The Catena Contest: Announcing the Winners

The Catena Contest has ended and it’s time to announce the winners!

• The First Place (100 beyondbits) goes to @fishyculture — congratulations!
• Places 2-10: @lobbylux, @dearjyoce, @nichole.james, @davor27, @rootingrobert, @eirik, @androsform, @swati-s, @lucasgabd will receive 30 beyondbits each.
• The Random Prize goes to @vikaromanova — 40 beyondbits.
• The People's Choice Award goes to @joeyarnoldvn — 40 beyondbits.

But this is not all. I decided to give a small prize to everyone who took part in this first Catena contest on Steemit, so @eddyova, @maxy-hopkins, @rafaeldp, @pizzachain, @gregario and @dianadee will receive 5 beyondbits each. Thank you!

The prizes will be sent today, so check your wallets tomorrow morning! Those who did not yet post their bitshares name still have the chance to do so until the next Sunday.

The winning catenas

1. Money – Toll – Bell by @fishyculture. There’s word play in this catena as toll is both a tax and the sound of a bell ringing.
2. Money – Change – Time – Bell by @lobbylux. Also a nice word play with Change.
3. Money – Payday – Celebration – Bell by @dearjyoce. Thank you for the cheerful mood!
4. Fish – Jesus – Nun by @nichole.james. The same catena was published later by @fishyculture, but she is a winner anyway)
5. Money – Ka-ching – Bell by @davor27. Cool one, and I didn’t know Ka-ching is in the Oxford dictionary.
6. Nail – Rust – Water – Rainbow by @rootingrobert.
7. Money – Fame – Drugs – Death – Bell by @eirik. Thanks for reminding us! :)
8. Nail – Glisten – Rainbow by @androsform.
9. Money – Graph – Curve – Bell by @swati-s. We are all keen about cryptocurrency graphs here.
10. Money – Bill – 10% – Church – Bell by @lucasgabd (it would be more correct to use the word tithes for the church's historic 10% tax, but the idea is clear).
11. No particular catena as the prize goes to a random participant which turned out to be @vikaromanova, thanks for all your entries Vika!
12. Money – Lincoln – Bell by @joeyarnoldvn. As a non-American I didn’t find the link between Lincoln and Bell but I believe it’s there!

Money turned out to be a more inspiring matter that any other word. No surprise as it’s one of “portal words” I wrote in my previous post about the game tricks.

It’s always interesting for me to see the cultural peculiarities manifesting in catenas. This time was no exception, I did not know about sex for fish custom probably mentioned in the catena Fish – Sex – Celibacy – Nun by @androsform :)

Now when you have these wonderful tokens, you may be asking what you can do with them. You can use them to get a whale vote on a post, the number of tokens sent equals the vote percent received — I wrote a detailed post on how to do it here.

Contest Sponsors

The contest’s sponsor is Whaleshares, a community of creative Steemians founded by @officialfuzzy.

The vision of Whaleshares community and BeyondBitcoin Hangout Series is to give people a voice to speak about their favorite projects in the blockchain tech space. We need to enable more people and incentivize more crypto savvy content creators to be part of the community, help build and benefit from in a synergistic union.

Join the community in our fast growing 24/7 Discord server offering many channels from general talk to post promotion to more contests!

Credits

• The Random Prize was inspired by @eirik with his Wheel of Upvotes, a funny tool which I highly recommend. Thanks @eirik for the hints!
• A big thanks to @maxy-hopkins for proofreading the text. Max is a young traveler who joined steemit recently in order to share his journey. He post regularly on a variety of topics, but at the heart of the conversation is his adventure.
• Cover photo by Joseph Chan on Unsplash.

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