Pointless Prizes 2015

[Justin Antos]

I love this Eddington number thing. How delightfully nerdy – arbitrary yet revealing at the same time. Hozn is it up on the website?
Also… could it be calc’ed at the team level? Just sum on the team’s daily mileage?

[jrenaut]

@hozn 111713 wrote:

Some folks like to start/stop their GPS units more than others.

Those of us who use smart phones are more likely to stop and start more often, too. And my typical day is four rides – to school with the kids, to work without, to school without, home with the kids. So four rides, two tagged #kidical. I think I do have the highest number of rides in the competition, even though a lot of them would be recorded by many people as single rides.

[hozn]

@Justin Antos 111720 wrote:

I love this Eddington number thing. How delightfully nerdy – arbitrary yet revealing at the same time. Hozn is it up on the website?
Also… could it be calc’ed at the team level? Just sum on the team’s daily mileage?

Yeah, we could do it at the team level. It’s not up on the site yet; I have some SQL views (I think you might still have db access?). I will put it up soon … tonight? I dunno; I have a few other pointless prize datasets to calculate, I think. I need to find out if Rod even cares anymore (I’ll put it up even if he doesn’t).

[hozn]

@vvill 111719 wrote:

dcv?

Maybe! dcv is definitely up there. I’m going to keep the winner a secret in case Rod cares that it not be public before award is presented. If he doesn’t care, I’ll put an enumber leaderboard on the website.

[Phatboing]

I’m totally guessing, but I’m pretty sure my E number is 13.

[kwarkentien]

@wheels&wings 111680 wrote:

I would like to sign up to present three pointless prizes.

1.Sleaze Queen.

w&w, may I steal the presentation honors for this one away from you? As the reigning Queen, I feel it is my duty to pass along the mantle to the new Queen.

[CPTJohnC]

@Crickey7 111710 wrote:

Was there a hamster wheel competition, for the rider with the greatest number of trips of almost exactly the same length?

That’s pretty close to my offered Mr/Ms consistency. I have a few conditions, but my prize is for the lowest variance in daily ride average.

[wheelswings]

@kwarkentien 111754 wrote:

w&w, may I steal the presentation honors for this one away from you? As the reigning Queen, I feel it is my duty to pass along the mantle to the new Queen.

I’d be happy to award the second-place Sleaze Queen. As a Bipolar Bear, I’d like to note that there is something extra special about second place. Just sayin’. :+)

[Steve O]

Here’s the list of Pointless Prizes and who has volunteered to be responsible for that prize. Please contact me with any discrepancies. You may still volunteer to award a prize if there’s something you think worth recognizing that is not already listed here.

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Winning team – Bike Arlington
Top riders (male & female) – Bike Arlington
Every Day riders – tawdryaudre
BA Scarves – BikeArlington
Shrunken BA scarf dance-off – americancyclo
Freezing Saddles Photo Contest – Subby & americancyclo
Hains Point Laps – Arlington Rider
Stout for the Stout – Alcova Cyclist
X Lowest average miles – CPTJohnC
Mr./Ms. Consistency – CPTJohnC
Sleaze Queens – kwarkentien / wheels&wings
Longest ride – wheels&wings
Night Owl – wheels&wings
#kidical – dasgeh
Early Bird – Amalitza
Sloth of the Mountain – Sunyata
Anchor award – ronwalf
Kosen Dangi award – americancyclo
We’re all in this together – Komorebi
Tortoise – elwbikes
Team Billy Goat – Matt Aune
Cabi TT – Rod Smith
Climbing Challenge – ewilliams0305
March Mountain Madness – vicegrip
Beerneuring – sjclaeys
Creative Titles – Steve O
“Name” TBA – Steve O
Bicycle Icicles – Steve O
Snotcicles – kwarkentien/Rod Smith
FCC hat (FSSB #42) – rcannon100
(??? Yes? No?) Eddington number – Rod Smith
Golden Nugget – Vicegrip/Arlington Rider (already awarded)

Side Bets – Mikey
FSSB #1 – Feeding Saddles
FSSB #2 – BMI start to finish
FSSB #3 – Capture the Flag
FSSB #6 – We the People

[CPTJohnC]

@Steve O 111924 wrote:

Here’s the list of Pointless Prizes and who has volunteered to be responsible for that prize. Please contact me with any discrepancies. You may still volunteer to award a prize if there’s something you think worth recognizing that is not already listed here.

