Welcome to the @OriginalWorks sponsored writing contest!

Status: CLOSED. WINNERS ANNOUNCED.

Accepted Languages:

• English
• French
• Chinese

Start time: 3 PM ET, Thursday
End Time: 3 PM ET, Sunday

This is a call to all great Steemit writers! MindSports IO (MIND) has sponsored a writing contest!

Prizes: 150 SBD

• 1st Place: 60 SBD
• 2nd Place: 40 SBD
• 3rd Place: 25 SBD
• 4th Place: 15 SBD
• 5th Place: 10 SBD

Deadline: 72 Hours

All articles must be submitted within 72 hours of this post to be considered!

What is MindSports IO (MIND)?

MindSports IO is a decentralized social gaming network powered by Ethereum technology, IPFS, Whisper and the MIND Registry for intellectual sports such as Chess, Draughts (Checkers), Xiangqi, Bridge and Go.

They aim to eliminate the need for trusting a single party host in running and governing games.

With a decentralized system, the intellectual gaming world will be taken by storm as users are given the power to manage the games. With traditional events, organizations may put their own interests ahead of the integrity of the game, whereas MindSports IO will allow for transparent governance!

Check out this video for a more detailed explanation:

More Information & Resources:

• MindSports IO (MIND)
• MindSports IO Twitter
• MindSports IO WhitePaper
• MindSports IO Medium

Rules & Submission

• Write an article about how MindSports IO (MIND) can change the way intellectual games are played! How will decentralizing the competitive market improve the integrity of the game? How will it benefit players? How will it change the way tournaments are hosted? These are just some suggestions, but as always, the floor is yours! Be creative!

• The article must be 200 to 600 words in length.

• To submit please do the following:

1. Add the word "mindsports2017" (without the quotes) at the very end of your article.
2. Link this post in your submission.
3. Post the link to your article as a reply to this post.
4. Resteem this contest post.

How the winners are decided

The submissions will be passed along to the team at MindSports IO, and they will decide the best articles.

More information & recommendations:

• Pay attention to spelling and grammar!
• Feel free to use informal language such as "I would, etc"
• Use information and resources above to learn more about MindSports IO (MIND)!
• If you copy something, use quotes. This is an @OriginalWorks contest after all :)

After writing an article, within a few minutes you should get one of these as a response to your article post:

If you don't get one, let me know by adding a quick message after you submit your link as a reply here and I will look into it.

Early bird bonus!!! First 15 submissions get 2 SBD each. The article must meet the contest conditions such as word length and a level of quality.

Disclaimer: @OriginalWorks makes no claims as to the legitimacy or operating procedures of contest topics. @OriginalWorks does guarantee prize payout.

Good luck to all the contestants!