Thank you for your patience and see you in 2 days for Round 1!

Stay Alert!

Original Entrance post:

Welcome to the Steemit Knockout Series!

We are back with new rules, improved gameplay and more prizes!

Knockout Series Explained:

The game is all about speed and knocking your opponent out by commenting before they do. When you knock your opponent out you will move to the next round until there is only one winner left!

Everyone who replies with "ENTER S1" in the comment section of this post will be entered into the game. After 72 hours registration is closed. All new entries after 72 hours will not be able to join. After the closing time we will have many players that will be randomly placed into a knockout style chart similar to this one:

The chart will be adjusted according to how many players enter. After the 72 hours allocated for entry I will create a new post between 13:00-15:00 UTC time with everyone mentioned in the post. The new post will be called "STEEMIT KNOCKOUT SERIES SEASON 1 | ROUND #".

Rules:

You have to reply with the KEYGIF to the "STEEMIT KNOCKOUT SERIES | ROUND #" before your opponent does to knock them out and advance to the next round. SPEED IS KEY HERE.

For example: KEYGIF: "VAN" you need to post a .gif containing a VAN.

Depending on the amount of players I will work out how many rounds we need to go. Each Knockout window will last 2 hours. In this time frame, you have to be extremely alert and ready to reply!

Round 1 - Will be between 13:00-15:00 UTC time on August 9

All other rounds will be within the same time frame, 24 hours apart.

Round 2 - 13:00-15:00 UTC time on August 10
Round 3 - 13:00-15:00 UTC time on August 11

All the way to the finals.

It is possible that not all players will take part in Round One in order to balance the charts. Players will be entered into the charts at random. Keep in mind, if you are mentioned in the KNOCKOUT ROUND REPLY you need to respond ASAP.

If two players have not knocked each other out before the new KNOCKOUT ROUND REPLY there will be a coin flip to decide who gets knocked out and who moves on.

The Entry Date will end on 12:00 UTC time on August 7. Any new replies will not qualify ot enter.

Current UTC Time

Introducing: Piggyback

Once you have been knocked out you can choose to piggyback a player. Meaning if this player goes all the way to be in 3rd, 2nd or 1st place you will still win some SBD that will be in a separate prize pool.

EXAMPLE: If you piggyback @usernamehere and he/she wins 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, you will also win some SBD.

Piggyback Rules

1. You can only Piggyback once.
2. You can not change your piggyback (no editing your original piggyback comment).
3. No piggybacking after the Semifinals.

To piggyback a player simply comment: "Piggyback @usernamehere"

Prize Pool - All SBD earned by ALL the posts of the Season.

(80% to winners / 20% to piggyback fund)

Knockout Winners

1st place: 50%

2nd place: 35%

3rd place: 15%

Piggyback Winners:

Piggybacked 1st Place: 50%

Piggybacked 2nd Place: 35%

Piggybacked 2nd Place: 15%

Remember to:

Upvote = Higher Prize Pool

Resteem = More players, more rounds, more prize money!

BE ALERT! = The KNOCKOUT ROUND REPLY could strike at any moment!

Let the commenting commence!

Thank you for reading! Steem on Steemians!