So far, we are having another amazing week in the 'Learn To Draw With Friends!' contest! It has been another fantastic turnout with many excellent entries already having been submitted and some absolutely incredible process posts to accompany them.
I am really thrilled that everyone is having such a good time taking part and overjoyed at the engagement and support shown by and for all of the entrants. We are building a fantastic little support network and our efforts are not going unnoticed with lots of talk about the contest and even a notable mention in the Hit ParadePost by 
We ranked 9th for comments on steemit yesterday with 156, a great achievement considering the others that were also ranked in the top ten. If you would like to have a look for yourself you can click the link below! :[)
https://steemit.com/hit-parade/@arcange/daily-hit-parade-20170716
And if you would like to join the contest then please visit the main contest post below!
- Week One Winner! :[)
After just a couple of days we already have 15 entries with lots more expected in the coming days and the comment count stands at 240 which is a testament to the engagement of our very friendly contestants. I would love to keep up this level of interaction and involvement and would like to make a few proposals for evolving the contest with a view to continuing it's growing success. I hope the contest goes from strength to strength and becomes more popular than it already is and I would like us all to be able to share in that success.
The prize money on offer each week is surely a great way of getting people involved but it is the success that we have been having with our process posts that I think is the biggest plus in terms of allowing us all to showcase our talents and even if you are not lucky enough to win a prize in any given week, there is usually some reward by way of the process post to make it worth while, apart from the obvious enjoyment of taking part of course! :[)
So it would seem to me to be a win/win situation for entrants and I would like to propose that in future when making process posts that they be given a hashtag specific to the contest. I would suggest something along the lines of #drawingwithfriends but I am hoping that everyone will get involved and make their own suggestions so that we can decide together which is best. So please feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments of either this post or the main week four post!
Another thing I would like to suggest is that rather than having a set prize pool, we change the prize to all of the SBD rewards paid out by the main post for that week. Up until now these have not been very much but my reasoning for the suggestion is that I feel it will encourage entrants to promote the contest more in order to increase the rewards for the post and thus increase the prize pool for that week. I know this might sound like it would mean that the prize money would drop but I think in time this will be a better way of financing the prize money for the contest and in conjunction with my next idea I think it will be a very promising change.
So, the next suggestion I have is that the winner of first place should be offered the opportunity of hosting the following weeks contest.
I will of course be on hand to help whoever is hosting the contest each week but I thought it might be a good idea to hand over the contest to everyone and allow each of us the chance to benefit from its success.
When hosting the contest you will obviously keep all of the steem that is generated by the contest post and hand over the liquid SBDs to the winners. You will be in charge of choosing the theme for the week you are hosting and will also be able to make update posts throughout the week from which you will keep all of the rewards.
If the winner of the contest is not comfortable with hosting or not able to host the next contest then the offer will go to the 2nd place finisher and if they also are unable then it will go to the third place. If no-one is willing or able to host the following weeks contest then I will step in again and get us started over.
I think this is a good incentive to win the contest also and if we manage to continue the success as I think we can, it may in time become a very rewarding prize. :[)
This is ofcourse just a proposal and everyone is equally entitled to have their opinion heard on the matter so please let me know what you think about the ideas I have put forward either in the comments section here or in the main contest post.
Do you like the ideas I have put forward??
Are you happy with the way things are going and would like to keep it that way??
Please let me know your thoughts as well as any suggestion you might have. This contest belongs to all of us and we are all entitled to have our voices heard. I look forward to hearing your thoughts! :{)
I hope everyone is having an excellent day as always!! :[)
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