Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.
Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit
Welcome back peoples.
We are now 1/4 of the way through the second season.. Time sure does fly sometimes!
Unfortunately the last couple rounds had a pretty low turnout, I probably should have waited till later in the game to do those rounds..
But.. I wanted to have a song to listen to before the season finished and I thought the find more players round might help us bring in more players, which.. It probably did.. It looks like we got at least one new player! And.. Even if no one had joined directly from the entries players submitted I've been inspired to go reach out to new steemians on the #introduceyourself tag much more often and I think that will likely help!
I also still should do a few radio shows to help get the word out and try to reach more people on other social media like Facebook as well.
I'm just so supremely overwhelmed and admittedly a bit nervous about doing the radio shows, though I still plan on doing them hopefully in the next couple weeks or sooner.. Just need to get some important things done in my personal life first and build up a bit more courage. :)
I think things will pick up in time and I'm not too worried about it, things have been really slow on steem in general and I have a feeling in time bitcoin will rise again and the whole market will and people will come flocking back and hopefully steem continues to grow to rival other major social media in the future and things will be very active again someday.
Even if that didn't happen, I'm personally happy even with just a small amount of players. I try not to get too caught up on the details and try to just enjoy the experience for what it is. :) And it is a massively enjoyable thing for me to be a part of even with just a few players.
Oh and since we still haven't even finished judging round 2, feel free to work on or get in any late entries for the last two rounds.
Anyways.. On to the next quest!
The subject of our fifth quest is going to be a "Choose Your Own Adventure" quest.
I'm going to include 3 topics for you to choose from and if you want you can create your own topic and you don't have to do one of the ones I listed.
Also if you want you can do all 3 topics I listed and create your own as well if you're feeling really brave or you can just pick one or any combination of such, essentially you can enter whatever you want and I'm going to provide 3 topics I'd like to see more research on if you are one of the kinds of people who have trouble thinking of content and want help with some direction.
The 3 topics I'm giving you are...
D'jedhi.
Auld Lang Syne.
Morgellons Disease.
These are all pretty fringe subjects and that's one reason I picked each one, because they are a bit more difficult than average to learn about since there's not as much information out there on the internet about them as many other subjects in the world.
I learned about all these subjects in a conspiracy theory sense, so in one way or another they are all related to conspiracy theories even if they may not seem so at first.
I've personally learned some really fascinating things from each subject and I know I'm only scratching the surface of each subject with the research I've done, so if you decide to pick any of the subjects I have a feeling I will be learning some interesting new things!
Hopefully anyways. :) Cause I love learning interesting new things!
And remember, if none of those subjects interest you much, or if you just want to go in another direction anyways, you can do that.. This is a choose your own adventure round and you can go in pretty much whatever direction you would like!
Cheers and good luck!
So far we have received support and 10steem from @underground and I have confirmed that @ats-david and @krnel and @timcliff and @steemcommunity will also be supporting us again this season.
Underground, ats-david, krnel, timcliff, and steemcommunity 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 winner of the grand prize!
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 5 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Choose Your Own Adventure".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 S2R5"
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 one or a combination of the subjects I provided or you can create your own subject or subjects.
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!!
)
Click to enter the Discord chat room.
Click to go to the rules page.
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.
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 be notified of each round or updates 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.
