"Paying It Forward Contest" - ed. 2 WINNERS! Great feedback!

Edition 2 of Paying it Forward #pif has come to a close and the results are in!

This month we had 18 newcomers to the Hive who submitted a valid entry comment to the contest. Yay! This is amazing and a huge increase over last month.

Of course, this left me with quite a lot of vetting and validating to do before I could announce the winners and send them their prizes, so my apologies for this but you all made this more popular ;-) and that is great news!!!

I was so encouraged by the feedback comments in the entry posts. If you haven't read them all yet, you can find them here and here.

After vetting/validating:

1st prize: @tdctunes wins 25 POB, a follow, and a reblog

2nd prize: @amcrypto wins 15 POB, a follow, and a reblog

Here is the screenshot from random.org:

3rd prize (Engagement): @mmykel wins 10 POB, already followed, and a reblog

Here is the screenshot from Random.org:

Discretionary awards: This was so very hard. In fact, there were so many great comments and I just could not split out a favourite! So, I decided to award 5 POBs to 6 different people who made entry posts. Originally, this discretionary award was up to 15 POB to be split between a maximum of 3 people. I have chosen to increase this to 30 POBs between 6, because you guys are all fantastic! I wish I could have given each and every entrant some POB, but in the end, I had to make a decision and these are the lucky winners of 5 POB for their entry posts.

@agreste @mondhero @ekotmordemy @frost77 @funshee @chincoculbert

All POB transfers have been made except those for @funshee and @chincoculbert. As I am more familiar with you guys than the others, I hope you don't mind waiting til sometime on Saturday as I'll have some more POB coming to me and will be able to transfer to you then (the rest of mine is all powered up!). you know I'm good for it! 😜🙏

Thank you everyone for entering and I wish you all the very best on your Hive journeys.

If you joined Hive from 1st August 2021 onwards, then look out for next month's contest as you will still be eligible.