Pointless Prizes 2016

[Anonymous]

@Steve O 136025 wrote:

Here’s the updated list of Side Bets and Pointless prizes as of 3/2. (please send corrections)

HEY!
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?10020-Pointless-Prize-somethingorother-the-Suburban-Labyrinth

[Steve O]

@Amalitza 136119 wrote:

HEY!
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?10020-Pointless-Prize-somethingorother-the-Suburban-Labyrinth

fixed. sorry.

[komorebi]

I’ll award the same pointless prize that I did last year — a prize for the team with the most even distribution of points. Call it the “pulling together” prize.

The actual prize will involve baked goods of some kind. Possibly these:

[Steve O]

Hey elw – I doubt I will win this one, but I want to put in my entry for rides in most states (or is this something the data gurus can run automagically?):

I have:
Virginia
Maryland
DC
Colorado
California

for 5

[shardg]

@Steve O 136177 wrote:

Hey elw – I doubt I will win this one, but I want to put in my entry for rides in most states (or is this something the data gurus can run automagically?):

I have:
Virginia
Maryland
DC
Colorado
California

for 5

I think it is a Steve thing, I have the same States as well.

[jrenaut]

@Steve O 136177 wrote:

Hey elw – I doubt I will win this one, but I want to put in my entry for rides in most states (or is this something the data gurus can run automagically?)

This is the sort of thing that is difficult to program – I suspect you’d have to go through each point in your Strava track and check what state it was in. It is probably more work to code than to check everyone’s manually.

[americancyclo]

not sure if I made public my Pointless Prize.

All Work and No Play.
Highest Percentage of total rides that are commutes
awarded by data from Strava with rides tagged as ‘commute’

put me later in the awards, i probably won’t be there for the beginning of the final HH.

[dbb]

@americancyclo 136857 wrote:

All Work and No Play.
Highest Percentage of total rides that are commutes
awarded by data from Strava with rides tagged as ‘commute’

I might have a shot at this one.

[DCAKen]

@americancyclo 136857 wrote:

not sure if I made public my Pointless Prize.

All Work and No Play.
Highest Percentage of total rides that are commutes
awarded by data from Strava with rides tagged as ‘commute’

put me later in the awards, i probably won’t be there for the beginning of the final HH.

What’s nice about this PP is it will encourage riders to use the Commute tag.

[accordioneur]

@Steve O 136177 wrote:

Hey elw – I doubt I will win this one, but I want to put in my entry for rides in most states (or is this something the data gurus can run automagically?):

I have:
Virginia
Maryland
DC
Colorado
California

for 5

Five. That’s very impressive. I have the following nine: Virginia, Maryland, DC, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Mississippi.

[Steve O]

Here’s the list of Side Bets and Pointless Prizes as of Easter Sunday
At this point we don’t have any prizes for the winning teams:

Winning Team (points)
Winning Team (days ridden)

Side bets 2016:

Beerneuring – sjclaeys
Brünø’s Big Bad Coffee Challenge – Bruno Moore
Instagram – Subby & americancyclo
Ride titles – Steve O
Bicycle Tag – Steve O (ongoing year round)
Neon Green Band poetry – Steve O
“you call that a snow day” – kitty
First 10 people to do 5 HP laps – kwarkentien
Blizzard 3-day riders – CPTJohnC
Blizzard Pointless Prize (1/23 most miles) – vern
Finders Keepers – Mikey
Heads Up! – Mikey
Suburban Labyrinth – Amalitza
N+1 – vvill
Ray’s late, and poorly thought out, Pointless Prize. N-1 – Raymo0305

Already awarded
Golden Ingot – vicegrip (awarded at opening HH)
Rookie golden nugget – ewilliams0305 (awarded at opening HH)
Consular rider’s departure date/time – Steve O (won by Dickie)
Elf photo caption contest – Steve O (won by wheels&wings)
Strava Art – snugglefestival (won by komorebi)

