Hey Canadians, have you ever wondered what it’d be like to follow in the footsteps of Nathan Drake? Well now’s your chance to join an action-packed treasure hunt through the Arabian Desert inspired by UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception! PlayStation Canada would like to offer one lucky winner and a guest the opportunity to become real-life treasure hunters.
Taking place in the dramatic backdrops featured in UNCHARTED 3, our Canadian winner will be competing against adventurers from across Europe, the Middle East and Australasia to win the title of UNCHARTED Treasure Hunter, with $10,000 worth of prizes to be won along the way. The action-packed quest will take place in the Arabian Desert, following in the footsteps of Nathan Drake as he picks up the trail of Sir Francis Drake and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia).
Starting from an outfitted UNCHARTED 3 base camp, a traditional Bedouin settlement in Wadi Rum, competitors will trek across the sand dunes of Aqaba on a quest to uncover hidden treasure. Travelling by jeep, by camel and on foot, the fortune hunters will follow a series of clues to uncover hidden artifacts, picking up treasure along the way that they can later exchange for prizes. Contestants will climb up to the Al Shallaleh waterfall, pass the Khazali Canyon, and stop off at T.E. Lawrence’s house, facing a different challenge at every turn.
All puzzles and challenges have been created by adventurer and survival expert, John Sullivan (don’t call him Sully!), whose experience has made him an invaluable adviser on many expeditions worldwide in some of the most inaccessible corners of the globe. The activity will reflect the type of challenges that Nathan Drake experiences in UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception, solving clues and deciphering puzzles in search of the grand prize. With $10,000 worth of prizes at stake, John will be an independent adjudicator, ensuring that the competition is judged fairly, and guaranteeing the most skilled adventurer walks away with the gold!
How to Enter
For your chance to win a place on this amazing adventure go here and correctly identify the location of the posted image. Submit your answer and fully completed form by Friday, September 23.
Please note that this contest is open to Canadian residents only and the dates of travel will be from October 2nd to the 6th, 2011.
Good luck everyone!
JUST FOR ME!? NO WAY!!
Can we stop using “Epic” for everything?
Thanks.
But in all seriousness, this does sound pretty awesome. Contest entered! :D
If you ask me the trip alone is incredible. Count me in.
YAY!!!! I’m not Canadian, but this is great news! Every time there’s a contest for anything the comments are filled with Canadians complaining about not being able to join… I honestly wish that the contests could involve both the US and Canada, but it’s great to see the Canadians getting the treatment they deserve! This contest sounds pretty awesome… and, dare I say, “EPIC” (Sorry jiggles (#2) )
Hey, Ashley’s back. It’s been almost a year since your last blog post. Come back more often, we don’t bite…much.
Glad you’re finally doing some contests for Canadians, keep it up. This one is cool.
Wicked! Thanks guys . Appreciate it .
Awesome! Finally, Canadians are getting more contest from the playstation blog :) If only they let US territories join in the fun too :/
@Akibara, this sounds like a worldwide contest. There will likely be winners from the US, Europe, Australia/NZ etc as well.
Just keep a lookout for the contest people from your neck of the woods can enter.
@jiggles
nope, it’s a popular phrase and will continue to be used. That’s life. deal with it.
This contest sounds like so much fun! Bring home the gold for North America!
Oh man! The US always gets stiffed on contests like this! What about the US????
That sounds amazing… however, I do not have a passport, nor the luxury of dropping everything to go off to something like this. Sadly, I will not be entering. You should just box up some awesome Uncharted 3 gear and send it my way ;)
@krae_man
They said, “just for Canada”. Please re-read the article and its entry form, but I’m still hoping you are right about the worldwide thing.
@Akibara I think there will be separate contests for different countries. It would be strange if the Canadian participant in the treasure hunt was the only one who won a contest for his/her spot in it.
Happy to hear the Dominion’s getting something good… I know they don’t often get as many of these promos north of the border as we do in the States… felicitations mes amis…
ANYONE ELSE HAVING A HARDTIME SIGNING ON THE PS3?
@silentchild — yes. that’s exactly why i’m on the blog right now. wanted to see if anyone else is having the same problem.
Hey? What’s this all “aboot” (about)?
tehxsilentxchild same here
Any news on the Holiday Preview Event
im going to cheek twiter or facebook
stuff on twiter go there
http://twitter.com/#!/AskPlayStation link to see what is going on
Wow that’s awesome! Too bad I’m not from Canada.
Why do Canadians always get the good stuff!? why do you hate America?! blah blah blah everything else canadians and europeans say when something is USA only.
wtf. after reading the info on router ports, i’d like to know why i was just able to connect YESTERDAY.
I would love to enter but I can not take those days off. Shame because this is one of the few contests for Canadians.
its weird… I was able to connect to my main account and then when i went to upgrade hulu+ it logged me out and i can sign in error code 8002a548 but i can sign into a sub account. glad im not the only one. keep us posted here
BTW Ashely, I think your trivia question to get around Canada’s lottery rules is a bit vague.
For example if you said “Where is this located?” and showed a blurry picture of the CN Tower with some clues, the answer could be “Toronto”, “Ontario” or “Canada”
i cant sign in im going to try a hour later
i kno this is totally off topic , sorry canadian guys but im not being able to sing in to the network , is something wrong ?
This would be great if I had a passport…
D’oh!
…and I can’t sign in either…
Looks like PSN outage all over again. I can’t log in either! I hope we aren’t going to go through this all over again. I they knew that the network would be down, don’t you think we should have been notified. It’s either a big problem, or someone’s F-UP! Come on PSN!
The location is Wadi Rum for those who don’t know and haven’t the skills to know how to use google, but unfortunately I can’t enter since I’m still 16 =C
Yea lastnight around 1am, my systems got offlined, and haven’t been able to log in since, even when using several IDs.
And i can’t access psn either.
wait… I’m Canadian! YES!
okay, so are there people that CAN access psn right now? or are we all on the same page here?
good question radiumbath.
it’s my day off and i just re-purchased crysis 2 about an hour ago. between that and resistance 3, i have a giant fps jones that i need my fix for! haha.
oops looks like we got hacked again, theres no post about any mandatory matenence.
just logged IN!
NOPE! I was wrong.
@radiumbath i cant sign in either, i got scared so i came here to see if i was the only one.
Ha ha, PSN going down stole Ashley’s thunder.
Aren’t you worried that some of us Canadians might melt Sony? ^_^ just messin’. Great contest though.
Long Live Play Canada!!