For far too long I've been thinking about a fun competition/challenge that would bring fellow Hivers together in fun, friendly rivalry, and also have some crypto prizes.

🤔 Nostalgia Triggers Ideas

     While my wife and I were picking up some items from a local shipping agent, I looked to the left at the small shop next door and saw some small rubber duckies for sale, and it was then I knew I had to have them all, 40 in total. I had already decided I wanted to make use of the whitewater river behind our house for some kind of race on this blockchain, and originally I was going to use scraps of wood to make small boats.

     But the moment I saw rubber ducks at a small shop here in rural Cambodia, American nostalgia was triggered and I remembered how popular rubber ducky races are in big cities all across the USA. Obviously my 40 ducks would produce a much smaller scale competition, but that would also bring high chances of winning, and our river has a natural choke point where we could easily collect the ducks.

🦆 How They Do It In 'Merica 🏁

     The above video gives you a pretty good idea of how this works, a very simple concept. I am still figuring out the logistics of how we could do this behind our river, of course with close-up video shots and a proper finish line. My daughters would likely be my helpers, and so far my idea is to give them post beneficiary rewards for this potential future assistance. 3Speak would be the obvious choice for uploading the video, and I think there is now a live streaming option, although I haven't experimented with it yet.

👂 Thoughts, Feedback.....?

     My daughters have some permanent markers, and after a test to see if the ink would stain the ducks and not wash off, it worked. At the moment the project is to give each ducky a unique artistic style and number (on the bottom) that will make it easy to differentiate the ducks and also make things more fun. My idea for prizes is to charge $1 HBD for each ducky, and this would create a $40 HBD prize pool. To make it worth our time, I would like to keep 50% of the prizes and use the other 50% as prizes.

     1st Prize $10 HBD, 2nd Prize $6 HBD, and a 3rd Prize of $4 HBD seems to be a good allocation of the potential reward pool, but most of all I would like feedback from you Hivers and potential racers. I am open to ideas, but I think at the moment I have a good framework to begin with. I've already had extra ideas like allowing specific ducks to be released early for an extra fee, switching up the crypto prizes and entry fees, perhaps using Hive-Engine tokens and partnering up with various Hive communities for each weekly race.

     What do you all think? I'd love to hear feedback, ideas, anything that would expand the reach, fun, prize pool, etc.

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