Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest

[Bill Enslen]

The Miracle Workers have created a contest to amuse and entertain all the FIRST-a-holics out there. All you have to do is to surf on over to our website (www.MOE365.org), click on the Where is Gizmoe link, and enter your guess.

Why should you do this, you ask? For the prizes, of course! Each daily winner receives two custom-designed limited-edition MOE buttons available ONLY to the contest winners. Not even our own team members will have one of these! And, if the winner picks up their buttons at the 365 pit area at either the Philadelphia Regional or the Championship Event, they also receive a pair of MOEstix (which, unfortunately, we had to retire this year due to changes in the rules at the events).

You want more? OK. There will be a GRAND PRIZE winner, to be randomly selected from among all daily prize winners. What is the GRAND PRIZE, you ask? Good Question! We don't know yet. But I promise it will be better than buttons and MOEstix.

Here's the rules of the contest: (most of these are also posted on the website)
* Only one entry per person per day
* A new contest begins every day, at 12:00:01 EST
* You must provide both the name and the location of where GIZMoe is today (e.g. The Space Needle, Seattle, WA). Entering only the name or the location is not sufficient.
* No purchase necessary to win
* Odds of winning is determined by the number of correct entries
* The winning entry is chosen from the list of all correct entries
* Only one prize will be awarded per day
* You must provide a valid email address
* Team 365 studentz, mentorz, boosterz, parentz, sisterz, brotherz, and widowz are not eligible to win any prizes, although they are welcome to submit entries.

So, surf on over to www.MOE365.org and enter the contest! Most days, the answer will be fairly easy to discern. But some days, it will really test your visual memory. And, every day, there will be a winner. Good Luck to all!

[Joe Ross]

after entering, I got the following error messagesWarning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/cust2/usr2233/html/calendar/game.php:1) in /home/cust2/usr2233/html/calendar/game.php on line 53

[Katie Reynolds]

I got the same error message.

Cool game! :)

[Bill Enslen]

Sorry for the problems, folks. I've forwarded your reports of the error messages to our Web Team. When they have the problems fixed, I'll post again.

[dez250]

Sorry for the problems, folks. I've forwarded your reports of the error messages to our Web Team. When they have the problems fixed, I'll post again.

Same error

"Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/cust2/usr2233/html/calendar/game.php:1) in /home/cust2/usr2233/html/calendar/game.php on line 53"

[Bill Enslen]

Our Web Team told me the messages were just warning messages, and did not affect your entries. They are removing the warning message, so you should not see them any more.

b/t/w, there were 30+ entries as of 4 p.m.! Keep 'em coming! (but remember, only one entry per person per day)

[The Lucas]

Did anyone notice how the Robot picture this year is ridiculously Hi-res and against a blue photography background (a green background would be kinda pointless :) )? Yup, that is for easy Photoshopping for the "Where in the World is GizMOE?" game.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

I resubmitted my entry just now since I hadn't been back here to see what the deal with the error message was...you might want to put some sort of thank you or message accepted on the screen that comes up after you submit so people like me know that our entry was received.

Kev

P.S. I love this game/idea :] :p

[MOEmaniac]

GizMOE is in a crate on a FedEx truck that is where his is lol :p

[mtaman02]

great minds think alike i see. back in 2001 when i was back in hs we did an inside contest for the school called where in the world is wilma (2001 Robot) and did exactly what you guys did just take a picture of the robot and place it randomly throughout all the landmarks. The prizes were digital cameras i think. the game was discontinued due to the fact that there was a lack of interest.


I wish you much luck with your game. everyone will play for the famous moe stix. not so much the buttons hehe.

