As some of you may already know, the 2018 FIFA World Cup just kicked off 2 days ago. While I admit that I am not a big fan of any sports-related competitions like this(except maybe esports) I am however a big fan of betting games that I have a higher chance of winning and/or one that I absolutely have nothing to lose and a possibility of having much to gain. In other words, I love free money or in Steem's version free STEEM/SBD, Don't we all? XD
So for today's post I've compiled a very short compilation of contests related to the ongoing 2018 FIFA World Cup with a high possibility of earning some STEEM/SBD in the process without losing anything.
#1 SteemitBoard World Cup Contest
How to join?
Officially register to the @steemitboard contest by sending 0.010 SBD or 0.010 STEEM to @steemitboardpool with “worldcup2018” as the memo.
How to enter?
For each match, @steemitboard will publish a related post at most 24 hours before the match begins. Under each post, there will be comments made by @steemitboard. All you have to do is to vote (Vote only, replies under the steemitboard comments are highly discouraged) for the team you think will likely win or in case of a possible draw upvote the third option, tie.
You are only allowed to upvote one among the three options. There is no limitation(as I know) as to how low the upvote weight could be. A 1% upvote is valid as long as you have followed all the rules and the vote was cast before the scheduled start time of the match.
Only one vote will be taken into account. If you remove your vote and/or vote for another result, you will be disqualified for this match. Think twice before voting for your result!
If you're eligible and your vote is valid, you will receive a comment from @steemitboard on one of your posts notifying you of a successfull guessed match prediction and an added badge on your Steemitboard profile, otherwise you get nothing (not even a notification or any comment xD).
What prize will you receive?
The current prize pool is at least 1700SBD thanks to some generous sponsors. Every STEEM/SBD received for registration for this contest is also being added directly to the prize pool. The prize pool will be split into:
1st place: 20% of the prize pool
2nd place: 10% of the prize pool
3rd place: 5% of the prize pool
The remaining of the prize pool will be split among all participants proportionally to their number of lightened badges and the total of successful votes among participants.
You can always check your Steemitboard profile or http://steemitboard.com/board.html?user=YOURUSERNAME to check how many valid guesses you have done correctly.
#2 The Steem-Oracle Project
Harnessing the Wisdom of Steemians!
The Steem-Oracle Project is an interesting experiment by @culgin in which it uses the collective intelligence or wisdom of the crowd to somehow predict real-world events. What perfect way to test this out is to take advantage of the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2018 event.
How to enter?
@steem-oracle will be posting a contest post at most 24 hours before the match begins. All you have to do is to upvote the contest post with at least 30% voting strength and reply with your pick (e.g. For Spain vs Portugal, Just reply Spain or Portugal or Tie). And that's it!!!
What prize will you receive?
- If the crowd gets it right: 90% of all SBD + STEEM rewards from contest posts will be distributed to Steemians who predicted the result correctly
- If the crowd is wrong: 50% of all SBD + STEEM rewards from contest posts will be distributed to Steemians who predicted the result correctly
- Top 10 predictors will also receive auto upvotes from @culgin and @steem-oracle for the next 30 days after overall results are announced
Thanks for the feature my friend! Just to add on, rewards from contest posts that are not distributed will be flowing into a Grand Pool. The Grand Pool will then be used to reward the overall top 10 predictors.
For now, I am leaning towards buying SBI shares using the Grand Pool as rewards for the top 10 predictors.
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No problem! I hope some sees this post and enter your contest as well.
I personally would love SBI shares compared to SBD as I am regularly posting. Good Luck! XD
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Me too! I think SBI encourages people to post more regularly, hence it is better in the long-term.
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Awesome compilation! Share more with us through eSteem app! ;) I'm not into soccer, but great effort spreading the awareness on what's happening with world cup and steemit :D
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Thanks! And yeah so far I am loving eSteem lol
Kind of wished I used this one sooner
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It has its benefits ;) have you tried the mobile version as well? Good to have it on the run :D
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Yep! It pretty much hangs up or freezes almost every 15mins when I tried it months ago (also the reason why it took me a long time to use again eSteem), well they've probably fix all the bugs by now xD Will try to download again the mobile version later.
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That's pretty sweet actually. Although, my understanding of sports is horribly limited. So I'd most likely be shooting in the dark if I tried to enter this. But like you said, at least both of these contests are super cheap to enter.
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Lol same here! I'm mostly just picking countries as to how cool the name sounds or how powerful the world sees them. XD If I'm not mistaken, the registration fee was put into place to discourage spammers from enterting. So it's basically like free to enter :)
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Well done @jlordc! You successfully guessed the match result.
Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard!
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Well done @jlordc! You successfully guessed the match result.
Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.
Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard!
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Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by jlordc from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows. Please find us at the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: 50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP.
Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.
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