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Hello again IFC peoples!
Good to see you. :)
I recently realized I accidentally put a wrong link in the last entry, and prior to that I had a round where I put the wrong round number and I recently think I told someone there's only 4 rounds left when there's 5..
Sorry for all the mistakes! Lol.. I made a few mistakes last seaoson, but not quite like this where they were simple things I shouldn't have missed.
Guess I'm a bit overwhelmed and perhaps have a bit too much on my plate! Oh well, they weren't major mistakes and I'm sure you'll all understand since you're an awesome group of people and seem to be a very understanding group of individuals.
I'm glad to see we picked up a couple new players in the last few rounds also! It's been quite an adventure and is nearing the end of the regular season pretty soon here.
I've said it numerous times before this season already, lol.. But.. I wonder who our second IFC champion is going to be?
I've been thinking about it more and more and while it's impossible to know for sure, I have to wonder! There's certainly a few people who are doing a great job.
Though if last season is any indicator, it might not be the ones who are winning the most who win.
Last season it wasn't the person in first or second place who won, or even 3rd place or even further.. It was.. The person who was I think in #9th place and someone who joined the contest near the end who won the grand prize, and they were in the finals with someone else who joined late in the season and who was in #14th place.
So.. I wouldn't worry too much about what your rank is! Or how late you joined, as long as you get at least 1 point doing the regular season you have a great chance at winning the whole contest which is now a 200 steem prize thanks to curie.
Let's move on to the next quest shall we?
The subject of our sixteenth quest is.. "Create A New Word".
The object of this quest is pretty self explanatory.. I want you to try to create a new word. :)
Was inspired to pick this subject after a friend of mine got me thinking about the subject the other day and.. I want to more explore the territory of language and creating language.
Also, I'd like to build our culture more and having our own new word would be a great way to do that!
We already have the names "Cryptopia" and "Digita" which are the names of our world and our main city both of which I believe were named by Kryptocek and have stuck.
Also while not official yet nmcdougal94 named our ship "Moya" in his short stories.
So we have a few names to go with out world and I may be missing a few, but more than just a "name" I would like you to create a new word that has a definition attached to it.
An easy way to do this might be to combine other words to make a new one, for example I wanted to created a word called Panarchan in the past which is a combination of Pantheism, Anarchy, and vegan. So a Panarchan would be someone who believes everything is God, that there should be no rulers and that we should try to minimize the harm we do to others.
However you don't need to create a word in that manner using existing words, you could try to create a totally new word as well. It's up to you how!
I look forward to seeing what you come up with! I like the idea of this challenge and hope to do it in future seasons and slowly we can build up a collection of our own words. Maybe someday we'll have a bunch of our own words? That would be super cool in my opinion! Good luck!
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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 
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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 16 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Create A New Word".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 S2R16"
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 "Creating A New Word"
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.
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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.