Pointless Prize Thread

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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.

List of Pointless Prizes for 2020 (updated 2/16/20)

Individual Prizes (chuxtr): Highest individual miles [male/female]
Rookie of the Year (chuxtr), most miles for first time FS participant [male/female]

Coffee Rides (chuxtr) – Visit different coffee places on your bike #FS2020coffeeride
Sock Competition (Jessica) – Best socks No hashtag
Loopy for Arlington (bentbike33) – Completing the most Arlington Loops No hashtag
Points per Mile (chuxtr) – Highest ratio of points per mile No hashtag
Maximum Smugness Points (epilsk) – Ride every day, feel smug about the hardships you’ve endured No hashtag
Kidical (LhasaCM) – Riding with kids #kidical
withKid (LhasaCM) – Riding with kids to whom you have no attachment #withkid
Seminary Road (LordOfTheMark) – Make use of the Seminary Road bike lanes No hashtag
Photo Clever Caption (SteveO) – Clever captions for FS photos No hashtag
Adulting / Errandaneuring (Elizabeth I Like Wheels) – Use your bike to do everyday chores #FS2020Adulting
Pointless Pi (Sunyata) – Ride the most miles and is closest to a multiple of pi on “Pi Day” #BAFS2020PI
Photography Contest (Mtansill) – Artistic photographs (not pictures of your socks or coffee) Instagram: #freezingsaddles2020
Real Supple Ride (drevil) – Extra points for riding on fat tires See thread for hashtag instructions
Pointless Pie Prize – the Doppelganger (Mtansill) – Eat pie and post a pic on Jan 23rd No hashtag
POGGIO Simulations (spelter) – Most rides on a hilly segment of Rock Creek Park No hashtag
Ramen Ride (bikedavid) – Rides involving eating noodle soup #FS2020soupyride or #FS2020slurpyride
Dirty Biker (Dachs6) – Off pavement rides #DirtyBikerFS20
Beerneuring (sjclaeys) – Drink beer. Ride Bikes No hashtag
TACOS TACOS TACOS (LuisFilipe) – Eat tacos. Ride bikes #FS2020tacoloco [Name of place]
Calvinball (Josh) – It’s like hallucinogenic h ot-potato No hashtag
Chocolateuaring (Boomer2U) – Eat chocolate. Ride bikes #FS2020Chocolateuring
Don’t Be Deflated (LuisFilipe) – The person who gets the most flats wins #Deflated
Individual Meh-diocrity (SteveO) – For the middle of the pack team(s) No hashtag
Team Meh-diocrity (SteveO) – For the middle of the pack team(s) No hashtag
Parkfinder (camiller) – Go visit a park by bike #FS2020ParkFinder
Lantern Rouge (chuxtr) – Ride all days, fewest total miles No hashtag
London Bridge (wheels&wings) – Falling down, falling down #londonbridge or #fs2020londonbridge
Donut (obscurerichard) – Top Donut riders #donut
Wormhole (LuisFilipe) – Wormhole connections while riding #wormhole
Video Contest (JoM) – It’s like the Oscars, but with bikes No hashtag
The Ubiquitous George Washington (dragonflycrk) – Visit Washington-related places #george #martha

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[LhasaCM]

@cvcalhoun 196254 wrote:

Send a private message to obscurerichard. He can let you know if there is anything else you need to do.

Also worth mentioning: a leaderboard based on any hashtag can be run because of the wizardry used for the website by going to freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/[fill in the blank with your favorite hashtag]. (It is case sensitive.) So, for example: https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/FS2020ParkFinder

[chuxtr]

Jesse – I just created a new pointless prize. Lanterne Rouge http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?15843-Lanterne-Rouge-pointless-prize

[LuisFilipe]

@Steve O 195954 wrote:

I will award these two new Pointless Prizes:

Individual Meh-diocrity Prize for the individual who ends up exactly in the middle of the pack.

Team Meh-diocrity Prize for the team that ends up in the middle. Since there are currently an even number of teams, this means both the teams in 13th and 14th will be in the middle. The tiebreaker will be determined by me using some sort of inscrutable algorithm.

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I am not really inspired by the prize. It’s kinda of pointless

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[wheelswings]

Back by un-popular demand: the 2020 London Bridge Prize. This is the prize for most crashes during the months of Freezing Saddles. I had hoped the prize would become irrelevant this year ‘cause we’d all stay upright, but based on Strava reports it appears such hopes have been dashed many times over.

The hashtag will be #londonbridge…. obscurerichard has updated the leaderboard using #londonbridge or #fs2020londonbridge, so feel free to use either one.

We also encourage those who go down to record a description of their experiences on this thread: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?9868-W-amp-W-London-Bridge-Pointless-Prize-Log

Happy riding. Be safe!! w&w

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@Steve O 195954 wrote:

The tiebreaker will be determined by me using some sort of inscrutable algorithm.

Inscrutable, proprietary, classified, whatever – I still think we should spend a lot of time arguing over it.

[Steve O]

@Steve O 195954 wrote:

I will award these two new Pointless Prizes:

Team Meh-diocrity Prize for the team that ends up in the middle. Since there are currently an even number of teams, this means both the teams in 13th and 14th will be in the middle. The tiebreaker will be determined by me using some sort of inscrutable algorithm.

EXCITING UPDATE: Team 6: Freezing Friends and Team 12: Reston Rollers are currently in 13th & 14th place and well positioned for this prize.
However, it’s still very early, and Team 7: Chilly Cheeks or even team 26: Cookie Monster could easily rise into contention. Teams 17 and 19 could slack off slightly to put themselves in contention as well. Like the Democratic nomination race, it’s still wide open!!

@LuisFilipe 196285 wrote:

I am not really inspired by the prize. It’s kinda pointless

Says the captain of Team 12.

[Steve O]

The two players currently right in the middle are Kenneth J and Nevada.

But with just a bit more effort or a tiny bit of slacking, all of those shown here have a shot!

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[musclys]

There are a few Pointless Prizes on the leaderboard that I don’t see in this thread, such as Billy Goat and Tortoise and Hare — are those off the books this year?

[bentbike33]

@musclys 198281 wrote:

There are a few Pointless Prizes on the leaderboard that I don’t see in this thread, such as Billy Goat and Tortoise and Hare — are those off the books this year?

It means no one has yet volunteered to sponsor those prizes.

[Steve O]

Note the current standings for Ride Days by Team. Pretty remarkable showing so far by Third Rocks! and Wintry Mixtes. I think the maximum possible at this point is 344 days.
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[dragonflycrk]

New Pointless Prize hot off the presses! The Ubiquitous George Washington

[Steve O]

For those of you who have been riveted by the race for Meh-diocrity, big news!!

After being the most meh for the first half of February, LUCKY ICEHOLES bumped themselves up and Team IV -FFS has been the meh-est team for the last couple of weeks.

But now in a startling turn of events, the Iceholes have slacked just enough to drop back to 14th place with only 10 days to play.

This is a tight one, people. It may come down to the wire.
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[Steve O]

And in the individual standings, Kellie and Matt C are currently holding the meh-diocrity spots. However, this shifts around on a daily basis, so it’s still wide open and will likely come down to the last day. The tension builds!!
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[lmgoldberg]

are there extra points if the team that is numerically in the middle (team #13) also ends up in the middle of the rankings? double mediocrity?

[Steve O]

@lmgoldberg 199199 wrote:

are there extra points if the team that is numerically in the middle (team #13) also ends up in the middle of the rankings? double mediocrity?

Perhaps, but the middle team of 27 teams is team 14, and they are currently in 5th place.

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