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Hey peoples! Nice to see you again. :)
We're really getting close to the end of the second season now!
There should be a total of 3 more rounds, I'm probably going to do another one tomorrow and then one more next Saturday and Sunday.
That's the plan anyways! Whew.. What an adventure. :D
I'll probably make a more in depth post as I think about this more, though I'd like to say that two of the main highlights in my opinion are that we got support from 
Both of those things are pretty amazing to me, the support from curie I think is major and now we can double prizes and pay for the judges and the quest to come up with new words is just super awesome in my opinion as I can see how it may develop into the future where we may someday have quite a few words for our culture!
I can see it in my minds eye.. Having a good selection of unique words that we can use to communicate with each other and the new words our players created were all pretty awesome! I'm super impressed.
One other thing I wanted to say is that.. And I've mentioned this before but I wanna go into a lil more detail is that since us judges are so behind on our judging duties, we're going to have to take a lil break from the contests after the regular season ends and it's going to take us a while to judge all the rounds we are behind on.
I don't know how long it will take, I think we have 15 rounds to judge.. So.. It might be a while before we start the finals. But.. I will make sure to personally find everyone who scored at least 1 point and notify you a couple weeks before we're ready to start to make sure you have enough time to get ready or give your spot to someone else if you think you'll be too busy to play in the finals.
And yeah if you didn't know, you can give your spot to someone else to play for you if you are too busy to play in the finals, and then if they win you can split up the prize however you want.
Okay.. I think that's it for now! Thanks for going on this epic adventure with me! I truly appreciate all of you who play in this game and who are a part of or who support the IFC community. :) Much love and onto the next quest!
The subject of our seventeenth quest is.. "Deliberators Help A Beginner Quest".
This is one we did last season which was created via the challenge we had for the players to come up with a new contest idea.
Speaking of such, we still haven't judged that round for this season so.. We'll probably have to wait until season 3 to implement the winner of this seasons create a new contest quest.
Anyways.. This is one of my favorite quests cause I like the quests that are designed to help others and lets face it, steem can be a rather daunting and intimidating place to get started especially if you're not super good at computers.
I think a good way to give back to the community is to help the new people and when I have time I still do my best to go to the #introduceyourself tag and help new people by offering advice and letting them know I'm there to try to help or answer questions they might have.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to do that as much as I'd like cause I'm so busy, BUT I think it's a really important and good thing to do to spend some time when you can to try to help newcomers.
The goal of this quest is to find someone new to steem and help them get started on the platform. ALSO.. Since the IFC contest has been opened up to Facebook and other social media and basically anyone with access to email.. I'm going to expand the rules a bit and say that you can submit an entry on helping a beginner at anything.. It doesn't have to be steem! Just do your best to help someone who is new at something. :)
I hope that explains everything good enough? If you still have questions feel free to ask and I'll respond as soon as I can. Also I'm going to include some links from last season below if you want to learn more about how other players made their entries last time and stuff like that.
Here's a link to the round from last season if you wanna check it out and get a better idea of how this works.
https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/information-finding-championship-season-1-round-5
This was also one of the rounds we did for the championship, here are those two entries if you'd like to check them out.
https://steemit.com/ifc/@youhavewings/ifc-championship-round-help-the-beginners
https://steemit.com/ifc/@magicalmoonlight/deliberator-s-help-a-beginner-ifc-championship-round
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 17 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Deliberators Help A Beginner Quest".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 S2R17"
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 "Helping a beginner"
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.
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 [email protected]
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.