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Information Finding Championship

155 Steem Grand Prize!

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The Story House

There is an energy around the city of Cryptopia like no other today. Cyrptopians are flooding the streets with laughter and determination. The air is crisp and the footsteps are busy! The people of this great city are seen with their snapping devices as if they are on a virtual scavenger hunt.

@bashadow can be seen relaxing on a street bench reading The Daily Observer with a headline Sacred Crystal Activated! @kryptocek's adventure! Thinking to himself, he better get the shop ready for all the worn shoes he may need to fix.

Further down the street.

Miss @charisma777 is in a frantic, rushing shelf to shelf. They’ve got to be here as she speaks aloud. @Josefinemk, the girlfriend of the peasant Satoshi farmer @kryptocek, walks into the story house.

Oh, Josefine, I am so glad you are here! We have huge dilemma! I can’t seem to find my stories! I've been busy organizing all of the recent poems and I must have missed place my stories for the children! They were all here and now they are gone! Just vanished in thin air!

Now if you haven’t met Miss @charisma777, it’s with great understanding, she is an extremely engaging lady, lending a hand to everyone as they continue their journeys in Cryptopia. She is the keeper of the storybooks from tall tales to short tales, science fiction to science reality! All of the information is collected here in one spot and looked over by Miss Charisma.

The stories must be replaced! All of the children will need them! We ask for assistance from our great people of Crytopia! We are calling on you! We need your finding skills! Can you help?

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Catch Up Round!

Catch up rounds are designed to help new players or those who haven't won a round yet. So, you are not eligible to win this round if you have won a round already, but feel free to join in the fun!

This round involves some writing skills! Calling all authors (everyone basically!) We need these stories replaced and in a hurry, our children will need them to learn! Please write a short story for the children. The short story must contain the following 10 words/phrases. Lets get creative! Please bold these words within your story...not mandatory, but helpful for the judges:

1. Book
2. Fall
3. Chair
4. Grass
5. Forest
6. Clock
7. Juice
8. Spaceship
9. Beach Ball
10. Universe

All of the stories will be collected and kept safe in the Story House by Miss @charisma777 for all the children to read. She has taken an oath to keep our stories guarded. But the most popular story voted upon our Council (Judges) will be rewarded as Best Story in Cryptopia! Get the candles lit, and feathers sharpened; this may be a long night.

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For this challenge.. If there's a tie.. We will do another round to see who wins.
The winner will be decided by whoever gets the most votes.
The only people who can vote in a qualifying sense are @apolymask and the judges selected and they will vote by leaving a comment on the submission that they like the most and say something like.. "I vote for this one" and a reason why they voted would be good too, but is not mandatory.

You have until this challenge post payout ends to submit your post. Though we do accept late entries if you get it in before all the judges vote.

The challenge will finish after 7 days when the post ends and provides its payout cycle and unless there is a tie, the winner will gain the steem, the XP and have a point to go towards their long term win. (minus the 25% for curation)

Rules

1. Twenty third challenge starts now and is a story writing challenge.
2. Create a blog post for the contest.
3. Title must contain contest round, "Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 23 entry"
4. Leave a link to your post in the comments below.
5. Use the #informationfinding tag in your blog post as well.

Acceptable content

1. Short Story Writing
2. 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.
3. We also encourage role playing for those who enjoy doing that. :)

Good luck in the contest! And We Look Forward to seeing you Cryptopia!

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Special Thanks to @ifc sponsors!

First up is @ats-david who has helped greatly! If you appreciate this contest or just his efforts in general you may want to look into voting for him as a witness at @ats-witness, he does a lot of other cool things for the community as well!

Next is @timcliff who has similarly helped out the contest significantly and who is also a witness who does a lot for the community, so likewise if you appreciate the efforts you may want to vote for him as witness also!

I'd also like to thank @theguruasia who has pledged at least 20 steem to the second and third place prizes and he said he may even donate more.

And @nxtblg who has been regularly resteeming and upvoting our challenges which has been a big help!

Plus one other person who has been helping a lot who deserves some credit is @soundlegion who has also been upvoting the contests regularly.

And while not technically sponsors, we are working with @davemccoy and those at #newbiegames and #newbieresteemday and they do a great service to the community so definitely check them out if you appreciate that, or if you're new.

The Judges Await! Good luck in the contest!

Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and instagram