# \[Approved\]Christmas is NEAR, let your creativity flow
**URL:** https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853
**Category:** Marketing DAO
**Tags:** marketing-dao
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853 "2021-12-13T04:07:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@GeorgePro1](https://gov.near.org/u/GeorgePro1)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/1 "2021-12-13T04:07:26Z")
**CONTEST NAME** : Christmas is NEAR, let your creativity flow
**CONTEST DATES** : December 15th-1st January
**CONTEST DESCRIPTION** :
Let’s make this Christmas season more NEARer with 10 Creative contests over 10 days. Each contest will run for 24 hours and have a different Christmas theme. Enter every day for a chance to win. Just be sure each entry includes a properly displayed NEAR logo and the correct daily Christmas theme. Then let your creativity take it from there. Have fun!
The **Goal** is to:
1. Increase and drive new members to discord community
2. Increase NEAR Twitter followers and publicity
3. Have fun and boost community engagement
🎁🎁🎁
**4 DAILY WINNERS** : Each day we will determine the **top 3 entries** based on creativity, talent, effort, and following instructions. The **3 top entries** each day will receive NEAR prizes as follows:
**1st place** = 6 $NEAR
**2nd place** = 4 $NEAR
**3rd place** = 2 $NEAR
In addition, **1** random winner will be selected each day. The daily random winner will receive **1 $NEAR**
**SUBMISSION THEMES AND DEADLINES** : Each of the 10 daily contests will run for approximately 24 hours, beginning at 8:00 p.m. UTC and running until 7:59 p.m. UTC the following day. Announcements will be posted in a ( channel created for this) each day to announce the **daily theme** and mark the beginning and end of each daily contest.
**ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS:** Winners will be announced in the ( channel created for this) within 24 hours of each daily contest close.
**DAILY ENTRY** : You may enter ONE time each day, but you may not use the same entry more than once. Each time you enter you must make a new/unique submission. Submitting an entry more than once will disqualify you from the contest on that day.
**WIN LIMIT:** Though you are encouraged to enter each day, you will only be eligible to win a maximum of five times. You may continue to submit one creative work each day after you have won five times, but it will not be eligible to receive any of the daily prizes (even if fewer than 4 entries were submitted that day).
**END OF YEAR DRAWING:** Each entry you submit (maximum of one per day) gives you one entry into the end of year drawing for (some NEAR) Between 30th December and 1st January **twenty winners** will be randomly selected to receive **5 $NEAR** each. You will increase your chances of winning each time you participate in one of the daily contests.
**Budget**
**1st place** = 6 $NEAR
**2nd place** = 4 $NEAR
**3rd place** = 2 $NEAR
**Random winner** = 1 $NEAR
**25 winners** = 5 $NEAR each
**Summary**
**Daily budget** =\>13 $NEAR x 10days = 130 $NEAR
**End of year Drawing Budget** =\> 5x20people= 100 $NEAR
**Total** = 230 $NEAR
**Total in USD** = $1,840
🎁🎁🎁
**CONTEST RULES:** Your entry must meet **ALL** of the criteria below in order to qualify (entries that do not meet **ALL** criteria will be disqualified)…
Include a properly displayed NEAR logo (proper shape, color, and rotation).
Include the designated Christmas theme for the day.
To enter the contest you must do ALL of the following:
Share your work on Twitter. Be sure to tag @NEARProtocol, include the hashtag #giveaway, say something positive about NEAR, and encourage your friends to join us in Discord by posting your personal invite link\*.
Post the url link to your Tweet and attach your creative work in the channel.
You may share the following invite link if you do not know how to create your own. 👉👇[Discord](https://discord.gg/8KrfGnM8u7)
Do not copy the work of others. Multiple entries may represent the **daily Christmas theme** in very similar ways, but if one entry directly copies significant elements from another entry it will be disqualified.
One entry per person per day. If you submit multiple entries on one day ALL of your entries for that day will be disqualified from the daily contest and also will not be included in the end of month drawing.
You may not use the same entry more than one time. If you submit an entry more than once it will not be eligible to receive a daily prize or be entered in the end of year drawing.
Winners will be paid within 24 hours of being announced in the community.
@marketingdao-council
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### Author:  [@johanga](https://gov.near.org/u/johanga)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 5:53am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/2 "2021-12-13T05:53:17Z")
> [@GeorgePro1](#):
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> One entry per person per day
so where to enter ?!
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### Author:  [@HaiVu](https://gov.near.org/u/HaiVu)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/3 "2021-12-13T07:23:34Z")
Nice creative activity for Xmas, hope you can get approval to deploy it, make it a sub channel on Discord for the competition! 😃 🍻
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### Author:  [@David\_NEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/David_NEAR)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/4 "2021-12-13T08:53:59Z")
Hey!
I’ve noticed this is in the MarketingDAO category, are you requesting funding for this?
