Added a Guest Judge to make it 5 total judges for the week. 
Time to celebrate 6 months of curation! This week we are going to allow you the PIFC community to help us pick people for the 
So on top of the normal 2 featured bloggers (remember QUALITY CONTENT), we need you to pick one or two redfish that you feel are doing great things on steemit who deserve to become one of our Minnows In Training. We would like you to write a little bit about each nomination and why you feel they deserve the added support.
All nominations will be reviewed by the Judges and we will pick up to 10 redfish from your nominations.
| I used the term "redfish" and it has caused some confusion. Sorry about this. For this round we are looking for 40-480sp steemians The reason for the 480sp cut off is there is far to great a chance that we would be setting someone up for the program and then they graduate out really quickly and we would be right back looking for someone to replace them. The 40sp minimum is so we get people who have proven their commitment to being on steemit and powering up. Later this number will be lower, but for this round this is the cut off. |
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Here are a list of steemians already getting support from the program so please don't nominate them as they won't be selected for a second group.
As always check back to this post often and scroll to the end to see a list of this week's curation entries!
What is the Pay It Forward Curation Contest?
This is your chance to give back a little and feature 2 great blog posts written by Reputation level 55 and below Steemians. To do this you will write a single curation style blog post like this entry by 
To be clear the Level 55 max is only for the bloggers who are featured, anyone may submit a curation entry.
Contest Date Range
This contest run from Now until Saturday 10/06/18 at 11:59pm CST (USA, Chicago).
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 10/10/18 at 12:01am
This Weeks Rules
You need to write a curation style blog post that features 2 High Quality Original Content Blog Posts from Steemians with a reputation score of 55 or under. This means you will write a post on your account talking about posts from 2 other steemians who you feel wrote great posts. You need to link to their posts and tell us why you choose them.
- Curation Style Post of 2 Bloggers who are posting Quality Original Content
- Link to 1 recent blog post per featured blogger. Keep in mind that many will follow this link and upvote so pick a post that isn't close to payout!
- Include a link to this contest in your entry post
- The 2 bloggers you curate need to be rank 55 or below
- You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how we track everything!
👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈
We are looking for Quality Original Content. We want to see no less then 200 words of original written content. So a single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it. 200 words is about 12 lines of content. Posts from Parley and dmania are not acceptable.
Prizes: Steem Basic Income
This week 14 winners are going to get a sponsorship for #steembasicincome!
There will be 2 SBI Sponsorship's purchased on a random basis. Anyone who wins a Judges Choice SBI is excluded from the Random SBI drawing.
There will be 4 Judges Choice Awards based the quality of the bloggers you feature in the eyes of our Judges, 
All 8 All 10 of the featured bloggers from the Judges Choice Winners posts will also get an SBI Share. These shares are purchase by the sponsors listed later in the post.
Prizes: Steem-Bounty
Steem-Bounty has been sponsored by Need Sponsor this week!
Sponsors, Visit Them and Upvote Them!!
| Sponsors | Type of Sponsorship |
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 | 1 SBI Share |
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| 2 SBI Shares |
 | 2 Steem for Bounty New Sponsor, Thank You! |
Current Entries - Please Visit!!!
This is the real purpose of this contest, visit these posts and help upvote the bloggers featured. This list will be updated as new entries are added. Please check back during the week!!
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