This exact thread is also post in my journal.
The idea behind the contest is fairly simple. There are 100 unidentified pictures. You need to figure out where they're from. (My hard drive does not count as an answer.)
Some details...
1) The pictures were all taken by me, on my hunter, while mapping the outdoor zones. As a result, all of the pictures are from outdoor areas. No instances. No cities. No strange bannable areas (although I was tempted.) No expansion zones. This is not to say that pictures won't be in a building or a cave, but they will be from an outdoor zone. And all the pictures should be places you can see, although maybe not from the same camera angle.
2) The pictures are set up to generally get more difficult. Although I have done my best to throw you off with many of these pictures, I can't make it a perfect order for everyone. Some difficulty factors include camera angle, remoteness, picture order, ambiguity, and zone choice. Every outdoor zone is represented one to three times. Each set of 10 pictures is in a different thread in my journal. (links below)
3) They're all .jpg files in 1024x768. I hope that doesn't present an issue for viewing, but I will resize them if I really have to. All 100 pictures collectively are 10mb on my HD, so each page will be 1mb on average.
4) You will get 1 point for the right zone, and 1 point for letting me know it wasn't a lucky guess. With 100 pictures, that's a max score of 200. Suffice it to say I have tried to not pick pictures where you could guess the right zone by looking at it. (In other words, I avoid snow pictures in Alterac, Dun Morogh and Winterspring.)
5) Answer submissions should consist of a list of the screenshot number, zone the screenshot is in, and what section of the zone it is in. Please email or PM me text that only contains "number, zone, specific location" separated by commas for all 100. I can easily convert that to an excel spreadsheet for quick checking. E-mail entries should be sent to azuarc@allakhazam.com and have the header "Screenshot Entry" and contain your username somewhere. (Don't get carried away with the specific location -- telling me that the Night Elf-looking portal thing in Duskwood is "middle of the zone" works in some cases, but I would much sooner be told that place is called The Twilight Grove. Check the new zone maps if you forget the name of a point of interest!)
6) The winner will receive a one-year premium subscription to Allakhazam. Pending a tie, the winner will be selected randomly out of the highest scores. Maximum of two entries per person, and you may not get your score back quickly cause I'm a lazy *******.
7) The contest will run until December 21st. The winner and the answers will be post shortly thereafter in an announcement, hopefully by the 25th.
8) This is as official as I get with contest rules. Whenever you've read contest rules from other sweepstakes and things, just mentally cut and paste the legal mumbo jumbo here.
9) This is supposed to be fun. I am not enforcing silence because I want you to enjoy it, and that will likely include discussion on the boards. But keep in mind that the winner will be the person with the highest score, so spilling the beans on every picture you know may not be a smart idea if you hope to win.
Good luck, and enjoy!
Pictures 00-09
Pictures 10-19
Pictures 20-29
Pictures 30-39
Pictures 40-49
Pictures 50-59
Pictures 60-69
Pictures 70-79
Pictures 80-89
Pictures 90-99
Optional Excel answer sheet
Edited, Nov 29th 2006 10:50pm by Azuarc
Edited, Dec 21st 2006 5:00pm by Darqflame
Edited, May 4th 2009 9:52pm by Darqflame