Fill 'er up!

 

Great start!

 

It is a great start and appropriate for the car format! Glad it was not a Mini with Rust on it, that would break my heart.

 

*bump*

 

Holy smokes Batman, been 2 weeks?!?!

If I was not disqualified because I won last time, these were what I was thinking of. Just as well, can't decide which one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074154@N00/7397297640/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074154@N00/7509385582/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074154@N00/7392335064/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074154@N00/7437382158/

 

I think the pictures are all great. Who won?

 

I don't know. The rules are basic, none. Don't know if previous winners are supposed to take over. You don't want that.

 

The person who made the challenge picks the winner. Then that winner selects the next challenge, and so on.

So you can pick this one, and since there was only one entry before the deadline, it should be easy

 

Okay, let's have a look. ................. .................... ....................... ....................... ........................... .

JackMac wins! What is topic 24?

 

Before posting the next challenge, I have a suggestion to help improve the momentum of the thread. Just a slight adjustment to the rules, please review and provide feedback!

1) Instead of waiting 2 weeks for each challenge, suggest that the FIRST person to respond with an approved entry wins. Acceptance/approval of the entry is at the sole discretion of the person who issued that challenge.

2) If nobody provides a winning response within 1 week, then the person who issued the challenge MUST perform the challenge and post the photo, then issue a new challenge.

This should speed up the pace a bit.

Thoughts?

 

I'm not in a hurry, so no on 1.

Like 2. The problem will be only one person could dominate for weeks on end.

Would like to see others input.

 

Okay, we will continue with the original rules for now.

NEXT CHALLENGE: Your MINI and a flag

As the Olympics have just begun, let's show some support for our athletes! This challenge will end at the conclusion of the closing ceremonies on Aug 12th.

 

Hi JackMac,

Just letting you know I went on a rant in another thread. This is the best part:

Poll // Photo Contest // July 2012 "WAVE" makes me think I'm the only decent photographer on this site. I commend the other person for entering, even if it's a phone camera snapshot, they at least entered something! Why are there only TWO entries?

Since I am not into the Olympics, I may pass on this one. That is the official photo contest, and I wish there was something that resembled a competition.

I will be back..................

 

*bump*

 

Just stumbled on this thread. fwiw, I ran a contest using rules very similar to this in our local club. Basically, first person to post met the challenge, subject to acceptance (which most of the time, if you were first to post the assumption was that you won and you'd go ahead and post your challenge right away). They would then post the next challenge.

Overall I thought it worked quite well. Over about a six month period I think we generated around 120 entries.

The problem I ran into is that some folks didn't realize that posting an extremely difficult (impossible?) challenge would just lead to no one participating. It works best if folks understand the goal is to get people to go out and take some pictures and to do so, the subject/challenge needs to be something that is reasonably "do-able".

If the challenge was too hard, no one would post and then if the original poster forgot to meet the challenge themselves to prove it could be done, the contest would fall into limbo. So I had to step in a few times to get it back on track when that happened.

We also kept a running tally - 1 point for being first to meet the challenge. You lost a point if you could not perform your own challenge after it sat for a week. That helped keep interest somewhat as people tried to move up the leaderboard.

 

Yup, thanks for the feedback. This is exactly what I had in mind.

 

I want to participate! Where are the flag wavers when you need one?

 

You have until Sunday evening. Should be easy to find a flag and take a pic with your MINI! Checkered flag, US flag, state flag, etc.

 

OK, didn't have my camera, so had to do the ol' smartphone pic. Saw a nice big flag up the road, but way too many power lines and such to get a decent photo. So here is:

MINI with a flag

 

We have a winner! Next challenge?

 

Before posting the next challenge, figured I would post an updated list of what has been done to date:

1. MINI modified to perform a public service in some way
2. MINI with a view of the mountains
3. MINI with a farm critter
4. MINI in front of a famous landmark
5. MINI under neon lights
6. MINI with a professional stadium/arena
7. MINI in front of favorite ice cream shop
8. MINI with water
9. MINI in the forest/with a wooded area
10. MINI with surroundings same color as the MINI
11. MINI near, on or under a bridge
12. MINI with a person doing a handstand or someone planking on an object
13. MINI with a drive-in theater or restaurant
14. MINI with attitude
15. MINI closeup
16. MINI with a reflection
17. MINI at night
18. MINI at a track
19. MINI with something related to Fall (the season)
20. MINI not so small
21. MINI in the snow
22. MINI and a waterfall
23. MINI and rust
24. MINI and a flag

 

Next challenge - in honor of the Little League World Series starting tomorrow, our next challenge is:

MINI and something related to baseball or softball

Deadline for this challenge will be August 29th.

Good luck!!!

 

MINI Parking Only

 

Only one more day to get your entries in!

 

OK, JackMac - you won! Go ahead and post up the next challenge. Hopefully we'll get some more interested.