- UpVotes Into Water -

There are now less than 24hrs at the International Dateline before SPUD (Steem Power Up Day) begins to make its journey across the globe. The Steem Community is a world wide community, therefore SPUD will run for 48hrs, giving each Steemian in their part of the World plenty of time to show their support for the Steem Blockchain and its community, which is US!

Speaking of Community, the Author Rewards for this SPUD post will go to help make a water pump possible for a family and its surrounding community in Venezuela. I am Calling on the STEEM ARMY for 100% UP Votes from those that actually read the post and actually manually curate Steem Blog Posts. This will help @drutter's project called Mission: Agua-Possible (MAP). MAP's goal is to help @edgargonzalez acquire a water pump, and that goal is about 1/3 of the way accomplished. With OUR support, we should be able to HELP this most noble of projects ACCOMPLISH this goal soon!

Back to SPUD X, and its mission. For those wishing to qualify for the prizes, remember that there have been a few slight changes to the rules. Also, please remember to use SPUDX as the hash tag in your post. This will make it much easier for me to document your entry for the prizes.

What is SPUD and How Will It Help?

SPUD stands for STEEM POWER UP DAY, (SPUD) takes place the first day of every month.
On this day:

• We ask that Steemians that are able, to POWER UP any amount of STEEM they have on SPUD day.
• We ask Steemians that are currently Powering Down, to put a Stop on Powering Down for that Day, and if desired to commence the Power Down the following day.
• We ask that those that trade or sell Steem to Not Sell or Trade Steem on SPUD Day, but to do it the day before or after if possible. Also, to cancel any type of Sell Order on the Exchanges.

SPUD X PRIZES

The prizes are meant to incentivize the smaller Steemians, the planktons, minnows and aspiring Dolphins out in the Steem Ocean to participate in powering up on SPUD, and hopefully create more understanding as to why Steem Power is important to user account growth as well as a show of Steem Blockchain support.

1st Place -

5000 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @davedickeyyall
3000 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @xpilar
1500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @sultan-aceh
5 Steem Basic Income units/levels Gift Sponsor @improv
1 Splinterlands' Furious Chicken Gift - Sponsor @streetstyle
1 Splinterlands' Baby Unicorn Gold Gift - Sponsor @streetstyle

2nd Place -

2000 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @reflektor
1500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @hingsten
500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @mcoinz79
5 Steem Basic Income units/levels Gift Sponsor @improv
3rd Place -

1500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @bippe
500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @streetstyle
5 Steem Basic Income units/levels Gift Sponsor @improv
4th Place

750 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @streetstyle
5 Steem Basic Income units/levels Gift Sponsor @improv
5th Place

250 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @streetstyle
5 Steem Basic Income units/levels Gift Sponsor @improv
6th-20th Place Each

5 Steem Basic Income units/levels Gift Sponsor @improv

Plus

• All eligible SPUD Prize participants who qualify will be entered into a giveaway of 10 STEEM (1 lucky winner) - Sponsored by @traciyork
• All eligible SPUD Prize participants who qualify will be entered into a giveaway of 10 STEEM (1 lucky winner) - Sponsored by @livinguktaiwian

Rules to Win Prizes for SPUD x :

MUST have a reputation score BELOW 69.00 ( so 68.99 is good & Can participate.) AND more than 250 STEEM POWER (prior to SPUD X) BUT LESS than 8000 Steem Power.
MUST have a reputation score of 40 & ABOVE (so rank of 39.99 will Not Win)

MUST have at least 1 Steem Post in their blog about SPUD X

MUST Power Up Steem on February 1st, 2020

On February 1st, you MUST make a post about your POWER UP. It can be as simple as "I powered up X amount of Steem" to a simple picture/screenshot of your Power Up and posted to your Steem blog, or it could be a super long dissertation on Steem Power. IMPORTANT: SHOULD USE SPUDX Hash tags so that I can be sure to see them.

The winners Must meet all 5 requirements, and it will be based on the Biggest Steem Power Up PERCENTAGE, not the biggest Power Up. This means that it will be based on the ratio between your current amount of Steem Power and the amount you power up on February 1st.

For Example:

If you have 1000 Steem Power already powered up prior to February 1, and on February 1 you complete steps 1-5 with a 100 Steem Power Up,

and

another Steemian has 200 Steem Powered up prior to February 1, and on February 1st Powers Up 40 Steem, then this 2nd user would be winning with a 20% power up versus the first example with a bigger power up but smaller percentage of only 10% based on their account.
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The winners will be announced via a Steem Post a few days later or sooner, and if no one challenges it or lets me know I missed them after 1 day from Winner Announcement, the Winners become official and the prizes will then be given out.

Thank you to All our SPUD Prize Sponsors and to all SPUD supporters and participants working to get STEEM to higher Elevations!!

FULL STEEM AHEAD!

Cheers & Good Luck!

+++ @streetstyle

ps..... be sure to check out @drutter's project MAP,

and also, be sure to give our Prize sponsors a follow and a show of support for their amazing show of Steem Blockchain solidarity by sponsoring SPUD. @xpilar @davedickeyyall @sultan-aceh @improv @reflektor @hingsten @mcoinz79 @bippe @traciyork @livinguktaiwan