At the International Dateline, it has been SPUD day for several hours now. While in many parts of the World it is about to start and in others there is still a full day to go before December 1st. The Steem Blockchain interlinks a worldwide community of crypto-mavericks through events and initiatives like SPUD8.

As predicted by the STEEM Magic 8-Ball, there will be suds for this SPUD-8. @beerlover will be sponsoring some BEER tokens as prizes for the winners. Hopefully this will help some quench that thirst for everything crypto. Head on over to @beerlover 's channel to see how else you can acquire more BEER!

Remember to follow and support our very important prize sponsors, as well as supporting those young STEEM accounts that are looking to become stronger links to the STEEM Blockchain.

Listed below, SPUD7 Winners - Please help recognize and support these young striving Steemians.

@paragism @ph1102 @darrenfj @hazem91 @deeanndmathews @leoneil @mariita52 @galberto @nayhlaingsoe @golden.future @wongbraling @farm-mom @bxlphabet @joanstewart @rokhani @maxwellmarcusart @lightcaptured @reeta0119 @vcclothing

SPUD 8 PRIZES (UPDATED)

The prizes are meant to incentivize the smaller Steemians, the planktons, minnows and aspiring Dolphins out in the Steem Ocean to participate in powering up on SPUD, and hopefully create more understanding as to why Steem Power is what makes the Steem Economy.

1st Place -

• 3000 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @xpilar
• 1500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @sultan-aceh
• 1000 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @davedickeyyall
• 500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @mcoinz79
• 500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor @streetstyle
• 10 Steem Power Up Gift - by Sponsor @livinguktaiwan
• 100 JAHM Tokens Gift - @reggaesteem Community
• 30 BEER Tokens Gift - Sponsored by @beerlover

2nd Place -

• 2000 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @reflektor
• 1500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @hingsten
• 20 BEER Tokens Gift - Sponsored by @beerlover

3rd Place -

• 1500 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @bippe
• 15 BEER Tokens Gift - Sponsored by @beerlover

4th Place

• 750 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @streetstyle
• 10 BEER Tokens Gift - Sponsored by @beerlover

5th Place

• 250 Steem Power Delegation for 3 Weeks - Sponsor = @streetstyle
• 5 BEER Tokens Gift - Sponsored by @beerlover

Plus

• All eligible SPUD Prize participants who qualify will be entered into a giveaway of 8 STEEM (1 lucky winner) - Sponsored by @traciyork

• Winner of @traciyork 's prize will also win 20 BEER tokens

• @abitcoinskeptic will upvote any SPUD post with the hash tag dec2019spud

Rules to Win Prizes for SPUD8 :

MUST have a reputation score BELOW 69.00 ( so 68.99 is good & Can participate.) AND more than 150 STEEM POWER (prior to SPUD8) BUT LESS than 7501 Steem Power.

MUST have a reputation score of 42 & ABOVE (so rank of 41.99 will Not Win)

MUST have at least 1 Steem Post in their blog about SPUD8

MUST Power Up Steem on December 1st, 2019

On December 1st, you MUST make a post about your POWER UP. It can be as simple as "I powered up X amount of Steem" to a simple picture/screenshot of your Power Up and posted to your Steem blog, or it could be a super long dissertation on Steem Power. IMPORTANT: Use the SPUD and/or SPUD8 Hash tags so that I can be sure to see them.

The winner Must meet all 5 requirements, and will be the one with the Biggest Steem Power Up PERCENTAGE, not the biggest Power Up. This means that it will be based on the ratio between your current amount of Steem Power and the amount you power up on December 1st.

For Example:

If you have 1000 Steem Power already powered up prior to December 1, and on December you complete steps 1-5 with a 100 Steem Power Up,

and

another Steemian has 200 Steem Powered up prior to December 1, and on December 1st Powers Up 40 Steem, then this 2nd user would be winning with a 20% power up versus the first example with a bigger power up but smaller percentage of only 10% based on their account.
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The winners will be announced via a Steem Post a few days later, and if no one challenges it or lets me know I missed them after 2 days from Winner Announcement, the Winners become official and the prizes will then be given out.

Thank you to All our SPUD Prize Sponsors and to all SPUD supporters and participants working to get STEEM to higher Elevations!!

FULL STEEM AHEAD!

Cheers & Good Luck!

+++ @streetstyle

PUMPED SPUD Gif Art by @eddiespino and @grisvisa edited by me.