Dear Steemit Community,

Thank you all for the ultra-successful logo contest. It's possibly one of the most participated in cryptospace! We have received about 150 logo submissions. 21 designs made it into the final cut after community voting (a number of them are just for future considerations, despite not being qualified to win the SBDs).

Here's the logo contest's initial announcement for convenience: @kevinwong/logo-contest-for-project-curie-calling-all-designers

Before jumping right into announcing the winners, I would like to impart some lessons learned conducting a massive contest on Steemit, in hopes that we can all learn to make future contests better together. You may jump on to the final section to find out the winners. Continue reading if you want to learn to organise contests on Steemit in the near future. It may not be the best process, but it's what we've learned.

Just think of it as an extended drumroll..

Contest Process

Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the logo contest:-

Need to promote community participation in spirit of Project Curie.
So.. open logo submissions in comments and community voting.
However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for Project Curie.
So.. community voting as first filter, before internal voting.
Another problem: late submissions are usually disadvantaged as there are less attention on the contest post.
So.. we've tried to mitigate such a problem by including unique votes of logo designers in their own blogposts.
Right at time of contest closing, save the state of browser data by right clicking > save as.. to freeze number of votes in time and to be able to prove your process with transparency. I have left the capsule in the contest post.

Judging process

Again, keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the judging process:-

Open a private channel in Steemit.chat, collage all final entries into a board, each design is numbered for convenience. No names are attached to logo designs to remove personality biases.
Everyone is in different timezones. Instructions are left for judges to leave their votes in the channel.
Not everyone in Project Curie are artistically-inclined.
So.. we have also invited artists in Steemit to join Project Curie in the judging process.
Special thanks to @fairytalelife, @anritco, @thisisbenbrick, @opheliafu, and @nekromarinist taking some of your time voting for the best logos!

Here's the scoresheet from our internal judging process

To protect sensitivities, we will not show the other numbered correlations of logos. From this scoresheet, it looks like design #5, #11, and #15 are the winners. Design #11 and #15 are tied in number of votes, so that's pretty awesome considering that 2nd and 3rd prizes are equivalent in SBD amount. So I'll just name these two designs as contest runner-ups.

Winners Announcement!

Sorry for all the grandfather's story, but we hope that you've enjoyed the process of this contest! Now that the anticipation has been built nicely.. here are the winners of Project Curie's logo contest:-

In order of logos from top
Winning design by @konti (485.00 SBDs)
Runner up design #1 by @acidsun (242.50 SBDs)
Runner up design #2 by @sharker (242.50 SBDs)

Congratulations and thank you all for the participation!

Please contact us @konti, @acidsun, and @sharker. Send in your designs in the best formats to receive your prize money! We would like to thank you all for your spirited participation in making this a big part of blockchain history!

A million thanks!

Update: everything paid out to winners!

Logo Contest for Project Curie - Contest Process & Winners Announcement!