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As I type this it's only minutes away from being New Years Eve in Chicago. 2019 is coming to a close and a new year is upon us. Want to wish everyone a fun and safe New Years Eve!!

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The Pay It Forward Curation Contest is all about increasing exposure for undervalued high quality posts and increase the level of engagement on steemit. You can take part by entering the contest or just helping visit the entries and their featured posts. Everyone chooses their level of involvement and we appreciate the efforts of everyone who helps promote quality content on Steemit.


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Make sure to check back to this post often and scroll to the end to see a list of this week's curation entries! This list is updated on a regular basis to help make it easy for you to visit the entries and help support the great content that has been curated.|
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### How to Enter the Pay It Forward Curation Contest?
To enter the Curation Contest you will find 2 high quality blog posts written by reputation level 65 or lower steemians and then write a curation style blog post like [this entry](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@viking-ventures/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-16-c8a9f668204b1est) by @viking-ventures from week 16 which won a Judges Choice Award. The idea is to highlight both posts and why you thought they were high quality.

To be clear the Level 65 max is only for the bloggers who are featured, anyone may submit a curation entry. |
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### Rules:
* Curation Style Post that highlights your 2 featured blog posts. 
* Link to the high quality **undervalued (less then $3 earnings at time of featuring)** blog posts in your curation post. Keep in mind that many will follow this link and upvote so pick a post that isn't close to payout!
* Include a link to this contest in your entry post
* The 2 bloggers you curate need to be rank **65 or below**
* You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how we track everything
* **Please Upvote and Comment on the posts you are featuring**

👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈
We are looking for **[Quality Original Content](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@pifc/curating-undervalued-quality-content)** and that post spells out what that means. If you are new please read it. 

No less then 200 words of original written content. A single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it. 200 words is about 12 lines of content. 
** Art posts that show at least 3 steps of progression will not need to have 200 words of content, but still attempt to explain their art. Please use some common sense here.

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### Contest Date Range
Contest Start Time| Now
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Contest End Time| Saturday 01/04/20 at 11:59pm CST (USA, Chicago).
Winner Announcement| Wednesday 01/08/20. 

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### BONUS 1: Daily Autovote from @pifc
@pifc will give an autovote of 25% is automatic for a QUALIFIED entry. That is one which follows the rules. This vote will start at the time the "Winners Post" is written and go until the next winner post.

25% is automatic for a QUALIFIED entry. That is one which follows the rules. 

### BONUS 2: Daily Autovote from @thedarkhorse
A 0-50% Daily Autovote will be given to each of the Judges Choice Prize winners. The percentage is 50% of the percentage that you upvoted @pifc on the contest post. This vote will start at the time the "Winners Post" is written and go until the next winner post.

### Prizes: Steem Basic Income
This week 12 winners are going to get a sponsorship for #steembasicincome!

There will be 4 Judges Choice Awards based the quality of the blog posts you feature in the eyes of our Judges. Each Judges Choice will get 1 SBI share for winning or 0.50 Steem based on the Judges preference. 

All 8 of the featured bloggers from the Judges Choice Winners posts will also get an SBI Share or 0.50 SP based on the sponsors preference. 

@steembasicincome is a great program designed to provide a lifetime upvote on posts to members who have SBI Shares.

### Prizes: Steem-Bounty
@steem-bounty of 2 Steem has been created. We will only upvote entries for the Author's 95% of the Bounty. No other comments will be upvoted as the goal is to reward those who enter the contest.

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### Sponsors, Please Support Them!!
Please visit the most recent post from each of the sponsors and thank them for their support of the Curation Contest. Sponsors include @bengy, @andrewharland, and @stever82.

### Staked Tokens  
@pifc has started to build up a couple tokens to help add extra value to our community. Posts with #palnet, #neoxian, #creativecoin, #jahm, #build-it, #leo, #naturalmedicine or #marlians will gain a small bonus as we have staked tokens from each of them. We are staking 100% of earnings for each of these tribes currently.

If any of these tribes prefer we not use their tag and/or not try and help expand the curation of their tag feel free to message @thedarkhorse on discord (#6765) or leave a comment below. Our goal in using the tag is to allow members of these tribes to have an extra way to earn rewards and more importantly gain exposure for their posts.
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### Current Entries - Please Visit!!!
This is the real purpose of this contest, visit these posts and help upvote the bloggers featured. This list will be updated as new entries are added. Please check back during the week!!

Curator | Entry # | Links
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 | Entry # | [Steemit]() or  [SteemPeak]()


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