Pointless Prize: 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[rumipumi]

Rules:

This year we have two competitions: a main competition and participation prizes! You can compete in both simultaneously or just one.

• To compete for a participation prize you must (1) upload one or more photos of the item to your Strava ride for that day. (2) title your Strava ride with the hashtag #scavhunt. Please only hashtag ONE ride per day with #scavhunt. This hashtag will ensure you automatically show up and get ranked onto our scavhunt leaderboard (https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt).
• To compete in the main competition (with one or more points awarded daily based on photo creativity, beauty and/or the capricious whims of Millie and Rumi) your entries must be posted HERE on the Forum in this thread (http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt)

Detailed rules are below:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’22
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. For the main competition, it has to be posted in the Forum on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, we won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason we say “for the day it is requested” is because we will release a weekly list of scavenger hunt items ahead of time, with one item for each day — but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. The Scavenger Hunt calendar will be updated weekly here: (https://tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt) Each (Saturday-Friday) week of items will have a common theme. We will always update it in advance of the week ahead so you have time to make plans!
6. Your Forum post must be titled with the date and the found object/theme. Example: IF the item for January 1st was “borscht”, you would title your Forum post: 1/1/2022 borscht
7. Description, short backstory or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not obviously relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness”, and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took. You don’t need to be in the photo, but if you are in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day should be posted in the Forum. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day. (You can include as many photos as you want on your strava ride.)
10. It has to be a picture, not a video
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, and not things that you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: if I say find “2022”, don’t scratch it into dirt. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This kinda takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point.
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo.
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know and I/we can try to help you with it.
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that we would know anything about such things

Scoring

Scoring will be different for FS22 and there are two different prizes you are competing for simultaneously:

• Main Competition: To compete in this prize you must post in this Forum ( http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt ) complying with the rules above. Scoring will be arbitrary and capricious, and only one person per day is guaranteed to get a point each day. Hopefully this will cut down on some of the back-end work. How will you be the lucky point-winner for the day? Impress us with your creativity. Since we are publishing an entire week at a time, it should give you some time to come up with a creative idea. The rider with the most Main Competition points at the end of the competition is the… winner of the Main Competition.
• Participation Winners: There will also be participation awards for the top tier of daily participants. Tag one ride each day with #scavhunt, add your photo(s) of the item, and watch this leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt . This will be scored automatically by the leaderboard itself (one point per daily #scavhunt ride), is honor-based. Please do not tag more than one ride per day with the hashtag. Anyone in the top 10% of the leaderboard (based on number of rides, not mileage!!) at the end of Freezing Saddles will get a special prize!

Good Luck! Millie and Rumi

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[rumipumi]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 213778 wrote:

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Water Street Georgetown

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The best little wursthouse in dc?

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[Sophie CW]

1/16/2022 – beer
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So random to see this single can just on the grass along a sidewalk off Georgia Ave. So after taking a photo, I picked it up to go into the recycling bin.

[cvcalhoun]

1/16/2022 Beer
Still not going inside. But I got a photo of a big poster advertising numerous brands of beer, plus two cases of beer to the right of it.

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[DCAKen]

1/16/2022 – Beer

Home of a few Freezing Saddles happy hours

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[CBGanimal]

1/16/2022 Beer. Brought my beer to a picnic lunch at my parent’s place outside of Madrid. My daughter made the Chili.

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[bikingjenn]

1/16/22 – Beer very funny story…stopped to take photo of a metal bunny in a yard. Looked down as getting back on bike, and there was an unopened Sam Adams in the gutter. Almost brought it home but nowhere to put a freezing cold bottle from N 38th St, Arlington

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[Kbikeva]

1/16/2022 Beer

Mural on the side of the El Paso Draft House. I don’t know if they’re just closed on Sunday or closed. Their google entry says “Temporarily Closed” and no hours listed.

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[SFrank]

1/16/22. Beer
New District Brewing Company in Arlington near Shirlington. Sadly, it was to early to imbibe.[emoji57]

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[bigredboiler]

1-16 Beer

Good thing I didn’t stop to photograph every craft brewery along the way today around the Denver area; the ride would ha be e taken all day.

Sticking with the mountain theme, here is a photo from the Coors HQ in Golden, CO. Not much photogenic of the plant, so this is the bus stall where you pickup the brewery tour.

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[consularrider]

1/16/2022 – Beer

A Lunar Rooster (Coffee Oatmeal Stout) at Fifth Hammer Brewing on 46th Ave in Long Island City, Queens.

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[Dawn_F]

1/16/2022 Beer

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[Steve O]

1/16/2022 Beer

Kudos to the proprietors for placing their establishment outside the school zone

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[camiller]

1/16/2022 Beer Ornery Beer in Fairfax City

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[AlanA]

1/16/2022 Beer

I had planned on a picture of a brewery. But….after getting two flats on my ride today, I rode back down to that brewery for a much needed beer.

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/16/2022 Beer
Only option for riding today was 7-8:30am and this was what I ended up with — the beer refrigerator case in my local convenience store. (I checked out a few local restaurants that I thought might have beer adverts in their windows, but no luck.)
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