IndiaUnited Weekly Contest #20: Theme - " How did you join hive? " and Winner Announcement of Previous Contest

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Namaste everyone!

We have decided to host a weekly contest aimed at becoming a community with better engagement and having more presence on Hive. These contests will be organised each week to boost creativity among members of the community, help new and budding writers to show more creativity, help increase their personal growth on the platform and build better connections along with getting some good prizes in turn.

We encourage everyone to step forward and contribute to this. You can help by either taking parts in these contests, giving feedback and constructive criticism to the entries, supporting the entries or by sponsoring these contest. Drop your feedback/suggestions in the comments below or join our Discord Server and connect with us there.

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Theme: How did you join hive?

How did you join hive?, we all have our story to tell. I am sure you all have a story to share. Share your story with us?
You can write about it in as much detail as you want.

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There are some rules which everyone should keep in mind and read carefully as some of them can be changed in the subsequent contests.

• Publish your post in IndiaUnited Community.

• Use the #iucontest as your main tag, failing to do will invalidate your entry.

• No use of AI tools like ChatGPT for writing your posts. We want to hear your thoughts not AI's.

• Make sure to properly source you images and don't use copyrighted images.

• The post should have at least 350 original words per language (in case you decide to make a dual language post).

• Add this contest's post link in your post so others can find us easily.

• Leave a link to your entry as a comment to this post.

• One entry post per account/user.

• Open to all not just the Indian citizens.

• Re-blog and share this contest post with others to spread the word. (Optional)

Failing to comply with the above rules will disqualify you from the contest.

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Deadline:

The deadline for submitting your entries will be six days (144 hours) after publishing this post.

• Upvotes from @indiaunited (maybe you get a few votes from other curation account)for each valid entry.

• Total 1000 Ecency Points, Sponsored by @bhattg

• The Winner = 1^st Runner UP = 500 Ecency Points, 2^nd= 300 Ecency Points, and Runner UP = 200 Ecency Points and one HSBI to each.Sponsored by @bhattg

• Curations from few other accounts but not guaranteed.

We are looking for more sponsors, if anyone wants to sponsor some rewards for the winners. Let us know in the comments or talk to us in IndiaUnited Discord Server.

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Winner Announcement Contest Week #19

Thank you to all who participated, re-blogged, upvoted and contributed in other ways.

There was a total of 37 valid entries.(wow this no. is huge thanks.) Thank you so much. I wish I could curate these entries with more votes. (Maybe in the future we will be able to do this 🤞)

Here is the list of all of them.

Authors	Links
@vickiee	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@vickiee/my-journey-from-dreams-to
@beckyroyal	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@beckyroyal/my-daily-bread-iucontest-19
@vickoly	https://peakd.com/@vickoly/exploring-the-world-of-my-hustles-k9e
@justfavour	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@justfavour/lifes-unexpected-turns-9p7
@repayme4568	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@repayme4568/i-specialize-in-painting-of
@young-tari	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@young-tari/my-hustles-54v
@flourishandflora	https://inleo.io/@flourishandflora/if-you-cannot-read-see-a-teacher-if-you-can-read-appreciate-the-teachers-fkf
@kingsleyy	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@kingsleyy/earning-a-living?referral=kingsleyy
@chinay04	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@chinay04/indiaunited-weekly-contest-19-theme?referral=chinay04
@manclar	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@manclar/from-online-surveys-to-the-hive-blockchain
@abdul-qudus	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@abdul-qudus/once-a-farmer-forever-a-farmer--aps
@fredaa	https://inleo.io/@fredaa/the-inside-life-of-a-client-manager-gvd
@juwon-btc	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@juwon-btc/how-i-make-money-to
@aquagelas	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@aquagelas/work-with-all-your-heart
@valblesza	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@valblesza/a-multi-tasking-earner
@abhay2695	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@abhay2695/doing-a-job-for-living
@ceendy2020	https://hive.blog/hive-197685/@ceendy2020/indiaunited-weekly-contest-10-what-i-do-for-a-living
@pearl33	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@pearl33/the-process-of-achieving-my
@preciousgold	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@preciousgold/earnings-a-living
@yemi147	https://ecency.com/hivecn/@yemi147/vroxuefvzu
@ukotex	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@ukotex/farming-is-what-i-do
@cindynancy	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@cindynancy/what-i-do-to-earn-a-living-3yc
@godaddict	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@godaddict/teach-and-write-for-a
@etteuwad	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@etteuwad/my-profession-my-passion
@nainaztengra	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@nainaztengra/indiaunited-weekly-contest-19-what
@nwothini335	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@nwothini335/my-occupation
@odunola	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@odunola/indiaunited-weekly-contest-19-what
@etteuwad	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@etteuwad/my-profession-my-passion
@milaan	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@milaan/indiaunited-weekly-contest-19-or
@psalmy05	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@psalmy05/what-i-do-for-a
@princessbusayo	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@princessbusayo/what-am-i-doing-35k
@preshy01	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@preshy01/my-source-of-income-as?referral=preshy01
@ijelady	https://hive.blog/hive-197685/@ijelady/indiaunited-weekly-contest-19-theme-what-do-you-do-for-living--2ed
@mfontom	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@mfontom/the-noble-profession-of-a
@darkvine	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@darkvine/what-i-do-for-a?referral=darkvine
@amiegeoffrey	https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@amiegeoffrey/and
@christybliss	https://ecency.com/hive-197685/@christybliss/what-i-do-for-a

The winners for India United Weekly Contest #19 are as follows:

Position	Author	Post Link
1st Place	@princessbusayo	Post Link
2nd Place	@abhay2695	Post Link
3rd Place	@vickoly	Post Link

Thank you so much for participating and making this contest a success. Good luck for this week.

• The winner @princessbusayo will receive 500 Ecency Points and one HSBI sponsored by @bhattg. Also, a 50% upvote from @indiaunited to one of their quality posts during this week.

• The first runner-up at the second place @abhay2695 will receive 300 Ecency Points and one HSBI sponsored by @bhattg. Also, a 40% upvote from @indiaunited to one of their quality posts during this week.

• The second runner up at the third place @vickoly will receive 200 Ecency Points and one HSBI sponsored by @bhattg. Also, a 30% upvote from @indiaunited to one of their quality posts during this week.

Winner have to provide there post to upvotes to @bhattg(you know where to find him xd.)

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