Star Alliance has a new contest up and running for all of us, called Picture your Upgrade where the grand prize offers Star Alliance Gold status and a couple of Round The World Business Class tickets on Star Alliance carriers.

The contest, open for participation till 4th April 2012, has a series of tasks where iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phone owners can find themselves using their phones to make entries using a special app for this contest, available for download on your respective App Stores.

There are 7 weekly tasks on offer, and each task started last for two weeks. For instance, the first task was to click pictures of three airport departure boards using the app described above, and upload them via the app. There are quite some interesting high-end prizes on offer for each of the weekly tasks:

• Concierge Service
• 5 Star Hotel suite
• Luxury Luggage including a Montblanc Travel Bag and a Montblanc messenger bag.
• 2 Corbusier LC2 Petit Modele armchairs
• A VIP Experience, either in New York, Barcelona or Singapore.
• Travel Case
• 2 Return Business Class tickets

You get in the running for the Grand Prize if you complete any of the task successfully. You stand to win 2 Round the World Business Class tickets to commence travel before 31st December 2012 if you win the Grand Prize. Also, one member participating from each member Frequent Flyer Program will go Gold for a year on their respective programs.

As I can see it, for the road warriors this should be an easy on to crack. So why wait? Register and start fixing the tasks for your entry to the prizes!