IFC Season 2 Round 8 - Power Spot

Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.

Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit

Hello peoples.
Nice to be with you again. :)

Things are rolling along, or shall we say.. Floating through the universe. :D It's been a fun adventure so far and I'm enjoying the journey with all of you!

First I wanna say that I apologize for getting this quest out a lil late, I had a difficult time getting to sleep last night and was really tired.

Second I talked to @ecoinstar yesterday and he said he thinks it'll be a better idea to split up his 100 SBI shares among the top 3 winners rather than giving it all to the grand prize winner and I agree.. So it will be 60 SBI for first place 25 for second place and 15 for third place.

Next I wanted to say that.. We've been a bit behind on our judging duties however we finally got the second round done and judged the other day and @bengy was the winner of round 2, if you'd like to see the results you can go to this link.
https://steemit.com/contest/@ifc/ifc-s2r2-results

We're getting closer and closer to the half way mark! Seems like just yesterday we started!
Wow.. Time sure does fly sometimes, especially for me when the IFC is in season.

I keep wondering how we can get this game to scale with more people as it's very time consuming even with about half as many active/regular players as last season.. Perhaps we should do more simple quests like the last one of Bashadow's word idea challenge? That was an idea I had at the end of last season.. Do more simple quests and save the more difficult ones for the finals.

Hmmm... I'm not sure.. It's something I think about a lot, yet I think most of those concerns would probably vanish if we got enough funding to help properly pay more judges to help out. Will continue to think about it.

Anyways.. Enough of that.. Onto the next quest!

The subject of our eighth quest is.. "Power Spot"
This is one of my favorite quests! I love it when our game gets interaction happening in the physical world!

The objective of this round is to go into the physical world somewhere and take a picture of a place that you feel is "powerful" or that you feel "powerful" at.

It doesn't necessarily have to be out in nature or even away from your house, last season we had people use rooms in their house as their power spot and that's okay..

Maybe it's your computer table where you do your work? Maybe it's your room where you sleep? Maybe it's your front porch with a nice view? Or.. Maybe it's somewhere further away out in a nearby city or nature environment?

The catch is you have to go to this spot in person and film it, you can't just pull a picture off the internet, and you have to make a note to hold in the frame of the picture with the acronym IFC and the date to help prove you were actually really there in person and didn't just pull it from your computer or the internet.

I suppose it's possible in this day and age to photoshop such kinds of things, though.. I would like to think I could spot a fake, lol.. But.. Maybe I could not.. Either way.. The rule is to hold a piece of paper that says IFC and the date in the frame of your picture to help show that you were really there.

Then also please write up / type up a little something about why the spot is powerful to you, and also if you'd like to include a shot of the spot without the IFC tag in there that'd be cool too!

Here's an example of what the notecard should look like from one of our previous entries.

Image taken by @kryptocek

And.. 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-20

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 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 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 8 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Power Spot".

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 S2R8"

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 explained above about a "Power Spot"

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.

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.

@nmcdougal94
@bengy
@ayushjalan
@leaky20
@bashadow
@jbreheny
@ecoinstant
@shaheerbari
@quotes-haven
@mistakili
@the.seeker
@simplymike
@wholeself-in
@tryp
@mattifer
@plushzilla

If I missed anyone or you'd like to be added to the list, lemme know.