Results time! Who guessed the closest to how many M&M's were in the jar?
Recap:
The competition was a simple "Guess how many M&M's are in the jar" activity with a few entry requirements:
- Reply below with your guess (one guess per Steem account)
- Upvote this post
- Resteem this post
The competition rules were:
The competition will run until 6pm Saturday 1st July AEST. Entries received after this time will not count. One guess per Steem account. The winner will be declared as the person with the closest guess, who has upvoted and resteemed this post. In the case of more than one person qualifying as winner, the prize will be divided equally amongst the winning accounts.
Entries received:
Entries were received from @izbing, @mikepedro, @nicugoanga, @nepd, @themovieplace, and @frenchredrum. Thank-you so much to you all for taking the time to take a punt on my competition!
Of these, four entries met the upvote requirement, and of these two met the resteem requirement.
| Steemian | Guess | Upvoted | Resteemed | How close? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| izbing | 276 | N | N | 456 |
| mikepedro | 543 | Y | N | 189 |
| nicugoanga | 111 | N | N | 621 |
| nepd | 678 | Y | N | 54 |
| themovieplace | 320 | Y | Y | 412 |
| frenchredrum | 856 | Y | Y | -124 |
Revealing the number of M&M's:
There were 732 M&M's in the jar.
Announcement of the Winner!
This makes the winner @frenchredrum, with a guess of 856, and an upvote and resteem of the competition post. Congrats @frenchredrum! I have transferred the winnings to your account.
( @nepd's guess was closer, however the entry didn't meet the resteem requirement. Sorry nepd! )
Review:
I ran this competition as a bit of an experiment to see what would happen, and as an experiment I think it has been a success. It's fair to say that I learnt a great deal from it. For starters, next time I would scrap the upvote/resteem requirements. This may work for a Dophin or Whale running a competition, however for a Minnow like me I think it really hurt the number of entries received. Worse still, not completing all the required steps invalidated over 60% of those entries.
The second thing I learnt was that promotion isn't easy. For a start it's hard to find places to promote without sounding spammy. In those places it is acceptible to promote, it's hard to be noticed amongst all the noise. I also realised that I needed to be posting regularly throughout the week, just as a means of keeping my content visible in the feed and as a means of indirect promotion of the competition.
Overall the post made 0.216 SBD and 0.123. This works out at less than $1 AUD, but don't worry - I'll still be making a nice donation to our local Scout group :-)
