Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 8
Hello there! Welcome to our digital castle.
Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and suzie.now on instagram
With the first week of challenges out of the way.. We are on to the 8th round challenge and things will slow down a bit now to one or two rounds a week.
I didn't realize how difficult it would be in numerous ways, though I'm extremely happy with and humbled by how much positive energy has been associated with the IFC so far.
So many great entries and quite a few great competitors! Our first round had 12 entries, not all rounds did that well.. But.. I think it's enough to make it work and has also been a pretty good start!
So far... We have bashadow with 2 wins, kryptocek with 1 and auminda with 1 and also we have two ongoing ties!
It's getting off to a ferocious start! :D And if you're new here it's definitely not too late to sign up!
I'm trying to design this contest so that people can still have a chance to win the grand prize of 150 steem even if they get started late and will have future "catch up" rounds to help people who haven't won or leveled up yet to help get them in the game also.
I had been thinking about which challenge seemed most important to me to start the 8th round with.. And.. It's an easy answer for me.
Just like we had a round to help beginners.. I think now we need to try to help the IFC competition itself..
So far I've got so much amazing feedback from people saying they're having a lot of fun and really enjoy this IFC contest...
I wish I could give back more.. But.. I'm at best a dolphin and I'm not even sure if I'm technically a dolphin or not..
I have a few other friends who are similar in their ability to award steem and they help when they can, though.. I think this competition would be SO much better if we could somehow get the support of a whale, or even a couple more dolphin level people!
Ultimately the grand prize is 150 steem and that's a decent amount, yet.. Only ONE person will get that, plus the smaller awards for 2nd and 3rd place..
And.. I think one of the coolest things about this is the chance for people to earn steem each round they compete in, so if we had a whale or multiple more dolphins helping out.. I think it would make this a lot more rewarding for those who are participating!
Right now it varies, I think the highest round was around 8 steem? And most of them are down around 1 or 2 steem. If we could get that up to like.. 10 or 15 or 20 steem for each round.. Then I think that would not only bring quite a few more people to the contest itself, but also make it much more enjoyable for those who are participating right now!
Your mission this time, should you choose to accept.. And in this case.. We may not even have a round winner if no one is able to find anyone to help.. BUT.. The mission is.. Whoever finds the more generous sponsor to help out the tournament gets the win for this round!
Also, to go into a bit more detail.. If you can get some kind of auto vote, that would be awesome.. Or someone who can upvote or resteem once and a while would also be great.. OR, even a one time donation from someone to the grand prize would be considered.. Though, what we REALLY need is someone to help out with upvoting the individual rounds so each round makes more steem for the contestants involved.
Best of luck to you! This could be one of the most important rounds in the whole competition, because.. This would really mean a lot for our contestants and those in the future who may want to join and be a part of the IFC!
PS I'm also going to pitch our contest idea to a whale as well. You can go over there to maybe upvote/comment on that and help support it if you want?
https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptoctopus/pitch-me-your-project#@apolymask/re-cryptoctopus-pitch-me-your-project-20180211t053432277z
The rules are..
You must create your own blog post on your page in regards to the challenge with a title mentioning the specific contest, IE something like.. "Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 8 entry" and then link it here on this page in the comments below. And you also have to use the #informationfinding tag in your blog post as well.
For this challenge.. If there's a tie.. Those involved each win and level up and split the reward.
The winner will be decided by whoever gets the most votes.
The only people who can vote in a qualifying sense are myself and the four judges I've selected and we will vote by leaving a comment on the submission that we like the most and say something like.. "I vote for this one" and a reason why we voted would be good too, but is not mandatory.
You have until this challenges post payout ends to submit your post.
The challenge will finish after 7 days when the post ends and provides its payout cycle and unless there is a tie, each involved in the tie will level up and have a point to go towards their long term win and they will split the steem/sbd from the challenge (minus the 25% or so for curation)
If you are new and want to know more about how the contest works in general, this link may help that explains the Information Finding Championship in more detail.
Just in case anyone is confused.. To clarify again in regards to the rules.
