Need Ideas for a Contest on RIU

contest: who can 'thump' the easiest.

1-!0000 number guess. Randomly drawn and u will have to send your pize to an admin so he can put the contest on.

Originally Posted by UncleBuck

contest: who can 'thump' the easiest.

Poultry pics are in the forecast ... cn

Originally Posted by Budist

Don't announce the prize then you would just get a bunch of fake entries... I would also never give my address out for you to send me this prize.. for all I know the $10,000 value is the 10% bond I'm going to have to pay for getting caught up in some crap.

i'm not giving away $10k. that's stupid. i'm giving away something that's worth $10k easily though. i'm also not going to announce the exact prize till i have a contest designed.

so don't enter man, i don't know what to tell you. if you don't want to be part of the contest then my feelings will be hurt and i may be depressed for a few days but somehow i'll pull through.

best blunt rolled, from single bud, (pic f it growing required) must be 100% CANNABIS!

I would wear that watch. cn

A scavenger hunt, a to-do list of smoker/grower achievements to unlock. You could include things international/obscure so it is not designed to be completed, but get the most done (i.e. get a coaster from coffee shop in Amsterdam, and a business card from a NORML endorsing lawyer, ticket stub to a cannabis cup, Slightly Stoopid/Snoop Dogg/Willie Nelson/Cheech&Chong autograph, Kiss a physician who endorses MMJ, Photo with a nug large enough to cover one's face)

Originally Posted by cannabineer

Scoob ... I think you have your work cut out for you. Imo the trouble with "frostiest bud" or equivalent is that it's subjective, and with a prize in the balance that could be a real wedge driver. Same problems with essays or something creative ... one man's Joyce is another man's boxcar graffiti.
A merit-based contest might be easier to administer, because it would be easier (but not necessarily obvious) to designate a winner and defend the choice. But ... merit at what? Weed growing? I'd counsel against that, with my sufficient rationale being weed's less-than-transparent legal status. Gardening otherwise? My worry is that that would bias strongly toward the small number of skilled, experienced gardeners like we get to meet on the gardening subforum.

Now my weakness for recursive thought has suggested to me "what if the undisclosed contest is 'come up with the best contest idea?' " That is attractive to me at so many levels, but I'll have to add that I've probably already lost. cn

cn, i've already thrown out the idea of a "frostiest" or "biggest" competition because it just eliminates too many growers. it has to be something where we can get as many of the members involved that want to be involved. one idea i had was you have to post an RIU sign in the most extreme location and take a picture of it. my only issue with picture contests is Adobe Photoshop. i'm pretty versed in that program and it's amazing what you can dream up. i'm beginning to think that it's going to be harder to find the competition than it will be to judge it. lol. i'm sure we'll come up with an idea soon enough though. too many stoners here for one of us not to stumble upon it while in a canna haze...