Power

1. License Plate
   Pose your octopus with the largest prime number it can find on a license plate.

   Entrants: Octopus Prime; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious

2. Poker Money
   Show your octopus with a serial number on a dollar that can make the highest poker hand.

   Entrants: Akira; Octopus Prime; Octobert; Argonautia; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tudo Azul

3. 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.

   Entrants: Ultros; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Tentaculus

4. Numismatism
   Show your octopus with the oldest legal coin

   Entrants: Argonautia; Darwin; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Tako Yaki; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octopus Prime; Akira; Tentaculus; Ultros

5. Meta Power
   The octopus scoring zero in the most contests.

   Entrants: Tentaculus; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tako Yaki; Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Fisher; Gertrude Gardener; Ultros; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Captain Cephalopod; Admiral Octopeg; Argonautia; Alizarin; Linus; Oct; Cephegerae; daZe; Octobert; Crazy 8; Senator Shoctopus; Stubford; Orly; Clone IV; Akira; Octomus; Charybdis; Darktopus; Darwin; Silk; Octavia; Bimaculoides; Stromboli Verdi da Carpaccio; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Otto

6. Popularity
   Demonstrate your octopus's popularity by having its picture taken with the largest number of people giving it a thumbs-up.

   Entrants: Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Argonautia; Tentaculus; Darwin; Octopus Prime; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tudo Azul

7. Pagenum
   Find the word "octopus" printed on the highest-numbered page in a book.

   Entrants: Fisher; Octopus Prime; Tentaculus; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Darwin; Tako Yaki; Argonautia; Tudo Azul

8. Scrabble II
   (Strict Split) Photograph your octopus with a commercial sign with the highest *valid* Scrabble scoring word. (Scoring site here)

   Entrants: Tako Yaki; Darwin; Tudo Azul; Akira; Octopus Prime; Tentaculus; Captain Cephalopod; Crazy 8; Gertrude Gardener; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Charybdis; Ultros; Linus; Octavia; Argonautia; Octomus; Fisher; An Angry Octopus Is Me

9. Video Game
   Octopus with the highest score in a video game.

   Entrants: Gertrude Gardener; Darwin; Tako Yaki; Akira; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Tentaculus; Linus; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octobert

10. 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.)

    Entrants: Octomus; Ultros; Charybdis; Gertrude Gardener; Akira; Darwin; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Crazy 8; Octavia; Fisher; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tentaculus; Tako Yaki; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Captain Cephalopod; Tudo Azul; Linus

11. 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.

    Entrants: Fisher; Ultros; Orly; Bimaculoides; Darwin; Akira; Octopus Prime; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Crazy 8; Tentaculus; Captain Cephalopod; Argonautia; Tako Yaki; Gertrude Gardener; Tudo Azul; Clone IV

12. Address
    Take a picture of your octopus with the largest house/building street number available.

    Entrants: Darwin; Octopus Prime; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Linus; Akira; Argonautia; Tentaculus; Fisher; Tako Yaki; Silk; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Orly; Octomus; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tudo Azul

13. Altitude I
    (Flying Split) Take a picture of your Octopus at the highest possible altitude, while flying.

    Entrants: Octopus Prime; Tudo Azul; Octomus; Argonautia; Darwin; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Stubford; Silk; Ultros; Akira; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Tako Yaki; Octopod of Allergen Doom

14. Far Away
    Take a picture of your octopus as far as possible from its registered address

    Entrants: Octomus; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Octobert; Akira; Orly; Charybdis; Tudo Azul; Bimaculoides; Octopus Prime; Octopod of Allergen Doom; daZe; Argonautia; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Gertrude Gardener; Otto; Stubford; Fisher; Tako Yaki; Darwin; Ultros; Silk; Tentaculus

Essence

1. Strength
   Octopodes are quite strong for their size. Demonstrate your octopus's great strength!

   Entrants: Tako Yaki; Octopus Prime; Tudo Azul

2. Ink
   Demonstrate your octopus' proficiency with ink.

   Entrants: Argonautia; Octopus Prime; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octopod of Allergen Doom

3. 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.

