That's the point of these contests. We know the Steem community is amazing and there are incredibkle content creators out there, but sometimes Ms. creativy and Mrs. Inspiration just don't want to show themselves, so we try to give it a litttle push coming up with these topics. And oh damn, you guys proved us right, there were tens of amazing entries, making it really difficult for the judges to just pick three of them.

Thanks so much to everyone who joined this contest and also for helping us promote the Steem Ecosystem on Twitter by following the #POSH guidelines. It is only together that we will manage to make Steem go viral.

I want to thank enormously @travelgirl, @derangedvisions and @nelyp for investing their curation time in picking up the winners, if you guys aren't following these curators from @ocd, @creativecoin and @tasteem you should do it right now!

We had more than 100 entries!! That is truly incredible considering that last year for this very same contest we had around 70, and the steem price was around 5 times higher... This really shows us that Steem is only growing and getting stronger despite the long long winter full of bears and fud!

I noticed that most posts took the time to thank @blocktrades for this contest, I really appreciate this, remember it is only through their voting support that we are able to host these contests and reward the entries. If you want to show them your support click here and vote for them as witness, it only takes 1 minute and you wil be showing your gratitude in the best way possible.

Honorable mentions: 5 Steem each

• @shharafat - Biggest Disestar Year of My Life

• @yahialababidi - My 2019: Achievements and Failures

• @wanderein - Achievements and Failures, Endings and Beginnings

• @pablo1601 - Achievements and Failures - A year of growth

We just couldn't leave these posts out, they were amazing - as most of the entries, but sadly we can only reward these many - it was all about the judges tastes and preferences but still, they deserve a small prize, congratulations on the 5 Steem, I hope you power them up!

Finally, the winners are:

3rd place: 30 Steem prize

My 2019: Achievements and Failures by @bambuka

2nd place: 70 Steem prize

A Little achievement & Many failures, I give up? No..!!! by @khaimi

1st place: 100 Steem

Expeditions, Cherry Blossoms, Moving, Foraging, and The Polar Bear Market of 2019! by @lovejoy

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!!

If you joined this contest but didn't win, don't get discouraged, Contest season has just began and there will be plenty of contest like this one, so all you have to do is keep participating, making amazing entries, share them on Twitter and give your best! Be on the lookout, in a few hours I'll post the next topic! I strongly encourage you to follow our judges, they have amazing content waiting for you to find it: @nelyp, @derangedvisions and @travelgirl.

I will be sending the prices to all the winners and honorable mentions in the next couple of days :)

Be on the lookout for the next issue, tomorrow I will be posting the next contest.