Starting Over

The All-Stars present The Hope Hunt + Race For a Cure!

This is a “treasure hunt” in Second Life. Participating merchants will hide pink Hope Roses at their locations. The rose represents hope for a cure—and we chose pink for this event because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Like most hunts, many of the merchants will be putting give-away items (“swag”) in the Roses. Unlike many hunts, merchants can place as many Roses as they choose at their location—there is no limit.

This is also a “race.” Cash prizes have been donated and will be awarded to the winners at the conclusion of the event:
First prize: L$45,000
Second prize: L$25,000
Third prize: L$10,000
This prize money has been donated anonymously, in honor of a loved one who lost the battle to cancer.

All proceeds from this event go directly to Relay for Life.

Earlier this year, we began the Hope Hunt + Race, but technical issues forced the Hunt to end. We are back, we have resolved the issues, and we are looking forward to a successful event!

There is no entry fee related to the Hope Hunt + Race. However, the merchants will purchase the Roses they place at their location(s)—and all proceeds from the sale of Roses go directly to Relay for life. (Note: Merchants who purchased Roses for the event earlier this year will receive that number of Roses for this event—and additional Roses will be available for purchase.)

We will not have a leaderboard in-world, but we will have a website that will display the leaderboard (automatically updated every three hours). We will also have a website that provides merchants with “traffic reports,” showing the number of avatars who have found Roses at each of your locations. Finally, hunters will be able to get a HUD which they can wear, which will track the number of Roses they have found; the HUD will be free.

OUR TIMELINE
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Saturday, August 15, through Friday, September 4

We will be registering merchants for the Hunt. Those interested can send an email to hopehuntrfl@yahoo.com (alternatively, contact Arete Diplomat in-world with this information). Please include the following information:
Your avatar name (the person who will be placing the Roses);
Your business name (this does NOT have to be the parcel name); and
The landing point at that location—including the sim name and the X/Y/Z coordinates of the landing spot (for example, Drumm/215/183/41).

You may register multiple locations, but each location needs to have a unique business name by which it is identified.

NO LATE REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ALLOWED
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Saturday, September 5, through Friday, September 25

Roses will be available and should be placed, prepared, and registered with the database. Merchants will receive, on Saturday, September 5, the number of Roses they purchased for the original event; additional Roses will be available for those who would like more, and for those merchants who have joined the Hunt.

ROSES MUST BE REGISTERED WITH THE DATABASE BY SEPTEMBER 25
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Sunday, September 27, through Saturday, October 17

The Hope Hunt + Race will be conducted over a three-week period. The Hunt will begin at 10:00 SLT on Sunday, September 27, and will continue through Saturday, October 17.

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INFORMATION FOR MERCHANTS

There are a few things to pass along to our participating merchants.

1) Remember that the Hope Roses are scripted so that they turn transparent when they are registered with the database—they will reappear when the Hunt begins—and they will automatically delete themselves when the Hunt ends. This means (a) you don’t have to wait and hide all of your Roses just before the Hunt is scheduled to start—go ahead and hide them—and (b) you don’t have to worry about clean-up after the event ends.

2) For this event, the Roses will actually rename themselves once they are registered with the database. This will make it harder for people to hunt using radar devices.

3) When a hunter clicks on a Rose, the database will be checked to see whether the hunter has clicked on that Rose before. Duplicate prizes will not be given.

4) We are making the Roses easier to load, for your give-away items. The Roses will be modifiable, so you simply edit the Rose and add your swag to the “Contents.”

5) Please consider placing quality items in the Roses as swag. We are not asking you to give away expensive items … but please attempt to offer items that will honor the cause. And remember that not every Rose has to have swag—every Rose is valuable, because of the “race” portion of this event.

6) If you have more than one Rose to hide, remember that the event should be both fun and challenging. Place approximately 1/3 of your Roses where they are easy to find; another 1/3 should be fairly easy; the final third should be harder to find. You might also want to make one of your Roses a “challenge.”

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We are excited as we prepare for this wonderful event, and we look forward to working with all of you!

Thank you all!

The Hope Hunt + Race Coordinators