New contests added to the Octopus Wars http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/ http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=License_Plate http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=License_Plate Pose your octopus with the largest prime number it can find on a license plate. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Strength http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Strength Octopodes are quite strong for their size. Demonstrate your octopus's great strength! http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Defense http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Defense Some octopodes seem to think that various entries by others have not been given enough credit. Your octopus may submit a Spirited Defense of another's entry which it thinks should have been higher, and this contest will give it another chance at points. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ink http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ink Demonstrate your octopus' proficiency with ink. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Egalitarian_Thingy http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Egalitarian_Thingy Send in a photo of your octopus with the best thing. Bonus points for famous things. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Poker_Money http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Poker_Money Show your octopus with a serial number on a dollar that can make the highest poker hand. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Sports http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Sports Show your octopodes's teamwork in a sporting event! http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Nutrition http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Nutrition Eight is the number which is best for you! Show your octopus with the nutritional info on a food package, that has the most eights on it. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Rainbow http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Rainbow Why are there so many songs about rainbows? Demonstrate your octopus's rainbow connections. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Vertebrate http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Vertebrate Octopodes are honorary vertebrates in the UK! Send in a picture of your octopus making friends with the largest living vertebrate it can find. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Chandelier http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Chandelier Statistically, in addition to sitting on heads, octopodes seem to like chandeliers. Send in a photo of your octopus with the Best Chandelier! http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Numismatism http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Numismatism Show your octopus with the oldest legal coin http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Fellowship http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Fellowship Your octopus's cultural diversity is measured with an arcane algorithm that rewards cooperation with octopodes who are less popular. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Loyalty http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Loyalty In order to campaign for the loyalty vote, submit the best campaign poster. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Miscellany http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Miscellany Submit your own contest name and description, and a picture of your octopus being the best in it. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Power http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Power The octopus scoring zero in the most contests. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Essence http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Meta_Essence The octopus with the most glamorous glamour photo. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Far_Apart_II http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Far_Apart_II (Telecommuting) Show two octopodes in one picture, the farthest distance apart. Both need not be physically present. Document the distances involved. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Far_Apart_I http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Far_Apart_I (Physically Present) Show two octopodes in one picture, the farthest distance apart. Both must be physically present. Document the distances involved. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Fun http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Fun While the quest for Kingship is difficult, octopodes should enjoy themselves. Show off your octopus having the most fun. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Good http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Good Octopodes being Good, use their powers only for good and never for evil. Demonstrate your octopus using their powers for Good, to Oppose Evil. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Popularity http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Popularity Demonstrate your octopus's popularity by having its picture taken with the largest number of people giving it a thumbs-up. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Charades http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Charades Using a word you generate here, get another octopus to guess it using only pictures of your octopus. (No writing, and don't reload excessively). http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Pagenum http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Pagenum Find the word "octopus" printed on the highest-numbered page in a book. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Cooking http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Cooking Demonstrate your octopus's ability to feed a hungry family, or the multitudes! http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Entering http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Entering Due to their squishability and flexibility, octopodes are very good at getting into small, hard-to-get-into places. Document your octopus in the best example of somewhere hard to get into. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Scrabble_II http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Scrabble_II (Strict Split) Photograph your octopus with a commercial sign with the highest *valid* Scrabble scoring word. (Scoring site here) http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Head_Sitting http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Head_Sitting Statistically, it appears that sitting on the heads of people and other octopodes is part of the Octopus Nature. Keep your octopus on your head for the greatest length of time, without the aid of string, hats, fancy hair tricks, or other fasteners. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Story http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Story Use a group of octopodes to re-enact a classic story (or a good scene from one) http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ballistic_II http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ballistic_II (Death-defying split) Send your octopus on the longest possible ballistic trajectory. Clearly document the distances involved. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Teaching http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Teaching One octopus teaches interesting lessons to other octopodes. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Queposkiving http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Queposkiving Send a picture of your octopus with the best example of a queposky http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Video_Game http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Video_Game Octopus with the highest score in a video game. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ballistic_I http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ballistic_I (Safe split) Safely send your octopus on the longest possible ballistic trajectory. Clearly document the distances involved. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Maze http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Maze Because of their intelligence and flexibility, octopodes are very good at solving mazes. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Twins http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Twins (Separated at birth!) Submit two pictures, one of each octopus, in circumstances as identical as possible. Include documentation of where each octopus is; scoring will be based on how close the pictures are in content, how far apart the octopodes are in physical space, and how complex and interesting the pictures are. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=lolctopus http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=lolctopus Best lolctopus (see lolcat) http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Scrabble_I http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Scrabble_I (Original Split) Photograph your octopus with a commercial sign with the highest-Scrabble-scoring word of eight letters or less. (Proper names ok. Scoring site here.) http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Stack http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Stack The tallest stack of octopodes http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Camouflage http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Camouflage Octopodes are masters of color-changing and camouflage to perfectly blend in with their backgrounds. Or maybe they just choose their backgrounds very carefully. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Costume http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Costume The octopus with the best Halloween costume http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ennui http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Ennui The octopus most mired in ennui http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Cooperation http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Cooperation Multiple octopodes cooperate together to accomplish something no single octopus could do alone! http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Altitude_II http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Altitude_II (Ground Split) Take a picture of your octopus at rest (on the ground or on top of a structure), at the highest possible altitude. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Aquatic http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Aquatic Demonstrate that your octopus is at home in an aquatic environment. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Address http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Address Take a picture of your octopus with the largest house/building street number available. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Altitude_I http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Altitude_I (Flying Split) Take a picture of your Octopus at the highest possible altitude, while flying. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Pedigree http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Pedigree Document your octopus' suitability to be king. http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Movie_Poster http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Movie_Poster Recreate a famous movie poster using multiple octopodes http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Master_of_Eight http://geskekelud.mit.edu/Octopus/entrants.php?name=Master_of_Eight Demonstrate your mastery of Eightness.