Welcome to the #GooglyPrize

Your weekly award for the googliest posts filed under #GooglyEyes

Today's award will celebrate the beauty of cherry blossoms on 4/20. Make of it whatever you want, but it's a day to let your spirit fly and enjoy some silliness.

Unfortunately, I also need to take a brief moment and remind everybody that this is a contest for the best and most inspired #GooglyEyes posts, and not a lottery. So don't try to post as many as you can, post the best you can and put some soul in it.

Plagiarism, spam and multi-account-farms are not welcome here.

Okay, sorry for that little downer moment here, but I've made some disturbing discoveries while curating this weeks contest. I'll let you know more in the coming days... but for now... let's get back to enjoying the celebration!

_{Thank You:
@zimatovi, @the-dollar, @mariabarreto, @raizapenamcbo, @abbijulie, @yoesrizalrusli, @munaa, @chellelbaguio, @jade17, @izaid, @svarozich, @isteemithard, @krakonos, @shairalaleska, @ivimipa, @tazi, @yo-yo, @rosibelsac, @thegodgalindo, @yumifer, @carloscr7, @maribelquere97, @henrry1954, @davor27, @guerranicole266, @benedict08, @ragnar29, @nicolasags14}

^{for posting your #GooglyEyes entries for this issue.}

The Prize Pool:

carried over from last week: 2.861 SBD (incl. 1 bonus SBD unlocked by @marty-art)
^{2.696 SBD have bought ~6.070 SBD in upvotes, 0.165 SBD remain}
and an available delegation-prize of 138.463 SP
plus
100% of all rewards on last week's winner announcement:
7.432 SBD and 2.618 SP

that's 7.597 SBD in the cash pool:

40% will be used for next week, 60% will be paid out today!
^{3rd - 10%; 2nd - 20%; 1st - 30%}

141.081 SP will be delegated to a googly winner!

 
^{Need more details and numbers about the Prize-Pool? [Read here!]}

I shared my personal top-10-posts with the googly friends and family on Planet Googly and they were allowed to vote for their three favourite posts among those.

^{today's volunteering guest judges were: @hazel420, @krystle, @marty-art, @mathowl, @niko3d and @okkiedot
disclaimer: they were not allowed to vote for their own entries!}

and now, drumroll please...

🥁 HERE ARE THE WINNERS: 🥁

🥉 Today's 3rd winner is: 🥉

@yoesrizalrusli with
"Jackfruit Family Who Always Live Happily"

Three entries ended up getting 3 votes from the guest judges today, but since @munaa and @isteemithard both won the contest before, I chose @yoesrizalrusli and his happy jackfruit family for the pedestal. Congrats

🥈 The 2nd winner is: 🥈

@raizapenamcbo with
"What's going on???"

Coming in with 4 votes in the final selection, this cool post takes a well deserved 2nd prize today. Congrats @raizapenamcbo, unfortunately the post is allready past the voting-time but it's still worth a look to find out what this guy has to carry on his back!

🥇 And Our Grand Winner is: 🥇

@yo-yo with
"Kotatsu - コタツ"

This amazing post had me captivated the moment I saw it. A great example of an awesome #GooglyEyes entry and the inspiration for today's award theme. I wasn't surprised to see @yo-yo take the lead in the finalist voting with five votes on her entry. Kudos @yo-yo and thanks for the inspiration!

aaaaand

_{another drumroll, please}

🥁 this week's Googly-Delegation-Winner is: 🥁

@yo-yo

you'll receive the #GooglyPrize delegation of 141.081 SP for a week.

_{I am happy to see all three winners having well below 10% self-voting, but @yo-yo takes the lead with just 3.5%}

The #GooglyPrize continues!

prizes are being awarded every 7-8 days.

No-Conditions Policy:

No mandatory resteems, upvotes or follows required!

just:
- get some #GooglyEyes -
- stick them onto something -
- take a picture -
- post it with the tag #googlyeyes -
- post original content / don't spam -

DONE! You're qualified!

More Winners Every Week!

The prize-pool for the next issue contains:
3.038 SBD for upvotes and a delegation-prize of 138.112 SP
plus
100% of all rewards on THIS POST!

Want to learn more about this contest? Read:
A brief History, some Updates and a few Tips for Winning

Have more questions or just want to hang out? Join:
Planet Googly on Discord

bonus image:

_{inspired by @yo-yo... @googlyprize enjoyed some beautiful Sakura}

A huge shout-out goes to @krystle, @ausbitbank and @reggaemuffin!
They helped me start this contest and are supporting it since!

@ausbitbank and @reggaemuffin are also running a witness,
why not consider giving them your approval?!

_{In the name of myself and all the winners, more shoutouts go to @ausbitbank, @hr1, @okkiedot, @samic, @ruth-girl, @krystle, @bue, @snooway, @minnowsupport, @blackvapor, @fraenk, @davor27, @marty-art, @zneeke, @steemseph, @krakonos, @hethur240, @googlyeyes, @sallyswitchblade, @marzi, @mathowl, @abbijulie, @renascence, @bucipuci, @isteemithard, @niko3d, @munaa, @benedict08, @hazel420, @gweern, @shellyduncan, @jsf, @tillygerbi, @yo-yo, @yehey, @googlyprize, @josyweed, @jade17, @the-dollar, @mandysp, @acehfootball, @guerranicole266, @raizapenamcbo, @mariabarreto, @yoesrizalrusli, @zimatovi, @mandarinaad, @ange.nkuru, @roelvi, @shairalaleska, @mdrazu, @steemitboard, @artofwisdom, @steemission, @photo-trail and @esteemboard who all upvoted last week's post and who are thereby funding the prizes!!}

everything is better with #GooglyEyes

Your upvote on this post is funding next week's prize pool!

100% of post rewards are going into the prize!