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Hello there IFC peoples.
This is it.. The last quest of the regular season of season 2.
It's been a blast! And it's not over yet as us judges will now work on judging all the rounds and then get ready for the finals.
I'm not sure how long it will take, but unfortunately.. It might take a couple months.. We've been going at a rate of less than 1 round per week, and I think we can get it up to 1 round per week, but there's like 15 rounds to judge.
Maybe we can even get it up to more than 1 round per week in terms of judging and it'll be quicker, I just don't know.. But it's going to be a while so please try to understand.
Also, I will personally do my best to get in touch with everyone who scored at least 1 point and let them know they are in the finals when it's time and I'll probably let you know within a week or two advance warning so you have time to prepare and plan your schedule and if you're too busy to play in the finals I'd like to remind you that you can pick someone else to play for you and if they win you can split the prize however you'd like.
By the way, us judges are still back on round 5 and are just about done with that one and moving on to round 6 soon. So if you'd like to get a late entry in for any round above round 6 EXCEPT for the scavenger hunt round, then please feel free to do that.
It's been taking me a while to figure out what our final quest of the regular season will be.. Though after thinking about it for a long time I finally figured it out, so let's move on to the final quest of the regular season!
The subject of our twentieth quest is.. "Ideas For Season 3".
Just like last season before it ended I'm already thinking about the next season and.. The object of this round is to think of ideas for what you might like to see next season.
Whoever comes up with the best idea or ideas about next season as voted on by the judges will win this round and most likely get their idea or ideas implemented next season.
The reason I say "most likely" is because I can't promise the winners idea or ideas will be implemented 100% since someone might have an awesome idea that wins that I just can't afford or am not able to implement for some reason or something like that.
I really wanted to do a Marketplace Round, though.. With the value of steem so low and participation low as well.. I just don't think it would go that well.
HOWEVER since I wanted to do that round so bad I am going to offer a bonus quest reward this round for anyone who would like to try to sell something.
I will award an additional 5 steem to whoever lists the best item or service as voted on by the judges.
In order to list an item or service you must use the #informationfinding tag.
It could be anything, like something in your house you don't use anymore that you'd like to get rid of like an old movie or piece of art or toy or book or something like that.
Also it doesn't have to be a physical item, you could offer a service. For example one of our players last season did "Card readings" which is like tarot cards and others offered services like upvoting peoples content on steem and things like that.
I myself offered to research subjects for people or to write things for them though I never got any takers, lol.
And I wouldn't personally expect to sell anything since the value of steem is so low, but you don't have to limit yourself to steem either.. You can work in USD or whatever national currency or even trade without using a form of money like bartering style.. Feel free to get very creative with it if you'd like to try the bonus quest!
I don't really expect anyone to enter the bonus quest, BUT.. I feel really strongly about the Marketplace and like it's a great idea I want to promote more and it's been very neglected this season so I figured I might as well just try and I'll be happy if even only just one person lists something. :)
Anyways.. I think that's it for now! Thank you so much for playing in the IFC season 2, best of luck to you and I hope to see you in the finals when we get our judging duties done! Peace!
PS.. Here's a link to the Marketplace round from last season if you'd like more info on it or to see what people submitted last season.
https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/ifc-s1-r28-the-marketplace
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 20 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Ideas For Season 3".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 S2R20"
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 "Ideas For Season 3"
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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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.