IFC Season 2 Round 7 - Bashadow's Word Contest Idea

Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.

Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit

Hey IFC peoples. Good to see you.
Another round is done and.. I was thinking..

Even though participation has been a bit lower than last season, I feel like we're going at a good rate and it's not so overwhelming as it was last time.

One quest a week instead of two is a lot easier on me and the other judges as well I'm sure, and less entries also allows me to feel less stressed and I feel like I'm able to respond to everyone in a lot more detail and thoughtfulness.

I of course would like it if we had a bunch more players as that would suggest to me that the game is more popular and in "demand" so to speak, though.. I'm actually enjoying this even with a smaller group of people.. It feels fine to me and I'm not really worried about it as much as I was a few rounds back.

I think in time, especially if the crypto market goes back up again that we will get a lot more players and that would be awesome too.. But even with just like 5 or so players a round, this is great and I'm having a lot of fun. :)

I think things will find a way to work out and even if this game never becomes as big as I would like it to be, I'm having a blast the way it is right now. And.. I think that's important, to appreciate the process and the journey and to not worry so much about the end game or the long term results.

One other thing I wanted to mention is that one of our main judges @charisma777 has been MIA for a while now and hopefully she is okay and it's nothing too serious!

So we're a bit behind on voting for the rounds, though I just hired a guest judge to come in and help out for at least one round and I will hire him or others to help us more with the other rounds in the future if necessary so hopefully we start getting the rounds announced more soon here.

It may end up being that season 2 is just a bit slower than the 1st one and I'm okay with that, this is going to be a long adventure and I hope we're still here 10 years from now with a hall of fame and many great memories with many great people.

Some may come and go, and it will be fun to meet them and see how they help shape our community along the way. :)

I'm looking forward to seeing where this all goes! And before too long here we're going to be at the finals and have another champion!

We're already getting close to being half way through the second season.. I wonder who the champion will be this time? Anyways.. On to round seven!

The subject of our seventh quest is.. "Bashadow's - Word Contest Idea"

This is a quest that was created by @bashadow last season when he won a round that was about coming up with an idea for a new quest for our contest. The rules are..

The contest only requires one paragraph, of four sentences.
The length of the sentence is up to the writer.

Write one paragraph.
Paragraph must have four (4) sentences.
All words must start with the same letter.

Here is what an entry could look like:

Four fat frogs flipped four fat flies frying. Four fancy ferrets found four funny felines. Four funny felines fought four ferocious foxes. Four fancy ferrets flew forward fighting four ferocious foxes fighting four fancy felines.

Your four sentences should sort of make sense, at least a little bit.
And also, we are going to be doing a bonus round this round to come up with an idea for a new quest similar to how the one bashadow created was done.

The bonus prize will be 5 steem for whoever comes up with the best new contest idea as voted on by the judges.

You can just include your idea if you decide to try the bonus quest with your round 7 entry post you don't need to make a whole separate post.

Here's a link to this same round that we did last season if you'd like to check it out to get a better idea of how it works.
https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/information-finding-championship-season-1-round-18

There were some really great entries last time! And.. I'm excited to see what you come up with this time. :)

So far we have received support and 10steem from @underground and I have confirmed that @ats-david @krnel @timcliff @steemcommunity and @ura-soul will also be supporting us this season.

Underground, ats-david, krnel, timcliff, steemcommunity, 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 @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.

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Rules

1. Round 7 of season 2 starts now and the subject is Bashadow's - Word Contest Idea.

1. Create a blog post on steem for the contest or send an email if you are playing via email.

2. Title of blog post or subject of email must contain, "IFC S2R7"

3. 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)

4. And you also have to use the #ifc tag in your blog post as well unless you are playing via email.
   

5. 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.

6. 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 which follows the rules of the word challenge and also there is bonus round for creating a new contest idea

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!!

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 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.