Dear all,
I am about to hit 1,000 followers on Steem.
I estimate that it might happen within days from now, if not hours, but I can barely believe it. It took me a loooong time to get where I am: I joined Steemit ten months ago. One of the things that really helped me to boost the number of followers was the weekly SBD giveaway series that I call ‘Feed Your Minnows’.
It is very easy to participate in and it pays 100% of the post’s SBD earnings to all its participants in equal shares, so there are no losers and everyone is a winner! Since its launch it has become quite popular and fun way to engage my followers and to interact with them on a regular basis.
Thus, to celebrate this amazing milestone of reaching 1,000 followers, I decided to introduce a completely new SBD giveaway contest with a new game mechanics and different rules. I am very excited to give you
THE MINNOWS FEEDING FRENZY!!
This new contest will be just as easy to participate in as the good old ‘Feed Your Minnows’: one just needs to register in the beginning of each game “season”. The rest will happen automatically, in daily episodes (aka rounds), without any action required on the players’ part. And this time there will be winners and losers, more on that in the rules below.
THE RULES
At the start of each game season all players will have 48 hours to register for participation. All you have to do is to leave a comment with ‘ENTER SX’, where X is the season’s number. This post will serve as the Season 1 registration venue, so feel free to register for the game by replying with ENTER S1 in the comments below (you are welcome to write some nice things in your comment too ;)). The registration is open to all of my followers, so please make sure that you are one, before you go ahead and register.
The Goal
The goal of the game is to survive as long as possible, by eating up other minnows and gaining weight in the process. The last surviving minnow (the one with the largest weight) will be the contest’s ultimate winner.
All minnows start with the same weight of 50 g (that’s about 0.11 pounds for those of you in the US) at the start of each season.
The first round of every game season will go live two days after the registration post. So, for example, the first round of Season 1 will be posted this Thursday. All registered players will be pitted against each other in randomly created pairs, with a designated Player 1 and Player 2 in each pair. If there’s an odd one out, that player will automatically proceed to the next round, but without gaining any weight. The pairs will be revealed by me in the comments to the Round’s main post. Once again: the players in each pair will be picked randomly, so it’s all about luck.
Feeding, Survival, Elimination
If the two players have unequal weights, the larger minnow will eat up the smaller minnow. The victim’s weight will be added to the winner’s weight and the winner will then proceed to the next round. For example:
Player 1, who is a 50 g minnow,
VS
Player 2, who is a 100 g minnow.
Player 2 eliminates Player 1 and their weight is now 150 g. Simple enough, right? Once again, all minnows have the same weight of 50 g at the start of a season.
If both players in a pair have the same weight, then I’ll roll the dice. Numbers 1 and 3 on the dice will mean that the Player 1 survives, eliminates Player 2, gains their weight, and proceeds to the next round. Numbers 2 and 4 will indicate the reverse outcome for Player 2 and Player 1. Numbers 5 and 6 will mean that both players survive the encounter and proceed to the next round without gaining any extra weight.
Likewise, if there’s one unmatched player left without a fellow minnow to confront in any given round, that player will automatically proceed to the next round without gaining any extra weight.
Once the outcome has been decided in each pair, the episode’s post will be updated with lists of the perished minnows, the surviving minnows, and the latter’s new weights. It will be easy to have an overview of the episode’s results without having to browse through all the individual comments.
Next round will see all pairs formed anew – again, randomly – from the surviving minnows of the past episode. New rounds will be published once a day, until there’s only one minnow left in the game.
Winners and Prizes
Since I’ll have to do quite a bit of administration for this game, I’ll be keeping 50% of the SBD payouts as my ‘game master’s salary’. I hope it sounds fair to you (please leave a comment, if it doesn’t). The remaining 50% will go into the prize pool. The good news here is that half of all the SBD payouts, from the registration post and all the daily episodes will go towards the prize pool. Neat, eh? ;) Thus the minnows remaining in the game will have a strong incentive to upvote each episode, in order to increase their potential prizes.
50% of the prize pool will go towards the one last swimming minnow with the largest weight. 30% of the prize pool will go to the minnow eliminated by the season’s winner in the final round. The remaining 20% of the prize pool will be divided between the minnows with the third largest weight in the game.
The prizes will be paid out once all the posts have received their author rewards, meaning 7 days after the final round has been posted. The results will be announced in a separate post, which will double as a registration for the next season (therefore its reward will count towards the next season’s prize pool).
Questions? Suggestions? Objections?
