[AWARDS] It's Friday so it's gotta be a Friday Favourites Awards post!! #CommunityLive2020

Update (2/1/21): I’ve added the video to the Closing Ceremony at the end of this post so that you can watch the Awards getting presented and the announcement of all winners! :blush: Enjoy! And once again, congrats to all winners and thanks so much for your participation! :heart:

Season’s greetings everyone! I hope you’ve all started this special day with a bit of a spring in your step and a huge grin on your face! I’m here to add to the happy day by announcing the winners from our Top Friday Favourites award which was presented during the closing ceremony of #CommunityLive2020.

The Friday Favourites is a series run by the Google Moderators where every Friday, they would highlight their favourite posts from the community! As you can imagine, it’s quite an honour to get selected and shared to the whole community and we really appreciate and enjoy that series! So much so that for the awards night at Community Live 2020, we decided that we wanted to pick our (Connect Moderators) favourites from the pool of favourites!

So we went back as far as June 2020 (we didn’t have time to cover the whole of 2020 as there were a lot of posts to go through!) thanks to the amazing work of @JaneBurunina and then together with @PaulPavlinovich , they read every single post and narrowed it down to the top three that really stood out! I have no idea how they did it: that’s a LOT of reading and it must have been so hard to pick the final top three!! But they did it and here are the community’s winners for the Top Friday Favourites award!

Again, these winners are unranked i.e. no 1st, 2nd nor 3rd.

My Favourite Food at Vrindavan by @Saurabhtheexplorer

Jane: I enjoyed this complex looking food process and feel this post is unique and authentic

Paul: This simply oozes local culture, is written well and I really enjoy the street culture feel of the photography.

The original Friday Favourite post:Friday Favorites: what to see along the Inn River, snacks in Vrindavan, and more by @MashaPS . This post was selected by @BorrisS and you can read his comments in the post above! :sunglasses:

Purple Posbank part #1 by @Erik_van_den_Ham

Jane: Very detailed and attractive photos, Erik continues to improve his posts
Paul: The photography in this one is stunning - Erik knows his stuff and he’s surrounded by sheep! I do think that some of this information was lifted from Wikipedia and while he took the trouble to avoid plagiarism and rewrite it for me this takes a bit away from the post

The original Friday Favourite post:Friday Favorites: purple heather fields, Russian sweets, and more by @Bobiisha and the post was selected by @AngieYC . Check the post out to find out what Angie thought of the beautiful purple heather fields! :purple_heart:

touring | curaçao - add a little caribbean colour to your life by @travelwithcarlo

Paul: This person knows how to make photos and write decent copy, and the post has a slick travel magazine feel to it
Jane: I love writing manner of the author and attractive photos

The original Friday Favourite post:Friday Favorites: the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, a Caribbean island, and more by @KlaudiyaG who was also the Google Moderator who selected the post as her favourite! Again, do check out the post to find out why Klaudiya picked this lovely travel post of a paradise island in the Caribbeans!

Once again, congratulations to all the winners!!! :tada: :partying_face: :tada: :partying_face: :tada: :partying_face: Great posts and great stories!!

You can watch the Closing Ceremony video below and re-live the excitement of the Awards as they are are announced together with the amazing winners!

To know more about another #CommunityLive2020 Awards winners, check out the following posts:

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Hi @AdrianLunsong Good Morning, Happy Friday, Happy Local Guides :sparkles: :sparkles: .

Thanks For Sharing :sparkles: :sparkles: :sparkles:

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Every week I wait for Friday like many of you. Haha… Sure!..

Actually I have a special reason. I look forward for a weekly Friday Favorites post from Google Moderator to read and greet amazing posts from Local Guides on Connect!

It was awesome to read all these fantastic posts and really tough to pick only three of them!

Congratulations to all the authors of these wonderful posts!

Thanks @AdrianLunsong for announcing the winners of #CommunityLive2020 Top Friday Favourites!

:trophy: :tada: :trophy: :tada: :trophy: Congratulations to @Saurabhtheexplorer , @Erik_van_den_Ham and @travelwithcarlo ! :clap: :clap: :clap:

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@JaneBurunina @AdrianLunsong Thankyou so much Guys for choosing my post.

That really made my day.

I feel so glad that my post added some value to you and you had a different experience of exploring the food of Vrindavan through my post.

Looking forward to write more and adding more content and value according to my perspective.

Thankyou so much Guys for choosing me.

Lots of Love and Hugs and Smiles to you :slightly_smiling_face:

And Merry Christmas :))

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The Friday Favourites is certainly something to look forward to each week and is an excellent way to highlight the great posts of Local Guides that otherwise might go unnoticed.

To answer how it was done @AdrianLunsong its very subjective, I judge photography competitions from time to time and I adopted my methodology there by coming up with a scoring mechanism and trying to reduce the subjective nature of choosing.

Essentially I used a combination of the Maps Mission and the aims of Local Guides to help me see which ones would come out above the pack of very good contributions.

Paul

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As long as you didn’t throw a dice @PaulPavlinovich ! :rofl: So glad that you and @JaneBurunina were able to help out and get it sorted in time for the closing ceremony! Phew!!

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Thanks for the award super humbled :slightly_smiling_face:

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You’re welcome @travelwithcarlo it is well deserved :).

Paul

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Good Morning, Happy day , Happy Local Guides