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MLPTP's Summer Photo Hunt 2024



What is a Photo Hunt?
A Photo Hunt is an event where the organizers post a range of photo challenges to be completed by the competitors. You then take a photo with whatever elements are required in the task and post the submission. (This photo must belong to you.) Your photos will earn entries based on your ability to complete the task on time and with all the elements of the task included in the submission.
There will also be Lightening Rounds in which a new task will be available with only a very limited amount of time to accomplish the photo submission.

*NEW for this year! We have decided to have an entries system instead of a points system to give more members an opportunity to participate. Instead of earning points based on the elements in your photo, each photo that is submitted that completes the challenge will earn an entry.
Entries will be awarded for any submission that is deemed to have completed challenge. For example: a task calls for a photo of a pony in a pool. Since not everyone has access to a pool you may get creative and still earn an entry by drawing a pool, making a pool out of items, or even using your bathroom sink! Creativity is allowed! The one thing we will not allow is digital imagery. So you can't just pull up a picture of a pool on your monitor and put your pony in front of it. We expect a physical representation for it to count.
Winning! Each completed photo will earn you an entry, at the end of the event the member with the most entries will win. If we have multiple members with the same highest number of entries they will be assigned numbers and random.org will draw a winner.
Rules:
1. One photo entry per person, per challenge. So make it awesome!
2. Photo Editing - No photo editing of ANY kind! (You can crop and re-size) Altering the photo is NOT acceptable! No photoshopping whatsoever! This includes color adjustment, smudging, blurring, adding or subtracting from the photo. You may not CHANGE the photo in any way.
3. Official Hasbro, HQG1C or Basic Fun Ponies Only - Any generation is welcome, but only official Hasbro, HQG1C or Basic Fun MLPs should be used in the entries. (Sorry fakies, we love you, but stay out of our contest!)
4. Text - You may NOT add text to a photo or a submission thread. Text is allowed in the photo when appropriate (example: pony reading a magazine, text is okay on the magazine) but we're specifically referring to adding text to the photos (example: submitting a caption with the photo, or submitting a title with the photo) and trying to complete the challenge by including the word of the challenge (example: challenge is pony with a beachball and you just write "beachball" on a slip of paper and put it beside your pony) doesn't count!
4. No computer images accepted. You cannot just pull up a picture of the challenge item on your monitor and put your pony in front of it. Your photo must physically portray the challenge. You are welcome to draw or make items if you didn't have them.
5. Content - All content should fit within the parameters of the site rules.
6. No Changing Entries - Once you post your entry do NOT change it. The mods will be watching all entries and if it is discovered that you have changed your photo, your entry will be disqualified.
Ready to play?!?
This contest is open to ALL registered MLPTP members!


Photo Thread posting - The ONLY posts accepted within each challenge/bonus photo threads are photo entries. Please keep comments and chat to this thread. Photo challenge threads need to be kept free of comments to enable easy viewing so the hunters and mods can easily see the entries and not lose track of things. Comments in these threads will be deleted.





Each photo submission needs to be of a photo you took and uploaded. Images from the internet are not accepted as valid entries. If the MODs discover a submission does not belong to the member who submitted it, that contestant will be disqualified from the Hunt.
When will it start? How long will it run? How many challenges will there be?!?
The game will run from July 20th through August 17th. There will be at least 1 regular challenge and 1 lightening bonus challenge a week but you will just have to watch out cause there could be more and they could come at anytime! bwahahahaha


The first Summer Photo Hunt Task will be available on July 20th, so keep your eyes open!
EDIT TO ADD 7/31:


After taking into consideration member's thoughts and opinions, due to the potential site hiccups we may have had as a result of the update there will be a WILDCARD day. This will be a 24 hour period starting at noon EST Sat 8/10 til noon EST Sun 8/11 where any missed challenges up to that point will be given an opportunity at a second chance!


As stated, the hunt will run until 8/17, so be sure to stay on top of challenges, as any new ones that run after wildcard day will not have a second chance!
Please Note
Ideally, members should be alerted based on their settings but with everyone is using different devices, different browsers, different internet services, in different countries, we cannot control all of those variables at once and cannot guarantee that the system will work flawlessly every single time. It is ultimately member's responsibility to keep up with the threads/etc in case of any notification glitches.
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