Pointless Prizes 2015

[Steve O]

@Harry Meatmotor 105614 wrote:

Can I propose a Pointless Prize for the team with the longest thread on BAF to determine its own team name? The BAFS Team Internal Strife Award?

Shheeeeeesh…

Your pointless prize is now on the list. Should be fun coming up with an actual prize. And it will be fun at the happy hour to relive those bygone days (unless they are still going on……).

[Tim Kelley]

So speaking of prizes, BikeArlington has in our hot little hands, a run of the BA Stadium Scarves that we would like to offer up as a Pointless Prize. Any ideas for what we could use them for? Perfect attendance? 95% attendance? Anyone got any suggestions?

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[Mikey]

For the scarves, I would recommend something that disqualifies riders from the first FS, since we already have one. How about New riders, or new riders last year who are participating this year, with some level of mileage or participation %.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Mikey 105652 wrote:

For the scarves, I would recommend something that disqualifies riders from the first FS, since we already have one. How about New riders, or new riders last year who are participating this year, with some level of mileage or participation %.

But I think I shrank mine.

[dasgeh]

@Tim Kelley 105650 wrote:

So speaking of prizes, BikeArlington has in our hot little hands, a run of the BA Stadium Scarves that we would like to offer up as a Pointless Prize. Any ideas for what we could use them for? Perfect attendance? 95% attendance? Anyone got any suggestions?

If you have enough, you could make it self-selecting. Like “anyone who has done a ride they are proud of because of BAFS15” and start a thread where people post what ride (or bike-related thing) they are proud of.

[dasgeh]

@ShawnoftheDread 105702 wrote:

But I think I shrank mine.

My kids will happily take it off your hands. They love theirs.

[dbb]

@Tim Kelley 105650 wrote:

So speaking of prizes, BikeArlington has in our hot little hands, a run of the BA Stadium Scarves that we would like to offer up as a Pointless Prize. Any ideas for what we could use them for? Perfect attendance? 95% attendance? Anyone got any suggestions?

How about slowest start? Something like “failed to ride for the first 11 days of the competition”?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@dasgeh 105711 wrote:

My kids will happily take it off your hands. They love theirs.

If kids were worthy my own would have it.

[Dickie]

How about “people riding with Vertigo” or “Most unbalanced indirect squiggly route”? I’ might finally get my hands on one of those.

[dasgeh]

@ShawnoftheDread 105717 wrote:

If kids were worthy my own would have it.

Just because your kids aren’t worthy doesn’t mean mine aren’t

[Steve O]

We’ve gotten a few people to volunteer for pointless prizes, but there’s room for more. Previous year prizes based on handicap (sandbagger, mr. consistency, etc.) won’t work this year, because there wasn’t a fair handicapping mechanism in place and most newbies weren’t handicapped at all.

Here is some brainstorming that might help you devise a prize of your own. Or feel free to take on one of these and volunteer to present (along with some sort of “priceless” trinket) at the final happy hour.

Numbers-based:
– Kissing cousins – two riders with the same mileage or points or combination or something like that
– Ass backwards – two riders whose mileage (or points) are reversed
– (to be awarded by Lucky Pr1m3s?) – Team whose total points (or mileage) is closest to a prime #. Or individual riders.
People who like to play with numbers can probably come up with other and better ideas.

Metrics based:
– Warm saddles – Rider who had the warmest coldest ride (i.e., the rider whose coldest ride was at the highest temp of all the riders; this is being tracked on the web site). Or it could be the opposite of a bicycle icicle (a small glass of water, i.e., a melted bicycle icicle) and given to all riders who rode only when it was above freezing. Or something.
– Rainiest, snowiest, darkiest, etc. are also being tracked, so someone could offer awards in those categories. They could either be total (like most hours before sunrise) or weighted (most hours before sunrise as % of total hours ridden). One could also make these team awards or combine them to create a “Worst Conditions” or “Sunniest” team award or something.

So put on your thinking caps. Post here. Every couple of weeks I’ll post a compilation of proposed PPs.

[Steve O]

We also need someone to volunteer for the obvious awards:
Winning team
#1 rider

More ideas:

Awards could be created for riders from 2014 to 2015, like most improved or most more-days-ridden,etc.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@dasgeh 105883 wrote:

Just because your kids aren’t worthy doesn’t mean mine aren’t

Yes it does.

[ronwalf]

If I could find a boat anchor for under $5, I’d offer it to the leading person who’s last on their team (currently Peter DeNitto).

[rcannon100]

Prize for the tallest rider?

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