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Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-19-2012 20:57

People of Sleuthville, lend me your ears!
I call out now to all you tomb-raiders and treasure seekers! To those who love the thrill of a good treasure hunt!

In the spirit of friendly competition i propose a challenge.
This challenge will require 10 adventurous detectives to be split onto 2 Teams, each team consisting of 5 members, in 2 newly made Agencies of my own making in NY.

These two agencies will compete against each other in Treasure Hunts.
The first team to get their agency to 7,000 Fame wins:

$200,000 Prize to be split among the team evenly.
(Working out to $40,000 a piece for each teammate...not too shabby huh?)
Also each team after the contest ends will vote amongst themselves on who alone among their team was MVP (someone who went above and beyond, did a really excellent job, etc) The MVP's from Both teams will win a 3 month gift subscription from me personally.
You also win bragging rights and honor for your home agencies on being an awesome treasure hunter.
Whether your team chooses single or multi-city hunt strategy is entirely up to you.

Obviously this competition will run for a while, (I'm venturing a guess at anywhere between 2 weeks to a month depending on how luck smiles on you or how good you and your teammates are).

It goes without saying that you would be required to resign temporarily from whatever agency you are currently in to join my competing agencies for the contest. You are allowed to enter an alternate detective if you wish if you're too attached to have your main detective leave your agency, and the only rules are:

1) Absolutely NO Password Sharing.
2) Only one entry per contestant
3) Have fun.

I want to know who among you treasure hunters really has what it takes to come together and co-ordinate as a team to truly be the best.

(Cont'd)

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Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-19-2012 22:56

First agency to 7,000 fame though i would prefer you guys get the fame through Treasure Hunts, since this is a treasure hunting competition. I'll leave the easy cases vs AI cases strategy up to the competitors.

Molly Maltese
Molly Maltese
Old Shoe

Jun-19-2012 23:06

I wanna I wanna I wanna


Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-19-2012 23:16

4 more slots available...

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 00:31

Okay people who are interested so far, Ive been getting some feedback that 7,000 fame from Treasure Hunts isn't enough of a challenge, so.....


*rubs hands together* Let me ask you, where do you think the bar SHOULD be raised to? If you want the limit pushed higher i can go higher, i originally considered 12,000 fame but i wasn't sure if id have any takers with that. I also considered a time limit but due to the random nature of treasure hunts i decided against that, I also decided against setting a goal with how many treasures each team gets, so instead of "First to 10 treasures wins" i prefer to set a "first to x-amount of fame wins" The fame aspect (i think) makes it a little more challenging. So folks, persuade me to up the ante so to speak.

I'm listening.

Summer Daze
Summer Daze
Freedom Fighter

Jun-20-2012 00:37

As my young niece would say, this idea is 'the nipples'. Sign me up :)

I'd say this is an idea that could run and run i.e. come back in many forms. Maybe the first time you have these temp agencies set the goal at 10 treasures, or 12K fame -whichever. See how it runs. After that if popel want to change the set-up, there could be further competitions down the line.

But I'm happy to go with the flow on this. Groovy idea Jason!

Summer Daze
Summer Daze
Freedom Fighter

Jun-20-2012 00:38

*people (I don't know what popel is)

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 00:44

Haha thanks summer, if i think there is enough interest in this thing i could make this a regular thing every year after Riza's VH Competition and such. Make every summer a contest crazy place here on sleuth. Matter of fact Riza Hawkeye and Molly Maltese kind of inspired this idea, I was thinking about Molly's Beauty Pageant and the AVH Competition and wondered why not do a TH Contest? But everyone sort of merge together in new agencies, meet people in the community have fun. *Shrugs* I'm excited and im just setting this thing up. Anyways glad you'll be competing. I was honestly worried this idea might not catch anyone's interest. I'm glad it did. :)

Vampiric Smile
Vampiric Smile
Safety Officer

Jun-20-2012 00:56

^
Very good idea indeed Jason.
I only think that if those 2 agencies will compete not only against each other but also against the other agencies that participate in THs it would be very difficult for them. How can a 5 member team compete with agecies having over 10 people in...it would be rather difficult.
My proposal is a gentlemen agreement between you and all agencies participating in THs to leave NY ground free for your 2 teams to compete each other.

Vampiric Smile
Vampiric Smile
Safety Officer

Jun-20-2012 00:57

^
Obviously Crypt would respect such agreement as it is fair

Jason Arends
Jason Arends
Lucky Stiff

Jun-20-2012 01:05

There's an interesting notion VS i hadn't thought of that, I figured each agency would chose amongst themselves whether single city or multi-city hunts would be a better strategy, but i hadn't considered how difficult it would be to win a TH if an agency not even involved were playing for that same hunt. You raise a valid concern. Okay folks, in addition to asking you if you'd like me to raise the Fame limit higher, i also ask how do you feel about this being restricted to only single city hunts in NY? I personally am a little against it, but ill tell you why:

I feel if you're doing single city AND multi city hunts it sort of shows off to the rest of us how well you co-ordinate a team and your awesomeness. But i hadn't honestly considered the aspect that there would be outside agencies paying the contest no mind also hunting that same treasure. So im torn on this issue here, Half of me says no restriction on multi-city hunts (in the spirit of keeping things challenging) But the other half of me agrees with VS that it would be a little harder to accomplish that against non-contest agencies. As always im listening and im considering raising the bar to First agency to 12,000 fame wins. Your thoughts?

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