IFC Championship.

Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.

Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit

This is it... It was quite a journey and took quite a bit longer than expected, but... We're finally here. :)
Our two competitors facing off in the championship for season 2 of the IFC are @bengy and @owietus.

bengy has been around the IFC since the first season back on steemit and owietus started during season 2 and was the one player we have from Facebook.
It was one of my goals to try to increase the reach of the IFC and even though we had less players this season it is interesting to note that our one player from the other social media platform made it all the way to the end!

So... I'm definitely curious to see how this will turn out and I wish both competitors the best of luck!
Oh, also... Pretty sure I did this last season as well, but... You both each have two weeks this time to get your entry in instead of the usual one week.

Also, I'd like to say in advance to whoever ends up winning that it might take a while for me to send the crystal trophy in the mail.
It took me a while to get it out to the previous champion as well cause I was so busy and I'm even more busy this time, though... I will make an extra effort and who knows, maybe I'll get it out much quicker this time! :)

Oh, also... I can pay the winner in either steem or hive tokens if they have a preference and want one instead of the other as well.
Anyways... Let's get on to it shall we?

The subjects of our championship round are... Family, crystals, spirituality, science and... New beginnings.

These subjects I think are some pretty powerful ones and I think tie in well with some of the themes of the IFC.
I would like to learn more about these subjects and I welcome you to present such however you please.

It's up to you how you incorporate these subjects... You could do just one or two or you could do all of them.
You could also do separate entries for each different subject if you wanted to or you could try to combine them all into one entry.

It's really up to you how you want to go about it, if you want to spend more time or less... If you wanna be really in depth or go another route, and then the judges will decide as usual which ones they like the most.
Just try to have at least one of the subjects in your entry and if you have any questions please feel free to ask. :)

Good luck!

We have received assistance and 165 steem from @curie and 10steem from @underground and I have confirmed that @ats-david @krnel @timcliff and @ura-soul will also be supporting us this season.

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 @ats-witness account.

Also it looks like @ecoinstar will donate 100 shares of steembasicincome to the winners, with 60 SBI going to the grand prizer winner, 25 SBI to second place and 15 SBI to third place. 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 14 days from 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. The Championship for season 2 starts now and the subjects are "Family, crystals, spirituality, science and... New beginnings".

1. Create a blog post on Hive 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 Championship"

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)

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   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 about or related to one of the subjects or a combination or all of them of "Family, crystals, spirituality, science and... New beginnings."

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.

Good luck in the contest!!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

Original by @yeszuzia and modified by @charisma777