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The first 7 weeks has led to some amazing talent being featured on the PIF Contest. You willingness to take your personal time to curate others and help them earn more rewards is amazing! Returning curators make sure to read below for the **changes made to the rules this week**!! After looking over the ideas that people came up with in my [Help](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@thedarkhorse/help-pay-it-forward-contest-theme-ideas-needed) post I realized that my idea of making themed weeks wasn't going to work as I envisioned it. So here is what we came up with. ### Week 8 Entry Post Format For week 8 and future weeks you will need a curation style entry that includes **2 High Quality Original Content Blog Posts from Level 50 or Below Bloggers**. This part hasn't changed except that you only need 2 of them. * Curation Style Post of 2 Bloggers who are posting Quality Original Content * Link to 1 recent blog post per featured blogger. 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 Must Be Rank 50 or Lower! * You need to comment on this post with a link to your post, this is how I track everything! ### Optional: Themed 3rd Featured Blogger Starting this week there will be a 3rd optional blogger slot for you to feature. This is not required for an official entry and is purely optional if you want to add them. This week the theme will allow you to Feature: **The Person Who Introduced You to Steemit or Who First Helped You Once on Steemit** This blogger can be Any Reputation Level! So it's just the opportunity for you to showcase someone who has made a difference to your steemit journey. A great way to say thank you to them and write a few nice words. 👉👉Clarification for Quality Required for valid Entry👈👈 We are looking for Quality Original Content. We want to see no less then 200 words of original written content. So a single photo is fine as long as there is 200 words with it. To make it easy to estimate 200 words figure there needs to be 12 lines of content. Posts from Parley and dmania are not acceptable. ____________ ____________ ### Prizes This week **at least** 6 winners are going to get a sponsorship for @steembasicincome!| ------------ | There will be 1 SBI Sponsorship per 8 entries into the contest on a random basis (minimum of 2).| There will be 4 Judges Choice SBI Sponsorships awarded based the quality of the bloggers you feature in the eyes of our Judges, @erodedthoughts, @lynncoyle1, @energyaddict22, & @wolfhart.| @steembasicincome is run by @josephsavage and is a great program designed to provide a lifetime income to members who have SBI Shares. ### Steem-Bounty @steem-bounty of 3 SBD has been created. I will only upvote entries for the Author's 80% of the Bounty. No other comments will be upvoted as the goal is to reward those who enter the contest. @steem-bounty is run by @knircky and **I'd like to ask that you set steem-bounty as a witness**. In order to do so you can go to: https://steemit.com/~witnesses and enter the "steem-bounty" account into the text field and click vote.| -----| ____________ ____________ ### Contest Date Range To make sure that there is time for all entries to be viewed and the featured bloggers all get the exposure which this contest is designed to provide we will be only taking entries from Tuesday- Saturday 11:59pm CDT (CDT is Central Daylight Time). Need this time to revolve around my time so I can make changes to the posts at a set time for me, midnight. If your unsure how CDT converts this link should show you [your local time for 11:59pm](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=11:59%20pm&tz=CDT%20(Central%20Daylight%20Time)&). ____________ ____________ Week 7's Winners Post will be on Wednesday May 23rd 12:01am CST US.| ------------ | **Week 8's Winners Post will be on Wednesday May 30th 12:01am CST US.**| **Week 9's Contest will start with a post on Tuesday May 29th 12:01am CST US.**| ** Fair warning I will flag you if you are trying to boost your comment to get more of the bounty. This includes use of paid votes to increase your portion of the community side of the bounty.

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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!!

Blogger | Curation Entry Post ------------ | ------------- @imagendevoz | [Entry #1](https://steemit.com/curation/@imagendevoz/contest-week-8-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-by-thedarkhorse) @reonlouw | [Entry #2](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@reonlouw/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-8-reonlouw) @revisesociology | [Entry #3](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@revisesociology/pay-it-forward-entry-for-week-8-already) @freedomshift | [Entry #4](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@freedomshift/my-entry-to-new-format-week-8-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-steem-bounty-and-sbi-shares-thedarkhorse) @wholeself-in | [Entry #5](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@wholeself-in/pay-it-forward-week-8-entry) @honeysim | [Entry #6](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@honeysim/my-entry-to-new-format-week-8-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-steem-bounty-and-sbi-shares-thedarkhorse) @tryskele | [Entry #7](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@tryskele/pay-it-forward-week-8-lending-a-helping-hand) @viking-ventures | [Entry #8](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@viking-ventures/my-entry-for-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-8) @angelro | [Entry #9](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@angelro/contest-week-8-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-by-thedarkhorse-my-entry) @trincowski | [Entry #10](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trincowski/my-entry-to-the-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-8) @bengy | [Entry #11](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@bengy/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-8-entry) @leeart | [Entry #12](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@leeart/week-8-pay-it-forward-curation-contest) @backpackingchef | [Entry #13](https://steemit.com/curation/@backpackingchef/contest-week-8-backpackingchef-entries-for-pay-it-forward-curation-contest-by-thedarkhorse) @fiberartists | [Entry #14](https://steemit.com/curation/@fiberartists/the-fiber-ramble-may-25) @victorsilab | [Entry #15](https://steemit.com/payitforward/@victorsilab/pay-it-forward-curation-contest-week-8-genuine-and-sincere-content)