I've created the Eating Out community a few months ago as a place to share your favorite eating-out experience. I wanted it to be a safe haven with not too many restrictions like having to take a photo of yourself with your food. I don't think foodies will take pictures of themselves eating food at least I wouldn't. In addition to that, I also wanted to help build a community in Hive and make sure that I made more of an impact on Hive than just writing and commenting.
Anyways, it's about time I start to activate this community. I want to start a monthly challenge and I will have a theme for each month. I will try to get the post out for the challenge within the first week of each month. I have yet to decide what themes the following months will be. I can confirm that February will be featuring Chinese food since that's when Chinese New Year is happening. I plan to make the themes related to what's happening in the month.
For this month, the challenge will be eating out with a bang. It is the end of the year. Christmas and holidays are here. I'm sure you will take your family, your partner or hang out with your friends at a nice place to eat to celebrate. Share that experience in the community. I don't have any word count requirements. I just ask to please be original and put some effort in the post. Of course pictures of food should be included. I don't have any curation account for this community. I will be curating posts with my own account based on the effort I see.
I've used this photo before in one of my old posts. It's a time where I tried Wagyu for the first time. I'm using this as a thumbnail mainly~
Theme: Extravagant Outing (A nice place to eat according to your budget. I'm aware not everyone can afford to eat super expensive food. Please only share what you can afford. I do not want you to go homeless just to share an omakase etc)
Requirements (Failure to meet all 6 requirements, will disqualify you from the prizes):
1. Write Your Post In The Eating-Out community
2. Use Your Own Words & Photos - Please NO AI
3. Take A Photo Of the Restaurant Signage & Receipt of your eating out (Make sure date can be seen clearly and include it in your post. Date should be in December 2024; I need this to disqualify cheaters)
4. Take photos of the food (You don't need to take a picture of yourself with the food)
5. Please Add "december-eating-out" to one of the tags so I know that you are trying to enter in this challenge
6. Submit the post by deadline December 31st 23:59 GMT+8 (this post has a countdown timer)
Prizes
All these prizes are coming out of my own pocket. The prizes this month will be a bit bigger than the other months since it's the end of the year. Only 1 person can win once of either the Ecency points or the HBD if there are more than 70 submissions. In the event, there are 70 submissions or less everyone will be guaranteed to win something and some may have chance to win more than once so you could potentially get 1HBD + 100 ecency points, 200 ecency points or 2HBD
Prize Pool
5000 Ecency Points (100 Points per person max 50)
25 HBD (1 HBD per person max25)
Honestly, I'm not too sure how the turnout will be for this challenge. I'm keeping my expectations low. If you do decide to take the challenge, please read the requirements carefully. Please don't rush it and take your time since these prizes will be raffled out. I hope you all have a great end of the year. Enjoy the holidays with your loved ones.