Hello Friends

First of all Merry X-mas to everyone. May this day bring new inspirations, happiness and hopes in your lives. May Lord Jesus guide you on the path of right. It doesn't matter if you are a Christian or not, if you are religious or not; what really matters is, "respect, lets commemorate the union, peace and joy"!! These are the words said by my dear friend @aleister, and I fully agree with him. Festivals are a great way to meet and greet and socialize with our near and dear ones. Exchange gifts and talks and love!

So in this spirit, I hosted the "Twenty Kitty Giveaway Contest" last week. Plus some SBD rewards, as nothing is complete without SBD on Steemit!! The contest was to comment why you need a cryptokitty. And to my surprise, I got some really good entries. Frankly speaking, I was just expecting participants to enter a small paragraph, but the participants wrote way more than that. They shared their experiences, pics of their real kitties, video on why they need a cryptokitty and so much more. The details were laid out. Nothing makes a host happier then to see his guests enjoy and participate in the event. Here my guests were these participants and I was the happy host!!

The contest announcement post .

There were total 18 entries and there were total 10 spots for the winners. Each winner gets 2 cute cryptokitties and 3 even more special winners share 30% SBD reward equally. I must say choosing the winners was an extremely difficult task for me, especially choosing the 3 top winners. Almost all entries were of excellent quality and choosing 10 out of 18 and then 3 out of 10 was a time and brain power (what's that!) consuming task for me. I had to go up and down reading the comments again and again to choose the winners. Since one of the contest requirements was to have 0.01 or higher ETH in your Metamask wallet, I was able to eliminate some entries. This requirement was actually necessary as without some balance in the Metamask wallet, the winner would not be able to sell, sire or breed their kitties. Every major action in CryptoKitty requires some fees, which is basically transaction fees. It is required for the smart contract execution and goes to the ETH miners. 

Sadly, two very high quality entries were also eliminated because of this. I could not help as I had to be fair with all the participants. I am referring to @dbzfan4awhile and @prakashghai. Sorry guys, you made really good entries, but sadly didn't fill one of the contest requirements.

Now without further ado, let's cheer for the winners.

10 winners who get 2 cryptokitties each:

1)  @coinangel

2)  @aussieninja

3)  @fishyculture

4)  @el-cr

5)  @vidafitnessfeliz

6)  @abh12345

7)  @eternalsunshine

8)  @igsamuel

9)  @steemkitties

10) @steeleminer

I got 16.298 SBD from my contest announcement post. 30% of it is 4.8894 SBD and so each of the top 3 winner will receive 1.6298 SBD along with their 2 kitties. 

The top 3 winners are:

1)  @el-cr for the comment:

Why I need a Crypto Kittie?
First of all, thank you so much @siddartha for making the platform more FUN! I love animals and cats were my first pets, even though I grew up in a non-pet family, when I met my wife @evecab a lot of things changed specially accepting pets that now I consider them my kids. When I first knew about CryptoKitties I did some research about it,  and I was so amaized by how we were witnissing the VERY FIRST  descentralized aplication game on the Etherium network.  So I was happy  to see that besides sending and receiving cryptomoney, these developers  actually proved we can do something else, they proved the smartcontracts  work!  Nobody can change the rule of the game and your cryptokitty is  yours and only yours!  Isnt this amaizing? and is just the beginning! So I went to openup an account, but I coundt do anything because the  network was overloaded, probably a lot of people got  crypto-toxoplasmosis =)   Then the kitties got expensive for me. Even if I dont win any kitty, I thank you for allows to participate! I asked all my cats to pose for a pic for this post, they agreed!

Pic taken by @evecab and me My Meta Mask address link to Crypto Kitties:
0x81Bf8396eF3C20D8b0DCbF97F276A84DED4A39c1

2) @aussieninja for the comment:

Why do I need a Crypto Kitty?

I live on a farm with a whole lot of deer and squirrels... and as  cute as they are, they just will not play with me.  I have to go looking  for them and they are always hiding from me... I just want to play with  my friends. I have an outdoor gym that I spend a lot of time in, and really want a  gym cat (my wife is allergic to cats but doesn't use the gym), but I  travel for work so much that it's not really fair for me to have a gym  cat. I won my first steembay auction yesterday, and it was two kitties  and I am so excited.  I've got the start of my little family, that I  can take with me traveling and don't have to worry about if I'm not home  regularly... they are the best. My address is : 0x433f12b3204ce57e9a95dfc5c14092889f1aef10
I don't have 0.01 ETH in there yet, I only have 0.008 ETH, but I have  $150USD coming in from Coinbase... unfortunately it takes 9 days...  booooo. Once it comes in I'll by buying more kitties and breeding my new  BFFs.  Please consider me for the competition, I do love them heaps! Thank you! 

3)  @coinangel  for the comment:

Hey Sid, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - May the new year will be more prosperous and joyful for all. My Metamask address (Toshi too, @Ketties_Breeder) is:
0xe87c61eac9f2a9107cf3a7a3a3e6099a743bf59e Why I need the cryptoketties...That's a nice tell, 1- My Daughters love cats and they are crazy about the CryptoKetties  now! - is not it enough reason, where I help the Crypto world get some  kids to understand what is crypto and how it will transform the life,  for serious day-to-day functions and for entertainment!!!!
2- It's a proof of concept that helps me argue the prophecy of Satoshi  is for real and could happens...Thanks for CryptoKetties to show how  Dapps/ETH & Smart Contract could be implemented and adopted by the  mass communities over the world.
3- I will also play around and see how I could do something similar, as I  have an Idea being cooked at the moment - once I grasp the whole thing  about Cryptoketties and can polish it better and introduce it to the  world, By the way.
4- Also, I need to do some experiments for the genotypes and breeding  algorithm , you given ketties will help for sure to be not price  sensitive and move forward with my experiments.
5- Eventually, it's always good to have a nice giveway in the crypto world - that's is the sharing economy in its pure way.
6- Assessing/analysing Toshi and Cipher with more ketties will be easy with your giveaway. I am expecting 2 great ketties from you, each will be named after my kids! and your name too!!! Cheers,

Choosing the top 3 was really really difficult for me. These winners are winners by merely some nano-meters!! So I will be sending a bit rare kitties to the next 3 good entries that is @fishyculture (Jaguar), @abh12345 (Tiger) and  @igsamuel (Dali). These kitties are not of different level or generation. All kitties that I will send today are of  "Generation:17" and "Cooldown:Slow". 

Since tis' the season of giving, I don't want to send the runner ups empty handed. I know the feeling of not winning, as I have hardly won any contest in my life!! So all 8 runner ups will receive 0.200 SBD from me. The price of SBD is excellent right now, and I hope these consolations prizes will bring smile on your face.

Enjoy the festive season guys!!

        

Thanking You

Siddartha Gupta

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