Contest #1—Winner Announcement For a Free Ticket to SteemFest 2017 at Lisbon + Runner-ups!

Hey everyone! Thank you for being so patient with the contest winner announcement post. Here's a quick update on things before I resume my regular posting.

2 weeks ago I underwent a minor surgery (more on that later) and had some immediate travel lined up and fell sick on the trip with a bad case of flu. It left me catching up on my travel when I was better few days ago, and during this time I also had to focus largely on my consulting work and some interesting projects taking shape behind the scenes with the time I had left in the day.

Let's cut to the chase. Thanks to everyone who participated. If you didn't win this one, don't worry. I will be giving away another ticket in another contest next month so you can try your luck there. I might also run a contest or two from now until SteemFest and give away some SBDs as well.

Contest #1 Winner

The contest saw some interesting entries but since I can only select one winner it has to be @fatpandadesign. You can read his nomination here and his entry here. It struck me as the most striking entry from the aspects I was considering for this contest.

@fatpandadesign please connect with me on Steemit.Chat. Thanks.

Runner-ups

There were other exciting nominations but some of the people who were nominated by their friends failed to respond to it. I kept the contest open beyond it's initial time as I was unable to update owing to health and schedules and that allowed more interesting entries such as the one from @roxane and @karensuestudios and others to come in.

I particularly like the detailed response from Roxane and also the video that Karen made towards the contest.

I originally did not intend to announce any runner ups to the #1 contest but I changed my mind as I wrote this post.

1. I'm giving away all the SBDs from this post + 30 Steem to @roxane towards her participation in the contest.
2. 25 SBDs + 15 Steem each to @karensuestudios and @acromott towards their video participation in my contest.

To the runner ups: I'll transfer the same in a week as I get some SBDs/Steem so please be patient. Thank you for your participation!

The winner will collect the sponsored ticket at the registration desk at SteemFest. This means that you have to fund the trip yourself, but the entry to SteemFest is completely free! You save $264.40 on ticket cost at the very least.

SteemFest is going to be packed with some of the coolest members of our community. @roelandp has put in a great effort towards organizing this incredible event and to support him Firepower Crew will be there as well. Win the ticket and come join us all for a great party with 300 people from across the globe! See you there!

You can also buy the ticket for yourself or sponsor someone to visit SteemFest. Click this to visit the official ticket website for purchases and come join us at Lisbon!

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