Pointless Prize Thread 2022
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I’m interested in sponsoring a PP, can you provide more information on how the pointless prizes tracked and the responsibilities for volunteers who wish to sponsor one?
Just want to make sure that what I’m thinking is trackable. Maybe there is someone on the dev team we can run ideas by to make sure it’s realistically accounted for?
Really trying to avoid tallying and updating a spreadsheet of riders before bed each night.
@bmillah 211891 wrote:
I’m interested in sponsoring a PP, can you provide more information on how the pointless prizes tracked and the responsibilities for volunteers who wish to sponsor one?
Just want to make sure that what I’m thinking is trackable. Maybe there is someone on the dev team we can run ideas by to make sure it’s realistically accounted for?
Really trying to avoid tallying and updating a spreadsheet of riders before bed each night.
I think you do not have to do tallying if you set a rule of reaching one pointless prize destination per ride. That way, the Freezing Saddles website will automatically calculate or do tallying based on the hashtags on participants’ Strava accounts.
@Serdar 211894 wrote:
I think you do not have to do tallying if you set a rule of reaching one pointless prize destination per ride. That way, the Freezing Saddles website will automatically calculate or do tallying based on the hashtags on participants’ Strava accounts.
The hashtag-based leaderboards count both the number of rides and number of miles, depending on what’s of interest, and can be automatically generated for any desired hashtag (where the hashtag is added to the ride title in Strava).
Other pointless prizes in the past that have been tracked by the website have been tied to specific Strava segments, or other calculations based on ride data (e.g., elevation per mile, or least variance), but are not already “built-in” so would require a bit of development. Or more than a bit if something complicated
If someone has a specific idea but isn’t sure how it could be tracked – go ahead and ask! Plenty of opinionated people are around to chime in.
@bmillah 211891 wrote:
I’m interested in sponsoring a PP, can you provide more information on how the pointless prizes tracked and the responsibilities for volunteers who wish to sponsor one?
Just want to make sure that what I’m thinking is trackable. Maybe there is someone on the dev team we can run ideas by to make sure it’s realistically accounted for?
Really trying to avoid tallying and updating a spreadsheet of riders before bed each night.
Go to freezingsaddles.org and click on the various tabs at the top. You will see a gazillion different sorts of data points, and PPs and that have been offered in previous years. Some are defunct and others may be sponsored by previous offerors or picked up by someone new.
You are not limited by what you see there, but it may stir your creative juices.Those are the trackable kind of PPs. There are others that appear on this forum that are not tracked on the home page. Last year’s popular Daily Photo PP, offered by drevil, was run on a separate thread on this forum.
Hope this helps.
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