Pointless Prize Thread 2021

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Hi all! It’s time for the funnest part of Freezing Saddles, the Pointless Prizes. These are fun activities – both crazy and mundane – that add a little something extra to the winter riding experience.

First of all, anyone can sponsor a prize – you can sponsor a prize, your friend who isn’t playing can sponsor a prize, even your mom can sponsor a prize. Second, Pointless Prizes can be about anything! They can be objective (like most miles ridden on New Years Day), they can be subjective (like Sock Game). They can be embarrassing (like rider with the most falls) and they can be heartwarming (Bike Samaritans, helping others in need). Check out last year’s thread for more examples.

Here is the current list of Pointless Prizes:
Prize Name (Sponsor) – Description #Hashtag
Elevation per mile prize (QuikAF77) – Most elevation per mile on average for the entire competition NA
Public Art Finder (Boomer2U) – Any display of art (graffiti, mural, sculpture or any sort of artistic expression, loosely defined), permanent or temporary installation, that is freely accessible to the public and includes a bicycle somewhere in the picture frame #publicartfinder
CalvinBall (rcannon100) – Calvinball is a hot-potato cycling game that celebrates creativity and stoopidity
Lite Brite Prize (sarahbee) – Ten categories of cool photo prizes #LiteBrite
Photo Caption Competition (SteveO) –
Civil War History Prize (BicycleBeth) – #CivilWarMarker #CivilWarStreet.
LakeFinder (Boomer2U) – #lakefinder
Wormhole (LuisFilipe) – Ride using “Wormholes” – unexpected connections from Point A to Point B #fswormhole
Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt (drevil) – Find and photograph the object/concept of the days
4 Point Pointless Prize (Char Miller) – Visit the four corners of the DC boundary
Quaxapalooza (rumipumi) – Supporting your local small businesses on your bikes (aka Quaxing) #BAFS2021SmallBiz
Bike Infrastructure (smb9600) – Share info about the cool bike infrastructure being built to make our cycling lives easier. #BikeInfrastructure
TandemStyle (elizsnyder) – Spot tandems in the wild #tandemstyle
New Deal Landmarks (historygeek) – Find New Deal related sites
Extra Mile (epilsk) – Overcome obstacles to ride
Deflated (LuisFilipe) – Most flats during FS #Deflated
Loopy for Arlington (bentbike33) – Most Arlington Loops
Top 3 Women Riders (Fast Friendly Guy) – Most BAFS miles, pronoun “she”
Slowest Mile (Bort McFly) – Slowest average speed – 1-2 mile rides #slowmile
Parkfinder (camiller) – Discover and visit local parks #Parkfinder
Coffee Snob (Chuxtr) – Ride and drink froufrou java #FS2021coffeesnobride
STEM (bikesnick) – Show your bike at a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) site
Sock Game (Jessica Hirschhorn) – Best socks
Errandeering (BeeTinDC) – Use your bike to run errands – not commuting, not fun stuff. Sometimes pronounced Errandaneuring. #freezingerrands2021
Drop the Pandemic Pudge (Cwaggon) – Ride your bike to burn off those extra pounds you may have accumulated during the pandemic #DropThePandemicPudge
Team that rides the most days (SteveO) – Team that rides the most days, regardless of miles
Meh-diocrity (SteveO) – Prize for the individual/team who ends up exactly in the middle of the pack
Mailbox Collection (bigredboiler) – Find interesting mailboxes #Mailbox
Heroes Work Here (bikedavid) – Ride to a spot with a “Heroes work here” sign #HeroesWorkHere
Honoring MLK (tomacsh) – Ride your bike to volunteer service (thorugh 1/31)
Wikipedia 20th (snugglefestival) – One day only – ride to a site with a Wikipedia page #Wikipedia20

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[bentbike33]

The 2021 Loopy for Arlington competition was dominated by Kilgore T who swept all categories completing an astonishing 148 Arlington Loops, 83 clockwise and 65 counterclockwise and thus 65 Matching Loops. Since the Bentbike Organization refuses to be responsible for anyone developing adult-onset diabetes, so by rule Kilgore T is eligible for the Matching Loops Prize of a custom redesigned box of Froot Loops (TM) only:

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Dave Pomeroy was this year’s (2nd) most unwound competitor with 78 Clockwise Loops, one for each day of Freezing Saddles:

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And Chadd Westoff got himself the (2nd) most wound up this year with 20 Counterclockwise Loops:

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Congratulations Kilgore, Dave and Chadd!

Please PM me if you would like to arrange a meeting to receive your prize. I usually go to the HDCC at Best Buns in Shirlington on Wednesday morning, although since I’m still on telework, I skip it on rainy days.

[CBGanimal]

@bentbike33 210285 wrote:

The 2021 Loopy for Arlington competition was dominated by Kilgore T who swept all categories completing an astonishing 148 Arlington Loops, 83 clockwise and 65 counterclockwise and thus 65 Matching Loops. Since the Bentbike Organization refuses to be responsible for anyone developing adult-onset diabetes, so by rule Kilgore T is eligible for the Matching Loops Prize of a custom redesigned box of Froot Loops (TM) only:

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Dave Pomeroy was this year’s (2nd) most unwound competitor with 78 Clockwise Loops, one for each day of Freezing Saddles:

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And Chadd Westoff got himself the (2nd) most wound up this year with 20 Counterclockwise Loops:

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Congratulations Kilgore, Dave and Chadd!

Please PM me if you would like to arrange a meeting to receive your prize. I usually go to the HDCC at Best Buns in Shirlington on Wednesday morning, although since I’m still on telework, I skip it on rainy days.

The most awesome prize ever…congrats to the 3 winners.
I couldn’t compete this year and thought of them often during FS. But mostly I will miss my 5th box of fruit loops! Always a great job Bentbike…

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[snugglefestival]

Thanks to everyone who participated in my rapid-fire no-warning #Wikipedia20 pointless prize: consularrider, Catedrew, camiller, Serdar, kbikeva, SteveO, and CBGanimal. I also feel like I should give a shout-out to drevil, who was a prolific poster of Wikipedia links via the photo competition.

And the winner is Catedrew, whose post about great uncle Charles R. Drew sucked me into a Wikipedia rabbit hole of local and national history!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew

Catedrew, I’ll message you about getting your actual tangible pointless prize!

[cvcalhoun]

@Char Miller 203086 wrote:

I propose a pointless price for visiting and photoing (and pointing) to the four points (corners) of the DC boundary.

Even more pointless prize for pointing out all points in one pointless ride.

Char Miller, did we ever get a list of winners for this? I’m trying to put together a spreadsheet of all the prize winners for the final Zoom happy hour, and this is one of the few I’m still missing.

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