Pointless Prizes 2016
Perfect Attendance – BikeArlington
Male rider with most points – Rockford10
Female rider with most points – Rockford10
Eddington Number – Rod Smith
Visit the most States in one ride – Raymo853
Janetzko Prize – Rob_O
The ride during the coldest recorded temperature of the contest – creadinger
The longest ride on the day with the coldest high temperature – creadinger
Hottest Heatmap – ewilliams0305
Longest, coldest ride – ewilliams0305
Most climbing (whole contest) – ewilliams0305
#kidical – dasgeh
Early Bird – Sunyata
Flat Lander (?) – Sunyata
Hains Point laps – Arlingtonrider
All Work and No Play – americancyclo
Last place team – lordofthemark
Tortoise award – lordofthemark
Team Billy Goat – glennpstevens
Pulling together – Komorebi
FS Drug Prize – wheels&wings
London Bridge – wheels&wings
Desperate Escape [from Housework] Prize – wheels&wings
Crescent Prize – wheels&wings
Just-in-case Prize – wheels&wings
Rides in most states – elwbikes
Rides in most countries – elwbikes
Average daily mileage closest to pi – Chris_s
Artisanally handcrafted hipster prizes from PDX – kelonwheels
Lowest variance (mr. & ms. Consistency) – CPTJohnC

[Raymo853]

@shardg 136178 wrote:

I think it is a Steve thing, I have the same States as well.

The most state prize is one I am managing. I plan to post something on it later today. One thing, it is not the most states ridden during the contest, but in a single ride. Pretty sure you did not make it to CA and CO on a single ride. I am pretty sure no one is beating Eric’s 5 with DC, MD, VA, WV and PA ride on Jan 1.

[lordofthemark]

My plan is to award both the last place team and the tortoise prize (what is one more piece of Elite chocolate, after all?)

[americancyclo]

@Steve O 137003 wrote:

Here’s the list of Side Bets and Pointless Prizes as of St. Patrick’s Day
At this point we don’t have any prizes for the more standard competitions:

Winning Team (points per days & miles)
Winning Team (days ridden)
Male rider with most points
Female rider with most points

Side bets:

Beerneuring – sjclaeys
Bicycle Tag – Steve O (continues after Freezing Saddles ends)
Brünø’s Big Bad Coffee Challenge – Bruno Moore
“you call that a snow day” – kitty
First 10 people to do 5 HP laps – kwarkentien (completed)
Blizzard 3-day riders – CPTJohnC (completed)
Blizzard Pointless Prize (1/23 most miles) – vern (completed)
Golden Ingot – vicegrip (awarded at opening HH)
Rookie golden nugget – ewilliams0305 (awarded at opening HH)
Strava Art – snugglefestival (completed; won by komorebi)
Finders Keepers – Mikey (completed)
Heads Up! – Mikey (completed)

Pointless Prizes 2016

Perfect Attendance – BikeArlington
Instagram – Subby & americancyclo
Ride titles – Steve O
N+1 – vvill
Ray’s late, and poorly thought out, Pointless Prize. N-1 – Raymo0305
Eddington Number – Rod Smith
Suburban Labyrinth – Amalitza
Visit the most States in one ride – Raymo853
Visit the most DC bike shops in a ride – Raymo 853
The ride during the coldest recorded temperature of the contest – creadinger
The longest ride on the day with the coldest high temperature – creadinger
Hottest Heatmap – ewilliams0305
Longest, coldest ride – ewilliams0305
Most climbing (whole contest) – ewilliams0305
#kidical – dasgeh
Early Bird – Sunyata
Flat Lander (?) – Sunyata
Hains Point laps – Arlingtonrider
All Work and No Play – americancyclo
Last place team or tortoise award – lordofthemark
Team Billy Goat – glennpstevens
Pulling together – Komorebi
FS Drug Prize – wheels&wings
London Bridge – wheels&wings
Desperate Escape [from Housework] Prize – wheels&wings
Crescent Prize – wheels&wings
Just-in-case Prize – wheels&wings
Rides in most states – elwbikes
Rides in most countries – elwbikes
Average daily mileage closest to pi – Chris_s
Artisanally handcrafted hipster prizes from PDX – kelonwheels
Lowest variance (mr. & ms. Consistency) – CPTJohnC
Consular rider’s departure date/time – Steve O (won by Dickie)
Elf photo caption contest – Steve O (won by wheels&wings)

you forgot The Janetzko Prize – Rob_O
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?10100-Late-Addition-The-Janetzko-Prize

[Steve O]

@Raymo853 137016 wrote:

The most state prize is one I am managing. I plan to post something on it later today. One thing, it is not the most states ridden during the contest, but in a single ride. Pretty sure you did not make it to CA and CO on a single ride. I am pretty sure no one is beating Eric’s 5 with DC, MD, VA, WV and PA ride on Jan 1.

There are two prizes: yours for a single ride, and elwbikes’s for Rides in Most States for the entire FS. Also Rides in Most Countries.

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