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Thank you to all the communities who applied for Season 18 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge. Twenty-five communities applied in total with many good applications. We have now been through all the applications and selected the five communities to take part in Season 18 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge, alongside the Crypto Academy. --- --- ### Steemit Engagement Challenge Communities for Season 18

The communities we have selected for Season 18 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge are… * **Comunidad Latina** https://steemit.com/hive-188619/@cotina/56s96b-postulacion-al-steemit-engagement-challenge-por-la-comunidad-latina * **Shine with Steem** https://steemit.com/hive-106183/@hive-106183/application-for-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-18-shine-with-steem-community * **Steem Venezuela** https://steemit.com/hive-193637/@teamvenezuela/aplicacion-de-la-comunidad-steem-venezuela-para-la-temporada-18-del-steemit-engagement-challenge * **Steem of Animals** https://steemit.com/hive-140292/@steem.ofanimals/application-for-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-18-steem-of-animals-community * **Traveling Steem** https://steemit.com/hive-188972/@travelingsteem/ts-engagement-application-for-sec-season-n-18 **Please would the leader of each selected community confirm acceptance in a comment below and include their contact details (Discord / Telegram).** — We will be in touch with the selected communities to help them prepare for Season 18 of the Engagement Challenge. The communities should prepare contests to run each week. **These contests should be free to enter for everyone. There should be no requirement or obligation to set a beneficiary, or make a delegation, to the community to take part in the contests, and there should be no favoritism of selection or voting to those who have set a beneficiary or made a delegation.** To take part in the Engagement Challenge people should enter these contests - and also make valuable, relevant comments on other posts in the contests. — The Communities selected for Season 18 should ensure they promptly check and comment on all posts for their weekly contests. The minimum they should check for are #club status, plagiarism, AI generated content and bot use. To help @steemcurator01 and @steemcurato02 curate the contest posts more effectively we are looking for community Mods to use a clear, simple and easy to read comment format. Communities are free to design their own comment formats but it is ideal if all Mods in a particular community use a common, standard format. — Each week we would like all 6 Challenge communities to make a post on their community account announcing the three people who have demonstrated the most engagement in their weekly contest both through the quality of their contest post and the quantity and quality of their comments on other people’s contest posts. We will leave it to each community to decide how they select their weekly winners, but they should include in their announcement posts a brief summary of their selection process. **All the weekly winners, as well as the community announcement posts, will receive extra prize votes from @steemcurator01.** **Communities now have the option to set beneficiaries on their weekly posts to share the rewards with their Moderators who are curating and commenting on the entry posts.** Alternatively we are happy to see communities keeping all the rewards to build up their community accounts. — — We hope you will all enjoy taking part in Season 18 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge. Look out for more news about the Challenge on @steemitblog and in the selected communities. Thank you _The Steemit Team_