Pointless Prizes 2019
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Hi all! It’s time for the funnest part of Freezing Saddles, the Pointless Prizes. 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). They can be shameless (Most accordioneur gigs attended by bicycle!) and they can be heartwarming (Bike Samaritans, helping others in need). Check out last year’s thread for more examples.
List of Pointless Prizes (updated 3/19/19)
Beerneuring (sjclaeys) – Drink beer. Ride Bikes No hashtag
Silly Rabbit Trix (drevil) – Biking’s more fun when you pepper it up with silly trix. No hashtag
Pointless Kids (jrenaut) – Riding with kids on their own bikes & tracking their miles #withkid[name]
Kidical (LhasaCM) – Riding your bike with one or more kids “attached” to your bike (trailer, cargo bike, kids seat, etc.) #kidical
Kidical (LhasaCM) – Riding with kids #withkid
Points per Mile (chuxtr) – Highest ratio of points per mile No hashtag
Coffee Rides (chuxtr) – Visit different coffee places on your bike #FS2019coffeeride
Calvinball winner (josh) – Your quest is to seek thee the gameball, hidden secretly amongst the cycling trails inside the beltway (but not to be found in any federal park). No hashtag
Ride Alexandria’s Bike Infrastructure Prize (lordofthemark) – Ride bike infrastructure in the city of Alexandria. The goal here is to ride each of the included segments as many times as possible. No hashtag
Dumpling Ride (bikedavid) – Visit dumpling restaurants #FS2019dumplingride
The Road goes ever on and on… (AliasXIII) – TBD – has to do with covering the most ground
Photo captions (SteveO) – Best photo captions No hashtag
Loopy for Arlington (bentbike33) – Completing the most Arlington Loops No hashtag
Keeping it 100 (LhasaCM) – Use the 100 mile rule to maximize your contribution to the team with the minimum miles No hashtag
Tandem Rides (shirag) – Most number of tandem rides (either as a captain or stoker) #FS2019tandem
Metro Peak Pioneer (LeprosyStudyGroup) – his winter’s your chance to demonstrate that You are the KOM/QOM of METRO’S PEAK hours by going multi-modal and riding both your trusty rusty bikey and a smokey brokey subway on into work. #bafsmetro
“Lost Dog Award (Sunyata) – Get on your bike, ride to the kennel and walk some dogs (or if that is not your thing, play with some cats or clean some cages/kennels)!
#BAFS2019LostDog“
Strava Art (komorebi) – Create art via your Strava tracks No hashtag
Catch and Release (PeteD) – Find and document previous dockless bikes No hashtag
Michigander You call THAT a snow day?! Prize (Kitty) – Riding on OPM snow days No hashtag
Out-Of-Bounds Coffee Rides (Edelweiss) – Coffee rides NOT in the DMV #FS2019OOBcoffeeride
Top Three Women Riders (Fast Friendly Guy) – Some verifiable metric (Points? Miles?) will be used here No hashtag
London Bridge Prize (wheels&wings) – Most/worst crashes No hashtag
Spiritneuring (Boomer2U) – Drink spirits at a distillery #BAFS2019spiriteuring
Wineuring (Boomer2U) – Drink wine at a winery #BAFS2019wineuring
KOT and QOT (Judd) – Do good deeds for our trails No hashtag
Pastry Ride (bikedavid) – Visit pastry shops and eat pastries #FS2019pastryride
Freeze your ass off (AlanA) – This prize will go the person with the most individual freeze points. No hashtag
Lowest mileage variance prize in honor of Chris Maimone (jrenaut) – Given to the rider whose daily mileage changed the least over the course of the contest No hashtag
Elevation Per Mile (Billy Goat)/Overall Elevation Gain (Bob James) – Awarded to both the male and female riders with the most elevation gain per mile, and max elevation gain as captured on FS website. No hashtag
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@obscurerichard 184968 wrote:
If you think your Pointless Prize _could_ have a leaderboard on the site, but you don’t have one now, please let me know and I’ll at least create an issue to track it. Depending on how hard it is, the tech team might even be able to implement it!
I’ve gone through the recent Pointless Prize posts and either put links in for the leaderboards or created issues in the freezingsaddles/freezing-web GitHub to track creation of the leaderboards.
Pretty sure the Alexandria Infra prize COULD have a leaderboard. Not a priority to me, but I hear SOME people might like it
@lordofthemark 185087 wrote:
Pretty sure the Alexandria Infra prize COULD have a leaderboard. Not a priority to me, but I hear SOME people might like it
If any of you programmers has a hankering for wasting time for my sake, it would be cool to see a chart with how many times you’ve completed each of the segments, rather than the single digit “score” of the segments with the lowest count. That being said, the mystery of not knowing your score at all would be equally appropriate :shrug:
@lordofthemark 185087 wrote:
Pretty sure the Alexandria Infra prize COULD have a leaderboard. Not a priority to me, but I hear SOME people might like it
With 4 more Alex Infra Segs ridden today, I’d like to know just how far behind LSG I am.
@chuxtr 189297 wrote:
Thanks Jesse for MC-ing last night! What’s next for you? The Oscars?
Next year my opening monologue will include accordion music.
@LhasaCM 183650 wrote:
And I’ll sponsor something for the participants who drag their kids around with them (either literally, in the case of #kidical, or figuratively). It’ll be something along the lines of what’s described in last year’s thread here, probably, barring any tweaks to not step on Jon’s toes with his Pointless Kid prize.
It would be nice
The more the merrier. I think I could sponsor too for the participants that were brought that will bring two more of their friends It would be nice if you could provide a leaderboard so the sponsors would be more excited and eager to participate of the event.
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