Welcome to the #GooglyPrize

It's been nice and quiet around here in the last few days. Maybe it's the red hue of the markets or the summer-time that's been making everyone a bit sleepy?! Who knows.

The growing STEEM/SBD debt ratio is also causing rewards to pay out less and less SBD every week, that makes the cash-prizes around here stagnate a bit, too... but hey, the STEEM rewards are going into the delegation pool and make it grow proportionally faster... We're still paying out 100% of the rewards and that's just how the cookie crumbles, when the price drops, you have to be in it for the long run!

Let's see who's still with us...

Qualifying entries were submitted by:

@kalemandra, @mileidy10, @yasliapoetry, @niko3d, @nunopher2013, @mariabarreto, @armadillocreek, @leal, @artofwisdom, @medinamar, @mandysp, @gabriela24, @ivimipa and @hazel420

who all posted about their #GooglyEyes with passion.

The Prize Pool:

carried over from last week: 2.234 SBD
^{2.220 SBD have bought ~3.950 SBD in upvotes, 0.014 SBD remain}
and an available delegation-prize of 153.953 SP
plus
100% of all rewards on last week's winner announcement:
3.194 SBD and 3.374 SP and 1.440 STEEM

that's 3.208 SBD in the cash pool:

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

158.767 SP will be delegated to a googly winner!

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

The 10 best #GooglyEyes posts were listed on Planet Googly where the Googly Friends & Family were allowed to vote for their final three favourites among those.

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

The choice wasn't easy and we had 5 very popular candidates going into the race head to head, in the end our grand winner took the lead with 4 finalist-votes, and it was all up to me to pick the 3rd and 2nd winners from the four runner-ups having 3 votes at the finish-line.

drumroll please...

🥁 HERE ARE THE WINNERS: 🥁

🥉 Today's 3rd winner is: 🥉

@yasliapoetry with
"Mr Bak Siri"

I'm always happy to see a new face join the googly family and so I decided to put @yasliapoetry's entry on the pedestal today. She's pretty new on steemit, too... so that's great, let's give her a warm welcome!

🥈 The 2nd winner is: 🥈

@kalemandra with
"My Googly Rattles"

But you don't have to be a beginner to win here, @kalemandra, founder of the #colorchallende, is a steem-celebrity of her own rank, but there's just no way I couldn't include these awesomely portrayed rattles in today's selection. Kudos!

🥇 And Our Grand Winner is: 🥇

@hazel420 with
"Frederick, Frederick with the fabulous beard"

Wow... I was doubting if @hazel420 would ever post some #GooglyEyes again :P. She's been with the family for quite a while but we've not seen her post for the show in ages. I was delighted to find the guest judges giving her the top-spot today.

aaaaand

_{another drumroll, please}

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

@hazel420

you'll receive the #GooglyPrize delegation of 158.767 SP for a week.

_{@hazel420 has a commendable self-voting quota of just 4.2% and less than 1MVest, those are the major criteria to qualify for the delegation award here. Her voting activity could be more, she's not been very busy here lately, let's hope the extra oomph brings some motivation with it.}

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 some pictures -
- make a post with the tag #googlyeyes -

- post original content and don't spam -
- this is a creative contest, not a lottery -
- show us something special and post with passion -

More Winners Every Week!

The prize-pool for the next issue contains:
1.283 SBD for upvotes and a delegation-prize of 157.088 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:

_{Red candles, red bricks? I see a golden trophy and some lush greens there!
^{I actually tried some 3d-wiggle-shenanigans with the bonus image today, but that didn't work out too well.}}

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, @reggaemuffin, @pharesim, @okkiedot, @danielsaori, @fraenk, @schlees, @samic, @minnowsupport, @davor27, @slobberchops, @marty-art, @zneeke, @jasonbu, @krystle, @hethur240, @warrkin, @ninahaskin, @googlyeyes, @steemseph, @yoginiofoz, @renascence, @bucipuci, @munaa, @mandysp, @niko3d, @gweern, @liberacesghost, @matajingga, @ewkaw, @hazel420, @photoquest, @mamameimei, @tillygerbi, @googlyprize, @zedpal, @leal, @mariabarreto, @mandarinaad, @nunopher2013, @raizapenamcbo, @airam05, @rajoalam77, @isnogud, @artofwisdom and @shintamonica who all upvoted last week's post (without receiving payment for it) and who are thereby funding this award!!}

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!