Paying it Forward #PIF Contest ed 4: WINNERS!!!😍😍😍

Today I am grateful to be alive and thriving and in a position to pay forward, through my monthly contest, the kindness, and goodwill that I have received and still receive on Hive and its wonderful communities today.

With that, the 4th edition of my monthly contest to pay it forward to newbies on Hive (little red fish as we are called haha) has come to a close.

There were 5 active participants in the contest and a further 8 contestants who gained entry through nomination, bringing the total number of different entrants to 13 😊

As always, there were ways to gain additional entries to the contest, and this month it was through tagging additional newbies on Hive and sharing a post of theirs that you enjoyed. We ended up with 22 entries altogether with the total number of entries gained by each person being as follows:

3 entries:
merit.ahama
doziekash
otuyanancy
deraaa

2 entries:
iskafan

1 entry:
amiableamara
nkemakonam89
peaq
ruthyann
kotenoke
letsjam
irene99
victoria95

The Drawing and the Prizes:

This month I have to, first of all, say thank you to @penderis for his generous sponsorship of the DEC prizes. These can be used in Splinterlands to make purchases, rent cards or simply be held to earn SPS tokens in the airdrop on Splinterlands that continues on a daily basis for a year. There are still over 200 days of airdrops to go. Of course, if you don't use DEC, don't want to take part in the SPS airdrop or don't play Splinterlands, you may sell the tokens on Hive-Engine. I have been buying DEC myself and holding it on Splinterlands in order to avail of the airdrops. I intend to keep buying so as to increase my daily airdrop value to, so this is maybe something you may want to do as an option ...NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE 😜 Just some ideas on what you can do with DEC if you are new to the token.

I also need to say a big thank you to @failingforwards who is also a curator for the new 1UP gaming focussed community here on Hive for the kind and generous offer of additional delegation prizes to the 3 NEW Hivers who are drawn 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The delegation comes from @failingforwards personally and will be handled directly by them. If you are interested in 1UP, it is a community that covers Play2Earn games on Hive and NFTs and their token can be earned by using the tags #oneup #Splinterlands or #nft appropriately on your posts about gaming and nfts.

"I'm happy to match your first prize with 100 pob delegation, second with 50 and third with 10" (@failingforewards)

All liquid transfers from me and all of my delegations are in the process of being made. If you are one of my 4 main winners, look out for them😊

The prize allocation was split into 3 prizes for the top 3 newcomers drawn in the randomised draw (who started on Hive 1st August 2021 or later) and a 4th prize for the highest drawn pre- 1st August 2021 Hivian. Although you can gain multiple entries to the draw, you are always restricted to winning one prize only.

Do we know what this means???

We only had ONE entry from a Hivian who was 'NOT a newcomer' and that person is @merit.ahama (who is on fire in Hive contests at the moment!) who by default takes home the prize for the highest placed entrant who is NOT a new Hiver.

@merit.ahama you have won:

125 Proof of Brain delegation for 1 month
500 DEC Tokens (kindly sponsored by @penderis)
25 Liquid POB
a follow from me (but I already follow you 😊), with a visit to each of your posts for at least a month and a weekly reblog of one of your posts (provided the posts meet community guidelines). Please do tag me in your posts so that I am sure not to miss any as I curate manually🙏

This leaves 19 entries which were put into random.org for the randomiser to work its magic and tell us who won the New Hiver prizes this month. The names were entered in the order in which entries were received/nominated.

A screenshot of the drawing is shown below the prize winners 🙏

New Hivers Winners' List Per the Random.org Randomised listing:

In 1st place is @doziekash and you have won:

125 Proof of Brain delegation for 1 month
500 DEC tokens (kindly sponsored by @penderis)
500 Ecency points
a 10 Hive Power Up by me on 1st December.
a follow from me, with a visit to each of your posts for at least a month and a weekly reblog of one of your posts (provided the posts meet community guidelines). Please do tag me in your posts so that I am sure not to miss any as I curate manually🙏

In 2nd place is @deraaa and you have won:

300 DEC tokens (kindly sponsored by @penderis)
250 Ecency points
10 Liquid POB
a follow from me, with a visit to each of your posts for at least a month and a weekly reblog of one of your posts (provided the posts meet community guidelines). Please do tag me in your posts so that I am sure not to miss any as I curate manually🙏

In 3rd place is @iskafan and you have won:

10 Liquid POB
250 Ecency points
a follow from me, with a visit to each of your posts for at least a month and a weekly reblog of one of your posts (provided the posts meet community guidelines). Please do tag me in your posts so that I am sure not to miss any as I curate manually🙏

In addition, I am going to give @iskafan 5 Hive for being an absolute trooper in the comment section. I am sure you will all agree she brought delightful humour to the comments and went out of her way to visit and curate as many of the nominated posts as possible.

I was really quite impressed with all the authors nominated so... the remaining 9 contestants will each be given 5 liquid POB as a consolation prize, and if you tag me in your next post on Hive, I will be sure to come and visit you and drop some PIZZA and an upvote on your post ... just because ...😍

Thank you to everyone who took part ... and until next time...

BE AUTHENTIC, BE KIND & SUPPORTIVE, WRITE REGULARLY, ENGAGE, AND MOST OF ALL ENJOY YOURSELF on HIVE 🙏😍💗

Hopefully, I will continue to bump into you all on the blockchain, often on purpose 😍🙏

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