Week one season one is over!

The competitive atmosphere is not yet fully formed, but we've set the bar high for upcoming weeks. Missed the first week? Don't stress; just buckle in and remain consistent for your chance at the 5,000 POB prize pool.

Who are the winners this week?

_{^{check out the animated version below
https://nftshowroom.com/calumam/collection/calumam_pob-word-of-the-week_causality-}}

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First Place: Hive account@alekst7

Eureka: The Wisdom Of The Unknown

Second Place: Hive account@pialejoana

Eureka, it's a clictoris!

Third Place: Hive account@mineopoly

Bath Tub of Invention

Fourth Place: Hive account@edystringz

Trained by the discipline of sleepless nights....I've found it

Fifth Place: Hive account@samsmith1971

A moment lost...

_{All NFT Prizes have been sent to the winners. For further information about redeeming your NFT prize for powered-up POB, please read this post.}

_{Current Order in Chaos NFT holders are listed in this post.}

Merit System Results

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Visit the Grading Bases for more details.

Access the Public Merit System, updated throughout the week.

Balance Adjustment & Contest Changes

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• Entertainment grading base and points assigned

_{Grading base update:}

_{0: Dull (A post that does not invoke any emotional response i.e. happiness, nostalgia, sadness, etc)}

_{1: Average (A mildly entertaining post. There is some conscious effort to make the post interesting either through pictorial representation or storytelling)}

_{2: Brilliant (A very sensual post that engages the audience senses; invokes strong emotional responses)}

• Formatting grading base adjusted

_{Grading base update:}

_{2: There may be formatting issues in the article that distracts the reader, but it is minimal. Examples: Pasting website links within a passage without using markdown language, large passages of text which overwhelm the reader (this includes articles with sufficient spacing between text bodies).}

• Overkill deduction grading altered (Feedback will specify the deduction)

_{Grading base update:}

_{-1: Overwhelming Text (The article has large segments of text which overwhelm the reader)}

_{-1: Convoluted (The article confuses the reader with multiple perspectives)}

_{-1: Unnecessary Mixture (The article mixes multiple elements of artistry and information with little substance or sense)}

_{Feedback from anyone and everyone is always welcomed.}

Engagement Statistics

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_{Eureka Statistics - Validated Author Activity (No DQ or NA)}

Season 1 Leaderboard & Rewards

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1st Place: 2,500 POB & #1 Season One WOTW NFT
2nd Place: 1,000 POB & #2 Season One WOTW NFT
3rd Place: 500 POB & #3 Season One WOTW NFT
4th Place: 500 POB & #4 Season One WOTW NFT
5th Place: 500 POB & #5 Season One WOTW NFT

_{All prizes will be given as powered-up POB on week #024.}

WOTW Team Appreciation

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Name	Reason	Amount (POB)
Hive account@nonsowrites	Grading Assistance	100
Hive account@scholaris	Grading Assistance, Various Tasks	150
Hive account@amr008.pob	Automation Maintenance & Development	1000 POB (cont. delegation)

WOTW NFT Gallery

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The NFT's from previous weeks can be purchased on the NFTShowroom at this link.

HIVE from the purchases will be used for the following;

• WOTW Team Appreciation
• NFT Minting
• Future Season Rewards

_{Added utility and value to be developed for purchased NFT's in the future.}

Contest Guidelines

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We have a new word each week that community members can share their thoughts about in a post.

Any form of content is encouraged, whether short or long-form writing, poetic, artistic, music or voice, or any other method you can develop.

The guidelines for entry to the contest are as follows;

1. The post must be made on the proofofbrain.io front-end
2. The post must have the pob-wotw tag added to it
3. Entries must be posted before 00:00 UTC on 25/07/21
4. Posts must clearly demonstrate what the weekly word is
5. Posts shared for the following week will be disqualified if published before winners are called for the current week
6. Repeat use of the #pob-wotw tag will result in disqualification, one post only

The word for this week is Causality

_{The word for next week is Spectrum}

The prizes are redeemable NFT tokens;

1st place - #1 Causality NFT
2nd place - #2 Causality NFT
3rd place - #3 Causality NFT
4th place - #4 Causality NFT
5th place - #5 Causality NFT

_{NFT Prize Information}

This week, I have nothing notable to say except that myself, Hive account@shubhwaj, and Hive account@revise.pob have discussed a shorter duration for season two. This will likely be seven weeks long with a one week break for the results and downtime (need to give our brains a break every now and then!).

Also, authors who are disqualified for tag spamming will still have their posts related to the word graded. This will show up on the leaderboard for now but it will be adjusted so the points aren't added to the season totals. This affected Hive account@crismanto and Hive account@ageste's scores this week.

Anyway, time to zoom off. Keep up the quality, and don't forget that consistency is the aim of the game. Enjoy the week ahead.

_{PS. engagement reward system is well underway; get some practice in.}

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_{Shout out to Hive account@amr008 who provides curation POB data analysis, POB staking details, and not to forget, the incredible Engagement Project}

_{Shout out to Hive account@interpretation who provides detailed statistical analysis on a wide range of POB activities (important account to follow in the POB community)}

_{Shout out to Hive account@harpreetjanda who provides detailed statistics of the POB members every week}

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Ongoing POB Discussion Thread #001
Ongoing POB Discussion Thread #002

_{Hive account@scholaris is taking over this responsibility, woohoo!}

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POBleus: Cooperative Curation

_{Testing phase is underway.}