1000 DAYS OF STEEM : Coming soon... The Country Culture Challenge
We mentioned a couple of days back that we have a number of new projects, developments and challenges planned for the final quarter of 2020.
Today we are happy to announce the first of these.
The Country Culture Challenge will be a worldwide contest to find which countries have the best artists, crafts people, writers, musicians and photographers on Steem.
The Five Challenge Categories
The Country Culture Challenge will be looking for entries in five different categories...
Art - original artwork in any visual media
Craft - anything from crochet to woodwork, and everything inbetween
Creative Writing - short story or poetry
Music - original composition, or a cover of music from your country
Photography - original photographs taken in your country
Stage One - National Selection
The Challenge will be held in two stages.
In the first stage each country should chose up to three entries to represent them in each of the five challenge categories listed above.
These entries can be chosen by contest or some other selection process. This will be left to each country to decide how best to do this.
Entries must be from currently active Steemians in the country, and should be either newly created or first posted on Steem in the past three months.
For ex-pat Steemians living in other countries they will be free to enter either for their home country or for their current country of residence (but not both).
The Country Representatives will be asked to coordinate the Challenge in their country.
Where there are no Country Representatives interested participants will be invited to take on the role of Challenge Coordinator for their country.
We will though be appointing more Country Reps before this Challenge starts in October.
For countries that decide to run any selection contests @steemcurator01 and @steemcurator02 will be able provide some voting support for contest prizes.
Stage Two - Global Contest
The second stage will be the global challenge contest between countries and the entries they have selected to represent them in each of the five categories.
The exact mechanism for this stage are still to be determined once we have an indication of how many countries are likely to take part.
Countries are free to put forward entries in as many or few of the five categories as they want to.
There will be first, second and third placements, with corresponding prizes, in each category.
Those placements will earn points and the country with the most points in total will be crowned winner of the first Steem Country Culture Challenge.
Prizes will be awarded both to the creators of the entries and to the countries they represent.
We still have quite a bit of work to do to finalize the mechanics and rules of the Challenge. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
It is currently planned for Stage One of the Challenge to run in the first three weeks of October, with the final Stage Two taking place in the last week of the month.
Prizes are yet to be decided but they will be substantial.
Although this Challenge isn't starting until next month we thought we would announce it now to give you time to start planning.
If your country is short of people in any of the five categories now might be a good time to recruit new artists, craftmakers, writers, musicians or photographers to fill the gaps !
Thank you and good luck,
The Steemit Team
Notes from the Community...
Weekly Challenge - Food Photographs
@mister-omortson continues to run his Weekly Challenges - this week the theme is food photographs...
Monthly Goals Challenge
@jacorv is running a Monthly Goals Challenge. What do you want to achieve this month? A prize pool of 50 STEEM awaits the winners...
Best User of the Week' Contest
For those with Italian connections @italygame continues its 'Best User of the Week' Contest...
Steemit Contest Management (SCM) Tool
And for those with an interest in development on Steem check out @neerajkr03's work on developing a Steemit Contest Management Tool...
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THANK YOU
The rewards from this post go to support the work of @fundacorazon and @littledisciples both in Venezuela.
@steemcurator1 I have dedicated a thank you post for all the work you do, I would love if you could take 5 minutes to read it.
Thank you for this post of support - much appreciated.
The Steemit Team
Thanks a lot for the mention about our contest!
We're going to translate this post for showing The Country Culture Challenge to the italian users.
That will be great, thank you
Done:
https://steemit.com/hive-184714/@italygame/1000-giorni-di-steem-prossimamente-la-country-culture-challenge
Wow, I think it's a super cool contest, although the participation is still not clear to me? Example: for Venezuela, anyone creates a post with talent in any of the categories and then the representatives of the country will choose a person from each category to compete with those chosen from other countries? I think that is how it will be, the truth is that it will be very interesting and surely quite competitive.
Each country will select the 3 best works in each of the five categories - possibly through their own contest, or maybe by some other method.
Those 3 best works, for example 3 paintings, could be from different creators or from the same creator.
Then for the final each country will present their 3 entries in each category.
Done, that's for the first phase. Well, I understand! It would be great to announce it through twitter to attract new talented users to the platform. talent shows always attract new users.
Thank you for all the info.
A translation into Spanish for the benefit of the Spanish community.
https://steemit.com/the1000daysofsteem/@mariita52/1000-days-of-steem-proximamente-the-country-culture-challenge
Estupendo y siempre agradecida por el trabajo que haces por la comunidad @mariita52
Thank you for sharing these details with us In advance, it's great we have enough time to get prepared for these challenges and get ready to rock and roll at global stage..great work...
Wow This will also promote culture of different countries we would get to know about of different traditions and artwork Made in different countries that's such a great challenge 😍😍😍😍
Great work @italygame for best user of week 😍
#onepercent #pakistan
Thank you very much @hassanabid!!
@steemitblog, this is pretty good.
The contest is worth participating.
Expect our entry from #nigeria, especially from @steemalive community.
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(https://steempeak.com/the1000daysofsteem/@steemcurator01/qglfm6)
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Our team plans to continuously develop and expand the functions of Cryptomission app for various users across countries.
If possible, the Cryptomission team hopes to benefit the Steem blockchain and related communities through continuous communication and cooperation with the Steemit team.
Currently, a test version of the Cryptomission app is provided through the Google Play Store and upgraded with feedback, and the launch of the Apple Store and the application of Tron and Ethereum-based tokens will be applied soon.
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Thank you.
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Hi @steemitblog, this is very useful information, and I am interested in participating in it. Thank you for holding this cool contest
Saludos, desde San Fernando de Apure Venezuela, soy nueva por aca, pero me parece interesante este concurso, espero mas informacion al respecto. Gracias...
#venezuela
Welcome to Steem.
You should follow the Country Representatives for Venezuela to learn more... @anasuleidy @edlili24 @mariita52 @tocho2
Hola @lacharrakey, bienvenida a Steemit. excelente que te guste el concurso aca te dejo la traducción al español.
https://steemit.com/the1000daysofsteem/@mariita52/1000-days-of-steem-proximamente-the-country-culture-challenge
Y te visitare en tu blog.
Muchas gracias por la bienvenida, aun estoy estudiando todo sobre Steemit para aprender. Estare al pendiente!
#diarydoctor #yourcountryname
Hola @lacharrakey, puedes contactarme si deseas hacer alguna consulta, anímate a participar en estos fabulosos concursos...!
Te esperamos
Hola @tocho2, Siii! yo estaría encantada de poder participar en uno de estos concursos, si me pudieras orientar al respecto sería genial, estare al pendiente...
#diarydoctor #venezuela