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About Scavenger Hunts
Scavenger hunts are contests to see who can find the most maps in a list of categories. To participate, you simply submit maps as normal, then select the category you are submitting to. Once a moderator approves your map, you automatically get points for that category!Table of Contents
Past Hunt: 'Big Kahuna' Scavenger Hunt
Riding off of the success of the previous mini-Hunt, we're holding another scavenger hunt: the Big Kahuna.Prizes are as follows:
- 1st place - $50
- 2nd place - $35
- 3rd place - $15
Items marked (MI) require a More Info link for confirmation.
Best of luck, contestants!
This hunt runs from 2007-05-19 14:00:00 until 2007-06-09 14:00:00 (CST timezone).
Categories:
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1 Point
- A baseball field in Europe (11 submissions)
- A building or other large structure that exists in one map service but not in another (9 submissions)
- A bullring (9 submissions)
- A casino (11 submissions)
- A castle (10 submissions)
- A censored area (9 submissions)
- A convertible with the top down (BEV) (9 submissions)
- A crop maze (7 submissions)
- A dam in high definition (GM or BEV) (6 submissions)
- A ferris wheel (9 submissions)
- A fire (7 submissions)
- A helipad not at a hospital or military instalation (10 submissions)
- A ladder-truck (fire truck) not involved with a fire (7 submissions)
- A limousine (9 submissions)
- A mural (8 submissions)
- A pedestrian bridge (11 submissions)
- A playground, map named for the park/school/etc in which the playground lies. (8 submissions)
- A race track (animal) (11 submissions)
- A race track (auto) (11 submissions)
- A roller coaster (with name) (9 submissions)
- A satellite problem (9 submissions)
- A sculpture (with proper sculpture name and artist name) (BEV) (7 submissions)
- A site listed at http://roadsideamerica.com/index.html) (Not including Muffer Men) (MI) (6 submissions)
- A ski resort (8 submissions)
- A stadium (11 submissions)
- A submarine (6 submissions)
- A supertanker greater than 300 feet long (GM so we can measure it) (8 submissions)
- A water park (11 submissions)
- A waterfall (7 submissions)
- A windmill or wind turbine (10 submissions)
- An airplane on static display (8 submissions)
- An airport in Africa (10 submissions)
- An airport in Asia (10 submissions)
- An airport in Europe (11 submissions)
- An airport in North America (9 submissions)
- An airport in South America (8 submissions)
- An airport on an island (9 submissions)
- An armed missile site (6 submissions)
- An ice burg (7 submissions)
- An observatory (9 submissions)
- An UNESCO site (MI) (10 submissions)
- A bird or birds in flight (7 submissions)
- A building being demolished (MI) (5 submissions)
- A building under construction (MI) (10 submissions)
- A circus or carnival (Non-permenant site) (8 submissions)
- A fiberglass "Muffler man" style figure (i.e. http://roadsideamerica.com/muffler/index.html) (7 submissions)
- A funeral in progress (6 submissions)
- A person doing something identifiable (11 submissions)
- A prototype of some type (MI) (4 submissions)
- A volcano in high def, named (GM) (7 submissions)
- An advertising inflatible - Gorilla style (4 submissions)
- An advertising inflatible - Hot-air balloon style (6 submissions)
- An advertising inflatible - Other type (5 submissions)
- An airplane in flight (BEV) (10 submissions)
- An airplane in flight (LL, GM/GE, or YM) (7 submissions)
- An event with precise date (MI) (Austrailia Day flyover shots do not count) (3 submissions)
- An identifiable airplane (with the number) (8 submissions)
- An identifiable animal (10 submissions)
- An identifiable ship (with the name) (9 submissions)
- An irrigation system in action (turf or agriculture) (7 submissions)
- A blimp (not an aerostat or advertising balloon) (4 submissions)
- A car accident (6 submissions)
- A concert in progress (3 submissions)
- A horse race, auto race, or other professional sports event in progress (7 submissions)
- A house on fire (2 submissions)
- A military ship at sea (moving, not just at anchor inside or outside a harbor) (7 submissions)
- An airplane trailing a banner (3 submissions)
2 Points
3 Points
Final Standings:
- mlc1us - 100 points
- mikeb9991 - 100 points
- milwhcky - 96 points
- berli110 - 79 points
- daggerwell - 76 points
- voldude123 - 66 points
- DonMartini - 44 points
- kaiken - 42 points
- Effi - 37 points
- boothy443 - 27 points
- alfjon - 19 points
- krusty007 - 13 points
- bubaonline - 9 points
- dda - 5 points
- Parabellum - 5 points
- Gosell - 4 points
- Cheesey - 1 points
Rules
- All maps submitted for points in a scavenger must be new and unique (no duplicates of old maps!).
- To submit a map for the scavenger hunt, submit a map as normal. On the submissions page, you will have a chance to select a category to submit to.
- Once a map is approved by the moderators, you will recieve the points for that category.
- The scavenger hunt ends on the date listed. At that point, the user with the most point wins. Ties are allowed.
Past and Present Hunts
- VGT mini-Hunt (2007-05-03 12:00:00 to 2007-05-10 12:00:00)
- Mother Of All Scavenger Hunts (2007-07-12 14:00:00 to 2007-07-26 14:00:00)
- Street View Scavenger Hunt (2007-08-09 14:00:00 to 2007-08-23 14:00:00)
- Long Overdue Scavenger Hunt (2008-04-23 11:00:00 to 2008-05-07 11:00:00)
- Here's Lookin At You! Street View Scavenger Hunt (2008-06-18 11:00:00 to 2008-07-02 11:00:00)