Hello there! Welcome to our digital spaceship castle. ![spaceshipcastle.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmP1tHZKcGB3BRZpw4nZzCuf1QV8zCQ1f4qujHuH5Gt5rR/spaceshipcastle.jpg) Artwork credit - @jimramones on steemit Wow... We're done judging the 2nd season... Finally! That took so long and I'm endlessly sorry. The entries for this round were awesome and really inspired me and made me more optimistic about the future of the IFC even in light of how incredibly slow and delayed things have been. I've mentioned some of this in previous posts, but... Part of the reason for the delay has been something I've been working on and I'm hopeful that it will enable me the funds to start offering cash prizes in the future in addition to the crypto and crystal trophy and artwork stuff. I noticed one of the biggest barriers this season was that as I was trying to reach my other friends and connections on Facebook and almost no one on Facebook seemed interested I think because they don't understand or really value crypto, so... I need U.S. fiat cash prizes that will appeal to everyone. If I'm able to do that and we can restructure things to where I need to physically be present less and maintain the contest less and have the players themselves run it more then I can see some really awesome things happening in the future where the non crypto peoples meet the crypto peoples in a competition and it could help bring even more people over here to Hive and other crypto platforms. So... I definitely have not given up on things with the IFC even if it feels like a ghost town around here at times and I am really passionate about the future of the IFC still. Just had some real adversity and troubles in my life and had to pay attention to myself and my family for a while and there were other complications as well that I mentioned in the previous updates. Anyways... Umm... Let's try to have the finals in about a little bit over a month from now on November 28th. However, I'm going to ask around and if not enough people are available on that date I'm open minded to moving the schedule around a bit so that we can have enough players. Sometime shortly after I post this I'm going to go around and try to contact everyone who scored at least 1 point during the season and try to set up the finals. I have a feeling there will be at least two people, so we should be able to finish this even if it's partly by attrition and not what I had hoped in the sense of having more players involved. Even though the huge delay was not planned and I'm ashamed of it... This contest is suppose to be difficult, so... The one who was patient enough to last through all that and who ends up with the best entries in the finals/championship as voted on by the judges will get the crypto currency prize and a cool/nice little crystal trophy thingy and some artwork drawn up of them. :) And now... Onto the results. ![round results.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWEbdMX4pjNWEyagLqFhX7aYiNUuM6QMBHgSxA3i87g5F/round%20results.png) Vote Round 20 apolymask - apolymask - jbreheny's entry made me laugh at times as usual with his sense of humor I appreciate so much and in regard to his ideas... Guest participation and Round creation by players were ideas I liked. We already have guest participation for the finals if someone needs to like bow out for whatever reason, but... To add on to that and make it a more of a regular sort of thing I think would be awesome. The team idea has been proposed before and I like it, however I think it's perhaps still a lil ways off for where we are with users. I think we need more players for that to work better. Also I don't wanna forget the newbies, but I can see not spending so much time trying to bring them into the game and I totally understand that angle. But, I still think there's a good spirit there of trying to help newcomers... Ultimately most of these things should be voted on, yet the userbase is so small I'm not sure how well voting would even work at this point and that includes the whole P2P judging aspect as well, I think we need to talk about it more after the season and hopefully be able to do a vote, but I do think there's something to the idea of P2P for sure and I think that would be ideal if we could make it work! I concur with most of the rest of what he said in his entry and reading it left me inspired even though things got delayed so much and things have been so slow. And... I really really really love leaky20's idea about putting the storyline and virtual world at more of the forefront and having the players sort of create a new and better world through that... Hmm... The idea about the other sort of puzzle and word rounds being bonus rounds is an interesting idea... Cause yeah, I don't want to lose those... But, I would like to see more rounds about creating a new virtual world and the new language and other stories and art about the virtual world like that. I'm thinking about it more and more and that's a really cool idea... To sort of market it in that way that we're trying to create a new world, especially because that is something I would like to do in life and going in that direction with the IFC could help me learn more about what that might be like in some ways... I once again think the question is in regard to should all those other quests be bonus side quests, or perhaps we can just mix it up more and find a better balance? Definitely something to think about! This was a pretty tough decision because they both did a great job, but all that considered... I think I'm giving 2 points to leaky20 this time and 1 to jbehreny. jamesrussell - As far as the actual "assignment" @leaky20 did a much better job at