WINNERS | The @Blocktrades Scholarship

More than 250 entries, out of which 222 were posted within the timeline given, out of which 190 followed the rules - I had to be a bit bland with some of the rules, like the number of lines per post.

Here we are, after quite a few hours checking the posts and to be honest, I am biased. I know too many of you and I have probably voted on 90% on the people who joined the contest. That´s great, that means our platform is still very healthy community wise.

But as I said, I´m biased, I couldn´t pick winners because of three reasons:

• I want everyone to win and thus, I can´t handpick manually, most of you guys deserve it, you are a set of engaging and community focused Steemians.
• Quality is subjective: For some people a very well taken photograph is quality content, for others it isn´t.; what for me could be a nice adventure post for yoy might be a too long and boring text; a video with hours of posproduction might mean entertainment for some, for another person it may mean lost time watching just another vlog.
• The rules for winning were followed by most of you and thus you they became elegible to win. It´s not about the post you made for the entry, but about the previous engagement you had with the platform and your previous posts and behaviour on the Steem Blockchain.

So as you can see, everyone who is a well behaved and community oriented Steemian who followed the rules, deserves to win.

So, how am I supposed to pick a winner?

Easy, this contest is not about judging quality content, it´s not about who is the better Steemian or who gives more to the platform.

This is a contest that anyone who engages, creates good quality posts, who comments on other poeple´s posts deserves to win... long story short, this contest is for those who proved they still believe in our platform and still behave like when the Steem price was at its highest.

The winners were picked through a randomized Excel process.

Call it what you want, but I strongly believe that anyone who is still fully committed to Steem, deserves to win, and we can´t judge who is "more committed".

The winners of the @blocktrades scholarship, deserving two weekly 100% @blocktrades votes during December are:

Steemian	Post	Image
@boddhisattva	Reflection of Winter Palace Arch
@louis88	The Clean Planet presentation and a citiwalk
@dreemsteem	This is how Flag Wars begin
@midlet	This week in Cube paintings
@veta-less	A trip to Kazan, Rusia
@purapapita	Extranjero en mi propio país
@anutu	Official welcome wagon diggest
@misslasvegas	Steemfest afterthoughts a time for change, plans for the future

But that´s not it. I mentioned I think everyone deserved to win and I meant it. Unfortunately we can´t support everyone the way we want to, what we can do, is reward Five more users with a smaller @blocktrades scholarship provided by two 100% votes from my own account per week during December.

The winners are as follows:

Steemian	Link	Image
@saracampero	Developing the creativity of children baby shoes
@jenina619	We are on fire
@scaredycatguide	Avoiding the sunk cost fallacy
@riverflows	Your health, your choice, freedom of natural medicine
@kevinli	Losing the car and ddaily mansion tour

Congratulations to everyone who won and thank you everyone who joined, please keep engaging as you have been doing for the past months, the only way to keep the Steem Community as awesome as it is, is if we keep behaving as committed as we´ve been doing it for the past months.

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For those who won, please write me a PM on discord to @anomadsoul #8455 to get details sorted out.

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