Please raise your criticism, pose your questions, and make suggestions for improving the game in the comments below. I will be happy to clarify the game mechanics, if needed. And, if you are happy with the rules as they are, go ahead and register by including ENTER S1 in your comment.
I hope it will be a really fun and rewarding experience for all the players!!
Sort of like “lite version” of @papa-pepper’s STEEM-POCALYPSE SURVIVAL GAME CONTEST – only without commitment to act and choose one of the options on a daily basis.
But wait, what’s gonna happen to the beloved ‘Feed Your Minnows’ series??
It will continue as usual, with its regular weekly episodes (with an occasional bonus episode thrown in now and then), its 100% SBD payouts (and occasionally a little extra as a bonus payout), and all its rules remaining unchanged. So nothing to worry to about: ‘Feed Your Minnows’ and its beloved cashtag #MinnowsFeed are here to stay in the foreseeable future! And, of course, you can participate in both giveaway contests. One automatically grants you a share of the post’s payout (as long as you are a follower), while the other will depend on your luck and might reward you with – potentially – much greater payouts, if you are one of the lucky winner-minnows (we’ll call them winnows, for short).
Love, as always
@oleg326756
You are my biggest supporter and my closest friend on Steemit, @scrooger! I am honoured and happy to call you my friend IRL too. :)))) You cheer for me at every opportunity and you inspire me every day to strive for more and to achieve more – on Steem, on the Internet, and offline.
I will never be able to thank you enough, mate!
Damn, I just delegated most of my SP! If I could upvote this 1000% I would!
You are also my closest supporter here on Steemit and I know I can always come to you for help/ideas/inspiration. Thanks man! You are truly a stand up guy! Your friendship is enough of a thanks for me! =) Really appreciate it! Thanks man! Massive gongrats again and looking forward to see you strive to bigger and greater things here on Steemit and IRL!
P.S... You can also thank me with some bitcoins, just a thought, hehehe. lol!
I would love to give 100% VP to this comment, but my VP has just fallen below 80%, so a 10% upvote should do this time! :-P
Hmm, well, maybe when 1 BTC = 500,000 USD I will send you 0.1 BTC. If we are still friends by then. (It means you’ll have to let me win the Presidential Election, bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!)
Oh, and thank you for the gong rats, mate!! They are my favourite kind of rats, how did you know?!!
I will take it! 10% Whoohoo! Let us all hope BTC reaches those levels...TOMORROW! Hahaha, I am sure we will be friends forever! I hope =) Either way friends or not you can always count on me if you need any help! (No help with getting those presidential votes though, you are still in the lead! Urgh! LOL)
Hmmm...gong rats?
See this gif? That was my exact reaction! Did I miss something? Hehehe
And me 30 seconds later realizing what I have done.... GONGRATS... CONGRATS
You guys are ridiculously amazing and funny. LOL
Congrats @oleg326756 for reaching 1000+ followers and for having @scrooger as a real friend in Steemit life and real life.
Congrats @scrooger for getting the 10% now, the 0.1BTC later and for having @oleg326756 call you a friend in SL and in RL.
It will be an interesting game to say the least. But it may add a lot of frustration to minnows against each other (Just saying!) :P
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Great idea!!! ENTER S1
You hit 1000!!!!
Winnows!!! I like it! I wanna be a winnow!
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I really am curious to watch how this goes, very neat idea!!
And who knows, it would be awesome if you could WIN Steem-pocalypse and then become famous for the Pocalypse-Lite game(lite version of steem-pocalypse)!!
Take care, and thanks again!!
@em3 Hey mate, if you have Discord or Steemit.chat I am scrooger on both platforms. Send me a PM. Your good pal @oleg326756 recommended you to take part in a project. This is your formal invite! =) Trust me you want in on this, won't be dissapointed. =)
Gave you a couple big UV's here with what I had left in the tank and all caught up, you are a great Steemian Oleg!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is amazing, @barrydutton! I saw the positive – and very noticeable – impact that your upvotes had on my recent posts. Thank you so much for your support and your words of encouragement, Barry! I am honoured and happy to have a solid friend like you here on Steem. :))
#BroHug buddy!!!
Congratz on getting to 1000 followers. What an achievement! Really like your concept. So....
