Melbourne Cup Sweepstakes on STEEM

in #teamaustralia7 years ago (edited)

In Australian culture the Melbourne Cup is known as ”The race that stops a nation” and there are some great traditions which are carried out all across the country for Melbourne Cup Day. These often include special luncheons, fashion parades and not-for-profit sweepstakes – all of which give the day a bit of interest and excitement for people who aren’t normally race goers.

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In the past my wife and I have always been involved in running Melbourne Cup sweepstakes whenever we have been doing office jobs because it’s a good social activity. It usually involves printing out the runners, cutting them up into lots of bits of paper, then doing “The Rounds” of the office to sell tickets and draw everyones runners out of a hat. This year neither of us are working in an office and I was reminiscing a little bit about how we used to do that before I realised just how easy it would be to run a Melbourne Cup Sweep right here on STEEM. It’s a great opportunity to once again show how powerful the platform and its community is, plus remind everyone how easily commerce can be conducted here.

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So if you are a fun loving Aussie whose workplace isn’t running an office sweep, maybe if you’re an ex-pat who misses some of these age old Aussie traditions, or even if you’re not an Aussie but want to get involved – I’m running Melbourne Cup Sweeps on STEEM for you!

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I’ll have 2 types of sweeps for different budgets. Tickets will be sold for 1 STEEM DOLLAR or I will run a separate sweep for 10,000 Pocket Tokens and if you like you can buy more than one. All sweeps will be run with zero profit with all collected money from ticket sales to be distributed back to the winners. The race has 24 runners so payouts are usually divided as x12 for 1st place, x8 for 2nd place and x4 for 3rd place. If there are any scratchings then tickets for the scratched runner(s) are refunded and prize money comes off 3rd place for the 1st scratching, 2nd place for the 2nd scratching and so on.

In addition this is a great opportunity to promote some of the great work being done by Team Australia which has recently announced a new charity effort HERE which is about helping sick kids. So all STEEM and STEEM DOLLARS from post will be donated to @teamaustralia to go towards this charity effort. It’s a really good cause so feel free to upvote this post, but there is no pressure to do so – you can still play in the sweeps even if you don’t vote on this post.

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To play in the sweeps all you need to do is to send your STEEM DOLLARS to me in multiples of 1 and include in the memo that these are for Melbourne Cup Sweeps and you can reserve your tickets. Or if you want to play the Pocket Token sweep then reply to this post with your pocketsend command but please don’t upvote the pocketsend comments because we might have a lot of them to sort through.

I’ll put everyones orders in a spreadsheet before drawing everyones runners. Cut off for sweep ticket sales will be Tuesday the 7th November at 10AM Australian Eastern Standard Time (Monday Midnight UTC). I will be drawing the runners for each sweep over at the Team Australia discord server an hour later at 11AM AEST using the t!dice 1d24 bot so feel free to drop in and watch the live draw as I intend to be fully transparent. After the draw I’ll post the results in a comment(s) below so everything will be recorded on the blockchain and thus provably fair well before the big race. Any unsold tickets left over will be bought by me and any late entries will be refunded.

Regardless of whether you are taking part in the sweeps or donating to the charity, I hope you will all have a great Melbourne Cup Day and join with me in celebrating one of our countries great cultural traditions. If you haven’t experienced a proper Melbourne Cup Luncheon before I highly encourage you to give it a try because it’s lots of fun!

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It seems that I have severely over-estimated the interest in this so I am killing off the 5 SBD sweep and will just persist with the 1 SBD and 10K Pocket sweeps even if it means I have to cover most of the tickets myself.

Sweep ticket sales are now closed. Due to the low participation for the Pocket Token sweep I am going to fund an upgrade for @brendio to the $1 sweep and put his 10K Pockets with the 50K Pocket donation from @jackmiller to add to the overall prize pool. So in addition to the regular prizes, 1st Place will also get 30K Pockets, 2nd Place will get 20K Pockets and 3rd Place will get 10K Pockets.

