FSSB #3 – Capture the Flag! – South America

[Mikey]

Now the real fun starts – We get our team assignments tonight, and we realize that although we haven’t seen anyone on the 14th street bridge over the last week, we’re not alone in our insanity of winter riding.

The premise of this team challenge is, over a set period of time (6pm tonight till Noon on Friday 1/16) a continent will go “live”. We will start with South America. Teams will go out and take a picture of the flag of a country from that continent. A bike must be in the photo. Players can work independently but their results will support their team. The first team to post the flag gets credit for the country, but flags can be stolen by having another team post the same flag but with more teammates in the photo (i.e. team 1 has one player posting the flag of Brazil with their bike from the Brazilian embassy, team 2 steals the flag by posting 2 of their teammates in front of a Brazilian restaurant that is flying a flag out front. . . and so on. . . with multiple steals with more and more players, or a team capture with the entire team in front of the flag.

We will focus the effort one continent at a time for about 7 days each (although we may overlap some). Below is a list of the flags that are open for South America. I will post a photo for each continent when it goes “live” so that there is no confusion of which continent a nation is in.

But before you go out there and take photos there are a few rules that you must follow:

1) No Temporary Flags. Flags have to exist at a location that is somewhat permanent. You can’t go and print out a flag and tape it to your bike and take a photo. You can’t go buy a flag from a souvenir shop and take a photo with it. It doesn’t need to be flying – it could be painted on a wall, or printed on a menu that is taped to a window of the restaurant, but it has to be clearly displayed in one spot.

2) Photos can only be used once to represent one country. Photos of mass UN-style flag displays (hall of nations, Org of American States, etc) can only represent one nation and cannot be reposted for other nations.

3) One individual person can’t get credit for more than 4 flags for each continent. The purpose of this rule is to persuade other teammates to get out and take photos. (This rule does not apply to team photos for steals). Team photos (2 or more players) don’t count against this rule.

4) Stealing – To steal a flag that has already been awarded to a team, a group of riders from a different team(more players than the previous team) takes a photo with the flag (doesn’t need to be the same location, only the same nation) and at least 1 bike. Steals do not need to increase incrementally, there just needs to be more teammates in the photo to count for the steal.

5) Posting – To get credit for the flag – post first on this thread the photo of the flag from the authorized list of nations (see below) and include a caption that lists the nation, the team, and the player(s) in the photo. I will start a new thread for each continent. If you are not good at selfies it is okay to post the photo of the flag and bike, and then post a second photo from the same location of the group of teammates that captured it. Flags have to clearly represent the nation being posted. For example French Guiana only counts if the location is associated with the South American nation – not France itself. We probably won’t get every flag.
Here is an example:

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Spain – My Team, Mikey

6) Scoring. To win the continent teams have to earn more flags from that continent than the other teams at the prescribed deadline of the challenge (For South America it is next Friday at noon). Continent winners will win a prize at the final FS happy hour. Teams can also compete for world domination. We will use standard Risk board game continent values of South America, and Australia/Oceana 2pts; Africa 3 pts; North America and Europe 5 pts, and Asia 7 pts. Once each challenge period concludes the team with the most flag photos taken first (or stolen/captured) gets those points. The team with the most points at the end of the last challenge period is the world champion.

7) Live periods – I will announce when each continent is live and available for capturing. Each time period will be about a week with at least one weekend if players want to mount a team ride. South America will go live at 6pm tonight and will close Noon on Friday January 16th. photos must have been taken during that time period – no photos from last summer’s bike vacation through the alps.

The honor system prevails – don’t cheat, no photoshop. etc

any questions?
Here are the list of available South American Nations:
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[timo96]

Team 13 – Lucky Pr1m3s

[Mikey]

@timo96 104877 wrote:

Team 13 – Lucky Pr1m3s

where’s the flag?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Justin Antos 104835 wrote:

Then I reread the rules and realized it had to include a bike and the flag AND me, which was a bit of a challenge with a smartphone:

Brazil! Team 1.
20150111_132513 by jantos, on Flickr

It says a photo should include the group that captured it, but doesn’t say it has to include the person who captured it riding alone. I don’t think these need to be selfies.

[sammyiam]

@ShawnoftheDread 104899 wrote:

It says a photo should include the group that captured it, but doesn’t say it has to include the person who captured it riding alone. I don’t think these need to be selfies.

I think it’s making it more fun–don’t you?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@sammyiam 104909 wrote:

I think it’s making it more fun–don’t you?

No, it’s making it more crooked. The selfie will be the end of Western Civilization.

[timo96]

@Mikey 104892 wrote:

where’s the flag?

they don’t have one in front of their embassy.

[Mikey]

@timo96 104919 wrote:

they don’t have one in front of their embassy.

They don’t have one in front of my house either. Sorry only flags count.

[timo96]

@Mikey 104924 wrote:

They don’t have one in front of my house either. Sorry only flags count.

Got it, Mick!

[Steve O]

I was right across the street from the Eden Center last night, so I figured I would do some advance scouting for Asia. I walked through the entire center, including past every single storefront–both outside and in the arcades. Unbelievably, I could not find a single example of a Vietnamese flag. Not a tiny little one printed on a menu, a flier, a poster, bulletin board. Nada.
So although that may seem a ripe opportunity come Asia, you can save yourself some time by not bothering.

I did, however, discover that they have some pretty interesting foodstuffs at the Good Fortune Supermarket.

[Steve O]

@ShawnoftheDread 104915 wrote:

The selfie will be the end of Western Civilization.

Good to hear that has displaced “disliking” photos of cute kids and puppies.

[Bruno Moore]

@jwetzel 104818 wrote:

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Trinidad and Tobago. Team 12, the symbol doesn’t work on my phone.

Okay, rules clarification: is the Caribbean part of South or North America?

[Mikey]

Monday Morning Update –

Team Music Note is in the lead with 3 flags – Brazil, Chile, and Peru
The Doozy Dozers are in second with 2 flags – Columbia, and Trinidad and Tobago
There is a 3 way tie for 3rd with 1 flag between The Bollard Busters (Bolivia), The Lucky Pr1m3s (Uruguay), and Snowba11 in He11 (Venezuela)

There have been no steals yet. Get out there and be safe.

[jwetzel]

@Brünø Moore 104972 wrote:

Okay, rules clarification: is the Caribbean part of South or North America?

The OP listed the 14 nations that count as South America for the purposes of this competition.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Steve O 104946 wrote:

I was right across the street from the Eden Center last night, so I figured I would do some advance scouting for Asia. I walked through the entire center, including past every single storefront–both outside and in the arcades. Unbelievably, I could not find a single example of a Vietnamese flag. Not a tiny little one printed on a menu, a flier, a poster, bulletin board. Nada.
So although that may seem a ripe opportunity come Asia, you can save yourself some time by not bothering.

I did, however, discover that they have some pretty interesting foodstuffs at the Good Fortune Supermarket.

Considering the history of the Vietnamese immigrant community in the US, this should not be surprising.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Steve O 104947 wrote:

Good to hear that has displaced “disliking” photos of cute kids and puppies.

No, the disliking of kids and puppies is particular to your monstrous self, so was never a threat to civilization. The selfie is a widespread phenomenon, threatening to wipe us out in an epidemic of narcissism and bad photography.

[Author]

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