[Bill Enslen]

I'm sure you're all wondering who won the contest each day of the first week, and what the correct answers were, so here goes:

March 9: Correct Answer: Buckingham Palace, London, England
Winner: Kevin Kolodziej, Team 1064

March 10: Correct Answer: Mount Vernon (or President Washington's home), Mount Vernon, VA
Winner: Nelson Green, Team 1108

March 11 Correct Answer: Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO
Winner: Merle Yoder, Team 571

March 12: Correct Answer: National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
Winner: Tyler Wetzel, Team 116

March 13: Correct Answer: The Parthenon, Athens, Greece
Winner: Dan Neal, Team 999

March 14: Correct Answer: Dueling Dragons Coaster (or Fire and Ice Coasters), Islands of Adventure Theme Park (or Universal Orlando), Orlando, FL
Winner: Joe Ross, Team 1405

Congratulations to all of our first week winners, who will be individually notified by e-mail.

Now, on to the second week of the contest! Don't forget to enter every day. You too could be a winner of a pair of limited edition MOE pins, and, if you pick up your prize at our pit at Philly or the Championship Event, a pair of coveted MOEstix!

Today's picture is not easy. But, if you've been there, you should remember it. It was the most distinctive room in the whole place. Go to www.moe365.org now!

[Joe Ross]

have the number of entries stayed the same as at the beginning, or are they declining?

[Bill Enslen]

Joe, I'll know better tomorrow night when I get to look at the database containing the entries and determine the winners for week two. However, based on the results for week one, there was a definite drop in entries from the start of the week to the end of the week.

Six of the seven winners from week one will be picking up their prizes at the MOE 365 pit at the Championship Event, and thus will be receiving a pair of MOEstix along with their limited edition MOE buttons. We've still got enough MOEstix left for another few weeks of winners.

We're currently finalizing the design of the buttons for the prize winners, and I can guarantee you that only prize winners will be receiving these limited edition collectible/tradeable buttons.

And remember, there will be a GRAND PRIZE WINNER, with an even more valuable MOE prize. The winner's name will be drawn from all of the daily prize winners at the end of the contest, probably on or about March 10.

So, for those of you who haven't yet won, there's still plenty of time to be a winner. Go to www.moe365.org and click on the Where is GizMOE link. Remember to list the place name and the location name. For example, The Space Needle, Seattle Washington. You must have both correct to be a winner.

Even if you have won once, you can win again and thus increase your chances for the Grand Prize, and have more unique buttons to trade!

Good luck to all!

[Bill Enslen]

March 15: Correct Answer: Fenway Park, Boston, MA
Winner: Jon K, Team 173

March 16: Correct Answer: Infinity Room, The House on the Rock, Spring Green, WI
No winner.

March 17 Correct Answer: Christ the Redeemer (Statue) (or Statue of Christ) (Corcovado Hill / Mountain) Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Winner: Jeff Rice, Team 1359

March 18: Correct Answer: Transamerica Building, San Francisco, CA
Winner: Tyler Wetzel, Team 116 (Second time winner)

March 19: Correct Answer: Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Winner: Nelson Green, Team 1108 (Second time winner)

March 20, 21, 22: Technical problems, no pictures were available, and thus, no winners.

Congratulations to all of our secondweek winners, who have been individually notified by e-mail.

We're back online now with a whole new crop pf pictures for the third week of the contest! Don't forget to enter every day. You too could be a winner of a pair of limited edition MOE pins, and, if you pick up your prize at our pit at the Championship Event, a pair of coveted MOEstix!

And remember, the more times you win, the better your chances at winning the GRAND PRIZE at the end of the contest!

Go to www.moe365.org now!

[tkwetzel]

And remember, there will be a GRAND PRIZE WINNER, with an even more valuable MOE prize. The winner's name will be drawn from all of the daily prize winners at the end of the contest, probably on or about March 10.

You posted this on March 21. Is it supposed to say April 10? Some clarification would be nice.

[Bill Enslen]

You posted this on March 21. Is it supposed to say April 10? Some clarification would be nice.

You're absolutely correct. I meant April 10, or somewhere in that vicinity. Another case where the hand is faster than the brain.

