#### Already more 1,200 entries from 1,200 different Steemians and you still have one week to submit your entry!

##### This is probably the contest with the highest number of participants in the history of Steemit... how awesome is that? https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/04/23/17/08/football-3344911_960_720.png

The previous announcement post already paid out and it can´t be resteemed anymore. Since we want EVERYONE on Steemit to join this contest and one of the rules for joining the @blocktrades Cup is resteeming the announcement post, we decided to make a new announcement.

### IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS CONTEST, YOU DON´T HAVE TO RESTEEM THE PREVIOUS POST, YOU CAN RESTEEM THIS ONE.

@blocktrades loves to sponsor this type of community engaging projects and @anomadsoul & @acidyo know a lot of Steemians love this game, so we decided to organize this enormous Football World Cup event.

You don´t have to be a professional analyst of the game, your national team doesn´t have to participate, you don´t need to know much about Football to join... All you need to do is write a post picking every match winner and, the Steemian who makes the most points, wins. ## As simple as that

### Hey @anomadsoul, I want a piece of those 2,000 SBD, how do I join?

It´s very easy: In the world cup there are two stages, The Group Stage and The Knockout Stage. For the Group Stage of this @blocktrades cup, all you have to do is make a post with your match predictions in each of the following matches. The team names must be in english: #### Russia v Saudi Arabia #### Egypt v Uruguay #### Morocco v Iran #### Portugal v Spain #### France v Australia #### Argentina v Iceland #### Peru v Denmark #### Croatia v Nigeria #### Costa Rica v Serbia #### Germany v Mexico #### Brazil v Switzerland #### Sweden v South Korea #### Belgium v Panama #### Tunisia v England #### Poland v Senegal #### Colombia v Japan #### Russia v Egypt #### Portugal v Morocco #### Uruguay v Saudi Arabia #### Iran v Spain #### France v Peru #### Denmark v Australia #### Argentina v Croatia #### Brazil v Costa Rica #### Nigeria v Iceland #### Serbia v Switzerland #### Belgium v Tunisia #### Germany v Sweden #### South Korea v Mexico #### England v Panama #### Japan v Senegal #### Poland v Colombia #### Uruguay v Russia #### Saudi Arabia v Egypt #### Spain v Morocco #### Iran v Portugal #### Denmark v France #### Australia v Peru #### Nigeria v Argentina #### Iceland v Croatia #### South Korea v Germany #### Mexico v Sweden #### Serbia v Brazil #### Switzerland v Costa Rica #### Japan v Poland #### Senegal v Colombia #### England v Belgium #### Panama v Tunisia

You have to make a post with your predictions. On this post you must use W (for win), L (for lose) and T (for tie) in each game. ## YOU MUST USE THIS TEMPLATE TO JOIN THE CONTEST. [CLICK HERE TO GET THE TEMPLATE](https://steemit.com/blocktradesworldcup/@mexico-trail/the-blocktrades-world-cup-or-my-selections)

Hey @anomadsoul, are there any rules? Yes, there are a few simple rules: ### RULES

1 - The title of your post must be: The @blocktrades World Cup | My selections 2 -In your post, you have to include a link to this announcement. 3 - Use the format included in the link above so we can organize each entry. 4 - Use the tags blocktradesworldcup and the tag mypicks 5 - Resteem this post. We want to have hundreds of entries. 6 - Once you make the post, you can´t edit it. So please think your picks thoroughly before posting. 7 - Minimum Reputation to participate is 40. This is to avoid bots from joining.} 8 - You can submit your entry until June 14th 2018 at 00:01 am, UTC Time zone. #### Scoring: For each correct pick you make on the Group Stage, you will be awarded one (1) point. At the end of the cup, the prize pool will de divided among the top scorer Steemians. The number of steemians rewarded will depend on the number of entries we get.

Hey @blocktrades, what about the second stage of the Cup, the knockout stage? The Group Stage finishes on June 28th (Russian time) and the Knockout stage starts on June 30th. So we will be making an announcement with this account afterJune 28 to let you know how the Knockout stage works. Everyone can join both stages and the winners will be decided by the scoring sum of both Stages. Good luck everyone and let the predictions begin! #### You can submit your entry until June 14th 2018 at 00:01 am, UTC Time zone.

This is a @blocktrades sponsored contest, if you like what he is doing, vote for @blocktrades as [witness here](https://steemit.com/~witnesses) This is an @acidyo & @anomadsoul organized contest, if you like what we are doing, vote for @ocd-witness as [witness here](https://steemit.com/~witnesses)

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