Registration and Attendance Stats
Steemit Grand Meet and Greet held on August 5 at Rehab Distillery Gastrobar in Mandaluyong initially had 17 pre-registrants that helped pay the initial downpayment to lockdown the venue.
A few people had contacted on my facebook page which ramped the number up to 23 a day before the event.
Early birds arrived as early as 4:30 PM and were welcomed by 
Hive account@tjpezlo, 
Hive account@raynarojas, Bowie and Darlin (recruits by 
Hive account@immarojas) at the Registration Booth.
Here's the fasttrack video of the preparations:
Program Proper Highlights
A quick summary of the things we covered during our meet and greet - we had our opening remarks by 
Hive account@sasha.shade where he also discussed best practices when posting on Steemit.
Next, Deveerei talked about how he earns as a graphic artist on Steemit, inspiring artists to join.
I then talked about being new to blogging on steemit and how different it is from earning per click/impression as a blogger followed up by Hive account@sasha.shade on how to open and rules for opening a steemit account.
Then 
Hive account@surpassing google gave our newbie steemians inspiring words on how steemit changes people's lives, as he blogged about in his most recent post.
We had a short break for dinner then 
Hive account@jeanelleybee talked about turning your STEEM into Philippine Peso, giving us a bit of background on STEEM, STEEM Power and SBD which then led to a full discussion on cryptocurrency with the rest of the seasoned steamians.
Highlights of the event and chosen photos by our official photographer and videographer:
Prizes and Giveaways
Prizes that were given away included 
Hive account@teamphilippines 5 STEEM for Chat Reputation contest in PAL Discord. Also those who arrived BEFORE 5 PM received 5 Beyondbits as part of our Early Bird Prize. We had a facebook marketing contest where the post with the most number of likes win 20 Beyondbits and the winner is --- 
Hive account@grazz!!! You totally deserve it. :) Our post got 2300++ views in total and 35 shares!
For the GRAND Finale, we did the 200 Total Beyondbits Raffle. (1, 2, 3)
Watch the video to see the reactions and suspense when the winners were revealed!
Thanks and Call to Action
I'd like to say a special thanks to our speakers and organizers who helped the newbies and soon to be steemians with their questions:
Hive account@deveerei, 
Hive account@cloh76, 
Hive account@surpassinggoogle, Hive account@tjpezlo, 
Hive account@luvabi, Hive account@grazz, Hive account@jeanelleybee (in place of 
Hive account@dreamiely who was sick) and Hive account@sasha.shade
Also a big thanks to our Registration lead and emcee - Hive account@grazz !!!
Thanks to Hive account@tjpezlo and Hive account@immarojas' nieces/nephew (Bowie, Darlin, Hive account@raynarojas) who manned the Registration booth and welcomed everyone to the event.
Thanks to Hive account@deveerei and 
Hive account@haleyaerith for printing out shirts for our fellow Steemians.
Thanks to our official photographer 
Hive account@wilbejel and also 
Hive account@olivercuico for being ready with their camera to take photos. Thanks to Enrico for taking videos of our animated discussion.
Maraming Salamat to those who attended and mingled with everyone!
Hive account@monkeypattycake, 
Hive account@jazzybells, 
Hive account@craftech, 
Hive account@haneun, 
Hive account@antonette, 
Hive account@blessednami, 
Hive account@chinito, Hive account@jazzybells, 
Hive account@decsterity, 
Hive account@dearjyoce
Some people did not go but paid like 
Hive account@shellany, Hive account@immarojas, 
Hive account@callmeelle and Hive account@monkeypattycake's bf which gave us a little bit of legroom to buy additional orders of chicken, nachos and beer for everyone!
Please give these guys a warm welcome - 
Hive account@cacojuangco and 
Hive account@nobleman. They just opened their accounts.
Meanwhile these guys planned to contact me on my facebook page for assistance on creating their accounts:
Mar Neil
Ace
Rose
Darlin
Bowie
Patrick
Jacqui
Tiffany
Enrico
Maileen
George
And of course thanks to those who donated beyondbits, SBD and steem to help fund all the registration materials, logistics, printouts, balloons, tarpaulin, additional food, and 
Hive account@officialfuzzy 
Hive account@darthnava Hive account@shellany Hive account@immarojas
It was so much fun planning this meetup/ mini steemfest for you guys, I look forward to us, growing in number while building each other up!
Other Post event write-ups on Steemit Meet and Greet:
- https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoins/@grazz/just-happened-steemfest-philippines-2017
- https://steemit.com/steemit/@deveerei/steemit-grand-meet-and-greet-philippines-2017-preview
- https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@wilbejel/team-philippinas-first-ever-steemit-meet-and-greet-highlights
- https://steemit.com/steemit/@olivercuico/steemit-team-philippines-and-grand-meet-and-greet-why-should-you-join-us-next-time
- https://steemit.com/teamphilippines/@monkeypattycake/if-you-ll-never-try-you-will-never-know-team-philippines-grand-meet-up-event
- https://steemit.com/steemfest/@haleyaerith/teamphilippines-grand-meet-and-greet-woah-amazing
- https://steemit.com/steemit/@surpassinggoogle/putanginamo-don-t-say-that-phrase-if-you-are-steemit-user-in-the-philippines-for-your-reputation-may-go-down-a-notch
- https://steemit.com/steemit/@jazzybells/my-steemit-journey-and-2nd-steemfest-philippines-mnl-meet-up-8-5-17
- https://steemit.com/steemfest/@chinito/this-guy-s-takeaways-from-steemfest-teamphilippines-2017-my-totally-custom-homemade-steemit-shirt-and-a-few-more-pics