   Entrants: Argonautia; Octopus Prime; Octomus; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Ultros; Silk; Octopod of Allergen Doom

4. Chandelier
   Statistically, in addition to sitting on heads, octopodes seem to like chandeliers. Send in a photo of your octopus with the Best Chandelier!

   Entrants: Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Tentaculus; Fisher; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Argonautia; Silk; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Ultros

5. Meta Essence
   The octopus with the most glamorous glamour photo.

   Entrants: Admiral Octopeg; Octopus Prime; Gertrude Gardener; Tudo Azul; Argonautia; Darktopus; Octavia; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Oct; daZe; Ultros; Octobert; Captain Cephalopod; Alizarin; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Crazy 8; Linus; Cephegerae; Senator Shoctopus; Fisher; Stubford; Tako Yaki; Orly; Clone IV; Akira; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octomus; Charybdis; Darwin; Silk; Bimaculoides; Stromboli Verdi da Carpaccio; Tentaculus; Otto

6. 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.

   Entrants: Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Tentaculus; Darwin; Tako Yaki; Tudo Azul; daZe; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Fisher

7. 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.

   Entrants: Fisher; Octopus Prime; Darwin; Argonautia; Akira; Ultros; Silk; Tako Yaki; Tentaculus; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Tudo Azul; An Angry Octopus Is Me

8. 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.

   Entrants: Tudo Azul; Oct; Octopus Prime; Tentaculus; Argonautia; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Linus; Tako Yaki; Fisher

9. Queposkiving
   Send a picture of your octopus with the best example of a queposky

   Entrants: Tudo Azul; Tako Yaki; Orly; Octopus Prime; Tentaculus; Argonautia; Octopod of Allergen Doom; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Fisher; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious

10. Maze
    Because of their intelligence and flexibility, octopodes are very good at solving mazes.

    Entrants: Tako Yaki; Orly; Tentaculus; Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Octomus; Argonautia; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Gertrude Gardener; Ultros; Octopod of Allergen Doom

11. 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.

    Entrants: Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Oct; Tako Yaki; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octavia; Darwin; Orly; Linus; Tentaculus; daZe; Charybdis; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Silk; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Clone IV; Gertrude Gardener; Tudo Azul

12. Aquatic
    Demonstrate that your octopus is at home in an aquatic environment.

    Entrants: Octomus; Octopus Prime; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Argonautia; Akira; Clone IV; Tako Yaki; Darwin; Fisher; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Captain Cephalopod; Crazy 8; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Linus; Silk; Tudo Azul; Orly; Gertrude Gardener; Tentaculus; Darktopus

13. Pedigree
    Document your octopus' suitability to be king.

    Entrants: Argonautia; Octobert; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Otto; Tako Yaki; Octomus; Clone IV; Octopus Prime; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octavia; Tentaculus; Linus; Gertrude Gardener; Darwin; Charybdis; Orly; Darktopus; Tudo Azul; Fisher

14. Master of Eight
    Demonstrate your mastery of Eightness.

    Entrants: Senator Shoctopus; Linus; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Fisher; Octopus Prime; Clone IV; Darktopus; Akira; Tudo Azul; Tentaculus; Gertrude Gardener; Darwin; Argonautia; Tako Yaki; Octopod of Allergen Doom

Misc

1. Egalitarian Thingy
   Send in a photo of your octopus with the best thing. Bonus points for famous things.

   Entrants: Octomus; Argonautia; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Fisher; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Ultros

2. Rainbow
   Why are there so many songs about rainbows? Demonstrate your octopus's rainbow connections.

   Entrants: Octopod of Allergen Doom; Fisher; Tako Yaki; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Tudo Azul; daZe; Tentaculus

3. Meta Loyalty
   In order to campaign for the loyalty vote, submit the best campaign poster.

   Entrants: Tentaculus; Octopus Prime; Octopod of Allergen Doom

4. Meta Miscellany
   Submit your own contest name and description, and a picture of your octopus being the best in it.

   Entrants: Fisher; Octopus Prime; Tako Yaki; Tentaculus; Silk; Argonautia; Tudo Azul; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Akira

5. Fun
   While the quest for Kingship is difficult, octopodes should enjoy themselves. Show off your octopus having the most fun.

