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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[consularrider]

1/31/2022 – Martin Luther King, Jr Day

The Martin Luther King, Jr Educational Campus near Lincoln Center with its Memorial sculpture by William Tarr

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[rumipumi]

1/31/2022 MLK jr

https://www.hyattsvillewire.com/2021/09/30/hyattsville-black-history-mural/

“Referencing historical photographs of the civil rights movement of the 1960s as well as last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, the mural features the likenesses of both key historical figures and some prominent Prince George’s County natives. …

The national leaders include such notables as civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer.”

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[camiller]

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King Jr.

Living in the semi-outer suburbs, this is what I managed to find: KING of Kings LUTHERan Church

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[Kbikeva]

@Boomer2U 215237 wrote:

1/31/22: MLK – The view from where “I have a Dream” happened (minus the multitudes)

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Boomer, are those Buddhist monks?

[bikingjenn]

1/31/22 Martin Luther King Jr Day — the lovely signs throughout the DMV remind me of MLK’s message of peaceful protest “Hate has no home here”

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[AlanA]

1/31/2022 – MLK, JR day

This road has multiple personalities. They only have both signs at random places along the road.

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[Serdar]

1/31/2022 – Martin Luther King
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What can be better than riding to the number 1 MLK memorial in the DC Area?!

[AlanA]

@CBGanimal 215231 wrote:

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King Jr street in San Fernando

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That’s cool that you could find this in Spain!

[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 215240 wrote:

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was on a tight time-line today between mom’s appointments and the road named for him as well as the apartment complex were a little far.

SO, in the spirit of how we are encouraged to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, I rode to the local park and picked up trash – an hour so of service.

This is such a car centric city I’m sure the people who saw me thought I was on a bike due to DWI and picking up trash as punishment.

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I have to like this post for the humor!

[Sophie CW]

1/31/2022 – Martin Luther King Jr Day
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This is not so original but I was at a different post office today…hehe!

[Indiana]

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.

My daughter and I rode to the renovated MLK library and enjoyed this book display:
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“A place to land,” (top left) is a children’s book about the “I have a dream” speech. From the publisher: “Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. “It’s terrible to be circling up there without a place to land.””

[bigredboiler]

1-31 MLK Jr.

MLK branch of the Aurora library

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[Kbikeva]

@Indiana 215283 wrote:

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King, Jr.

My daughter and I rode to the renovated MLK library and enjoyed this book display:
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“A place to land,” (top left) is a children’s book about the “I have a dream” speech. From the publisher: “Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. “It’s terrible to be circling up there without a place to land.””

Very true. A preacher friend of mine said he prayed every day, “Lord, please don’t let me be a boring preacher!” He wasn’t so … prayer works! He also said that if when he preached people weren’t uncomfortable enough to get up and go DO something about it, he had failed. I miss his preaching!

[Catedrew]

1/31/2022 – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Today I went for a nice ride around the monuments and memorials, do had to stop by the MLK Jr. Memorial!

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[sszibler]

1/31/2022 Martin Luther King

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