Join Open Mic Night Week 3 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.

Even if you don't play an instrument you can still show support. Upvote your favorite performer and Reblog this post. If you have a friend that plays or sings, this could be a good way to introduce them to Steemit.

Hello Steemiains,

Thanks for supporting, upvoting and entering Open Mic Night Week 1 and 2. Everyone is having fun playing music for the Steemit community, and @pfunk decided to sponsor Open Mic Week 3. So, be sure to thank him for his generosity. You can see who won Open Mic Week 2 here.

2 Votes = Win Win

You can help support Open Mic by making sure to vote two times.

• Once on this post so the payouts for the winners will make this contest self-supporting. We're very grateful @pfunk is helping out right now, but helping this post with upvotes gives more rewards to the winners and the contest will be self supporting.

• And vote a 2nd time on the link of your favorite entry's post found in the comments below. This will help support all the musicians that entered, even if they didn't win the contest.

• In fact, some entries earned very well, even though they didn't win. And that's good because musicians need to eat.

Winners from week 2 will be announced tomorrow, Monday, October 17th, 2016 so be sure to follow @luzcypher for updates and thanks for everyone that entered, upvoted and resteemed Open Mic.

Open Mike Process

Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the openmic contest:-

• Need to promote community participation in spirit of openmic night.

• So.. openmic submissions in comments, community voting and reblogging is encouraged.

• However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for openmic night.

• So.. community voting as first filter, before internal voting.

• Another problem: late submissions are usually disadvantaged as they get less attention on the contest post.

• So.. we've tried to mitigate such a problem by including unique votes of openmic submissions in their own blogposts.

• Right at time of contest closing, the votes from all performances submissions will be counted and winners posted the following day.

How To Enter Open Mic Night

• In a well lit quiet room, use your cell phone to record your performance. See recording tips here and here

Say The Words Open Mic Night 3 In Your Video

• Say the words Steemit Open Mic at the intro before you record your performance so we know it's really you or you can make a sign if you like with the words Steemit Open Mic on it so we know you really are performing the song.

• Upload your performance to YouTube or other video hosting site.

• Create a post on your own Steemit account pasting the URL of your uploaded video.

• IMPORTANT: The first words in the title of your post must include the words: Open Mic Week 3 before any other text in the title.

For example: Open Mic Week 3 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

• You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say Open Mic Week 3.

• Very Important: The first tag on your post must be: openmic All one word. No spaces.

• Post a link to your post in the comments section of this post. This will increase your exposure and votes while increasing the amount of prize money.

• If the song you're playing is an original song written by you, please make your 2nd tag read: originalmusic , again all one word with no spaces. The originalmusic tag is a new tag started by @jessamyorchard for finding and curating new original music on Steemit and Open Mic is working to help her make that tag rock! Thanks.

Judging, and Contest Prize

• Submit your performance in the comment / reply section by 12.00 PM UTC Time (Sunday the 23rd October 2016). Find your UTC time here.

• You may submit as many performances as you like.

• Performances are not judged on production value, only on performance and entertainment value.

• Top 10 performances by amount of votes (not comment payout value) will be selected.

• OpenMic judges will deliberate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place based on the selected performances.

• Each week the prizes will be paid as follows:1st place: 50% of SBDs generated by this post.
  2nd and 3rd place: 25% of SBDs each generated by this post. This week we will add 100 Steem to the pot, courtesy of @pfunk

• All SBD's generated on your own post are your to keep of course.
• You may also post your entry and comments on https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic

Images

You can use any images you want on your blog when you enter OpenMic. If you would like to help promote a common theme for the OpenMic Contest you may also use this image below.

Just copy and paste this code as the first image on your blog post.

[![openmicoct17-23.png](https://s13.postimg.org/kcnftb2mv/openmicoct17_23.png)](https://postimg.org/image/667oy2rrn/)

Disclaimer

• Make sure performances are your performance.

• The song does not have to be original, only your performance of the song.

• The OpenMic judges reserve the right to forfeit submissions that are misleading.

## Thank you all for the participation! ##

Open Mic Featured On Steemit Talk Podcast

Open Mic Night was featured on Steemit Talk Podcast thanks to all the Steemian performers making it so special. You can listen to the full podcast here.

Image credit by @giftedgaia

Full post is titled Steemit Talk Podcast - 013 - 10/15/2016 - Open Mic Night, Steemit Game Night, and Highly Evolved Spider Overlords

Thank you for the positive support from the Steemit community and a special thanks to @kevinwong for his guidance, encouragement and support and @verbal-d for writing a song that inspired the idea.

Please contact @luzcypher in SteemitChat for any further questions you may have. https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic

We would like to thank you all for your spirited participation in making this a big part of blockchain history!

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