   Entrants: Octopod of Allergen Doom; Argonautia; Tako Yaki; Silk; Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Akira; Fisher; Tentaculus; Darwin

6. Cooking
   Demonstrate your octopus's ability to feed a hungry family, or the multitudes!

   Entrants: Tako Yaki; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Ultros; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tudo Azul; Akira

7. Ballistic II
   (Death-defying split) Send your octopus on the longest possible ballistic trajectory. Clearly document the distances involved.

   Entrants: Argonautia; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Tentaculus; Octopod of Allergen Doom; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Tako Yaki

8. Ballistic I
   (Safe split) Safely send your octopus on the longest possible ballistic trajectory. Clearly document the distances involved.

   Entrants: Argonautia; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Tentaculus; Tudo Azul; Octopus Prime; Tako Yaki

9. lolctopus
   Best lolctopus (see lolcat)

   Entrants: Bimaculoides; Akira; Octopus Prime; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Argonautia; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Darwin; Tentaculus; Tako Yaki; Ultros; Octomus; Gertrude Gardener; Linus; Tudo Azul; Octobert

10. Costume
    The octopus with the best Halloween costume

    Entrants: Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octopus Prime; Argonautia; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Silk; Akira; Clone IV; Tudo Azul; Tentaculus; Tako Yaki

11. Ennui
    The octopus most mired in ennui

    Entrants: Tudo Azul; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Octopus Prime; Otto; Tako Yaki; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Argonautia; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Ultros; Octavia; Akira; Clone IV; Gertrude Gardener; Tentaculus

12. Hunting Prowess
    Demonstrate your octopus' hunting ability.

    Entrants: Octopus Prime; Akira; Clone IV; Tudo Azul; Argonautia; Orly; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Darktopus; Linus; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tentaculus; Bimaculoides; Fisher; Darwin; Tako Yaki; Gertrude Gardener; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious

13. Famous Friend
    Take a picture of your octopus with a famous person. The more famous, the better.

    Entrants: An Angry Octopus Is Me; Argonautia; Otto; Orly; Tentaculus; Gertrude Gardener; Octopus Prime; Tudo Azul; Darwin; Linus; Crazy 8; Captain Cephalopod; Octomus; Ultros; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Bimaculoides; Darktopus; Tako Yaki; Fisher

Fellowship

1. 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.

   Entrants: Octobert,Octopod of Allergen Doom; Charybdis,Octopus Prime; Linus,Octopus Prime; Akira,Linus,Tudo Azul; Charybdis,Tudo Azul; Argonautia,Tentaculus

2. Sports
   Show your octopodes's teamwork in a sporting event!

   Entrants: Oct,Octopus Prime,Stubford; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul

3. Meta Fellowship
   Your octopus's cultural diversity is measured with an arcane algorithm that rewards cooperation with octopodes who are less popular.

   Entrants: Tentaculus; Octopus Prime; Tudo Azul; Clone IV; Darwin; Octobert; Captain Cephalopod; An Angry Octopus Is Me; Admiral Octopeg; Ultros; Argonautia; Alizarin; Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Linus; Oct; Cephegerae; Crazy 8; daZe; Senator Shoctopus; Fisher; Tako Yaki; Orly; Akira; Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octomus; Gertrude Gardener; Charybdis; Darktopus; Silk; Octavia; Bimaculoides; Stromboli Verdi da Carpaccio; Stubford; Otto

4. Far Apart II
   (Telecommuting) Show two octopodes in one picture, the farthest distance apart. Both need not be physically present. Document the distances involved.

   Entrants: Octomus,Tudo Azul; Darwin,Octopus Prime; Octopus Prime,Otto; Octomus,Ultros; Argonautia,Tentaculus

5. Far Apart I
   (Physically Present) Show two octopodes in one picture, the farthest distance apart. Both must be physically present. Document the distances involved.

