Photo Contests: Duel Masters’ Bigfoot One Ends, “Champ Sightings” Begins
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 3rd, 2006
Today is the deadline, February 3rd, 2006, for the Duel Masters™ 2005 Photo Contest. You have until Midnight Eastern (9 PM Pacific) to email your photo (see rules here) to this email address. Remember, they are going to give away $5000, $2500, and three $500 prizes, and winners will be announced by February 20th.
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Meanwhile, in Burlington, the "Vermont Lake Monsters," a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Washington Nationals, have started their own photo contest.
The mascot of the Vermont Lake Monsters is "Champ," known to cryptozoologists, of course, as the cryptids inhabiting Lake Champlain. So their promotional photographic contest is naturally called "Champ Sightings."
From their press release, they proclaim:
The Vermont Lake Monsters are asking their fans to take along their favorite Lake Monsters gear and apparel on vacation or travel, snap a picture with a famous landmark and then send the photo to the team to be eligible to win one of three prizes. The more interesting the photo, the more likely it will win.
All entries will be placed online in the "Champ Sightings" photo gallery and will be automatically qualified to win one of the three prizes that will be award at the end of the 2006 season. The grand prize will be two General Admission tickets for the 2007 season, while second place is a $100 spending spree at the Lake Monsters Locker Room Store and third place is an authentic Vermont Lake Monsters fitted cap.
Fans can send their photos to the team on-line via email or by mail to Vermont Lake Monsters, 1 Main Street Suite 4, Winooski, Vermont 05404.
Go here for more information and complete rules for the contest.
The "Champ Sightings" contest has smaller money prizes than the Duel Masters™ 2005 Photo Contest, but the combination of the two now covers a universe of cryptids – Bigfoot, Yeti, Nessie, and now Champ.
Enjoy.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
