-Secret- Challenge - DPChallenge Forums

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

09/30/2011 01:15:27 PM · #28

Originally posted by Pug-H:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

A long time ago, 3-4 years, I floated the exact same idea; I called it the "Crapshot Challenge", and the idea was that the subject wouldn't be announced until after all the entries were in and voting started. Only those lucky enough to have grabbed a shot that happened to meet the challenge would get a decent score.

The idea never gained any traction, LOL. Maybe it will this time around...

R.

Well, there you go. "Crapshot" v. "Secret". Sometimes titles do make a difference. ;-Ã�

I suspect some sort of Freudian typo is involved here, and that the original idea would be better defined as "Crapshoot" rather than "Crap Shot" ...

Remember, it's been conclusively demonstrated that a water drop shot can be shoehorned into any challenge ... ;-)

Message edited by author 2011-09-30 13:16:03.

tnun

Ricoh GR III

Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC

09/30/2011 01:20:27 PM · #29

the sillier the better.

09/30/2011 01:39:22 PM · #30

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Pug-H:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

A long time ago, 3-4 years, I floated the exact same idea; I called it the "Crapshot Challenge", and the idea was that the subject wouldn't be announced until after all the entries were in and voting started. Only those lucky enough to have grabbed a shot that happened to meet the challenge would get a decent score.

The idea never gained any traction, LOL. Maybe it will this time around...

R.

Well, there you go. "Crapshot" v. "Secret". Sometimes titles do make a difference. ;-Ã�

I suspect some sort of Freudian typo is involved here, and that the original idea would be better defined as "Crapshoot" rather than "Crap Shot" ...

Remember, it's been conclusively demonstrated that a water drop shot can be shoehorned into any challenge ... ;-)

A "crapshoot" and a "crapshot" (or crap shot) are not quite the same thing. Here's the urban dictionary on crap shot:

Originally posted by urban dictionary:

A phrase used to describe something of which the chances of achieving said thing are so low, doing so feels like winning the lottery.

Father: Don't get depressed about not getting that scholarship son; it was a crap shot at best. Out of the thousands that applied for it, they awarded it to two, maybe three people. Iâ��ve applied for jobs I knew I was 100% qualified for and would have made an excellent employee. I never heard anything.

Son: Why?

Father: Because they get so many applicants that someone even seeing my resume is a 500 to 1 shot.

Son: Rather like that scholarship. Although I had the grades and other requirements, so many other people applied that the odds of even hearing from them were like one on a thousand.

Father: Exactly, it was a crap shot. But, although itâ��s a crap shot, keep trying. Some day youâ��ll be the one guy in a 1000 they select.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

09/30/2011 01:45:55 PM · #31

I maybe think it's a question of tense -- "Entering a raffle is just a crapshoot, unlike talent-based contests." Or maybe the phrase is just morphing ...

09/30/2011 02:07:45 PM · #32

Originally posted by GeneralE:

I maybe think it's a question of tense -- "Entering a raffle is just a crapshoot, unlike talent-based contests." Or maybe the phrase is just morphing ...

The lottery is a crapshoot; entering it is a crap shot.

R.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

09/30/2011 03:04:33 PM · #33

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

The lottery is a crapshoot ...

Which I guess is why I thought the challenge should be a crapshoot ... besidea, with your phrasing you might end up with all the DNMC police feeling forced to give something like this a 10 ... :-(

09/30/2011 03:06:51 PM · #34

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:
The lottery is a crapshoot ...

Which I guess is why I thought the challenge should be a crapshoot ... besidea, with your phrasing you might end up with all the DNMC police feeling forced to give something like this a 10 ... :-(

Please, please stop messing with my mind this way, I've just had a stroke and am having difficulty articulating concepts at the current time. Have you no mercy?

R.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

09/30/2011 03:12:47 PM · #35

I do. Feel better soon.

09/30/2011 03:14:13 PM · #36

ETA: I was just giving you a hard time :-)

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

09/30/2011 03:15:07 PM · #37

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

ETA: I was just giving you a hard time :-)

Merci ... ;-)

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

09/30/2011 04:02:22 PM · #38

Absolute silliness tends to be a sick kind of sense - for better or for worse. I think an improvement on the theme would be to drift in the direction of gambling. Give the entrants a horse to put their money on. Half a dozen themes and you don't know which one's coming out of the hat. Entrants will then proceed to fool themselves that they have made rational decisions. Hahaha. Double blindness will also come out when the smardt azrse who enters 'theme #1 object watching a theme #2 riding a theme #3 through theme #4 during a theme #5 while...' , doesn't know how such cunning will be - er - rewarded by voters

bergiekat

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II

09/30/2011 04:47:49 PM · #39

Ken, I think it's a brilliant idea!! Great laughs.

robs

Canon EOS R6 Mk II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

09/30/2011 09:21:49 PM · #40

How about a twist where you get a few hints at later and later intervals... maybe the full theme is only released 1 hr before the cut off or something :-)