Another month of the PHC Top 3 Contest is in the books! Thank you all once again for a truly enjoyable month of entries and engagement. All of the entrants put forth some solid choices, making the voting even tougher for all who joined in! We even had a tie this month, which meant we had to go to the highest ranking choice of the three nominations for both contestants (as per the rules) to break the tie for second place! The panel is working hard to ensure that future months will continue the trend with great topics to keep everyone having fun and creating excellent posts to share their top picks.

Of course, we would like to once again thank @curie for the sponsorship this month with 25 extra Steem for prizes on top of the prize pool created by entry fees! This means not only the top 3 reap the rewards, but the top 5 will receive a split of the generous contribution from @curie. We are so grateful for the support, which will extend into next month, as well!

Without further ado it is time to present our winners for this round. Using dpoll, we let you, the audience, vote for your favorite movie tunes, thus giving us the ultimate results! We then assign points to those voting positions and add up the three nominations for each contestant to make a final league table.

Here is the final league table:

1st place @blueeyes8960

Link to post - Entry fee paid $3.00 Prize $20.12 (approx.7 x entry fee)
Plus 9 Steem

2nd place @simplymike

Link to post - Entry fee paid $0.50 Prize $2.24 (approx. 4x entry fee). Tiebreaker Bohemian Rhapsody 12 votes.
Plus 6 Steem

3rd place @joanstewart

Link to post - Entry fee paid $2.70 Prize $6.04 (approx. 2x entry fee) Tiebreaker Born to be Wild 8 votes.
Plus 5 Steem

4th place @fionasfavourites

Link to post
Prize 3 Steem

5th place @bluemist

Link to post
Prize 2 Steem

Congratulations to the winners for the excellent nominations and winning the second round of this contest! Be sure to check your wallets as the prize payouts will be with you shortly!

How does the prize payout work?

We have utilised some clever mathematicians all over the world to come up with a mathematically fair way of paying out. The payout is based on three things, the total prize pool, your final placing and your entry fee.

Why did second place win more than me?

This is possible. For instance, if the 1st place prize winner only paid a $0.50 entry fee but the 2nd place prize winner paid a $5.00 entry fee. That is a difference of x10 the amount and will be reflected in the final payout. Everybody has a chance to win an amount based off of their entry fee.

What are the percentages of payout based on the winning positions?

In the scenario that the three prize positions have all paid the same entry fee then the distribution of the prize pool would be so: 1st 50%, 2nd 33.3% and 3rd 16.6%.
The Frequently Asked Questions are here: FAQ Link

A huge thank you to @jaynie for her huge support and artwork, making our contest look mighty fine and classy.

Such thanks should also be given to our delegators; @jaynie, @steemitbloggers, @thekitchenfairy, @crypt0wid0w, @mono.rosado, @blueeyes8960, @jayna, @joanstewart, @traciyork, @fionasfavourites, @nickyhavey, @plantstoplanks, @wales, @foxyspirit, @cheese4ead.
We appreciate this immense generosity!!

Why delegate to the PHC Top 3?

The more delegations we receive the better our upvote will be. The more support we can give our contestants the bigger the prize pool. Also, all those that delegate to the PHC Top 3 account will receive delegator support. @phctop3 will upvote your posts up to 2 times a day, every day. This will happen between the 9th of each month and the end of each month. This is in order to reward our delegators and to show our gratitude. Delegators will also get a mention on our official Start and Winners posts.

If you would like to delegate to the @phctop3, click one of the links below to delegate that amount of SP to our account.

Thanks for entering this month’s contest. We hope you had fun. Don’t forget to check for the Contest Start Post for next month’s competition on the 1st of June

PHC Top 3 Panel

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Current delegators

@jaynie	@steemitbloggers	@blueeyes8960	@jayna
@joanstewart	@traciyork	@fionasfavourites	@nickyhavey
@plantstoplanks	@wales	@foxyspirit	@cheese4ead
@thekitchenfairy	@crypt0wid0w	@mono.rosado