FSSB #3 – Capture the Flag! – South America
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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:[ATTACH=CONFIG]7385[/ATTACH]
Spain – My Team, Mikey6) 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. etcany questions?
Here are the list of available South American Nations:
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@majalya 105727 wrote:
Suriname, captured by Jali F (majalya) of Team 1: Number Fun (formerly ♪).
This was captured inside an embassy, not in my room, I promise.
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I don’t know about that one. I’ll leave it to the judges. Like if okay dislike if not.
@Steve O 105760 wrote:
I think the flag needs to be in an easily reached public space. Can’t tell for certain if that is true with this one, but it doesn’t strike me that way.
I’m told that this is a publicly accessible space, but we will now to the whim or the kangaroo court.
@sammyiam 105774 wrote:
I’m told that this is a publicly accessible space, but we will now to the whim or the kangaroo court.
I am inclined to give it to you since it technically follows the rules. I guess you could argue that this is similar a sticker on a window, but know that Posters/Maps with many flags are now off limits for Team Fun’s use – since you used it to represent Suriname. The thing I don’t understand is why doesn’t Suriname have any flag inside or outside their embassy?
There are 4 official judges for these side bets that were named well before teams were announced. I’m sure they are scouring strava results for a trip to the Suriname Embassy. I will keep their anonymity.@sammyiam 105781 wrote:
Also, I think we are winning without Suriname?
Not if I have to Disqualify you
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