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These chaps are such a lively bunch. Totally my style
It’s gonna to be so much fun to follow who faces whom and who eats whom in the upcoming rounds of Season 1, haha! :D
Gosh! I am already having the jitters just thinking about it... On the whole i think i will do well and be the last minnow swimming (the fattest one! chuckles)
One round at a time, friend, one round at a time… ;)
ENTER S1 I want to participate this sounds so fun. The only question I have is that not being to have a match makes your chances to win very low, I mean if first episode is 50 and 25 players, next round will have 12 minnows with 100g and 1 with 50g, so it will loose, I'll say to equal its weight like a winner minnow? Very nice idea thanks for this :D @OriginalWorks
Well, about one-third of those 24 players will survive and proceed to Round 2 with their weight unchanged (since they all will have equal weights in the Round 1, I will have to roll the dice for each pair, and one-third of the outcome will mean both players surviving). So, under this scenario, in Round 2 we will see 8 players with weight 50 g (survivors of the past episode), 8 players with weight 100 g (half of the remaining minnows from Round 1, who eliminated their competition), and one previously unmatched minnow with weight 50 g. So the unmatched fellow’s chances are actually pretty decent under this model. Does this make sense to you?
Welcome to the game! ;)
Alright that makes sense :D Thanks for reply
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Congratulation!!!
Thank you!!
good game -enter S1
Glad you like it! It’s gonna be fun! :)
Almost congratulations 🎈🍾🎉🎊
Let the games begin! ENTER S1
Almost thank you, dear! Awesome, welcome to the “Feeding Frenzy”! ;)
Why are you, almost thanking me? When do I get the full thank you?
Right…… NOW!!!! Hereby I declare to the world my full (that means 100%, folks!) appreciation of my dearest @kubbyelizabeth! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your comments, your engagement, your limitless support, your cheeky humour, and, first and foremost, for being my friend!!! hugs
Enter S1 ... time to put on some weight !!
Welcome!! Haha, this is one game where gaining weight is actually good for you. :D
Great idea :)
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Glad you’re interested, @pipiczech. This game is for my followers only. But it can be easily fixed, right? ;)
I already did it just before or after posting a comment...
Awesome, thank you!! It looks like you’ve just become my follower nr. 1000!!! Congratulations!! :D
That's cool :D
Time to put on my freshman 15. Congrats to you @oleg326756. Your creativity and determination is admirable.
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Thank you for your words of support, mate! Really appreciate it. I’m glad you are going to take part in this new game! :))
congrats in advance for reaching 1000 followers .let the game start .enter S1
Thank you, friend! And welcome to the new game!
I been told I need to add more protein into my diet. MMM FISH!
I really love this idea. A chance game where you have a reasonable amount of time to responded back to continue if you survive!
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You probably meant “Mmm, cannibalism”, right? ;)) :-P It’s a minnow-eat-minnow world! XD
Glad you like this idea, @enjar, my friend! I hope it will be fun for everyone who decides to participate in it, whether they win something or not.
cannibalism? No sir I'm a cat. mmmm fish lol.
I stand corrected, sir! Meow! ,,^..^,,
Not even noon yet and you already have me laughing!
I’ve gotten such mileage out of this one but I feel it works even for this situation.
LOL @enjar !!
I got get me them gains man. Fish = gains!
Great games contest
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Welcome!
Ok
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Awesome idear bud!! Never heard of seen anything like this before but interested to see how it plays out :)
Thank you! Yeah, I think this one is completely original and never been done before. At least not on Steem. We will see how it all plays out and how much people will enjoy participating. I guess I’ll be tweaking some things after Season 1: maybe expanding the number of potential winners, increasing the prize pool, introducing other elements of chance – or, on the contrary, reducing the luck factor and replacing it with some players’ actions… We will see… Feedback from the players will be crucial in shaping the future development of this game.
Hey, by the way, sorry for asking, but: are you a follower of mine? Because only the followers are eligible to participate in this giveaway contest. Anyone who tried to registered for the game but hasn’t followed me by the end of the registration period (48 hours since this post was first published) will not be included in the Season 1.
I am now :) rock on buddy and Ill check back in for more info :) Let me know if i can be of any assistance!!
I see your ea big crypto guy and thats awesome too cos i friggin love this stuff. I am soo hooked on crypto its nuts!! I have decided to take the whole month off to see what damage I can do :D
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Welcome, friend! Glad to see you made it into this game too!
Why not have some fun😉
Enter S1 - Let the feeding frenzy begin!
@oleg326756, thank for all of the engaging contest that you run. Makes life a little more fun.
To have fun, to earn some money, and to make new friends along the way are the three main reasons I am doing these giveaway contests! Your participation in them brings joy into my life too! :)
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Great, welcome!
