Coming in July: Shutterbee 2017!
The Shutterbee team is pleased to announce that we’ve begun preparing for this year’s Shutterbee event, to be held in July 2017! Check below the cut for more details, including how you can help!
What is a Shutterbee? The TSW Shutterbee is an annual screenshot scavenger hunt that takes place in The Secret World. Participants earn points by taking and submitting screenshots of items, emotes, locations, or situations on a given list of tasks. Every participant is guaranteed to win a prize, plus the faction* with the most overall points gets bragging rights for the year!
Who runs the Shutterbee? The Shutterbee team consists of Kyo, Gran, and Xie. Gran is the blue beret behind @councilofvenice, Xie masterminds @fuckyeahtsw, and Kyo is just a person who loves organizing things. None of us are affiliated with Funcom in any way, shape, or form, and we’re all volunteers who just want to bring a little fun to the community.
When is the Shutterbee? This year, the Shutterbee will officially commence at 12:01 am on July 1, 2017, and will end at midnight on July 31st. Winners will be contacted to choose and receive their prizes during August.
Where can I learn more? Check out our About page and explore some of the pages on our blog! You can view last year’s task list and prizes, as well as scroll through all former submissions in our archive.
How can I help?
Submit a task for the task list! Please remember that no task can require people to utilize pay-only content (such as some of the issues), nor can any task require anyone to enter a PVP zone. Some of our favorites from past years included “go on a date at the date farm” and “do a headstand on top of the roller coaster in the Savage Coast”. If you had a favorite from previous years, feel free to let us know!
Feedback, feedback, feedback! If there was something you loved or hated in a previous year, tell us so that we can either do it again or make it better this year. For example, in previous years we got a lot of feedback about the faction prizes and how it was unfair that the largest faction could easily win without doing as much work. This year, we’ll be evening out the playing field so that every faction has an equal chance of winning, based on how many points their top earners get.
Do you have stuff cluttering up your bank that you want to get rid of? Do you draw? Sing? Write? Want to donate prizes to the Shutterbee team? Contact us and let us know! We’re always on the hunt for cool stuff to give away to our participants!
If you’ve got any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to let us know! We’re always happy to hear from the community - after all, we’re only here because of you! Stay tuned to this blog for more announcements!
-The Shutterbee Team