[Bill Enslen]

March 23: Correct Answer: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN
Winner: Jeremiah Plageman, Team 386

March 24: Correct Answer: Whistler's Mother painting, Musee d'Orsay, Paris France
Winner: Jeremiah Plageman, Team 386 (Second time winner)

March 25 Correct Answer: John Hancock Center, Chicago, IL
Winner: Jon Kentfield, Team 173 (Second time winner)

March 26: Correct Answer: Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
Winner: Tom Ham, Team ???

March 27: Correct Answer: New York Public Library, New York City, NY
Winner: Chris MacCoy, Team 173

March 28: Correct Answer: Ellis Island, New York City, NY
Winner: Jon Kentfield, Team 173 (Third time winner)

March 29: Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY
Winner: Mark Lemons, Team 1364

Congratulations to all of our third week winners, who have been individually notified by e-mail.

The fourth week of the contest is now in progress! Don't forget to enter every day. You too could be a winner of a pair of limited edition MOE pins, and, if you pick up your prize at our pit at the Championship Event, a pair of coveted MOEstix!

Coming next week: A special version of the contest for the fifth and final week of Where in the World is GizMOE today, and the announcement of what the GRAND PRIZE will be!

The more times you win, the better your chances at winning the GRAND PRIZE at the end of the contest! But why keep all the fun to yourself? Tell all your teammates to enter!

Go to www.moe365.org now!

[Elgin Clock]

I hope my guess was right today!! ;-) :rolleyes:

[Jon K.]

I hope my guess was right today!! ;-) :rolleyes:
Wait you know the location of the red x box. LOL

[piotrm]

Wait you know the location of the red x box. LOL
Hmm.That is also what I have been seeing on that page for a couple of days or more now. When I tried getting the image itself and opening it, I got errors about some bad format or something like that.

[Bill Enslen]

Sorry about the problems with the picture today. We loaded a new week's worth of pictures last night, and like downloading autonomous code to the robot, sometimes things don't go right and you don't find out until the robot is on the field. We'll correct the problem as soon as we can locate our web guru. He's in an after-school activity and can't be reached.

[Bill Enslen]

Sorry it took so long to correct the problems, but we had to wait until a meeting night to fix the problems. Somehow, all of this week's picture files were corrupted.

The good news is, we're now back in operation with a new set of pictures, so drop on by www.moe365.org and submit your answers!

[Bill Enslen]

We've now entered the LAST WEEK of the Where is GizMOE contest, and we're going to kick it up a notch. BAM!

GizMOE has been seen around the world at some famous and some not-so-famous landmarks. But for the LAST WEEK of the contest, GizMOE will travel only within the good ol' US of A on his Farewell (to the contest, hope to have a) Victory (in Atlanta) Tour. BAM!

Every Day This Week, GizMOE will be pictured at a location within the continental boundaries of the USA which has some kind of a connection to FIRST. Your task is to identify the connection to FIRST, along with the usual identification of the place and location of where GizMOE happens to be that day.

For example, if GizMOE were pictured in front of the San Diego Zoo, the correct place and location would be San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA; and the correct connection to FIRST would be San Diego hosted a Regional Competition this year.

So, browse on over to www.moe365.org and play the game!

Oh, I almost forgot. I promised to reveal the GRAND PRIZE today. OK, here it is:

The GRAND PRIZE is a MOE Shirt.

What's that? I promised it would be unique, and a number of people already have traded for MOE shirts?

OK, you're right. How about a MOE Bandana?

What? Still not unique enough? OK, OK. I've got a soft heart.

The GRAND PRIZE will be ...

a MOE Shirt, a MOE Bandana, AND a MOE Wobblie !!!

What's a MOE Wobblie?

You must not have been to the New Jersey or the Philadelphia Regionals.

You DO know about MOEstix, right? Our oh-so-obnoxiously-loud clapping stick noisemakers that were banned by new FIRST rules this year?

I thought so.

