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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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@Kbikeva 215540 wrote:

2/3/2022 Presidents Day

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Very clever!

[Boomer Cycles]

2/3/22 – Presidents Day (The Original)

Posting after midnight cuz I forgot to do so before the day ended, and hoping for leniency from the #scavhunt goddesses [emoji1374]

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[rumipumi]

Welcome to the 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt.
The weekly theme for Sat Feb 5 through Friday Feb 10 is ASTROLOGY!
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Original Artwork: Millie Tansill

Sat Feb 5: Nostradamus
Sun Feb 6: Capricorn
Mon Feb 7: Planets
Tues Feb 8: Aquarius
Weds Feb 9: Galileo
Thurs Feb 9: Pisces
Fri Feb 10: Nancy Reagan

Watch this calendar for scoring of the daily winners and future scav hunt objects and themes: http://tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt
Watch this leaderboard for your participation prize progress! https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt
Full rules: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt “

[CaseyKane50]

2/4/2022 Groundhog Day

I feel like I have been here before.

[CaseyKane50]

@Kbikeva 215562 wrote:

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

Alexandria has been more focused on removing confederate names. Might be because 11 other presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe also owned slaves.

[CBGanimal]

2/4/2022 Groundhogs Day (take 2) and its Deja vu!!!

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[BianchiBoy]

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The home of Berwyn Beryl, the Alley No. 9 groundhog. Named after the incomparable English Cyclist Beryl Burton, the groundhog Berwyn Beryl is no doubt hibernating in here and dreaming of this spring’s Whistle Pig Nationals. Its namesake Beryl Burton dominated women’s cycle racing in the UK from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles. She set numerous records including the women’s record for the 12-hour time-trial which exceeded the men’s record for two years.

[Kbikeva]

@CaseyKane50 215600 wrote:

Alexandria has been more focused on removing confederate names. Might be because 11 other presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe also owned slaves.

Indeed. And out here in West Texas, there’s a County and mountains named for Jefferson Davis – from when he was Sec of War, before he went on to other things. History is a grinding mess of contradictions and inconsistencies. We should all probably just stop naming things for people at all.

[Boomer Cycles]

2/04/22: Groundhog Day

Got a feeling I’ve been here before!

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[Nadine]

2/4/22 – groundhog day #2

I decided Millie and Rumi musta meant DROWNED hog day. I’m sure there’s at least one in here… This is flooded 4 mile run at the Wilson Underpass

[bikingjenn]

2/4/22 Groundhog Day-so, my understanding of GH day is that you live the same day over again…I could’ve skipped reliving a fall! No pictures–these bruises have to be censored

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[Kbikeva]

2/4/2022 Groundhog Day

Have you ever seen one of these beasties move dirt (ground)? They are definitely hogs about it!

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[AlanA]

2/4/2022 – Groundhog Day.

I emerged from my burrow this morning to go for a ride. I saw my shadow (and my bikes) thanks to clear weather. I did not retreat to my den, but instead enjoyed 6 more hours of riding my bike.
It seems as though the days just repeat themselves out here. I could have made this post for the last two weeks.

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[Indiana]

2/4/2022 Groundhog Day
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Looks familiar but not as defined a shadow today…hmmm…

[Catedrew]

2/4/2022 – Groundhog Day (Again!)

So, since this groundhog day is a repeat, then I am repeating my groundhog location, but took a photo from the OTHER side, on the banner this time, of my Above-the-groundhog.

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