The Football World Cup 2018 organized by Russia will kick off tomorrow!
To participate to this worldwide event, @Steemitboard has prepared funny contest that will last for the whole duration of the competition and will allow you to collect badges and win free SBD.
The prize pool is currently 1700 SBD!
The contest is open to everybody, whether you are a football fan or not, and we made the participation process and rules as simple as possible.
Check the Word Cup 2018 tab on your board
Go to SteemitBoard website and type your name to access your board.
(You can install the SteemitBoard Google Chrome Extension to speed up this process.)
You will notice there is a new Word Cup 2018 tab which contains a badge for each match of the competition.
Your goal is to light up a maximum of badges among the 64 ones available!
How it works?
For each match, @steemitboard will publish a related post 24 hours before the match begins. You can check when match is scheduled by clicking on the locked badge.
Under each post, there will be comments made by @steemitboard:
- Team A win
- Team B win
- Tie
PS: The 3rd comment will only be present during group phase.
You simply have to vote for the comment that corresponds to the result you expect for the match.
Example:
The match Russia vs Saudi Arabia is scheduled 2018-06-14 at 15:00 UTC time
On 2018-06-13 at 15:00 UTC, @steemitboard will unlock the badge on your board and publish a post “World Cup Contest - Russia vs Saudi Arabia” with 3 comments:
“RUS - Russia win”
“SAU - Saudi Arabia win”
“TIE - no winner”If you think Russia will win, vote for the first comment.
If you think Saudi Arabia will win, vote for the second comment.
If you think the result will be a tie, vote for the last comment.
Each time you successfully guessed a match result, the related badge on your board will light up!
What prize will you receive?
The prize pool will be split among participants using the following rules:
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.
Example:
All participants (excluded the 3 top winners) together lightened 1000 badges
You successfully guessed 34 match results.
You will receive 34/1000th of the remaining prize pool.
How to win the contest?
When the competition is over, we will count the number of badges collected by each participant. The more badges you have enabled, the higher your place in the ranking.
In the event of a tie between the top players, the winner will be the one who first lightened all his badges. This means that the badges obtained during the group stage will weigh more than those in the final.
Example:
- Player A collected 10 badges during the group phase
- Player B collected 9 badges during the group phase and 1 for the final
Therefore Player A will be the winner.
If there is still a tie after applying the previous rule, the voting time of the players will decide, the winner being the first to vote.
Contest Global Rules
Register the contest by sending 0.010 SBD or 0.010 STEEM to @steemitboardpool with “worldcup2018” in the memo. This is a one time registration to avoid the contest being spammed by bots.
Your registration will be added to the prize pool so you might get it back at the end of the contest.
You can join the contest at any time, but the sooner you get in, the more chances you have to win the 1st prize.
For each match:
Vote for you preferred team BEFORE the match begins (official time)
Only one vote will be taken into account.
If you remove your vote and/or vote for another result, you will be disqualified for the match. Think twice before voting for your result!Votes cast after the scheduled start time of the match will be rejected.
Be careful, all times mentioned within this contest will be UTC based! Check your timezone!
Good luck and enjoy the World Cup 2018!
Thanks to our sponsors
The actual pool size is 1700 SBD thanks to our generous sponsors. All of them are witnesses, therefore kindly consider voting for them if you have not done so yet!
| Name | Sponsorship level | Support |
|---|---|---|
 @good-karma | Gold sponsor | vote |
 @lukestokes | Gold sponsor | vote |
 @arcange | Silver sponsor | vote |
 @roelandp | Silver sponsor | vote |
 @drakos | Bronze sponsor | vote |
 @steemitboard | Bronze sponsor | vote |
 @yabapmatt | Bronze sponsor | vote |
Anyone wishing to join the list of sponsors to help increase the prize pool is welcome! Contact @arcange on steemit.chat if you are interested.
Sounds really cool - But will I really need to resteem EVERY Match post?
Upvoted for visibility!
Resteem requirement has been removed. Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks!
I registrred myself how to join the contest @arcange Sir?
Do we need to vote 100 percent ? I just registered.
