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October 2019 Old Question Answerathon! Winner Willeke

To give people time to enter, this will start on October 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question asked ON OR BEFORE MARCH 31, 2019 not asked ...
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September 2019 Old Question Answerathon! Winner Willeke

To give people time to enter, this will start on September 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question asked ON OR BEFORE JUNE 30, 2019 not asked ...
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August 2019 Answerathon! Winner Willeke

To give people time to enter, this will start on August 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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The 2018 Easter Bounty Bonanza!

The 2018 Easter Bounty Bonanza Rules For the whole month of April we will be running a bounty giveaway. Users sign up and agree to place and keep three bounties live during the entire month. In other ...
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Hats are back!! Get into the annual Winterbash! 456 users have earned 1354 hats thus far!

The annual Winterbash is on again, so grab your hats while you can! Overall, Travel is currently ranked 26th. Travel's own leaderboard is visible here. Current top 5: JonathanReez - 26 hats. Mark ...
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Down memory lane: Please nominate the best answers of 2011?

We've been running for over 6 years now, and I thought we should take the opportunity to look back at the best answers. Please post an answer nominating your favourite / the best answer of 2011 (don'...
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April answerathon competition

To give people time to enter, this will start on April 1st, UTC at Midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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Proposal: Voting Bonanza

We just ended the The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza - CLOSED - mts won and it was a great success. However one thing I personally found discouraging is the low number of votes attracted ...
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The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza - CLOSED - mts won

The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bonanza Our 5 year anniversary falls on the 28th of June this year, if we consider our birth date to be the date our public beta went live. Time to celebrate this Travel....
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PROPOSAL - The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza

The Proposals Our 5 year anniversary falls on the 28th of June this year, if we consider our birth date to be the date our public beta went live. Time to celebrate this Travel.SE style - with a ...
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December double site competition around hats!

For those competitive, please simply edit the answer below when you want to 'enter' the competition. It'll simply be: whoever gets the most combined numbers of hats on Travel.SE and on Expats.SE, in ...
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The October Challenge - Here's your chance to finally answer expat questions!

As we've now got our unanswered down to <40 questions, doing pretty well, how about we spend a month helping out Expats? The winner will be the one with the most answers with upvotes on previously ...
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Bounty September competition

I propose we use some bounties during September to reduce the number of unanswered questions. So if you want in, post your name in its own answer below. The idea being that you want to have the most ...
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Graphical Answerathon 2015 - Round 1 begins on the 15th of June 2015

Rules Competition Rules To stay in the competition, you must answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive at least one upvote for your answer. For the purposes of this competition, an ...
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Competition: Graphical Answerathon - A picture speaks louder than a thousand answers

Graphical Answerathon v1.0 Building on the success of previous Answerathon competitions, here is a new competition idea which rewards the most visually creative answer. For every competition week (7 ...
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May answerathon - CLOSED - Vince won

To give people time to enter, this will start on May 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for your ...
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Travel.SE Competitions Leaderboard

Table **Person Competitions Wins** JoErNanO 6 3 Mark Mayo 5 1 Vince 5 1 mts 1 1 MeNoTalk 5 0 ...
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April Answerathon - WINNER: Mark Mayo

To give people time to enter, this will start on April 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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March Answerathon - WINNER: JoErNanO

To give people time to enter, this will start on March 1st, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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February Answerathon - last man standing competition - WINNER JoErNanO

To give people time to enter, this will start on February 6th, UTC at midnight. Rules: To stay in the competition, you must: answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote. to ...
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Competition: When will we hit 11,111 questions?

ENTRIES CLOSED - good luck everyone! You have two-ish weeks to enter, with a date and time (UTC) for when you expect us to find question 11,111 on the front page. Only three rules: write a date and ...
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Competition idea - thoughts?

I was wondering if we could get some more competition style activity into the site without affecting quality. Was thinking about a last-man-out-wins style comp where basically each day you have to ...
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