Melbourne Cup Sweepstakes on STEEM

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.

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.

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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