~ Non-Rev Challenge ~

by Tina~in_ut

My company has a contest called the Non-Rev Challenge.  (Non-Rev stands for non-revenue....meaning that we standby for the flight and don't pay anything if there is a seat available for us to fly)  Teams of 5 people visit as many as 100 different places around the world to earn points and must take a picture of themselves at each place or performing the required task.  The team with the most points gets positive space business class tickets to anywhere we fly.  Also, each team gets donations, either lump sum or per destination or per mile flown, and the total is given to the charity of the winning team's choice.  Each team has to have at least one person in each picture wearing the non-rev challenge t-shirt.  They earn more points if there are more team members in the picture.  There are five different tiers and any team completing all of the tasks in a tier earn bonus points.

Tier 1: Anywhere!  Each extra team member in the picture earns 2 extra points.  If you complete all tasks in this tier, you earn an extra 50 points.  Here are some of the 25 tasks:

• take a picture with someone with a mullet
• sliding down a fireman's pole
• with someone in a traditional geisha costume
• while volunteering at an official United Way event
• burying a team member in the sand

Tier 2: Focus! Each extra team member in the picture earns 4 extra points.  If you complete all tasks in this tier, you earn an extra 50 points.  Here are some of the 15 tasks:

• at La Brea tar pits
• doing jumping jacks in JAX
• with one of the "Mermaids on Parade"
• wearing a fake mustache with the Topiary French People

Tier 3:  In the Land of the Free!  Each extra team member in the picture earns 4 extra points.  If you complete all tasks in this tier, you earn an extra 75 points.  Here are some of the 20 tasks:

• eating marshmallows in front of the Ghostbuster's Firehouse
• straddling the Nevada/Arizona border at Hoover Dam
• standing on the glass ledge at the Skydeck at the Willis Tower
• with the world's largest shuttlecocks

Tier 4:  Across the Pond!  Each extra team member in the picture earns 8 extra points.  If you complete all tasks in this tier, you earn an extra 100 points.  Here are some of the 20 tasks:

• at the entrance gates of Christiana
• at Hagia Sophia
• at the House of Blue Tiles
• in front of the Narrowest Canal House

Tier 5:  Find Non-Rev Norman!  Each extra team member in the picture earns 8 extra points.  If you complete all tasks in this tier, you earn an extra 100 points.  This tier is the tricky one.  There are 20 pictures, some of which I have posted here, and the first thing you have to do is figure out where in the world the picture was taken and then go there and take a picture of your own.  These are the pictures that I cannot for the life of me figure out where they are.  I'm almost positive about one of them, but the others.....not a clue.  Do you have any ideas?  One of my friends is signing up for the challenge.  She did this last year and her team came in second.  I told her that I'd help her find out where these places were.  I wish I could go with her because it sounds like so much fun, but she's young and doesn't have a family, so I'll just root for her from home (and probably work for her too!).