expressing the answers to the original intent, which was to give suggestions for Season 3 content, even though I am not so sure that that is going to solve the problem, it's taking a chance on participation, as it would have to be crafted extremely well. That guy is an outstanding writer, very well educated and very well informed and imaginative. He only made 2 errors, and he could source each photo to the original authors on Pixabay, but sourcing is a sensitive subject as to the correct way of doing it. Most won't do what I do, but the minimum should be to just source the pic itself to the author. But he does have it sourced enough that with a little work I was able to track every single image. His language skills are amazing, as he expresses himself and articulates those thoughts beautifully. So in that light, I am giving him 2 coins. As far as @jbreheny is concerned, another excellent post with major suggestions as well, but his were more about everything except for the content, which would have been most excellent if he had included more suggestions on content. His writing skills as far as I am concerned have improved, and he expresses himself very well also. he only made a couple of boo boos, which I did not count against him, and he has an outstanding sense of humor, which I really like. The only negative thing about his post is the lack of sourcing, no blanket statement at the end, and there were only two sources on Tineye that were available for Rodin's statue "The Thinker", and I am not sure that he has permission to use that image for commercial usage. So in light overall, I think 1 coin to @jbreheny As I stated, I think that both posts combined could actually help you with styling Season 3 though overall! viking-ventures - Okay - that's an apple vs orange type of decision... The two posts are radically different, both with excellent ideas. But since I must choose, I'm going to do it this way: 1 point to @leaky20 for all the interesting ideas for topics and 2 points to @jbreheny for coming up with practical ideas for helping the contest itself run more smoothly in the future. Total is.. @leaky20 - 5 @jbreheny - 4 Close one! Congrats leaky20! That jumps you up to 3rd place which I think is a pretty good place to finish the season. :) Thanks for playing in our game! And hopefully we'll see you and a few others at the finals. <3 So... I'm really liking the idea leaky20 proposed about sort of creating a new and better world and have been thinking maybe next season in the IFC we'll be landing on a new planet somewhere to create a better world? Or maybe go back to Cryptopia to report our findings and continue building that place into a better world? We don't have to ditch the space ship, we can still use it to go explore. And I'm not saying that's what we have to do either, but I like that idea and I'm not sure there's enough people even still playing who would significantly oppose such. I kinda feel like that's a good direction to go and unless anyone seriously objects we'll probably try something along those lines! It fits in nicely with what we've already being doing even up to the point of starting to create our own language... Anyways... I think that's about it for me for now... I'm pretty busy today and in general, but over the next number of days I hope to try to contact everyone who cored at least 1 point about the proposed date and see how many are up for playing, hopefully at least two! <3 Peace and bye until next time. ![leaderboard.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYQN9NFsxFgM9rYPzoqGv35mDkn1JVFEY8FAV5tuvfLzx/leaderboard.png) Wins-XP-Level I was a little unsure about how to do the leaderboard this season without being too confusing, so... I'm going to put those who have won points from season 2 on top, and will keep those from season 1 on the bottom. I think at the end of the season I will likely combine both season 1 and 2 scores together. If you played in season 1 you still have your exp and items, I'm just showing it this way so it's easier to keep track of who is in their proper ranking place during the new season. Also if you scored any points so far you are automatically entered into the finals as it only takes 1 point this season to get entered into the finals. Players from last season will not be entered into the finals unless they score at least 1 point during this new season 2. Season 2 stats. @ayushjalan 5-54-0 @jbreheny 3-40-0 previous season score is 1-12-0 @leaky20 2-30-0 @shaheerbari 2-25-0 @bengy 1-22-0 previous season score is 1-10-0 @lordless.exile 2-18-0 @simplymike 1-10-0 previous season score is 1-08-0 @nmcdougal94 1-09-0 @wholeself-in 1-09-0 previous season score is 1-09-0 @ecoinstant 0-09-0 @bloggerkrunal 0-09-0 @mistakili 1-08-0 @plushzilla 0-06-0 previous season score is 3-30-0 @owietus 0-05-0 @bashadow 0-02-0 previous season score is 4-43-1 @quotes-haven 0-01-0 @sassypuffin 0-01-0 Season 1 stats. kryptocek 6-53-1 Sacred Crystal bashadow 4-43-1 ??? plushzilla 3-30-0 amariespeaks 3-23-0 har5h 2-59-1 KryptoCheck Shield iexplore 2-36-0 eaglespirit 2-35-0 mr-bike 2-18-0 youhavewings 2-16-0 jan23com 1-48-1 Occult book + eye sandrina.life 1-14-0 jbreheny 1-12-0 artgirl 1-11-0 magicalmoonlight 1-11-0 bengy 1-10-0 swolesome 1-09-0 wholeself-in 1-09-0 kenneth1 1-09-0 warpedpoetic 1-09-0 auminda 1-09-0 simplymike 1-08-0 xomegax 1-08-0 now a judge bitpizza 1-07-0 losthippie 1-07-0 boladayl 1-06-0 noisyboy 1-05-0 giddyupngo 1-05-0 grizzman 0-08-0 deliberator 0-04-0 sophiabydesign 0-02-0 lynncoyle1 0-01-0 nxtblg 0-01-0 yura81 0-01-0 mnallica 0-01-0 lahvista 0-01-0 chrisroberts 0-01-0 laurawhite 0-01-0 beeyou 0-01-0 gerrardihno 0-01-0

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