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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[bigredboiler]

2-3 President’s Day

Washington & Washington for President’s Day

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[AlanA]

@CBGanimal 215524 wrote:

2/3/2022 Presidents’ Day an office park called Eisenhower!

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I’m amazed at all the US references over there in Spain.

[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 215540 wrote:

2/3/2022 Presidents Day

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Dang! Why didn’t I think of that!! Well done.

[Kbikeva]

@consularrider 215550 wrote:

2/3/2022 – Presidents Day

Fog spoiled my planned photo, but here is Lincoln in Washington.

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Somewhere out there is Washington

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You have me so confused – I was expecting a NYC photo! Nicely done though capturing the fog!

[Kbikeva]

@AlanA 215558 wrote:

Dang! Why didn’t I think of that!! Well done.

I was literally on my last mile to home, having taken photos of street signs that were ‘close but not quite the thing’ when I saw this. So much more emphatic than the new Ford logos, so I jumped on it! I love that out here people hang on to cars until they’re falling apart so you get to see these amazing beauties (and potential beauties)…and as long as they’re not beside me/in front of me in traffic belching fumes, I love them!

[Kbikeva]

@CaseyKane50 215548 wrote:

2/3/2022 Presidents Day

James K. Polk School
Polk Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia

Will they be changing the name of this school? Polk was a slave owner.

[Catedrew]

@Kbikeva 215483 wrote:

And is anyone else here young enough to remember “Room 222”?

LOVED that show!

[Catedrew]

2/3/2022 – President’s Day

Thomas Jefferson Community Center, Arlington, VA

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Win With Wilson

[Serdar]

2/3/2022 – Presidents Day
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38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, lived in Alexandria from 1951 to 1974.

[Sophie CW]

2/3/2022 – Presidents Day
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When I was in NYC public school, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday was also a holiday. But now it has been combined with George Washington’s birthday to become Presidents Day.

[bikingjenn]

2/3/22 Presidents’ Day initially celebrated “the Father of our Nation” George Washington who was born 2/22/1732. But then Lincoln (b. 2/12/1809) was added and it moved to the third Monday of Feb. Well, today is neither man’s bday and it isn’t the third Monday, but…initially George served the Queen of England (well not his distant relative Elizabeth) Queen Charlotte (this game makes me learn a little here and there)
That’s the Queen on a car window on N Edison near Yorktown HS. Was going to get dark about Jamestown and Founding Fathers perpetuating slavery etc with a photo of Jamestown ES, but decided to keep it lighter. Happy Presidents Day 2/21/22

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[cvcalhoun]

2/3/2022 Presidents Day
One of the two Presidents we honor on Presidents Day

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

2/3/2022 Presidents Day
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[sszibler]

2/3/22 President’s Day

Senator Robert A. Taft, son of President William Howard Taft Memorial.

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