Welcome to the #GooglyPrize

Your weekly award for the best posts under #GooglyEyes

The weather is all topsy-turvy, last week it looked like spring was coming with full force, now we're suddenly enjoying a nice blanket of snow again.

The steem-economy appears equally confused, too. Maybe you are yourself still wondering why you are receiving liquid STEEM rewards all of a sudden?! I've got you covered and wrote a very informative and relevant post on that matter. I usually avoid promoting my own stuff here, but I do think this one is an important matter and you should all understand what's going on!

Now then, I have adjusted my mighty prize-pool spreadsheet to accommodate those new STEEM rewards as well, they will go straight into the delegation pool. Then now, I guess we are ready to start the regular show:

_{Thank You:
@abbijulie, @raizapenamcbo, @acehpungo, @taufik.abdsyam, @chellelbaguio, @phderoes, @ragnar29, @photoquest, @grace44, @jdsandrea, @eduardo246, @deroeslinares, @jackelinlopez, @mandarinaad, @niko3d, @roelvi, @ivimipa, @victorking31, @ajdh71, @okkiedot, @the-dollar, @detlev, @mathowl, @yenipaola, @happycrazycon, @munaa, @bucipuci}

^{for posting your awesome entries for today's issue.}

The Prize Pool:

carried over from last week: 5.622 SBD
^{5.509 SBD have bought ~14.950 SBD in upvotes, 0.113 SBD remain}
and an available delegation-prize of 130.577 SP
plus
100% of all rewards on last week's winner announcement:
6.903 SBD and 3.652 SP and 0.086 STEEM

that's 7.016 SBD in the cash pool:

40% will be used for next week, 60% will be paid out today!
^{3rd - 10%; 2nd - 20%; 1st - 30%}

134.315 SP will be delegated to a googly winner!

 
^{Need more details and numbers about the Prize-Pool? [Read here!]}

A total of 17 entries were shortlisted for the final voting on Planet Googly today. @happycrazycon, @hazel420, @krystle, @mathowl, @niko3d, @okkiedot, @warrkin and myself each had three votes to pick our personal favourites amongst them. Voting started quite evenly and a lot of entries had a single vote but we eventually arrived at 3 entries, each receiving 4 votes in total. It's up to me now to make the final decision.

^{disclaimer: judges were not allowed to vote on their own entries!}

and now, drumroll please...

🥁 HERE ARE THE WINNERS: 🥁

🥉 Today's 3rd winner is: 🥉

@photoquest with
"Googly Frog Prince"

As I double checked the guest judges' votes, I found @warrkin had accidentally voted twice on this entry, which reduces it's valid votes down to three leaving it at a clear 3rd rank. Congratulations @photoquest, another great GIF you've made there!

🥈 The 2nd winner is: 🥈

@niko3d with
"Snooglyeyes"

@niko3d's entry received four valid votes in the final judging, and I have to say, this is my personal favourite. I hadn't giggle as much upon checking a #GooglyEyes post in a while... and I do check them all, so that's gotta mean something!

🥇 And Our Grand Winner is: 🥇

@taufik.abdsyam with
"My Little Family"

This well photographed family of googly pebbles also had 4 final votes today. Because @taufik.abdsyam has been so dedicated to participating in this contest and really eager to make the grand prize one day, I just had to give him the top-spot today. Congrats Taufik you did it!!

aaaaand

_{another drumroll, please}

🥁 this week's Googly-Delegation-Winner is: 🥁

@niko3d

you'll receive the #GooglyPrize delegation of 134.315 SP for a week.

_{Both @taufik.abdsyam and @photoquest had ~40% self-voting!! That unfortunately disqualifies them from winning the delegation award. @niko3d, in contrast, has an excellent 6.8% and easily takes the delegation home with him today.}

The #GooglyPrize continues!

prizes are being awarded every 7-8 days.

No-Conditions Policy:

No mandatory resteems, upvotes or follows required!

just:
- get some #GooglyEyes -
- stick them onto something -
- take a picture -
- post it with the tag #googlyeyes -
- post original content / don't spam -

DONE! You're qualified!

More Winners Every Week!

The prize-pool for the next issue contains:
2.806 SBD for upvotes and a delegation-prize of 131.887 SP
plus
100% of all rewards on THIS POST!

Want to learn more about this contest? Read:
A brief History, some Updates and a few Tips for Winning

Have more questions or just want to hang out? Join:
Planet Googly on Discord

bonus image:

_{Some get cold feet. Others keep cool heads!}

A huge shout-out goes to @krystle, @ausbitbank and @reggaemuffin!
They helped me start this contest and are supporting it since!

@ausbitbank and @reggaemuffin are also running a witness,
why not consider giving them your approval?!

_{In the name of myself and all the winners, more shoutouts go to @ausbitbank, @okkiedot, @samic, @marpa, @minnowsupport, @blackvapor, @hethur240, @krystle, @davor27, @zneeke, @marty-art, @warrkin, @chellelbaguio, @kristyglas, @bucipuci, @abbijulie, @iamjadeline, @grace44, @photoquest, @krakonos, @niko3d, @happycrazycon, @hazel420, @gweern, @tillygerbi, @steemprentice, @stephen.king989, @roselyn028, @mandarinaad, @roelvi, @raizapenamcbo, @the-dollar, @alionchromich, @berien, @shahidalikhan, @shellyduncan, @citimillz, @gamerveda, @pomperipossa, @jhermanbeans, @cryptonator, @cryptohustler, @numpypython, @photo-trail, @zazelpop, @myday, @river-island, @decibel, @steeminglyso, @qwasert, @edrivegom and @pheonike who all upvoted last week's post and who are thereby funding the prizes!!}

everything is better with #GooglyEyes

Your upvote on this post is funding next week's prize pool!

100% of post rewards are going into the prize!