ENTER S1... congrats on 1k followers! I will participate in these and want to be apart of your community!
You are cordially welcome, @bitdollar! I want to have more high-quality and engaged followers like yourself. ;)
Love it! Building communities is awesome :)
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That is great. I am power up a bunch in the next couple weeks. Will apply for sure. Thank you!
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Congrats on reaching 1000 followers! Enter S1
Thank you! And welcome to this new game, I hope you’ll enjoy participating in it. :)
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Welcome, new friend! There are no age restrictions for this contest. What matters here is weight, not age! ;-P
Interesting contest, count me in! ENTER S1
As soon as you are a follower, friend. This contest is for my followers only (see the rules above). No free-riders and no outsiders. Just followers and friends. ;) I hope to see you among the latter ones very soon! :)
The last reminder: unless you follow me before the Round 1 starts (in three hours from now), you won’t be included in Season 1. This game and this giveaway is for the followers only.
Enter S1, I like this game
Awesome! Welcome, friend!
ENTER S1 well then let the fattest minnow wins hahahahaha
You nailed it on its head, @takeru255: this competition is the exact opposite of ‘The Biggest Loser’! Might as well call it ‘The Fattest Winner’, haha! :D
thanks soo much :D
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Good luck for everyone
So you're suggesting that minnows risk their lives by participating in a game of devouring each other for some SBD?
SOUNDS LIKE FUN, I'M IN! ENTER S1 :D
I love your attitude! Welcome to the game! ;)
Congrats! Count me in, Enter S1 like a boss
Welcome, boss! :D
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Congratulations one the 1000 followers.
Thank you and welcome as a new follower, @venny!
You're doing a great job my friend! Congrats for your Big Number! Cheers! :))
Thank you, dear! It feels like yesterday when you were passing the same milestone, doesn’t it? Race you to 2,000? ;))
Yes, you're right! We have the deal; I accept the offer!!! :))))
By the way, would you like to register for the first season of the “Minnows Feeding Frenzy”, @pepe.maya?
ENTER S1 but I will not be on steemit full time since my work just started again and I will be here less often for the next few months, sorry... @oleg326759
Well, fortunately, as I explained above, this game runs automatically the entire season, without the need for players’ direct action. The only action required on behalf of the players is to register for a new season. Then you can just sit back, relax, and observe the frenzy unveil over the next couple of daily rounds. :))
Good luck with work and welcome back whenever you have time and energy for Steemit, @pepe.maya! ;)
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I love to join. It's very exciting. 😀😀😀
Awesome, welcome! I am excited myself, hehe. :)))
Hope to gain more weight than before. Hehehe 😀😀😀
Congrats on the 1k Oleg!! That is an awesome achievement :) I would like to get in on your Feeding frenzy.
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Thank you, dear – and welcome!!
Great post and congratulation, you made 1000+ follwers! I am also a new one!
Thank you, @neowne! Welcome as a new follower! ;)
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Congrats!
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What a jungle.
I'll give this a shot. congrats on 1k too!
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Let the frenzied feeding begin......sorry fellow minnow's....I guess it really is a minnow -eat-minnow world!!!
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Thank you!!!
Great I am in for this too Enter S1
Wonderful! Welcome! The Round 1 begins in six hours.
pocketsend:1001@oleg326756,
Congratulations on the 1,000 followers, and bravo for the MINNOWS FEEDING FRENZY great idea! I'll try to get in the aquarium arena next season.
Here are 1,000 POCKETs as a symbolic celebrating gift.
Thank you, friend, for your warm congratulations and for the one thousand pockets. :))
I hope you will participate in Season 2 too! It’s gonna be fun to have you onboard!
Successful Send of 1001
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New sending account balance: 996997
New receiving account balance: 1000
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Successful Send of 1001
Sending Account: heroic15397
Receiving Account: oleg326756
New sending account balance: 996997
New receiving account balance: 1000
Fee: 1
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ahhhhh is it to late to ENTER S1 ???
Congratulations on the first thousand!!
Thank you! Yes, the registration for Season 1 is now closed. But stay tuned for Season 2: the registration window is always 48 hours long, so hopefully you’ll make it.
Congrats one 1000 followers! I hope to join your next contest, looks like I was late for this one! Keep up the fine work!
Voted and resteemed. Missed out on season 1. Hopefully will have a chance in season 2.
Thank you for your support, @successforall! The registration window for Season 2 will be kept open for 48 hours, once the results for Season 1 are announced (one day after the final round of the season). I hope you will make it into the game too.
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