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August 30th, 2010 
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Growing up in the 1980s, I definitely consider myself a part of the “MTV Generation” and spent more hours than I care to have counted watching videos on the network. Music Videos, MTV News, the annual Video Music Awards (VMAs), and that awesome game show Remote Control were basically the only programming the channel showed back in those days. Times have certainly changed and the network has evolved, but nothing was more iconic of classic MTV than images of the Apollo 11 styled astronaut on the moon with the MTV flag. For those of you who had the famous slogan “I Want My MTV” forced into your brains as you spent hours starring at videos brought to you by classic VJs like Downtown Julie Brown and Adam Curry…you can now say with pride: “I Want My MTV Badge”.
Unlocking this classic retro MTV badge is simple: 1) Follow MTV on Foursquare 2) Check into any venue with a category of Rock Club, Concert Hall, or Music Venue. That’s it! Along with the launch of the badge, MTV is running a contest to send one person (and a guest) to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sept 12th. Given the short timeline before the VMAs, the contest window for this is very small. Everyone who unlocks this badge between 12:01am (ET) 8/30 thru 11:59pm (ET) on 9/5 is eligible to win the grand prize trip. Don’t waste any time and get over to a venue with one of those three categories ASAP if you want to win the trip! Complete list of contest rules.
Post by: Chad Elkins – Find Chad on Twitter and Foursquare
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Has anyone been able to unlock this badge yet? I've been to several venues this morning and I haven't been able to unlock it…
Me either.
I have tested it at various venues and have been able to unlock it. Make sure you are following MTV and it is has one of those 3 venue types as a category. If you want to send over a venue id I can take a look and test it for you.
http://foursquare.com/venue/10861
http://foursquare.com/venue/21780 http://foursquare.com/venue/11070 http://foursquare.com/venue/11101
Just driving to a venue defeats the porpuse of 4sq. Walk in be a customer write a review. Don't just be a badge whore.
Justine: that venue #10861 is properly tagged and worked for me during a test. There was a duplicate Masquerade venue (#8278185) that was not properly categorized so if you checked in that one then it would not have triggered the badge. If you are certain you checked into #10861 you may want to double check you are following MTV or perhaps were outside the check-in radius for it to count. I'm also getting rid of that duplicate to not throw off a future Masquerade patron.
BTW, I did hear that early yesterday there was a bug causing the badge to not unlock for some check-ins that should have been valid, but it was fixed that same day. That may have been the problem if you had some issues early in the day on 8/30 and were not awarded the badge.
I managed to unlock it last night! I dunno what was up. Thanks for your feedback!
As far as the badge whore comment… My off day is Monday. If I chose to make an adventure of unlocking a badge on my off day I will. As the old saying goes, if at first you don’t succeed, try again. I hit two more venues after my first "sure thing" didn’t unlock it. Don’t hate the player… Hate the Game!
Remarkable article here. I’m unequivocally fulfilled. I’ll show my friends.