Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.
Artwork credit - 
Hey peoples. Welcome back! Nice to see you again.
We're getting down there! Only one more round is planned after this one.
Sure has been fun. :) It's a lot of work, but I love it.
I'm excited to see who wins this season and also what happens in future seasons as well!
I've been talking with a friend and we have some interesting ideas planned for next season.
Also I have a meeting set up with another friend on Facebook who builds websites and there's a possibility he might help us build a website for the marketplace.
That would be pretty major if that happened! There's so much potential in our community, though it's been a bit quiet since the value of crypto went down.. I'm hoping that changes and that the value goes up and steem comes back to life and it's active like it used to be!
We had to pull through a pretty rough and slow season here, though I still learned a lot and had a great time with those of you who've played and been a part of this. I'm excited about the future, and excited to get to take a break! Though us judges still have a lot of work to do after the season ends judging all the other rounds and getting ready for the finals.
Anywho.. Onto the next round!
The subject of our nineteenth quest is.. "Assist IrvinesImages".
The object is to make a blog post that helps to promote my fathers photography and his page here on steem which hopefully brings some more followers or eyes to his artwork.
Without my father there would be no me and no IFC.
So even though he's not new to steem anymore I still want to show respect to him and help bring him any additional followers to his page and help in the ways that I can.
This is a quest I'd like to do every season.. And like last season my father is going to be giving away an extra prize for the winner of this round... A photo basket worth around $50 of surprise photography goodies from his collection. PS if you win and for some reason you don't want to give out your address or do not want the prize you can donate it to someone else and we'll send it to them instead.
Here are a few of his recently shared images to give you an idea of his work and you have permission to use these images in your IFC entry post for this round.
I think he's an epic legendary photographer and he deserves more recognition for his work, we used to have a whale on here upvoting his photography when I originally was posting it for him before he joined steem himself but I messed it up by taking a break and the whale was gone when I got back.. That's one of my major regrets on here.
I think he deserves a whale's support but it's incredibly difficult to get the attention of a whale on here. Would be nice if we could at least just get him a few more followers to his page. Thanks for trying to help if you do!
Here's a link to his page.
https://steemit.com/@irvinesimages
Here's a link to this round from last season if you'd like to learn more and get a better idea of how it works or what other entries were like in the past.
https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/ifc-s1-r36-assist-irvinesimages
We have received assistance and 165 steem from 
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 
Also it looks like 
And thanks to 
A special thanks as well to 
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 
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 19 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Assist IrvinesImages".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 S2R19"
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 "Assist IrvinesImages"
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!!
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Click to go to the rules page.
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.
If I missed anyone or you'd like to be added to the list, lemme know.