Well, MOE Wobblies are our replacement for MOEstix as our obnoxious-but-still-within-the-rules noise makers. You can actually sit right next to them and not need ear plugs, but if you're across the stadium from the MOE Folks, you'll definitely notice them!

And YOU, as our GRAND PRIZE WINNER (should your name be drawn from the hat containing the name of every daily prize winner painstakingly written on individual pieces of paper -- one name per piece of paper -- and folded ever-so-carefully into smaller and smaller pieces until they cannot be folded any smaller, and then shaken, not stirred, before being placed in an empty mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's doorstep for 365 seconds <invisible hand slaps the writer on the face> ...), will be the only person outside of the MOE Team who will have a MOE Wobblie.

How's that for a GRAND PRIZE?

Well, what are you waiting for??? Go to www.moe365.org and enter today. Tomorrow may be too late!

(contest ends 8:30 p.m.Monday, April 12. no purchase necessary to win. all rights reserved)

Where will GizMOE end his tour?

[Bill Enslen]

March 30: Technical Problems; no picture, no winner

March 31: Correct Answer: Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Winner: Mark Lemons, Team 1364 (Second time winner)

April 1 Correct Answer: Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, NV
No Winner, as no correct answers were submitted

April 2: Correct Answer: Biltmore Mansion, Asheville, NC
Winner: Jeremiah Plageman, Team 386 (Third time winner!)

April 3: The Most Correct Answer: Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI. Also acceptable: Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, HI, or Punchbowl, Honolulu, HI. (Punchbowl is the name by which the Honolulu Memorial is known locally)
Nobody had both elements of the answer correct (nobody included Honolulu). So, the winner of the prize for the day was selected from those who had the most correct answer.
Winner: Eric, Team 461

April 4: Correct Answer: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD, (Oriole Park or Camden Yards also was acceptable).
Winner: Chris Collareta, Team 311

April 5: Correct Answer: Great Wall of China, China. (specific location within China virtually impossible to discern)
Winner: Anthony Quivers, Team 768
Kudos to Chris MacCoy, Team 173, for adding that The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from orbiting space vehicles

Congratulations to all of our fourth week winners, who will be notified individually by e-mail.

The fifth week and final week of the contest is now well under way! Don't forget to enter every day. You too could be a winner of a pair of numbered, limited edition MOE buttons, and, if you pick up your prize at our pit at the Championship Event, a pair of coveted MOEstix! And I GUARANTEE that you will have no problem finding our pit!!!

Remember, this week all entries must also correctly identify the relationship of the picture to FIRST (see previous post)

Go to www.moe365.org now!

I wonder where GizMOE will end up? Hmm ...

[Elgin Clock]

Kudos to Chris MacCoy, Team 173, for adding that The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from orbiting space vehicles
Actually, I believe I just saw something on TV which proved that you could not see it from space..

I guess we will have to ask Dave Lavery. Maybe he knows.

[Astronouth7303]

Haven't a clue where your GizMOE is, but our Gizmo is in my living room. But I do know something: That's a big 'bot. look at the windows! And how'd he get up there? Did he fall off the top?

[Bill Enslen]

For his final week, GizMOE chose to make a special tour of the USA, and each stop would have some connection to FIRST. So, how have you done so far guessing where GizMOE was?

On Tuesday. GizMOE was placed high atop the Great Dome at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts, where Woodie Flowers is a professor.

On Wednesday, GizMOE travelled up the road to Manchester NH, where he was pictured in front of the Steam Engine inside of Dean Kamen's house.

On Thursday, GizMOE borrowed Dean's helicopter so he could hang from the Gargoyles high atop the Chrysler Building in New York City, home to the New York City Regional. He chose the Chrysler building partly because he thought it would be neat to hang from the Gargoyles, but also because the Chrysler Corporation (more properly, now, Daimler Chrysler) is a sponsor to a number of FIRST teams.

