Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle.
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Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit

Hey there, welcome back. 
Last round was fun, I sure do enjoy the word games. :)

We also sort of finally got our first player from Facebook.
They already had a steem account that's why I say "sort of", though they had never posted on steem before and it's someone I know from Facebook.

It's been a bit frustrating that it took 11 rounds for that to happen, I had a couple others show interest and sign up for the IFC newsletter though they never submitted an entry.

I was really hoping to branch out to other social media more, however it hasn't been going so well.. 

It's been a struggle for years for me trying to encourage people to come over to steem from Facebook and most of the people I got to try it didn't post very much before quitting. 

It's weird to me, why would you wanna stay on Facebook when you can get paid here and not worry about censorship? Yet people sure love their Facebook. I'm guessing it's mostly just cause the interface is easier and there's a lot of people there including their friends and family.

I haven't given up yet and I have some ideas to keep trying, though so far it's been a bit frustrating that I haven't been able to bring more people over from there. However it was my goal to get at least one player from Facebook so I think I've achieved that. 

I keep wanting to grow this game and get more players cause I believe it has so much potential and would be better with more players but then I remember that even with around 6 people or so per round it's still very time consuming and a lot of work for me to leave detailed comments on every entry and all that, so.. I dunno how I could even handle a lot more players. Lol. 

That's one of my main problems that I think about a LOT.. I wish we could bring more people to play, though.. How would I handle it? I'm thinking maybe if we had easier and simpler rounds for the regular season and then did the more complex ones during the finals that might work..

Anyways.. Onto the next round!

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The subject of our twelfth quest is.. "Teach us something".
We did a round last season like this one as well and it was awesome, there were a bunch of great entries and I learned a lot.

Once again this could be just about anything, it's really up to your imagination and what you can think of.
I wonder what you'll pick?

If you know me, you should know I love learning new things so.. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Good luck everyone!

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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. 

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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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<h3>Rules</h3>
1. Round 12 of season 2 starts now and the subject is "Teach Us Something". 

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 S2R12" 

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.<br>

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.

<h2>Acceptable content</h2>
A. A blog post or email about the subject of "Teaching us something"<br>
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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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
@owietus
@sassypuffin

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