It's really an amazing contest. I want to participate in this. But To participate in this contest there is need to send some steem or SBD. And I have no any steem so I cannot participate.
Sorry...
And thanks for organising this contest.
just wanted to post exactly this. I was planning on using my secondary account for this contest, as resteeming every single post is something that would have completely hidden any content of my blog. But even with the secondary acc, it felt not good.
Glad that it's been removed!
so a secondary account means you have two accounts? Is it allowed in Steemit? i am a newbie so help me understand about this part. Thank you @sco and @golddeejay
Hi. Yes, you are allowed to have unlimited numbers of accounts. BUT: You have to pay a 5 STEEM creation fee for them, and aquire them via anonsteem, not steemit.
OMG, for sure not, this would spam the blockchain to death :)
Guess you have too^^
We are really far away from spamming the blochchain with a few reblog transactions.
If each game is resteemed by only 300 gamers, then its a few thousand unnecessary transactions. I am not worried about the Steem blockchain not absorbing this, just many individual feeds will get clogged.
And in addition I hardly resteem, because I want to keep an overview in my blog about what I have written. As you know there is still no filter possibility in steemit.com.
And these multiple repetitive resteems add no value.
Resteem requirement has been removed. Thanks for your feedback.
GREAT CHOICE!
That's good that you chamge your previous assumptions
Yes, that's in the rule. Is that so exhausting?
Yes, I think it's the wrong approach. Require a resteem on every post will lower the engagement, IMO. I won't participate in every match if it requires me to flood my users with resteems. How about a compromise and go with one resteem per week or something like that (or maybe not at all)? I've never liked the "I'll give you something if you share my post" approach because it lowers the value of the resteem. I try to only resteem things I think my followers will enjoy, and I won't sell their attention for a contest. That said, I do think this is a really cool idea and will share this post to let people know about it, but as a gold sponsor, I hope you remove the resteem requirement. I'd rather people have so much fun with this contest that they write original posts about it instead of just resteems which they were required to do in order to play along.
Just my two cents.
Thanks you for this constructive and elaborated comment. You made the point and the resteem requirement has been removed.
Thanks for being such an engaged sponsor!
I'm very glad to hear it. I hope more and more people enjoy the contest and share it with their friends.
Not too exhausting - but I can't do that to my followers, will have to use a small secondary account than. Would probably be wiser to let the players resteem one post in total (in the best case the intro).
Yes, this makes most sense.
I like to resteem important posts. Resteeming daily contests isn't my cup of tea neither.
We removed the resteem requirement
I am wondering if a hundred accounts on my list resteemed the same football post 3 or 4 times in day. It will all be messed up.
I hope those i am following are not considering that...then we see again soon, sometimes in july.
😁
Can I write a post in Hindi
Can I write a post in Hindi
Yes. You are encouraged to add to the diversity of steemit. There should be a tag you can use for your language.
Really want to register, how can I register my self??
Amazing contest. I will participate
Do the votes have to be 100%?
I'm excited about fun stuff like this on STEEM! Thanks for putting this together, @arcange. I hope a lot of people enjoy it and come together for some fun.
Yeah, I hope we will all enjoy this contest and have fun with it.
Thanks a lot for your great support and awesome sponsorship!
You’re the man Luke!
@Lukestokes and @Arcange thanks for letting us enjoy the contest.
Also, thank you for sponsoring this. i voted your witness too.
That's a beautiful idea :-) I will certainly participate :-) Thank you for creating this betting game !
Thanks a lot for organizing this! I have participated (and guessed) different times but now that I know the rules better :-) I will use this better.
nice idea, u guys de creme de la creme . greez s. error
That's a great idea! Brings the community together! :)
I try to find the "World Cup 2018" page on my steemitboard but there is none. I am able to see the board of others so I am kind of wondering what's wrong with my account ?
Looking forward to a solution - want to collect those badges :D
You may need to refresh your browser to see it (CTRL+F5)
So, after 16 days I noticed this contest !
I really liked to join from the beginning, now it's too late already.
This shows one more time how poor the information system on Steemit is.
regards
Tom
There are so many things to fix on Steemit.
