Grant gets a sticker... crickets, crickets...

Well it is certainly a lull here in the GAS Challenge, as to be expected with so many exciting things going on in the month of February... oh wait, there's nothing going on in the month of February.

For encouragement, the amount of stickers awarded for a dance dance revolution submission will be doubled! Joe moves to 37 and anyone who gets a DDR submission in this weekend gets 10 (5 stickers this month and the bonus 5 at the end of the year) stickers.

El Pokem Taco.

Here is the top ten...

1. Perry 105
2. Temke 77
3. Guy 39
4. Joe 37
5. Grant 32
6. Russ 29
7t. Horton 27
7t. Kevin 27
9. Barbs 25
10. Pretti 17

Doubles available to trade...

There is now a list of doubles on the right column of the site just below the submission voting area.

If you have a list of doubles to add just email the numbers to the stickerchallege@yahoo.com email address.

West Allis Police Department, Standings update, New photo to vote on...

With the short month of February already in it's second half photo submissions are beginning to heat up, although still no Dance Dance Revolution submissions so it's looking like Joe is the only bonus winner so far this month.

Grant submitted an odd giant blanket photo to be voted on, after the Dominican bartender photo set was awarded 10 stickers bringing the Top 10 standings to as follows...

1. Perry 105
2. Temke 77
3. Guy 39
4. Joe 32
5. Grant 31
6. Russ 29
7t. Horton 27
7t. Kevin 27
9. Barbs 25
10. Pretti 17

Perry reports he got a ton of doubles from his first set of stickers so hopefully there will be some trading opportunities coming soon.

Also if anyone knows why the West Allis Police Department would be logging on to read about The Great American Sticker Challenge, I'd be interested in finding out.

Trifecta...

There comes a time in a man's life when he realizes anything is possible...

Perhaps the birth of his first child...

Maybe watching a majestic home run by the greatest left handed slugger of all-time (Barry Bonds)...

How about seeing your wife walking down the aisle...

Or opening your email and viewing multiple photographs of Dominican bartenders reading a 29 year old sticker book...

Thank you for the inspiring day Temke. Vote now... all three photos combined.

Top Ten Update... New Challenge...

Inspired by Joe's Dance Dance Revolution video and photos... This month's special bonus decal (of which last month's haven't been sent out) will be submitted a photo variation of reading the sticker book while playing Dance Dance Revolution... ...more stickers for public arcade playing, keep that in mind.

Perry has a couple photos submitted that I will grade out tonight for a standings update... Joe earned 5 stickers for his in action bowling photo, so that is how much that task will be worth in the future.

Current Standings

1. Perry 101
2. Temke 44
3. Guy 39
4t. Grant 29
4t. Shields 29
6. Joe 32
7t. Horton 27
7t. Kevin 27
9. Barbs 25
10. Pretti 17

Let the games continue... Perry and Temke advance, Joe makes several moves...

All of the January stickers have been mailed... ...at the moment I think the doubles rule should be if you have three you can mail them in and request a specific sticker. If you have five you can mail them in and request a foil sticker. If you just have a couple and want to try to trade with others individually, in good spirit, let's go with it.

Again remember, the standings will be indicating stickers earned, not unique stickers earned. The winner will be the player with the most stickers in the album at the end of the year.

You can find last months photo album by clicking on the current month's scrolling photos and going up a folder on the picasa site.

Tomorrow I will post a new Joe inspired contest for this month, in the meantime let's take a look at the latest photo to vote on.



And now the current top ten standings.

1. Perry 101
2. Temke 44
3. Guy 39
4t. Grant 29
4t. Shields 29
6t. Horton 27
6t. Kevin 27
6t. Joe 27
9. Barbs 25
10. Pretti 17

Stickers Sent...

Standings update coming tomorrow...

All stickers will be in the mail by tomorrow at noon...

There a few photos to be graded, that will also start gearing back up tomorrow.

Good Luck to all!

Lazy? I'll give you lazy...

Alright, alright, so I haven't distributed all of January's stickers, I haven't graded out photos in the queue, I haven't checked out Joe's video on facebook and haven't even started the work with Max needed to complete episode 2 BUT I don't feel so bad after realizing how lazy Topps Baseball was back in 1981.

Joe, after getting his stickers for the month, discovered this...



That's three different Steve Carlton stickers quite possibly ripped from the same pitch. If it's not a single pitch then at the very least this photographer didn't bother moving out of the same camera well for an entire ball game. You kidding me Topps? You've officially changed the definition of The Carlton from "a sitcom inspired dance sequence" to "laziness in it's purest form."

Once again the Sticker Challenge makes my day.

Sorry Mr. Ribeiro, your pop culture relevance has taken a hit today.

Temke's Lost Photo Submission...

Just realized when doing some photo work that we never did vote on this quality photo of Temke standing in the middle of General Mitchell International reading his sticker album... Let's vote on it to get the ball rolling for month number two!

A closer look...

End of the First Month... Standings, Updates, Doubles...

Hello all, the final stickers earned for the month are in, alot of end of the month photos submitted, 68 total achievements this month, accounting for 423 stickers (that includes the initial bonus stickers).

Russ is the only one with his stickers and he got two doubles out of his stack, so I'm coming up with the best way to handle doubles. Straight trading might be good enough and I know Perry has expressed that'd be the most fun, as long as it's all good natured.

12 of 21 participants earned additional stickers in, of those 12, 11 earned the bonus decal, with only Todd falling the one sticker short.

End of the month standings...

1. Perry 95
2. Temke 41 -54
3. Guy 39 -56
4t. Grant 29 -66
4t. Shields 29 -66
6t. Horton 27 -68
6t. Kevin 27 -68
8t. Barbs 25 -70
8t. Joe 25 -70
10t. Max 15 -80
10t. Pretti 15 -80
12. Todd 14 -81
13t. Aaron 05 -90
13t. Ed 05 -90
13t. Evan 05 -90
13t. Jake 05 -90
13t. Jay 05 -90
13t. John 05 -90
13t. Matt 05 -90
13t. Paul 05 -90
13t. Sean 05 -90

More updates to come today...