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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[DCAKen]

2/2/2022 Groundhog Day

Breaking news…Potomac Phil saw his shadow and is predicting six more weeks of Freezing Saddles

[HokieBeth]

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[CBGanimal]

2/2/2022 Ground Hog Day or on a more somber note Hog in Ground Day

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[bikedavid]

2/2 – Groundhog Day

Potomac Phil seems a bit stiff

[consularrider]

2/2/2022 – Groundhog Day

Poor Richard did not see his shadow this morning at the Elks Lodge on N George St in York, PA

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[CBGanimal]

@consularrider 215434 wrote:

2/2/2022 – Groundhog Day

Poor Richard did not see his shadow this morning at the Elks Lodge on N George St in York, PA

You rode there??

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[consularrider]

@CBGanimal 215436 wrote:

You rode there??

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Only 1.5 miles from my hotel.

[Kbikeva]

@CBGanimal 215429 wrote:

2/2/2022 Ground Hog Day or on a more somber note Hog in Ground Day

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If I was giving points — this would get extra for seizing the moment to turn an “ugh” into an “aha!”

[bikesnick]

2/2/2022 Groundhog Day
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The bike has a shadow, but what does it mean? 45 more days of Freezing Saddles?

[Serdar]

That’s creative!

[Kbikeva]

I rode out to the new theater (Alamo Drafthouse) where they advertised (on line) that they’ll be showing Groundhog Day this evening. I was hoping there would be something . . . ANYTHING that would be suitable for the scavenger hunt photo. What I didn’t know is that the road it’s on is under SERIOUS construction. Playing frogger on the roundabouts was nothing compared to getting into the parking lot so I could go look for the little rodent. It included zillions of fast moving cars and trucks, a newly laid entrance that was still warm as I walked across it, and carrying my bike over sand so as not to accumulate goathead thorns.

Nothing depicting a groundhog or the title or anything. So I went to my back-up plan and stopped at the grocery store on the way back.

Ground Hog Day

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[Boomer Cycles]

2/2/22: Groundhog Day
Went to Punxsutawney Phil’s place after work but he had already gone to bed after putting in a long day.

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[CaseyKane50]

2/2/2022 Ground Hog Day

Phil opened this restaurant as a side gig to his Groundhog Day activities.

Duke Street
Alexandria, Virginia

[komorebi]

2/2/2022 Groundhog Day

Groundhogs are also known as woodchucks, so I went looking for some Woodchuck Hard Cider. Naturally, the first two supermarkets I went to didn’t have any, but the supermarket that I live on top of did. I should have started there.

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[bigredboiler]

2-2 groundhog day

I celebrated Groundhog day by shoveling way too much snow (8″), heading out on my bike to survive a Freezing Saddles sleaze mile, getting stopped by a car telling me to be careful, and another one saying “wow, a bike, that looks hard.”

Along the way I stopped to look for my bike’s shadow in the fresh white snow. Nothing. Let’s hope that means your Freezing Saddles winter will be coming to an end before too long!

I’m not sure how traditional this celebration is for Groundhog’s Day, but it will be memorable.

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