Is it all descending into chaos? (Dreem-WOTW Contest S2 R5)

Entropy is a scientific concept and refers broadly to "the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system." ^{Merriam-Webster}

From its Greek origins, the word essentially refers to "change within (a closed system)" with a trend towards disorder.^{Merriam-Webster}

Although first associated with Thermodynamics, the concept has been applied over the years across many fields of study including economics, culture, religion, and philosophy, to name a few.

I am certain that if we consider entropy, we can come up with many situations in life where we believe it exists, and many where it arguably does not.

Whatever your personal view may be, dreem-wotw invites you to submit either a short story (fiction), creative non-fiction, poem, or discursive essay, with the word prompt entropy at its heart.

This month the Dreemport submission date is:

Tuesday 27 June between 4 am UTC and 23h59 UTC

Please note...

IT IS THE ONLY DATE AND TIMEFRAME WITHIN WHICH SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE S2 R5 CONTEST IN DREEMPORT.

The curation/submission cycle starts and ends at these times so there is unfortunately little room for flexibility. All valid submissions to Dreemport will be reviewed and ranked by public curators the following day.

If you want to have your voice heard in this respect, simply log on the next day and curate and rank the 5 random contest posts assigned to you. This part is highly advisable, as part of the grading process includes an allocation of points for engagement... but engagement is only assessed if you do Dreemport curation of the contest posts in Dreemport on the day following the contest submission date.

The top 5 in Dreemport will automatically be shortlisted for grading for dreem-wotw prizes, alongside other entries of merit put forward by members of the grading team. We will also be able to access the top 5 Dreemport staff entries in the background and will run two contest pools to keep staff and public entries separate 😊

The dreem-wotw team will then use a Merit grading system that incorporates some aspects of the ORIGINAL Merit Grading Model developed by @scholaris and others added by @juliamulcahy in order to determine the winners.

How to use Dreemport
If you have not used Dreemport before, you will need to register on dreemport.com, which is a quick and easy process.

You may want to start by taking a look at these videos by @dreemsteem ...

Getting started on dreemport

If anyone has any difficulty registering and trying out the platform, please tag me or @wrestlingdesires here on this post and we will help you to get this little piece of admin out of the way as painlessly as possible 😊

This month we are thankful to the following sponsors:

@dreemsteem and @dreemport for Dreem tokens

@melinda010100 and @ecency for Ecency point sponsorship

@dibblers.dabs and @jfuji and The Scholar and Scribe creative writing community for Scholar and Scribe tokens.

@amberkashif for Ecency point sponsorship

@wesphilbin for LUV tokens

This month Dreem-Wotw sponsors Dreemport Featured posts, HBI, as well as adding to the Ecency point prizes.

Scholar and Scribe Sponsorship

If your entry is short story fiction or poetry, feel free to post it in the Scholar and Scribe community. All entries (no matter where you post them) can use the #scholarandscribe tag if you wish—this will help you earn both SCHOLAR and SCRIBE tokens.

Learn more about S&S here and consider joining the community if you haven’t already.

Official Prizes will be as follows:

Public:

1st: 500 Dreem Tokens, 1 Dreemport Featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 3 HBI, 50 Scholar, 2 Scribe

2nd: 200 Dreem tokens, 200 Ecency points, 2 HBI, 50 Scholar

3rd: 150 Dreem Tokens, 150 Ecency points, 1 HBI, 50 Scholar

4th: 150 Ecency points

5th: 150 Ecency points

Dreemport Staff:

1st : 250 Dreem tokens, 1 Dreemport featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 3 HBI, 50 Scholar, 2 Scribe

2nd: 100 Dreem tokens, 200 Ecency points, 2 HBI, 50 Scholar

3rd: 50 Dreem tokens, 150 Ecency points, 1 HBI, 50 Scholar

4th: 150 Ecency points

5th: 150 Ecency points

Miscellaneous prizes:

For using the Ecency front end:
Each entry made using the Ecency front end will receive 25 Ecency points sponsored by Dreem-WOTW.

Participation draw:
All participants will be entered into a random draw and there will be 1 winner of 150 Ecency points.

Promotion draw:
Anyone who tags at least 2 new people (not already tagged in the post) who they think would like to take part in the contest, will be entered into another random draw where 1 person will win 150 Ecency points.

Good luck folks and I hope to see lots of people taking part this month🤗

All new entrants each month will be added to the list.

Please let me know if you would prefer not to be tagged and you will be removed from the list, and if you are reading this and would like to be tagged going forward, please comment below and I will add you💗.