Scav Bites was announced on Mon Jan 24 2011 (8:51pm) and was a weekly contest held between the January and July 2011 Scavenger Hunts. This contest focused on one task a week, for four weeks, with multiple winners chosen by the judges (the entries were posted in their respective threads). The Mon Jan 31 2011 (7:45pm) news post announced the week 1 winners, the overall winner chosen through a poll, and week 2 task.
This was repeated for the week 2 results and week 3 task on Mon Feb 7, 2011 (10:17pm). The week 3 results were posted on Thursday 17th February 2011 and followed by the week 4 task on mar 7 2011 (4:38pm). The final post for Scav Bites was on Fri Apr 15 2011 (1:30am) and released the week 4 results.
“Create a metal breeding pendant. It must, in fact, be made of metal. Make it look as good as you possibly can.”
The entries were posted in the Week 1 Scav Bites thread and the prizes were a Metal Breeding Pendant for the winner and a Metal Breeding Pendant for the runner-ups.
“Your job is to visually design the Aywas shop marketplace. How you decide to do this is up to you - you could draw it, do some graphics design completely of your creation, make a diorama in real life, draw a blueprint, etc. The only rule is that your entry must include all the shops listed on that Shopping page.”
The Week 2 thread was were the entries were posted with the prizes being a glittering skull for the winner and the runner-ups receiving a glittering potion.
“Your job is to create a sculpture of the Ay world. The best looking sculpture will win the prize. You can sculpt it out of anything you want but it has to be IRL stuff.”
Entries were posted in the Week 3 thread and the prize was a Special Region Event Creator. Basically this allowed the winner to create an annual themed Explore region that operated for a week from the chosen date.
“Your job is to make a Candy Gator Rogr by painting over a gator/croc figurine of some sort and affixing little candies to it.”
The was a break between the week 3 and 4 scav bites to allow time for the Valentines event. Entries were posted in the week 4 entry thread and the prize was a fossilized egg.