Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle. ![spaceshipcastle.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmP1tHZKcGB3BRZpw4nZzCuf1QV8zCQ1f4qujHuH5Gt5rR/spaceshipcastle.jpg) Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit Hey again! Hope you're doing well. I've been enjoying your entries and our conversations. I was thinking about doing a Marketplace round this time, especially since we had a few new shops open up recently.. However.. I dunno.. It just feels so slow in our discord room and with the low value of steem.. It seems like it's hard to make it work right now. It is true that our Marketplace is not limited to steem or any specific cryptocurrency and that people can trade with any currency or even barter items without currency, but.. I feel like if I do a marketplace round we'll probably only get a couple of entries. I think it's important still though and maybe we'll still do the Marketplace round, yet probably in a couple of weeks. ![quest.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQma55SDZ8B7p8m44Af7fYK1fgyY59Jb3eRmYea74fQW8tC/quest.png) The subject of our ninth quest is.. "Love". This is one of the most important subjects in my opinion. Without love, what would life be like? Could life even really work without love? It seems like a critical ingredient to me, and also is often critically lacking in modern culture. At least in regards to love for others, there's a ton of sort of narcicissistic self love, an abundance of it.. Yet not enough love for others in my opinion. So I'd like to hear you address the topic of love, it's up to you how you wanna go about it.. It doesn't have to be writing/typing/voice it could be a drawing or other artform or just about anything as long as it's connected somehow to the subject of love. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! And I have a feeling I'm going to "love" some or even all of your entries. :) ![sponsors.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQ8PJbNDqk9nSbtRgxMhcYruTPFhPqfmMd2E4eF9HX8Yt/sponsors.png) 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. ![IFC2.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTnmXi8C5NTQqu5X8WcCtQyvYmYC73qppiYgQGhrCh4hZ/IFC2.jpg) ![rules.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPrkSHkXT4LgiwBZn4oHhouSnf7JXbBxVCbY5DZZ3Qk6k/rules.png) 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.

Rules

1. Round 9 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Love". 2. Create a blog post on steem for the contest or send an email if you are playing via email. 3. Title of blog post or subject of email must contain, "IFC S2R9" 4. 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) 5. And you also have to use the #ifc tag in your blog post as well unless you are playing via email.
6. 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. 7. 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 "Love"
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!!

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![20180421_151139_0001.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZz4p8kLwLTRPay8htVZqMavaUts8jGaVNxUDBmz58epK/20180421_151139_0001.png)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 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. https://youtu.be/T79mfgUOX70 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.