Pointless Prizes 2016

[Raymo853]

@Raymo853 132426 wrote:

The Loose Rules on my challanges:

#1 Most states:
In a single day of continuous riding, ride in the most states possible. Must include either VA, MD or DC. (DC does count as a state) No shuttling or multimodal allowed. (so no riding through DC, VA, MD and then taking the train to PA)

Bonus Points for tie breaking: starting and ending in the same state, shortest distance, 2x for including another country (embassy grounds do not count)

Prize: Some found/made prize and bottle of rye whiskey. Alternative to the rye is a $50 donation in your name to what ever bike charity you want

#2 Most Bike shops:

I may want to change this to something else, the most Food for All Dc Deliveries. But I need to check on something before doing that.

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I did mutate the bike shop or charity work chal;lange into the give bike stuff away n-1 challenge:
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?10046-Ray-s-late-and-poorly-thought-out-Pointless-Prize-N-1

[DCAKen]

@accordioneur 136974 wrote:

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

Also very impressive. I’m up to thirteen: Delaware, Maryland, DC, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, and Hawaii.

[Rockford10]

@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:

Male rider with most points
Female rider with most points

I can provide prizes for the Male and Female riders with the most points.

[hozn]

FYI – I have a huge spreadsheet (~4MB) with all of the rides and associated weather data as CSV. While it uses “display name” it probably would be better not to just post it up here, since it could include rides that folks had marked private (if they gave app permission to view private data). It does not include any geographic data. If you’d like the spreadsheet, feel free to email me and I’ll send it to you (tonight; it’s on my home laptop): hans [at] velum dot net

I hear about people manually combing the leaderboards to deduce things and it makes me cry a little, so I want to make sure those awarding prizes have access to the data they need for their prizes. For more complex stuff, I’m happy to help, though you may be on your own if it’s not something we can easily do in SQL. (But in which case this spreadsheet might still help.)

[CPTJohnC]

Never mind: I just e-mailed.

[Steve O]

Attention Pointless Prize awarders

I have updated the list.

– If you are NOT going to be able to award your prize, let me know ASAP so that I can remove you from the program.
– If you have a prize that does not appear on the list, let me know ASAP, so that I can add it.

If your prize appears correctly and you are intending to award it at the HH, no need to contact me.

We have a very long list of prizes, so we will need to be efficient at getting them out. I will post an agenda/order of prizes sometime this week.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

komorebi very kindly picked up the labyrinth prize and will award it on my behalf.

[Steve O]

Bruno is looking for someone to pick up his prizes and bring them to the HH, in case you didn’t see this in the other thread.

[wheelswings]

Hi Final-Happy-Hour-and-Pointless-Prize-Organizers. Huge thanks for setting things up.
We’ve been busy creating absurd prizes, and I can’t wait to give them out. I must admit, though, I’m a little nervous about the timing… I have six prizes to distribute – some to multiple winners – making for 30-something recipients. I hear that there are over 200 awardees total. If we have a 30-minute prize ceremony, there will be roughly 10 seconds to give out each prize. Yikes! I’m willing to talk fast, but I’m worried about the awkward shape of our venue… it may be tricky for winners to come forward quickly for their prizes.
I’m really bad at logistics, but I’m wondering if it would help to:
–have an m.c. to help keep us on track?
–bring poster boards with the names of awardees, so that people could come forward as we are speaking?
–have a prize table up front where folks could claim their prizes afterwards (good to affix the names)?
–have ceremonial elves whose job is to help distribute the prizes when names are called?
Other ideas?
Perhaps this is all worked out already. If so, that is awesome ‘cause it’s not my forte. Or perhaps we’ll just wing it…that is okay too.
I just want to make sure there will be enough time to give out my stash of prizes.
Thanks,
w&w

[lordofthemark]

Yes to MC, and to elves. Awards to teams should go to a team rep (captain or not) who will distribute them.

[Steve O]

In order to smooth the presentation of Pointless Prizes and help deal with the issues w&w highlighted, we are going to separate the announcements of Pointless Prizes from the distribution. With the number of prizes to be presented, we will need to act with celerity and efficiency to get done in under 40 minutes.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We will need volunteers to staff prize distribution. Several will be better than one, so you can work shifts. At least one of you needs to be there early to find a place to hold the prizes, collect them and be able to distribute them. This is a job for people who are not awarding a prize. Respond to this thread if you can help with this.

Attention award givers
If you are awarding a prize or prizes:
Bring your prize labeled with the name of the prize and the recipient, and give it to the prize distribution volunteers. It may help to put it in a bag, envelope or box or something.
As w&w suggested, if you’d like to make a poster or flyer with information about your prizes and winners to post on a wall (particularly if you have several winners), that might be good–particularly if there is interesting accompanying information like photos, captions, lists of states, Strava maps, etc.

I will bring flyers with the names of the “Perfect Attendance” winners and the “Missed One Day Only” players.

I will also bring “programs” with the list of prizes and awardees in the order of presentation. Be prepared to make your announcement immediately after the one prior.

If your prize is inseparable from your announcement (e.g., some sort of visual gag), you may show it during your announcement, but save the actual presentation for off-line.

[ian74]

I’m volunteering for award distribution. I can be there around 4:30 or shortly after.

[lordofthemark]

Oops. I got Elite chocolate bars AND Elite gum, figuring not everyone likes chocolate (or some have allergies) and that the folks on team 2 would settle who got which. Was not expecting to label 13 pieces of candy ( plus a,fourteenth for the tortoise prize). Can we just have one sign for team two, and one for the tortoise prize?

[Steve O]

@lordofthemark 137681 wrote:

Oops. I got Elite chocolate bars AND Elite gum, figuring not everyone likes chocolate (or some have allergies) and that the folks on team 2 would settle who got which. Was not expecting to label 13 pieces of candy ( plus a,fourteenth for the tortoise prize). Can we just have one sign for team two, and one for the tortoise prize?

Leave the prizes themselves with Ian/prize table and announce them at the appropriate time. If you want the team members to sort them out for themselves, that’s fine.

[Kitty]

It just occurred to me that with some folks being unable to attend, some prizes may go unawarded! Should we try to reach out to our winner(s) in advance? Or is the plan that awardees take their prize home and try again later? (Newbie)

In any event, I’d be happy to help with the awarding in any way needed. (Prize distribution, standing on furniture to get people’s attention etc.)

@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.

I might have a shot at this! Most of my rides were commutes…

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