If you live in metro Detroit, you’ve probably heard about this little competition called the Chevy South by Southwest (SXSW) road trip challenge that I am participating in, along with seven other metro Detroiters.
We’ve been talking, tweeting, posting, sharing (you name it) about the road trip for a few weeks now. Maybe you’re sick of hearing about it. But hopefully, you want to know what you can do to help support Detroit’s two teams – Team Motown and Team High Five.
Team Motown member Kyle Stuef had to miss our fiesta, but he was there in spirit!
Unlike last year, the community has zero say in determining the winner. Chevy has chosen a group of judges, and those judges are using this Unique-o-Meter to score what we produce from our challenges:
1 – Seriously?! (not at all unique)
2 – Meh (effort is there, but not too original)
3 – Neither here nor there (middle ground)
4 – So close, yet… so close (pretty unique)
5 – Legen… dary (very unique)
We know there are 11 challenges in total (plus the option of three bonus challenges, where we can do whatever the heck we want), and we’ll have a limited amount of time to complete those challenges. But in terms of what those challenges are exactly – yah, we won’t know until they drop the bombs on us during the road trip.
We may be frenemies, but we gals on the Detroit teams have nothin’ but love for each other.
So, there may be a way you can support us. We really won’t know until we start the trip. On behalf of Team Motown, I want to thank everyone who has already shared words of encouragement, commented on our blog, retweeted us, liked and commented on our Facebook page, etc. It means a lot to know that we have an entire community behind us. In case you haven’t seen some of our pages and networks, here are all the ways to stay connected with our teams during the next few days:
Team Motown
http://motownsxsw.com/
http://www.facebook.com/teammotownsxsw
http://twitter.com/motownsxsw
http://www.flickr.com/photos/motownsxsw/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TeamMotownSXSW/
#motownsxsw
Team High Five
http://highfivesxsw.com/
http://www.facebook.com/highfivesxsw
http://twitter.com/highfivesxsw
http://www.flickr.com/photos/highfivesxsw/
http://www.youtube.com/user/HighFiveSXSW
#highfivesxsw
See ya’ll after Austin!
Photos courtesy of Team High Five