Official Rules for the 2012 Polar Bear Challenge:

Polar Bear Challenge Dates: The Challenge will run from December 1, 2011 to February 15, 2012.

Entries: Entrants must be members in good standing of Polarbearchallenge.ning.com

If you have not done so, change the name of your channel here to match your YouTube channel to avoid any confusion. Upper right of this page you will see "settings" click that and then under "Full Name" type in the name of your YouTube channel.

All videos for entry must be posted on your page here via link or embed from YouTube. The time from the YouTube date stamp will be official. (If you are having a problem doing the embed or link contact an admin here to show you how.)

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Qualifying Vehicles: The ride must be made on a two or three wheel motorcycle or scooter/moped 49cc or larger.

Qualifying Temperature: Official rides must be made at a temperature outdoors of 32 degrees Fahrenheit /0 degrees Celcius or lower.  The temperature must be shown at the beginning  of the ride by ambient thermometer (either alcohol/mercury) or digital.  IR (laser) thermometer readings are not accurate for air temperature measurements and will not be accepted for entries.   Temperature of digital thermometers will be rounded using math rounding. (Example 32.4 will be considered 32 and 32.5 will be considered 33.)

Qualifying Ride Duration: The ride part of the video will last a total of three minutes or longer. Intros and end credits don't count as part of the three minutes. The administration reserves the right to limit video entries to first, 7 minutes, and then if necessary, 5 minutes at its sole discretion. This rule will only be put into effect if watching all the videos becomes too much for one volunteer judge to reasonably complete. It is requested that each entrant make reasonable effort to keep the entries to below the 7 minute mark.

For the miles category, Starting and ending odometer readings must be shown and spoken.

One entry posted per day maximum.

Rewards: (1) If you have completed three qualifying rides as decided by an official judge of "The Polar Bear Challenge" you will be considered a member and "Polar Bear." (2) We have gone to a points system this year with 32 degrees earning one point per mile and each degree colder adding .1 points per mile. Categories, lowest temp, most rides and most miles will still be tracked and recorded for those who care about the stats. Any rewards such as stickers will be taken care of by anyone designated by the judge.

It is your responsibility to call to attention of the judge(s) any videos you make or corrections in stats before the last day of competition.

Points will be a simple count of each mile times the temperature factor described above.

Temperature will be ranked lowest to highest achieved by each
person competing.

Rides will be a simple total count.

Miles / Kilometers will be a total with each ride rounded to the nearest mile using math rounding .5 rounded up and .4 rounded down.

Spam or harassing behavior will result in suspension or banning.