All New Scavenger Hunt (Round 36 in progress)

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About All New Scavenger Hunt (Round 36 in progress)

This group challenges members to find and photograph items on a list compiled from players' suggestions.

You will have one month to take photos of as many of the items on the list as you can. The photos must be taken during the scavenger hunt period. The winner will be the person with the most points (see scoring below).

Everyone has one "wildcard" they can use for an item of their choice. That is, a photo from your archives which was taken before the Hunt started. The 'Wildcard' is unable to be voted on but will accrue points on the scoreboard. Submit your wildcard photo to the Group tagged as usual.

The scavenger period will usually start on a Saturday and end on a Sunday 4 weeks later - use your own local time for this.

Remember that unless specified otherwise, all photos should be of the real thing, not pictures, models, costumes or toys.

Tagging reminder:
Remember to tag your items "scavenger1", "scavenger2" etc, and tag your challenge entries with "challenge". Please note - there is no space between the tag 'scavenger' and the list item number.

Please ensure that you have put the tag in correctly to help us get the scoring right. You can check this by periodically making sure your photos appear in the correct place on the score boards:

rae.falkor.gen.nz/hunt/score_board.html
rae.falkor.gen.nz/hunt/items.html
rae.falkor.gen.nz/hunt/photoitems.html
rae.falkor.gen.nz/hunt/table.html

Scoring

1 point for every item on the list you collect

3 bonus points for each week that you post at least 6 photos in one week. This can include list items or challenge items. (A week includes the weekend on either side.)
Photos can accumulate, eg posting 12 photos in the first week will get you bonus points for the first and second week.

You will get 10 added bonus points for posting 12 items, then a further 5 points when you have posted all list items

1 point for each photo posted to the Challenge up to a maximum of 4 points (depending on the challenge).

Voting
At the end of the month there will be a vote to judge the best photos submitted, based on creative and artistic merit and whether the item is a true representation of the item as listed. All participants get to vote for one photo per each item. This will be an anonymous vote on a specially set up web page.

Voting Points

5 points for receiving most overall votes

4 points for second most overall votes

2 points for receiving at least one third of the individual photo votes

Submitting items for the list

Everyone who is interested in participating will be asked to make 3 suggestions. You are welcome to submit a few more if you have got lots of ideas, or less than this if you have a mental block. The items will be submitted in a discussion thread (so they will be immediately public, but only photos taken after the official start of the scavenger hunt period will be eligible). The list will comprise no more than 25 list items and one photo challenge. If more suggestions than this are received the group moderators will choose some to leave off, based entirely at their own discretion.

Guidelines for item suggestions

- They should be as specific as possible (without giving anyone an unfair advantage).
They should be reasonably difficult to find, but not impossible (considering different people's different circumstances). Remember different countries and regions have to be taken into account.

- The Challenge consists of taking multiple items (up to the maximum specified on the List).

Participants
Anyone can join in on the scavenger hunt at any time (regardless of whether they contributed to the list) - but it would be helpful if everyone intending to participate could make an effort to make some list suggestions so we can have as interesting a list as possible (and also because it's fun thinking of things!)

Submitting photos to the group

Photos must have been taken during the official hunt period.

Please tag your photo with "scavenger1", "scavenger2" etc, or "challenge". (however we will remind you, or tag it for you if you forget).

It helps other member identify which item you are taking if you have written the item or challenge information in the title or description of your photo.

You should only submit scavenger hunt entries to the pool (only one photo per item). Photos that are not tagged with an item number and are obviously not related to the current monthly list will be deleted from the pool.

You can replace your photos with different ones at any time during the hunt period.