If you got all three of those correct, and were following the path that GizMOE took across the country, you could have guessed at where GizMOE was hanging on Friday. He took a short drive down I-95 to hang on top of the New Jersey Capitol Building in Trenton, NJ, the new home of the Johnson & Johnson New Jersey Regional Competition.

Is there a pattern here? Hmm ...

Yesterday (Saturday), GizMOE paused at the remains of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, PA, which hosts GizMOE's favorite Regional Event, the Philadelphia Allliance Regional Competition.

I wonder where GizMOE is headed??? Only two days left until the contest ends.

Head on over to www.moe365.org and see if you can figure out where he is today!

[Greg Needel]

so who won in the last week......

[Bill Enslen]

I don't yet know who won the last five days. I can't find my password to look at the database :(

I'll post all of the last week's winners at about 9:30 p.m. (EDT) Monday night. That's about an hour after the contest ends.

[Bill Enslen]

The correct answers for the first five days of the fifth and final week are posted above.

April 6: Winner: Greg Ross, Team 339

April 7: Winner: Mark Rizzo, Team 173

April 8: Winner: Greg Needel, Team 73

April 9" Winner: Carl Agnew, Team 461

April 10: Winner: Michael Dessingue, Team 250

April 11: GizMOE took a detour from his apparent path down the east coast of the United States to visit the friendly folks in the midwest.
Do you suppose he did this to throw everyone off on where he was headed next?
Correct Answer: Renaissance Center, Detroit MI.
The Ren Cen is owned and primarily occupied by GM, sponsor of a number of FIRST Teams, and Detroit is home to a FIRST Regional.
Winner: Gina Sweet, Team 67

April 12: Correct Answer: The Georgia Dome, Atlanta GA.
The Georgia Dome is home to the 2004, 2005, and 2006 FIRST Championship Event
(Was there ever any doubt in anyone's mind where GizMOE would end up on the last day of his tour???)
Winner: Joseph Matt, Team 384

Congratulations to each of the above daily winners, who each have won a pair of numbered, limited-edition MOE Buttons.

If the winners pick up their buttons at the Team 365 Pit area at the Championship Event, They also receive a pair of MOEstix!

And now, the answer you all are waiting for ...

The winner of the GRAND PRIZE!

Which is,

of course,

a MOE Shirt, a MOE Bandana, and a MOE Wobblie!!!

And so, without any further ado ..

and with all the ruffles, flourishes, and blaring of trumpets that an event of this magnitude deserves ...

The winner of the Grand Prize ...

is ...

Greg Ross, Team 330

Congratulations, Greg! You can pick up your grand prize at 3:30 p.m. from the sea of MOE green T-shirts in the stands in front of the Einstein Championship field in the Georgia Dome. Just ask anyone in a MOE shirt where I am, and I'll have your prize then.

[Greg Ross]

Congratulations, Greg! You can pick up your grand prize at 3:30 p.m. from the sea of MOE green T-shirts in the stands in front of the Einstein Championship field in the Georgia Dome.
Yay me! Now what day would that be? I'm guessing Saturday, since that's the only day on the agenda when something is scheduled to happen at 3:30.

[Joe Ross]

The winner of the Grand Prize ...

is ...

Greg Ross, Team 330

How come you have all the luck?

Anyway, I'll have to settle with beating Andy with my MOEstix, since I can't clap with them.

[CrazyCarl461]

I'll have to settle with beating Andy with my MOEstix, since I can't clap with them.
I, for one, intend on clapping my MOEstix as much as I feel like (outdoors, of course). I've always wondered what is was like to own and clap MOEstix and soon I will know! As if I wasn't excited enough as it is to attend nationals, now I get MOEstix! :ahh:

[Kevin Kolodziej]

I think those of us that get our MOEStix in Atlanta should have a little get together at some point and do one last "Go MOE!" stick cheer...outdoors of course :p

Kev

[Joe Matt]

April 12: Correct Answer: The Georgia Dome, Atlanta GA.
The Georgia Dome is home to the 2004, 2005, and 2006 FIRST Championship Event
(Was there ever any doubt in anyone's mind where GizMOE would end up on the last day of his tour???)
Winner: Joseph Matt, Team 384



FINALLY! I guess I was the only one who submitted one that day. ;p
Also, I'll be picking my button up in the pits, since, well, we are pitted next to you this year. :D

[Bill Enslen]

Yay me! Now what day would that be? I'm guessing Saturday, since that's the only day on the agenda when something is scheduled to happen at 3:30.

