Prizes for the team with the most points at the end of GISHWHES have included a trip to Scotland for a slumber party with Collins and a trip to Vancouver for a "Viking surprise". While literal interpretations of prompts are preferred, judges will sometimes award points for especially creative responses.
Teams then submit photos or videos of themselves completing the prompts at the contest's website, receiving points for each item completed. On the first day of the week-long competition, a list is posted on the GISHWHES website with over 150 different tasks for competitors to complete during the hunt, which Collins and his friends, including co-coordinator Jean Louis Alexander, have devised prior to the beginning of the competition. On November 19, 2022, Misha Collins announced that he was officially putting GISH events on hold for the time being, saying he needed to focus his energy elsewhere. The contest broke two additional world records in 2013: the longest safety pin chain, measuring 1,901.8 metres (6,239.5 ft), and the largest online photo album of hugs, totaling 108,121 images.
In 2012, it broke its own record with 14,580 participants, representing 69 different countries. The inaugural event, categorized by Guinness World Records as a "media scavenger hunt", broke the record for the largest scavenger hunt of its kind. He hoped to use GISHWHES to encourage participants "to do good in the world". According to Collins, the primary reason for developing the competition was that he "loved the idea of thousands of people from all over the world connecting to create incredible things". He established the event's website and gave it its name, the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, calling its acronym, GISHWHES, "the ugliest acronym the world has ever seen". Ĭollins enjoyed this exercise so much that he decided to create an official scavenger hunt in 2011. One successful prompt, for example, challenged fans to photograph a group of firemen wearing nothing but kale. Soon, participants began to respond to Collins's "absurd" requests. When Supernatural won the competition, Collins, partially inspired by his time at the University of Chicago as an undergraduate during which he participated in the school's annual scavenger hunt, asked his followers to send him self-addressed stamped envelopes into which he put scavenger hunt prompts written on the backs of jigsaw puzzle pieces from a puzzle depicting a rhino. Collins posted a message on Twitter, declaring that if the show won, Ollis had promised him a rhinoceros which he would share with everyone who helped by voting for the show. The competition began informally in 2010 when Holly Ollis, a publicist for Warner Bros., asked Collins to engage his audience to help Supernatural move from second place to first in the People's Choice Awards voting.
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The hunt also raised funds in support of several charities each year, and was affiliated with the Random Acts 501c3.Īctor Misha Collins, known for playing the angel Castiel on the American television series Supernatural, is the founder of GISHWHES. The competition held a world record for being the largest media scavenger hunt ever to take place, and several additional world records. Actor Misha Collins officially founded GISHWHES in 2011 after a publicity stunt to help the television series Supernatural (in which Collins appeared) win a People's Choice Award. Teams of five to 15 (previously nine to 15 before 2022) competitors earned points for submitting photos and videos of themselves completing prompts from a list they received at the beginning of the week. The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen ( GISHWHES, pronounced gish-wes) (now shortened to just "GISH") was an annual week-long competitive media scavenger hunt originally held each October or November, but more recently each August.
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