   Entrants: Octopus Prime,Stubford; Octopus Prime,Silk; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Darwin,Octopus Prime

6. 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).

   Entrants: Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Darwin,Octopus Prime; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Stubford,Tentaculus; Gertrude Gardener,Tudo Azul

7. Story
   Use a group of octopodes to re-enact a classic story (or a good scene from one)

   Entrants: Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Alizarin,An Angry Octopus Is Me,Darwin,Oct,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tudo Azul; Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Octobert,Orly,Tudo Azul

8. Teaching
   One octopus teaches interesting lessons to other octopodes.

   Entrants: Admiral Octopeg,Alizarin,An Angry Octopus Is Me,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Darwin,Oct,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Akira,Argonautia; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Octobert,Orly,Tudo Azul; Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8; Captain Cephalopod,Cephegerae,Crazy 8,Oct,Tako Yaki; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul

9. 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.

   Entrants: Argonautia,Tentaculus; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious; Clone IV,Darwin; Octobert,Tudo Azul; Akira,Linus; Darwin,Octopus Prime

10. Stack
    The tallest stack of octopodes

    Entrants: Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Octobert,Orly,Tudo Azul; Admiral Octopeg,Alizarin,An Angry Octopus Is Me,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Darwin,Oct,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; An Angry Octopus Is Me,Clone IV,Octopus Prime,Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Alizarin,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tentaculus; Captain Cephalopod,Cephegerae,Crazy 8,Oct,Octavia,Tako Yaki; Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Tudo Azul; Alizarin,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Octopus Prime,Stubford; Cephegerae,Oct,Octavia,Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octopus Prime,Silk; Stubford,Tentaculus; Oct,Octopod of Allergen Doom; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Octomus,Ultros; Darwin,Octobert,Octopus Prime,Tentaculus

11. Cooperation
    Multiple octopodes cooperate together to accomplish something no single octopus could do alone!

    Entrants: Cephegerae,Oct,Octavia,Octopod of Allergen Doom; Octopus Prime,Tentaculus; Admiral Octopeg,Alizarin,An Angry Octopus Is Me,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Darwin,Oct,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Octomus,Ultros; Oct,Octopus Prime,Silk,Stubford; Captain Cephalopod,Cephegerae,Crazy 8,Oct,Tako Yaki; Akira,Argonautia; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Tudo Azul; Akira,Darwin,Otto

12. Movie Poster
    Recreate a famous movie poster using multiple octopodes

    Entrants: Stubford,Tentaculus; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious,Tentaculus; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Alizarin,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Octopus Prime,Stubford; Bimaculoides,Darktopus,Senator Shoctopus,Stromboli Verdi da Carpaccio; Gertrude Gardener,Orly,Tudo Azul

13. Friends
    Fit as many registered octopodes as possible into the same picture. (The more the better.)

    Entrants: Admiral Octopeg,Alizarin,An Angry Octopus Is Me,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Darwin,Oct,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Alizarin,Captain Cephalopod,Crazy 8,Octopus Prime,Stubford,Tentaculus; An Angry Octopus Is Me,Clone IV,Octopus Prime,Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Captain Cephalopod,Cephegerae,Crazy 8,Oct,Octavia,Tako Yaki; Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Octobert,Orly,Tudo Azul; Clone IV,Gertrude Gardener,Linus,Tudo Azul; Alizarin,Octopus Prime,Tentaculus,Tudo Azul; Cephegerae,Oct,Octavia,Octopod of Allergen Doom; Stubford,Tentaculus; Octomus,Ultros; An Angry Octopus Is Me,Tudo Azul; An Angry Octopus Is Me,Linus; Argonautia,Perspicacious Nanaoctopacious,Tentaculus; Tako Yaki,Tudo Azul; Gertrude Gardener,Tudo Azul; Akira,Darwin,Otto; Captain Cephalopod,Clone IV,Fisher,Tentaculus; Octopus Prime,Silk

Loyalty

1. Send your octopus's vote to octopodes@mit.edu