Hey!
I have no idea how to write a SPUD = Steem Power Up Day post, but its required in order to be a part of SPUD.

This time around its SPUD8, that means that Hive account@streetstyle have been doing this for 8 months or the steem-community have been doing this for 8 months.

Hive account@streetstyle made a post yesterday about this - https://steempeak.com/spud/@streetstyle/less-than-24-hours-before-spud8-makes-its-48-hour-trek-around-the-world-steem-blockchain-community

Hive account@xpilar is one of the big sponser for SPUD8.
The text is copies from Hive account@streetstyle's post which you can read by clicking the link above :)

I have around 10 Steem currently and I will be powering that up tomorrow!

What is SPUD and How Will It Help?

For those who do not know what SPUD is, STEEM POWER UP DAY (SPUD) takes place the first day of every month.
On this day:

We ask that Steemians that are able, to POWER UP any amount of STEEM they have on SPUD day.
We ask Steemians that are currently Powering Down, to put a Stop on Powering Down for that Day, and if desired to commence the Power Down the following day.
We ask that those that trade or sell Steem to Not Sell or Trade Steem on SPUD Day, but to do it the day before or after if possible. Also, to cancel any type of Sell Order on the Exchanges.

Rules to Win Prizes for SPUD8:

MUST have a reputation score BELOW 69.00 ( so 68.99 is good & Can participate.) AND more than 150 STEEM POWER (prior to SPUD8) BUT LESS than 7501 Steem Power.
MUST have a reputation score ABOVE 42 (so rank of 41.99 will Not Win)

MUST have at least 1 Steem Post in their blog about SPUD8

MUST Power Up Steem on December 1st, 2019

On December 1st, you MUST make a post about your POWER UP. It can be as simple as "I powered up X amount of Steem" to a simple picture/screenshot of your Power Up and posted to your Steem blog, or it could be a super long dissertation on Steem Power. IMPORTANT: Use the SPUD and/or SPUD8 Hash tags so that I can be sure to see them.

The winner Must meet all 5 requirements, and will be the one with the Biggest Steem Power Up PERCENTAGE, not the biggest Power Up. This means that it will be based on the ratio between your current amount of Steem Power and the amount you power up on December 1st.

For Example:

If you have 1000 Steem Power already powered up prior to December 1, and on December you complete steps 1-5 with a 100 Steem Power Up,

and

another Steemian has 200 Steem Powered up prior to December 1, and on December 1st Powers Up 40 Steem, then this 2nd user would be winning with a 20% power up versus the first example with a bigger power up but smaller percentage of only 10% based on their account.
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The winners will be announced via a Steem Post a few days later, and if no one challenges it or lets me know I missed them after 2 days from Winner Announcement, the Winners become official and the prizes will then be given out.

Thank you to All our SPUD Prize Sponsors and to all SPUD supporters and participants working to get STEEM to higher Elevations!!

FULL STEEM AHEAD!

Cheers & Good Luck!