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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[bikesnick]

1/3/2022 sphere
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lots of spheres at The Bridal Room (McLean, VA)

[CaseyKane50]

1/3/2022 Sphere

Dulany Park in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Virginia

[rumipumi]

Main Contest Daily winners announced: http://www.tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt

Note that for the 1/2/2022 “beauty prize” I only considered TRUE RHOMBUSes (we’ll let it slide for the participation points) which are not squares turned sideways!

[rumipumi]

REMINDER FOR PARTICIPATION PRIZE PARTICIPANTS

IN addition to tagging your strava ride with #scavhunt please upload at least one photo of the object of the day onto your strava ride for the day. (You can go back and fix that now.)

When I award the top 10% winners for participation, I will only count strava rides that are both hashtagged AND have a photo, though I will grant a lot of leeway in terms of qualification as long as it’s obvious it’s related to the scav hunt item. For example, many folks did sideways squares for the rhombus day, but I’ll still give you all the participation point.

[Pablo]

1/3/2022 Sphere

#Snowsphere

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[komorebi]

1/3/2022 sphere

There’s a globe sculpture off Hoofs Run Drive in Alexandria that commemorates Alexandria’s role as a global trading port:

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I did my ride early this morning before the storm hit, but I bet the sculpture is a literal snow globe right now.

[Boomer Cycles]

@AlanA 212323 wrote:

A rhombus is not a square as a goose is not a duck!!

Oxford begs to differ on your rhombus opinion, FYI:
“any parallelogram with equal sides, including a square.”

[URL] https://www.google.com/search?q=rhombus+definition&client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&source=hp&ei=fDvTYeWMHdyIytMPtZ63uAI&oq=rhom&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBABGAUyCAgAEIAEELEDMgsILhCABBCxAxCDATIICAAQgAQQsQMyCAgAEIAEELEDMggIABCABBCxAzIICAAQgAQQsQMyCwgAEIAEELEDEIMBMggIABCABBCxAzoOCAAQjwEQ6gIQjAMQ5QI6BQgAEIAEOggILhCxAxCDAToOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQowI6DgguELEDEIMBEMcBEKMCOgUILhCABDoICC4QgAQQsQM6CwguEIAEEMcBEK8BULYIWPITYJwraAVwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAoAEBsAEP&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp%5B/URL%5D

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[Steve O]

@Boomer2U 212364 wrote:

Oxford begs to differ on your rhombus opinion, FYI:
“any parallelogram with equal sides, including a square.”

Boomer (well, Google) is technically correct here. For next time–in order to more rhombify the submissions, one could specify a rhombus that does not include a 90 degree angle.

[rumipumi]

@Steve O 212365 wrote:

Boomer (well, Google) is technically correct here. For next time–in order to more rhombify the submissions, one could specify a rhombus that does not include a 90 degree angle.

To be clear the beauty prizes are arbitrary and capricious by nature anyways. All participation prize participants with “square” rhombuses qualified for points on the leaderboard!

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[CBGanimal]

1/3/2022 Sphere

With my finger pointing to it in case you can’t see it! Hahaha

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[Kbikeva]

1/3/2022 Sphere

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With the construction of the Cielo Vista Branch Library, artist Patricia “Sabina” Munoz was commissioned to integrate a public art element to serve as a welcoming gateway and entrance to the library. Continuum is a spherical sculpture designed with custom Venetian tile. Inspired by the daily activities which take place at a library, Munoz designed the sculpture as a metaphorical reference to an individual’s continued interest in expanding and developing one’s knowledge. (Courtesy City of El Paso MCAD)

This may not qualify as a true sphere but it’s a cool enough piece that I wanted to share it.

[Kbikeva]

I like your photo at night with the red light reflections! I detest what they did sticking this sculpture in the middle of all that glass and concrete and steel. It loses so much of the power of the piece. Ah well …

[josh]

1/3/22: Sphere
I decided against a sculpture and went with the natural today, a black walnut found in the Centennial Arboretum:

I won’t deign to address AlanA’s comment (yesterday’s or the inevitable one on this one)

[camiller]

1/3/2022 Sphere

This person’s yard was full of spheres. I’m glad everything was still lit on my midnight ride.

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[Brownws]

1/3/2022 sphere

Hopefully the sponcers will accept a snow covered sphere.

I do have an image from 12:14 where the’re uncovered, but this ones a lot prettier!
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