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### Author:  [@FritzWorm](https://gov.near.org/u/FritzWorm)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/5 "2021-12-13T15:00:56Z")
Hi David, this idea from George Pro came up on the Discord MOD channel after the success here:
> [@\[Approved\] Discord Quiz with rewards](http://gov.near.org/t/approved-discord-quiz-with-rewards/9432):
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> How are you folks! I hope you have had a good start to your week! Let me tell you about this proposal i have. I implemented a new bot in the server, called “QuizBot” and as the name suggests you can make a quiz and the community by interacting with the messages that the bot sends can vote. This bot gives users a limited period of time for them to answer the questions made and it automatically gives points to the ones who interacted if they answered correctly. So it creates a leaderboard in ord…
Will be nice to have any feedback about the reward for the winners.
Cheers 🍻
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### Author:  [@David\_NEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/David_NEAR)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/6 "2021-12-13T15:08:46Z")
Hey!
Looks great, but would love to see all the following included in a proposal:
- Goals
- How success will be measured
- Funding amount requested
- Predicted impact
Generally; what are we aiming to achieve with this? Drive members to the DC? Increase Twitter followers? Engagement?
All of that would impact the value of the rewards IMO
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### Author:  [@Squazher](https://gov.near.org/u/Squazher)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/7 "2021-12-14T09:31:02Z")
Great idea. Surely would drive in more engagements into Near Discord.
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### Author:  [@Benz\_Near](https://gov.near.org/u/Benz_Near)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/8 "2021-12-14T12:00:45Z")
@GeorgePro1 I really really like this chirstmas initiative!
But the same as David says here!
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### Author:  [@David\_NEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/David_NEAR)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/9 "2021-12-14T14:18:26Z")
Hey!
Where will this be announced? In Discord/TG?
> [@GeorgePro1](#):
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> Work submitted becomes the property of NEAR TEAM to be used at their discretion.
I don’t think this is necessary
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### Author:  [@GeorgePro1](https://gov.near.org/u/GeorgePro1)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/10 "2021-12-14T15:38:34Z")
It will be announced on telegram, Discord and all official channel communication of NEAR for proper dissemination of information about this context.
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### Author:  [@GeorgePro1](https://gov.near.org/u/GeorgePro1)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/11 "2021-12-14T15:39:40Z")
> [@David\_NEAR](#):
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> I don’t think this is necessary
I will make changes where necessary. Thanks for pointing it out 👍
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### Author:  [@David\_NEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/David_NEAR)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/12 "2021-12-14T15:40:48Z")
I would like to hear @JMaenen’s thoughts if he’s around 🙌
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### Author:  [@GeorgePro1](https://gov.near.org/u/GeorgePro1)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/13 "2021-12-15T06:16:08Z")
> [@David\_NEAR](#):
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> I don’t think this is necessary
Edited! Necessary changes made👍
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### Author:  [@Albhion](https://gov.near.org/u/Albhion)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/14 "2021-12-15T21:24:39Z")
Can We Start now, and post our excellent
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### Author:  [@satojandro](https://gov.near.org/u/satojandro)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/15 "2021-12-16T02:06:00Z")
Interesting proposal! Feeling the festive mood!
My only suggestions would be to:
- Have an event specific hashtag that all participants must use. The only current hashtag #giveaway is too generic. Ideally, anyone could click on the event specific hashtag and find all the entries for every day. We could even be trending.
- Announce the daily themes in advance. Ideally you want to give people as much notice as possible to make it fair for all participants. 24 hour submission timeline is very tight and you want to guard against the perception that competition unfairly favours insiders who knew the themes in advance and had more time to prepare better entries.
- Nice to have: run this through as AstroDAO. Would love to see an Astro that leverage the Poll functionality - enable anyone to vote on polls without being members. Have winner submit payout proposals to DAO.
Cheers,
AVB
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### Author:  [@David\_NEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/David_NEAR)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/16 "2021-12-16T09:08:42Z")
This is all good with me, I’m happy to approve and spread the Christmas cheer 🎅
Do take note of @satojandro’s comments above. The timeframe is tight.
I don’t think Astro is too necessary, might cause a little friction but why not try it for a few of the days?
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### Author:  [@Ligaya](https://gov.near.org/u/Ligaya)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/17 "2021-12-16T14:28:35Z")
Im Excited To Join for this Event if Ever it will approved 😍😍
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### Author:  [@cryptocredit](https://gov.near.org/u/cryptocredit)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/18 "2021-12-17T13:48:31Z")
Also happy to approve. @GeorgePro1 please update your budget to include $USD amounts… and then you are good to go!
FYI the next step is to submit a payout proposal to the Marketing DAO and link to this Forum post [Astro](https://app.astrodao.com/dao/marketing.sputnik-dao.near)
Happy Christmas 🎄
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### Author:  [@Ligaya](https://gov.near.org/u/Ligaya)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/19 "2021-12-18T08:39:42Z")
Is this already started?? How can we know if this already started already. Any links attach for twitter accounts of the contest? Or any telegram or discord channel?
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### Author:  [@GeorgePro1](https://gov.near.org/u/GeorgePro1)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/approved-christmas-is-near-let-your-creativity-flow/10853/20 "2021-12-18T09:01:11Z")
We will make announcement on Reddit and broadcast across all official communication channels of NEAR. Stay tuned 🕶
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