Rules
1. Eighth challenge starts now and is a challenge for finding the most generous donor for the IFC contest. (see below for acceptable content entries) 2. Create a blog post for the contest. 3. Title must contain contest round, "Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 8 entry" 4. Provide as much detail about your quest as is reasonable for us to make a better decision. 5. Leave a link to your post in the comments below. 6. And you also have to use the #informationfinding tag in your blog post as well.Acceptable content
- Finding the best sponsor for the IFC
- 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.
Good luck in the contest!
Artwork credit - Joshua Clement on Facebook
Resteemed as usual. :)
Thanks nxtblg! :) You're a huge help! I'm glad you somehow found this contest and have shown so much love! It's much appreciated. ._.
Hi my friend. I resteemed this and wanted to say great thing you have started. I will do a entry. Anyway I did a blog and thanked you in a reply. BTW your Dad is amazing photagrapher.
Hey briancourteau, thanks for the thoughtful message and kind words about me and my father. That would be cool if you did, so far people have told me they're having a lot of fun playing. I read your poem and left a comment over there, but once again.. I hope things improve for you, and it's sad to hear you and yours are going through all that. Life isn't fair. Though you have a great way of looking at the world even in light of that unfairness. Much love.
The Generous Knight @ats-david has come forward and has been generous enough to grant our contest with weekly up votes! I will be making my post tomorrow for challenge 8!
Awesome job kryptocek!!! I don't know if he's just going to vote once or more regularly, but.. Even just once is awesome! It's looking good for you this round, though.. More than that it's looking good for everyone involved and the entire IFC competition.. Amazing work man.. Very well done. And also, thank you very very much to @ats-david
This is really exciting news for the contest and I hope he'll help more than just one round, cause.. If each round were to offer the contestants close to $20 like this one is at.. Then that would transform this competition so much for the better, if each round people had a chance to make that much steem.. This would be so epic..
Great work! Looking forward to reading your post when you get it up!
Depending on how many contest we have a week but I've spoken with him and he said he will try and upvote once a week! I am not sure if it'll be to the same extent every week, which I don't expect I'm sure everyone here will be grateful for! I will talk about it a bit more when I make the post tomorrow! Exciting times ahead for IFC!
Awesome!!!! This makes me so happy. This tournament is really going to take off now!! Woohoo! Excellent work kryptocek. I think.. You just earned a custom drawing of you for the IFC world even if you don't win the grand prize. This quest was that important and I just thought about it.. I'm going to set aside some steem right now to pay an artist to make a picture of you.
Send me the image you would like to be used to represent your character in the virtual world please. :)
Also.. I dunno if it's proper of me to thank you since this is a competition.. But.. Thank you.. I really think this is going to help so many people, this is probably going to ripple in ways we can't even imagine right now.. Much love kryptocek!! Well done.
I've only spoken to David a few times but from what I know and what I see in the community he's a very generous guy! I'm trying my best to grow it as well I think what you're doing is awesome and you've clearly invested your own time and Steem as well into the competition so I'm just trying to do my part!
Who knows maybe in future years to come I will be a bonus judge for a round or two! ;)
I do agree though I can see this just growing and growing! We have roughly 5 months left plenty of time to make it happen! :D
I've seen his name around a couple times before I think.. But don't really know much about him. I think I saw that he is a witness? If so that's pretty cool!
He sounds like a generous guy so far, I'm not sure how you bumped into him and got the message to him, but the fact that he said he's going to help and already did shows a lot to me! Seems like a cool dude so far!
And yeah.. I have invested quite a bit, I had a dream and it's coming to life now, in big part thanks to you.. And you're definitely doing your part!! I'd say you and charisma777 have probably helped the most so far! Charisma777 has really done a lot of amazing work and she doesn't get enough credit! She's really passionate about it also and believes in it and set up the discord and has been getting the word out a lot.. I'm really humbled by her, you, bashadow and numerous others! You're really all coming together to make this a real community that cares and is doing meaningful things. :)
And yeah! Heck yeah. I think you being a guest judge in the future would be awesome, THOUGH... I think it's probably better to do that when you're not actually competing or else there would be a conflict of interest in some eyes I imagine. Especially if you end up winning the whole tournament!