Yes, that would be Saturday. Silly me for omitting that vital bit of information.

Also, Greg, as the Grand Prize Winner, you will receive one extra set of GizMOE buttons, each numbered #1 of 36.

[Bill Enslen]

FINALLY! I guess I was the only one who submitted one that day. ;p

Actually, this last week of the contest, we had a significant increase in the number of people submitting answers to the game, and you were not the only one who submitted an answer that day. Most of the answers submitted were correct, although I was really puzzled as to why everyone didn't get the correct answer on the last day. I thought that would be intuitively obvious.

Also, in case anyone was wondering, the correct answers each day were numbered from 1 to n, and a random number generator (on a TI-83) was used to pick the daily winner. To select the Grand Prize winner, I reverted to the old-fashioned method of writing each daily winner's name on a piece of paper, folding each piece of paper very small, putting them all into a hat, shaking them, and getting a disinterested party (my daughter) to pick the winner. I was as surprised as the rest of you that the winner came from the last week's daily winners.

Anyway, I hope everyone had fun playing the game.

If you're near the scoring table at the Galileo field this week, see if you can catch my attention. I'd love to meet you all!

[Joe Matt]

I'll try to look for you Bill, but I have one question, can you put up all of the pictures with their answers and winners on the Where is Gizmoe page? I would like to see all the pictures since I missed some.

[Bill Enslen]

I'll try to look for you Bill, but I have one question, can you put up all of the pictures with their answers and winners on the Where is Gizmoe page? I would like to see all the pictures since I missed some.
I'll have to ask our web gurus for that one. Give us a week or so, and I'll post again when they're up. They should have no problem changing it to display a picture given a date entered by the user.

[Bill Enslen]

I think those of us that get our MOEStix in Atlanta should have a little get together at some point and do one last "Go MOE!" stick cheer...outdoors of course :p

Kev

I'm not sure how to coordinate it, but I was thinking that a good time to do this would be on the way from the Georgia Dome to the Olympic Centennial Park for the Wrap Party on Saturday afternoon. Anyone else have any ideas?

[dez250]

who should we look for in MOE's pits to obtain our "prizes".

[Greg Ross]

I wore my MOE shirt, for the FIRST time, to the gym last week. It was definitely the brightest green in the whole place. And I got more than a few strange looks ;)

[John Larock]

I wore my MOE shirt, for the FIRST time, to the gym last week. It was definitely the brightest green in the whole place. And I got more than a few strange looks ;)

Brave man - wearing a MOE shirt to the gym! Having experience over the past five years with the same basic jersey, that probably got pretty hot also.

It's easy wearing the green when you are in a large group or at a FIRST event. It's much more difficult wearing it in "public."

Did you get the hang of the MOE Wobbly? It takes a bit of practice to get the proper *annoying* sound going well.

Congratulations again on your GRAND PRIZE! Enjoy.

[Greg Ross]

Brave man - wearing a MOE shirt to the gym! Having experience over the past five years with the same basic jersey, that probably got pretty hot also.

It's easy wearing the green when you are in a large group or at a FIRST event. It's much more difficult wearing it in "public."

Did you get the hang of the MOE Wobbly? It takes a bit of practice to get the proper *annoying* sound going well.

Congratulations again on your GRAND PRIZE! Enjoy.
Yeah the shirt's warm, but not too much so. It was a little scratchy though. I'm hoping it will soften up a little in the wash.

I think I got the hang of the Wobbly. I haven't had opportunity to use it much, though.