It's not to late to join the contest. You may have some fun and in all case a (small) share of the prize pool if you successfully guess some match results.
Thanks for your kind reply, @arcange
Best regards
Tom
Hello friends @steemitboard. I am posting the contest and making certain translations into Spanish for all Spanish speakers and to publicize the contest. Thank you for this initiative and consider giving medals for anniversaries at Steemit and for the birthdays of the users. Thank you very much for your emotional support.
Thank you for the translation @isabelpena
You are welcome @steemitboard.
My Mother, This is great. Very good. Congratulations. They are very beautiful.
I am kind of discourage @steemitboard, bcus i dont get upvoted on my post and its like i am just wasting my time. Well want to let you know how i feel i'm not encourage thanks.
Getting success on Steemit is a long run. Stay committed, focus on quality and interact with others to create your network.
Good luck @ehiso.
Thanks for your advice
@ehiso follow me for a follow back. I will give you some upvotes
This will be fun! Its great to see how the blockchain can facilitate these concepts.
thats really cool i will definately take part in it and i hope i win!!
Join me:
TELEGRAM https://t.me/joinchat/GBKBMRKgQslw9zJiP5SrPA
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpKBv7oQf1debJOMSccDheA
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Sorry please clarify:
IF we dont send this sbd would our correct guesses be awarded still ?
No, the transfer of SBD/STEEM is what register you and allows you to be rewarded
Nice one, and i will love to be part of it
Good
This is very lovely... I can't wait to be part of this 😁😁
sounds good
los mundiales son sorpresa un ejemplo la victoria de mexico la alegría el color
Y las ganas de conseguir la amistad con el juego a nivel mundial
The World Cups are an example of an example of the victory of Mexico.
And the desire to achieve friendship with the game worldwide
Very good idea.
is all good and i like all system idea and program i will i understand all and this infomtion so helpsull me and awsome work steemit kerry on
Sound Good
This is interesting contest! Pity that I came to know this late but I will try to participate XD
Thanks info @steemitboard
i will sure participant this contest
Its not work.
I register on there on .010 sbd and .010 steem .
It could not return my reward
very exciting ! worldcup2018 with @steemitboardpool :)
fantastic events
thanks :)
I do not understand it plz explain
1 day to go,loved it...
Will play with the new experience of the game. and taking the world Cup
I really liked it and it is indeed easy to do so .
Will be there ;)
All the very best to everyone as well.
Wonderful contest. I will participate in it.
I haven’t been keeping up with soccer, but I will play - sounds like fun! 😊
Wow! Awesome sponsorship!
Great.
I will participate.
great =)
Anyway, feel free to use some VP to kind of "sponsor" the event. There is a lot of work done under the hood ;)
This is fantastic concept, this is beautiful I'm participating, can I send my 0.010 already? before doing anything?
Thanks for your comment @josediccus. Great to have you onboard.
Yes, registrations are open!
I already did instantly waiting for 4; 00 WAT
Very much looking forward to this! :D
If I understand correctly, we will need to resteem 64 posts? If so, that is little bit stupid. No offense.
The resteem requirement has been removed. Thanks for your feedback.
Its an amazing thought
Count me in this could be really fun!
I guess one question I had was is the .01 SBD/Steem only for registration or do we have to send it for every game? Thanks
You do not have to send it for each match. As explained in the post, it is a one time registration.
Nice one @arcange - I also started a contest that combines 50% prizes for steemians and the other 50% overall prize pot that goes to charity. If you are interested check the account @sportsgeek that handles the contest. The more contests we have, the better. Any question on rules let me know.
Never been a fan of the World Cup but I am this year!!! :D
Big thanks to the sponsors and @steemitboard!
Awesome to see the sponsorship increasing.
I love the contest idea, but resteeming so many posts...sometimes 3 or 4 in a day will messed up someone's blog and everything.
The resteem requirement has been removed. Thanks for your feedback.
That is amazing. Thanks for considering our opinions!
Hi everyone, my question is, should I register with 0.010 SBD in each game?
By the way, this is your spectacular contest.
Hey @edgarf1979,
No, send ONLY ONE TIME.
It's a one-time fee to discourage bots.