And yeah! 5 months left for just this season, if steemit is around for years and I'm still alive and able to do this, I will still be here doing this years from now, so.. We're getting off to a really amazing and epic start largely thanks to you finding ats-david and also help from charisma777 and bashadow and numerous others. I can only imagine what it will be like in a couple years if we're still going!!! Will probaly be crazy! I'm absolutely fascinated and excited to see what happens and where all this goes. :) Cheers kryptocek, glad to have you be a part of all this! <3
Oh.. By the way.. In regards to the picture of you and the artwork that will be drawn of you, you don't have to send me a picture of yourself, one of our judges doesn't want to show his face so we made him a walking tree.. You don't even have to be human, you can be all different kinds of things, though you already share your face, so.. It really depends on if you want a picture drawn up of you, or if you want to be some other kind of imaginary character. We can make you all different kinds of things if you wanna be a walking tree or a werewolf or who knows, I'm sure there's a lot of different things we would accept.
A walking tree thats awesome! Sorta like.. whats his name from "Groot" from Guardians of the Galaxy!
Ahh heres a few photos to give the artist something to work with!
( me with short hair ) the usual.
( my current state) not sure whats going on but I think a stop at the hair dresser wouldn't be a bad idea.
With what to draw I wouldn't be againts if it was something like a digital world futuristic robin hood type of drawing maybe with a mini cardinal on the shoulder! "Thats just something to work with". I'll be happy with anything and I just think its really cool that it can get done! So many good things coming to IFC!! LOVE IT!
I really like the one with you and your girlfriend, great smiles both of you! What do you think about that one with your virtual farm in the background? Would it be alright to have both you and your girlfriend in the pic or do you just want it to be you? Or you and the Robin Hood on your shoulder?
I'm open minded to the robin hood on your shoulder though not totally sure what you mean, like a small little Robin Hood guy on your shoulder?
And yeah! Kinda like groot! lol! Also kinda like those walking trees in the Lord Of The Rings.
Also.. Yup.. I think this is just the start! And there's a big thanks to you in regards to finding this sponsor that I think it's going to help so much. I'm really stoked and happy right now. :)
Ahh so much to write and say. I will try and keep it short! This is just in reply to both your comments!
Sorry again I think the 6am and doing it all on my iPhone must have just messed me up a bit! I hope this is clearer lol! Also the farm idea is brilliant as well! Honestly @apolymask you do whatever you want I love surprises so Im cool with anything man!!
I do agree @charisma777 is really pushing IFC in a positive way around steemit and also all the stuff in the background with discord is brilliant!
I believe @ats-david will be a full season sponsor as long as we don't have another one a day contest week haha he will be around until the end of the season with his generosity!
Hi there @apolymask! Another great contest round; I can see the benefit with this one for sure. I am a part of the #newbieresteem initiative and we now have our own page which does get a lot of views. I know we've had sponsorship also. So, I'm going to see if I can resteem it 'over there' to get you maybe a different group of people seeing this; it's not just a page for newbies anymore, we are resteeming all good, quality content. It's a funny little grapevine here...who know's?:)
I also wanted to thank you for resteeming @briancourteau's poems and being so kind and thoughtful. He and I have our struggles for sure, but the outpouring of kindness here has been wonderful. I know that the positive reinforcement he gets is very helpful for his psyche also! So thank you again. Cheers!
Hey lynncoyle1! Thanks for the thoughtful response. And.. Ah.. I see.. That would be really awesome of you, thank you so much! And yeah, I've been surprised by the awesome community that helps beginners on here, I wanna do more quests for beginners, which is one reason I want this contest to be one where people can still get in late and have a chance.
And you're welcome. No worries. I'm glad to help. It's a subject I can relate with and your connection with each other is great. :) It's refreshing to see in this world that is often so cold.
I'm sorry it's "a subject you can relate with", but I appreciate you seeing our connection. You're right...this world needs more love sometimes :)
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Cool. :) I have a few friends associated with that, I'll have to look into it more when I get a chance! Thanks!
my cry for help
https://steemit.com/informationfinding/@yura81/steemit-needs-your-help-information-finding-championship-season-1-round-8-entry
Good luck to everyone that enters!
Here is my "Round 8" entry. Hopefully at least on of our entries will gain a helping hand.
Ahh this ones gonna be quite hard!
I am excited to see the entries for this challenge! Good Luck Everyone!