A good contest it´s not meassured by the prize or the person hosting it, its all about the entries.

But it´s not just the number of entries, it is also about the quality of those entries...

I want to thank you all because you made it incredibly hard to pick the winners, not just for me but for the judges who spent hours checking out the posts and deciding which ones deserved the prizes.

My Voting power wasn´t enough to give everyone a big vote but each and every one of the Steemians who participated - in time and form - received at least a $2.50 vote. Thank you for joining!

We had 174 entries!! That is amazing!!

We are already being featured in the most used tags, that is just plain awesome :)

I noticed that most posts took the time to thank me for the contest, but in reality you have to thank @blocktrades because it is only through their Steem Power delegation I´m able to host these contests and reward every post. If you want to show them your support click here and vote for them as witness, it only takes 1 minute and you wil be showing your gratitude in the best way possible.

And the winners are...

Hold on...

There were 40 posts that made the final cut and in my mind I wanted to reward every one of them, but I can´t... but what I can do, and considering the SBD market price is still above $10 US dollars is, to reward more Steemians.

So, the prize pool had a slight change and I believe everyone will be pleased with it:
9 Honorable mentions: 9 posts that didn´t make the Top 3 but are still amazing, made with efort and underrated post will receive 5 SBD as prize.

• 3rd place: 8 SBD.
• 2nd place: 15 SBD.
• 1st place: 25 SBD.

I made this change because, and I hope you´ll understand, the decision was very hard to make and, if I didn´t do this, the judges and me couldn´t have decided for a winner.

Honorable mentions: 5 SBD reward

• @cabernet Metamorphosis

• @junebridge - A scar of a lifetime

• @wanderingartist - A struggle for freedom

• @jeffjagoe - Jeffjagoe´s year in review

• @shrestha - Ahievement and Failures

• @infinityroad - Achievements and Failures

• @awolesigideon - The survivor

• @galibelga - Sometimes you win sometimes you learn

• @abh12345 - Awesomeness and more grey hairs yesss

These user´s post were astonishing and it was shockingly hard to pick the winners, it was all about the judges tastes and preferences but still, they deserve a small prize, congratulations on the 5 SBD´s - on this moment, more than 55 dollars!!!

Finally, the winners are:

3rd place: We have a tie!

Prize: $ 8 SBD each

A break down of my year by @ajremy

Robots facing bankrupcty while helping crying customers by @mazzle

2nd place:

$15 SBD prize

My achievements and failures by @maxiemoses

1st place:

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With a prize of $25 SBD...

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347 days of art - 105 artworks and counting by @jacinta.sevilla

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!

I can´t stress enough how hard it was to pick the winners, but you deserve it, thank you all for joining the contest. I strongly encourage you to follow our judges, they have amazing content: @joythewanderer, @nelyp and @guyfawkes4-20. If you liked this contest, resteem this post, remember the prizes come out of my pocket so upvoting this post helps out :)

Be on the lookout for the next issue, tomorrow I will be posting the next contest.