Steemit Crypto Academy Contest Season 12 Week 1 [Summary] - UNDERSTANDING CRYPTOCURRENCY AIRDROPS

Introduction

Dear Steemians and community members, we completed the first week of the 12 season without complications. We express our appreciation and thanks to everyone who participated in our competition and further invite you to participate in the ongoing competition organized by our community Season 12 Week 2 - STEEM Vs Bitcoin halving. Let us now take a look at the summary of the first week.

For the first week of season 12, we organized a competition centered on a process widely democratized in the cryptocurrency ecosystem which revolves around The cryptocurrency airdrop, which allows a blockchain or a protocol to put yourself forward by distributing your token for free to part of your community.

In this competition our dear users were invited to give their opinion on the following points:

• Define what is crypto airdrop?

• Give the different types of crypto airdrops

• Have STEEM token ever been claimed as a crypto airdrop?

• How to identify if a crypto airdrop is legit or scam. How can we also fine free crypto airdrops

• How are crypto airdrops taxed?

• Have you ever claimed a crypto airdrop before? Which coin was that?. If you haven't claim an airdrop before then explain how one can claim a crypto airdrop

• Advantages and disadvantages of crypto airdrops

Participation statistics

Throughout the duration of the competition, we received 23 entries, and fortunately we did not encounter any cases of plagiarism, but two entries were deemed invalid because they exceeded the publication deadlines, this is why we always appeal to our dear participants to respect the rules so that their efforts are counted and we can evaluate them.

Total number of entries	Invalid entry	Stolen content
23	2	0

_{Score distribution}

_{Performance Distribution}

During this week, only 2 entries reached the Excellence Zone, representing 9% of the total entries, and the highest competition score was in the Good area with 69% percentage, with 13% belongs to medium quality content and 9% for invalid posts.

Top 3 users of the week

The first factor we embraced in the selection process is the quality of performance of the participants then followed by their interactions with other users in the contest.

For the top 3 participants' selection, we utilized performance by grade and interaction for some selections while a special selection was given to an article that produced great content about the topic of discussion. Below are the top 3 users we have selected for the week.

Ranking	Username	Article
1st	@mile16	Link
2nd	@drhira	Link
3rd	@jasa107	Link

Final words

We sincerely appreciate your participation once again and congratulations to everyone that made it to the top for the week. We urge you all to keep up with the quality and interaction with other participants in our contests. Join us in the ongoing contest.