Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.
Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit
Hey there. How's it going IFC peoples? Good I hope!
Only 5 more rounds to go to the finals! And.. We have some excellent news today.
I applied for community support from Curie a while back and they have decided to help us. :)
They have matched what I have invested into this season so all the prizes have been doubled and pay for the judges has also been doubled!
The grand prize for whoever wins the whole season is now 200 steem. Second place is 50 steem and third place is 20 steem.
I hope this is inspiration for some of you to try even harder to win since there's even more on the line now.
And hopefully it helps us pull more players from other places as well with the higher prizes, though I think it's just awesome to have the help of such a major name on the platform.
Also please take this opportunity to vote for @curie as witness if you support what's going on here and if you haven't voted for the other witnesses who support our contest and community I would suggest checking them out and voting for them as well!
The subject of our fifteenth quest is.. "Who Are You?"
The idea in this quest is to tell us who you are, and I personally would like you to phrase it in the manner of.. Who do you think you are at the "deepest" level?
For example, are you your body? Your brain? Your thoughts? Your feelings? A spirit or soul? Maybe all of those combined? Maybe something else?
It's one of my favorite questions to ask people and I always get a different and interesting answer, so I'm really curious to see what you say!
Good luck and thanks for playing in the contest!
We have received assistance and 165 steem from @curie and 10steem from @underground and I have confirmed that @ats-david @krnel @timcliff and @ura-soul will also be supporting us this season.
Curie, underground, ats-david, krnel, timcliff, and ura-soul are all witnesses, so if you support what we are doing here at the IFC please look into them and give them a vote for witness as well. By the way to vote for ats-david you should vote for his @ats-witness account.
Also it looks like @ecoinstar will donate 100 shares of steembasicincome to the winners, with 60 SBI going to the grand prizer winner, 25 SBI to second place and 15 SBI to third place.
And thanks to @bengy for delegating 25 steem. :)
A special thanks as well to @davemccoy and @newbiegames and @newbieresteemday who are not technically sponsors but we have worked with them in the past. Looks like newbiegames and newbieresteemday have been inactive for months though we still use their tags for the time being.
The challenge will finish after 7 days when the post ends and provides its payout cycle or when all entries have been submitted.
25% of the post payout goes to curation and after that what's left will now be split up 75% to the winner of the round and 25% to put towards building up the @ifc account.
For those who play via email.. This will be recorded and saved for you, and.. If you're unwilling to make your own steem account we will at some point be willing to convert it for you to whichever currency however.. Not for small amounts, you must earn at least 10 steem for us to take the time to do this for you.
Rules
1. Round 15 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Who Are You?".Create a blog post on steem for the contest or send an email if you are playing via email.
Title of blog post or subject of email must contain, "IFC S2R15"
Leave a link to your post in the comments below unless you are playing via email in which case myself or someone else will do so. (This part is important and a lot of people forget this, please put the blog link in the right place so our judges can find it)
And you also have to use the #ifc tag in your blog post as well unless you are playing via email.
You must accept that if you somehow get hurt doing any of our quests you can not reasonably hold us accountable. You must take responsibility for your own choices and actions in life. This is a voluntary game where you choose to play. Only you can make such decisions for yourself.
You are responsible for paying the appropriate government taxes, fees, and service charges resulting from any transactions with the IFC or Marketplace. We are not responsible for collecting, reporting, paying, or remitting to you any such taxes, fees, or service charges, except as may otherwise be required by law.
Acceptable content
A. A blog post or email about the subject of "Who Are You?"
B. Language is primarily in English and if you would like to participate from elsewhere in the world it is up to you to translate your message into English so we can understand you.
C. Do your best to make sure everything is properly sourced.
D. We also encourage role playing for those who enjoy doing that. :)
Also we now have judges guidelines so you can see what the main judges generally look for in an entry, links to those will be below.
https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/my-judges-guidelines-for-the-ifc
https://steemit.com/informationfinding/@xomegax/guidlines-ifc
https://steemit.com/ifc/@charisma777/the-ifc-is-baaaack-you-won-t-want-to-miss-this-season-check-us-out
Good luck in the contest!!
Original by @yeszuzia and modified by @charisma777
PS.. If you'd like to be a part of the community in some way but don't want to play in the game, we're still looking for a few regular judges and always looking for guest judges and sponsors.
If you would like to help out, please feel free to resteem or share this blog post on any social media to help get the word out to more people who might want to play! <3 Thank you.
Also if you want to play via email or be notified of each round or get updates then please send an email to informationfindingchampionship@gmail.com
with the subject "Add to IFC mailing list".
Plus here's a YouTube video I made on the subject of the IFC that I'm going to include with each round post.
Due to a suggestion from one of the players I'm also going to start tagging all the current players here to remind them of a new round, if you don't want to be reminded let me know and I'll take you off the list.
@nmcdougal94
@bengy
@ayushjalan
@leaky20
@bashadow
@jbreheny
@ecoinstant
@shaheerbari
@quotes-haven
@mistakili
@the.seeker
@simplymike
@wholeself-in
@tryp
@mattifer
@plushzilla
@owietus
@sassypuffin
@bloggerkrunal
If I missed anyone or you'd like to be added to the list, lemme know.