The Ultimate Adultitis Fighting Challenge
Are you infected with a winter strain of Adultitis that’s been going around? Could you use a little more adventure, meaning, and joy in your life? The Festival of Shenanigans is a fun and ridiculous scavenger hunt designed to help you make memories, make a difference, and make Adultitis mad. For seventeen days, beginning on Monday, March 17th, you’ll be fighting Adultitis in yourself, with others, and for the good of the world.
Not only will you be making your life better while giving Adultitis an atomic wedgie, but you can also win some rad prizes, including ice cream for a whole year!
How it works:
We’ve created a crazy list of 100 things to do, make, or find. You have seventeen days to complete as many as you can. You’ll use the official event app to submit your proof for each challenge (usually in the form of a photo or short video) and earn points. At the end of the seventeen days, the person with the most points shall be declared the winner and bestowed the title of Grand Shenanigator!
There is a minimal registration fee of $10 per person (unless you’re a Wonder & Whimsy Society member!) to help pay for the costs of running the contest, but if you complete at least 10 challenges, you’ll receive a $10 gift card to the Escape Adulthood Lemonade Stand!
Prizes:
1st Prize: If you end up with the most points at the end of the Festival at 11:59 pm PT on April 2nd, 2025, you will win ice cream for a year and the title of “Grand Shenanigator.” That’s right, you’ll receive a sweet delivery of four delicious pints of premium ice cream each month for a whole year! (Can’t do dairy? No worries; we will work together to make sure you have a year of awesome that fits your dietary needs!)
2nd Prize: A Gallery Canvas Print of your choice and a $100 gift card to the Lemonade Stand.
3rd Prize: Two Mini*Prints of your choice, an Acrylic Magnet Frame to display them, and a $50 gift card to the Lemonade Stand.
Honorable Mention: Every registrant who completes at least 10 challenges will receive a $10 gift card to the Lemonade Stand, effectively earning back their registration fee!
Official Rules:
- We are only accepting photos and videos that were taken during the participation of this event, not something you dug up from fifteen years ago when you still had that mullet.
- Many of the challenges allow for a wide range of creativity, but they are pretty straightforward. We are looking for the real thing, not a “creative interpretation” of the challenge. If a challenge calls for you to be underwater, we expect you to get wet, not to submit a photo of you holding your breath in front of a blue wall. Our esteemed judges reserve the right to deduct points for submissions that don’t meet that standard. And we have a sharp eye for deepfakes; if we suspect the use of Photoshop or any other digital manipulation, offenders will be disqualified. Remember, the spirit of this event is to defeat Adultitis, which requires a little expanding of one’s comfort zone and, you know, actually doing the fun things!
- No whining about judges’ decisions, the difficulty of the challenges, or how much your shoulder hurts. That’s childISH, not childLIKE.
- Only submissions submitted through the Eventzee app are valid.
- Submission deadline is April 2nd, 2025 @ 11:59 pm PT. There can only be one winner, so in the event of a tie for any prize, a panel of three judges will decide the winner based on style points (i.e. the overall aesthetic appeal and technical quality of the totality of the submissions.)
- Yes, you can team up with your family or a best friend! You are encouraged to include other people in on the shenanigans (some challenges require more than one person to qualify for completion) but only one prize will be awarded per registration.
- Videos may not be longer than 30 seconds.
- Be safe. Please do not endanger yourself or harm another person, animal, or Wookie in an attempt to complete a challenge. If it feels too risky, pick a different one!
- Have fun! You will be creating memories that you will look back upon fondly for the rest of your life. Act like it.
- We expect you to be weird, but not too weird. Please do not exceed 93%. (Don’t worry, most people never approach anywhere near this level of awesome.)
- Please keep all your submissions family-friendly with a PG rating. Violators will be disqualified.
- Bonus Points. Some challenges have specific instructions for earning bonus points, to be awarded at the sole discretion of the judges. In addition, everyone who registers by 11:59 pm PT on Monday, March 10 will be awarded 17 early bird points. Also, for each person who enters your name in the registration form when they sign up, you’ll receive 17 referral bonus points (up to 68 total points). Share this link via email or on social media: https://escapeadulthood.com/festival
- You are encouraged to annihilate any rules that don’t exist during this competition. However, please do not break any actual local, state, federal, international, or interplanetary laws.
- Any pictures, descriptions, or transmissions of teenage mutant ninja sea turtles without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited.
- Video/Image Plagiarism. You shall not submit any items that were created by anyone else unless that someone was capturing you Shenanigating.
- We intend to share your stunning submissions with the world. By competing in the contest, you agree to the following: “By submitting links, videos, images or text content (“Content”) to The Festival of Shenanigans via links, emails or files, you are granting Escape Adulthood and its parent company, JBIRD iNK, Ltd, ALL RIGHTS related to ownership and distribution of said Content for the next 716 years. Such Content may be distributed, shown, or broadcast in any medium at any time to any audience during this time period.“
- You may think you’re not the type of person who does well at something like this.
WARNING: That’s Adultitis talking! You are that type of person…if you want to be, and are willing to have fun, give your comfort zone a little shove, and decide not to worry about what other people think. Do this and you may not win the whole enchilada, but you will have thoroughly defeated Adultitis in an embarrassing fashion, which is the best reward of all.
Optional Swag:
You can upgrade your registration to include the following limited-edition items! (Left to Right: Festival of Shenanigans Vinyl Sticker, T-Shirt, Personalized Shenanigators Basketball Jersey)
Early Bird Bonus!
Register before 11:59 pm PT on Monday, March 10, 2025 and you’ll earn 17 bonus points!