All up we have 13 tickets sold and there is 1 scratching so I will buy the remaining 10 tickets for 10 SBD to make 23 runners and give us a full sweep.

The draw will still be occurring in the #teamaustralia discord channel at 11AM AEST (which is in about 40 minutes)

Draw has been conducted. Memos will be sent out to everyone in the next 10 minutes or so.
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Congrats to the winners of the Melbourne Cup Sweep.

1st Place : Brendio = 12 SBD + 30,000 Pocket
2nd Place : oO7 = 8 SBD + 20,000 Pocket
3rd Place : goldenarms = 3 SBD + 10,000 Pocket

Thanks to everyone for the support. Hope you're all having a good day.

Just caught the race half way through and didn't even know who was who. Nice late run for the win, Rekindling!

Congrats mate. You should have received your 1st place prize. 12 SBD and 30000 Pocket Tokens. Well done and thanks for playing :)

Great idea, put me down for 1 ticket. But please make my ticket the winner thanks, Lol, cheers.

Gotcha. The only guarantee I can give you is you'll have as much chance as the next person! :)

Sounds good to me, cheers.

Congratulations to brendio on your win, cheers.

Mate super idea. Can I clarify; is one sweep for 1 SBD and a seperate one for 5 SBD?

Thanks. Yes, it is separate sweeps for 1 SBD, 5 SBD and also 10K Pockets.

awesome idea.it can make diffferences.i can not understand 10k pocket.will you explain @buggedout

Pocket tokens were given out to a lot of subscribers on the STEEM platform a month or so back, but if you don't have any then don't worry. 10K Pocket tokens cost less than 25 cents if you were to buy them on BitShares.

Love you work mate,

Sent 1 SBD over to your wallet :)

If anyone has the winning numbers for first 4 or trifecta in the cup tomorrow please post them here lol

Cheers mate. Would be happy to share the winning numbers if I had them! But I've been trying to pick it for near on 30 years and haven't got it yet :)

pocketsend:20001@o07

Successful Send of 20001
Sending Account: buggedout
Receiving Account: o07
New sending account balance: 138182
New receiving account balance: 20000
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 21fde7716e1199abc151604a3ced867a12c4204c
Thanks for using POCKET! I am a confirmer bot for fun, view my source confirmer code here. Don't know what a POCKET Token is? Here is a link to the official announcement post.

I don't like gambling, so what I'll do is donate 50,000 Pocket Tokens to the prize pool and leave it up to you as to how you divide it up among the winners/losers of the sweepstakes!

pocketsend:50001@buggedout, My 2 bobs worth towards the sweepstakes!

Thanks @jackmiller. I have added this to the prize pools for the $1 sweep.

Successful Send of 50001
Sending Account: jackmiller
Receiving Account: buggedout
New sending account balance: 719453
New receiving account balance: 148183
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 74e604720df81266e72d44bd9c08311c1c4cc1a8
Thanks for using POCKET! I am a confirmer bot for fun, view my source confirmer code here. Don't know what a POCKET Token is? Here is a link to the official announcement post.

Right, let's try this. It will be my first pocket transaction, so see how it goes:

pocketsend:10001@buggedout, Sweepstake entry.

pocketsend:10001@buggedout, Sweepstake entry, attempt 2; starting with the command this time.

Thanks @brendio. I have upgraded you to the 1 SBD sweep. Good luck! :)

Successful Send of 10001
Sending Account: brendio
Receiving Account: buggedout
New sending account balance: 989999
New receiving account balance: 158183
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 8e79095a621087d7d1e2122097b16cc0dbd4af45
Thanks for using POCKET! I am a confirmer bot for fun, view my source confirmer code here. Don't know what a POCKET Token is? Here is a link to the official announcement post.

pocketsend:30001@brendio

Successful Send of 30001
Sending Account: buggedout
Receiving Account: brendio
New sending account balance: 108181
New receiving account balance: 1019999
Fee: 1
Steem trxid: 54388e4d99b71421bd20d9fd4e158f0a2eba235e
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Successful Send of 10001
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Receiving Account: goldenarms
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New receiving account balance: 10499
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