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Winning team – Bike Arlington
Top riders (male & female) – Bike Arlington
Every Day riders – tawdryaudre
BA Scarves – BikeArlington
Shrunken BA scarf dance-off – americancyclo
Freezing Saddles Photo Contest – Subby & americancyclo
Hains Point Laps – Arlington Rider
Stout for the Stout – Alcova Cyclist
X Lowest average miles – CPTJohnC
Mr./Ms. Consistency – CPTJohnC
Sleaze Queens – kwarkentien / wheels&wings
Longest ride – wheels&wings
Night Owl – wheels&wings
#kidical – dasgeh
Early Bird – Amalitza
Sloth of the Mountain – Sunyata
Anchor award – ronwalf
Kosen Dangi award – americancyclo
We’re all in this together – Komorebi
Tortoise – elwbikes
Team Billy Goat – Matt Aune
Cabi TT – Rod Smith
Climbing Challenge – ewilliams0305
March Mountain Madness – vicegrip
Beerneuring – sjclaeys
Creative Titles – Steve O
“Name” TBA – Steve O
Bicycle Icicles – Steve O
Snotcicles – kwarkentien/Rod Smith
FCC hat (FSSB #42) – rcannon100
(??? Yes? No?) Eddington number – Rod Smith
Golden Nugget – Vicegrip/Arlington Rider (already awarded)

Side Bets – Mikey
FSSB #1 – Feeding Saddles
FSSB #2 – BMI start to finish
FSSB #3 – Capture the Flag
FSSB #6 – We the People

Since I do not believe I ever clarified, the X in my first PP is going to be 11 which continues my trend of using my team’s identifying # as the reference point. I will note that I have no idea whatsoever who might be in the running. I do, however, reserve the right to change this in future years in an act of caprice. As with last year, I do require the winner to be an activ-ish participant, so the average must be greater than 2 (to eliminate the “I only do sleaze” rider) and they must have ridden at least 1 time in each of the three calendar months. This might be a bit more relaxed than last year’s standards, but… It’s my Pointless Prize, so I get to make the rules, right?

[Vicegrip]

Well my method of calculating the elevation for March has proven to not work. Is there a way to see the amount of elevation climed for March?

[americancyclo]

@Vicegrip 112136 wrote:

Well my method of calculating the elevation for March has proven to not work. Is there a way to see the amount of elevation climed for March?

get at Hozn!

[hozn]

Yeah, if anyone needs stats or db access, and hasnt already gotten on touch, please shoot me a pm or even better an email (hans at velum dot net) describing what you need (as detailed as possible).

[Steve O]

kwarkentien has volunteered to help manage the scarf distribution at the Happy Hour. Thank you!
As per the official scarf posting, 40 scarves go to the 40 eligible riders who rode the most days. If you rode 68 or more days, and are not on the list of previous recipients (or informed me otherwise, one way or the other), then there will be a scarf for you at the Happy Hour.

Ten other eligible riders who rode at least 20 days have been selected at random and will also have scarves at the Happy Hour. To create suspense, I will post that list on Friday.

If you are unable to come to HH, the scarf is still yours. Either designate someone to pick it up for you, or it will go back to Bike Arlington and you can arrange to pick it up or have it picked up at some point in the future.

Congratulations! See you Friday.

[vern]

@Steve O 112256 wrote:

kwarkentien has volunteered to help manage the scarf distribution at the Happy Hour. Thank you!
As per the official scarf posting, 40 scarves go to the 40 eligible riders who rode the most days. If you rode 68 or more days, and are not on the list of previous recipients (or informed me otherwise, one way or the other), then there will be a scarf for you at the Happy Hour.

Ten other eligible riders who rode at least 20 days have been selected at random and will also have scarves at the Happy Hour. To create suspense, I will post that list on Friday.

If you are unable to come to HH, the scarf is still yours. Either designate someone to pick it up for you, or it will go back to Bike Arlington and you can arrange to pick it up or have it picked up at some point in the future.

Congratulations! See you Friday.

oh, so sad! I rode but 66 days, and while I finished 24th overall, I might not get a scarf!

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