cards

@erodedthoughts has confirmed that he will again give 1 @steemmonsters card to each person who creates an entry for this weeks contest.

Sponsors, Visit Them and Upvote Them!!

Week 19's Sponsors	Type of Sponsor	Recent Post or Discord Room
@thehoneys	1 SBI Share	Get Auto Upvoted By Us - Find Out How!!
@bengy	1 SBI Share	@classical-radio
@andrewharland	4 SBI Shares	All good things
@el-nailul	2 SBI Share	Contest: What Did You Dislike About Steemit?
@thedarkhorse	2 SBI Shares for Random Winner	Attention: MTG - Magic The Gathering Card Collectors!
Sponsor Needed	2 SBD	Steem-Bounty
@erodedthoughts	1 Steem Monster Card Per Entry!	I Need Some Idea's ~ Win upto 128 Steem

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. Please check back during the week!!

Curator	Entry #
@trincowski	Entry #1
@karamyog	Entry #2
@sherbanu	Entry #3
@aloha-creations	Entry #4
@bengy	Entry #5
@macoolette	Entry #6
@zorank	Entry #7
@celinavisaez	Entry #8
@viking-ventures	Entry #9
@dipoabasch	Entry #10
@jessicaoutside	Entry #11
@stever82	Entry #12
@tcpolymath	Entry #13
@headchange	Entry #14
@lady-idra	Entry #15
@alexbiojs	Entry #16
@pardinus	Entry #17
@rezoanulvibes	Entry #18
@cicisaja	Entry #19
Entry #

Status:

Entry 15-16 have been added to the list, but need to come back and vote on them. VP is way to low right now. Friday (tomorrow) I will be gone all day and not checking entries until the late evening due to work.