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== Paper Plates ==
== Paper Plates ==
To honour some of the events that happened during this Roses, a series of Paper Plate awards were put together by [[Robert Walker]], [[Lloyd Wallis]], [[Tom Cheyney]] and [[Helen Hobin]].
To honour some of the events that happened during [[Roses 2015]], a series of Paper Plate awards were put together by [[Robert Walker]], [[Lloyd Wallis]], [[Tom Cheyney]] and [[Helen Hobin]].


=== Best Art ===
=== Best Art ===
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'''Runners up'''
'''Runners up'''
* YUSU, for running 3x800W lanterns of a (reeled up) 13A extension cable
* YUSU, for running 3x800W lanterns off of a (reeled up) 13A extension cable
* Alick, for his laptop running the onset plasma
* Alick, for his laptop running the onset plasma
* LA1, for their ATEM 2 M/E that was too hot to reboot when it broke
* LA1, for their ATEM 2 M/E that was too hot to reboot when it broke
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=== Most interesting network ===
=== Most interesting network ===
'''Winner:''' Many people, for the closing ceremony network. Spent a bit of time with a 3G connection until using [[Antony Williams]] aged netbook as a gateway. In the middle of 22 Acres
'''Winner:''' Many people, for the closing ceremony network. Spent a bit of time with a 3G connection until using [[Anthony Williams]] aged netbook as a gateway. In the middle of 22 Acres


'''Runners up'''
'''Runners up'''
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=== Best Plates ===
=== Best Plates ===
'''Winner:''' Robert Walker, for managing to buy plastic plates for the awards
'''Winner:''' Robert Walker, for managing to buy plastic plates for the awards
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Latest revision as of 14:01, 14 May 2015

Paper Plates

To honour some of the events that happened during Roses 2015, a series of Paper Plate awards were put together by Robert Walker, Lloyd Wallis, Tom Cheyney and Helen Hobin.

Best Art

Winner: Kerry, from YUSU

Runners up

  • Chris Wall Rapping
  • Dan dancing
  • YSTV MCR ops, for Moon Chav recitals (many of)
  • YSTV MCR ops, for the Friday Morning Breakfast Show on URY - half way through ~40 hours of no sleep

Warmest thing that shouldn't be warm

Winner: (Maybe) Tom Cheyney, for a turned on soldering iron left under a pile of cables

Honorable Mention: URY Stores, for having four extra servers and recording the highest ambient temperature recorded, including results from the hottest parts of summer

Runners up

  • YUSU, for running 3x800W lanterns off of a (reeled up) 13A extension cable
  • Alick, for his laptop running the onset plasma
  • LA1, for their ATEM 2 M/E that was too hot to reboot when it broke

Biggest oversight

Winner: LA1, for forgetting to plan an OB from a swimming pool until the OB arrived at the swimming pool.

Runners up

  • Sam Nicholson, for exporting a VT and promptly deleting said VT before moving it onto the VT server.
  • YSTV, for putting Windows Explorer live on stream at the beginning of the first day
  • YSTV, for assuming James Network would be fine for the weekend. It wasn't.
  • Tom Cheyney, for soldering iron under cables
  • LA1, for dropping a TV off of RKC balcony
  • YUSU, for failing to provide network for OB1 despite agreeing to
  • LA1, for not bringing the Allen keys required to put together and take apart their monitors
  • LA1, for using all their tape on the first OB
  • URY, for trying to cover fireworks on radio
  • LA1, for managing to mis-match their ATEM firmware to installed software, and then losing the laptop with the correct version on

Most creative solution to a non-existent problem

Or something that shouldn't have been a problem

Winner: Lloyd Wallis and Robert Walker, for providing network for the Vanbrugh screen after YUSU's plan fell through

Runners up

  • LA1, for vision mixing on a videohub during darts
  • LA1, for the outside wireless mic run for the opening ceremony
  • Many people, for the fireworks camera that went Camera->HDMI->SDI over coax->HDMI->Wireless HDMI->HDMI->SDI over fibre->SDI over coax->ATEM

Most interesting network

Winner: Many people, for the closing ceremony network. Spent a bit of time with a 3G connection until using Anthony Williams aged netbook as a gateway. In the middle of 22 Acres

Runners up

  • OB3, for spending the weekend getting it's network through various laptops acting as WiFi gateway
  • G1RS1, for not really doing the network thing mid afternoon Saturday
  • Football pitch, for not really being a thing
  • Vanbrugh Screen, for not working to YUSU's original plan

Best Maths

Winner: YSTV MCR Engineers, for failing to work out that Strm7's HDD would fill up with HLS fragments during the opening ceremony

Runners up

  • LA1, for tripping a breaker in Central Hall
  • YSTV, for thinking the uplink out of Strm7 would be big enough
  • Robert Walker, for scheduling all Sundays events for Saturday
  • URY, for their darts commentary

Health and Safety Excellence Award For Working Healthily and Safely

Winner: LA1, for dropping a TV off RKC balcony

Runners up

  • YSTV, for running a cable above peoples heads outside physics after the opening ceremony had started
  • YSTV, for fixing sharp things (at the request of YUSU) outside physics
  • YUSU, for being desperate enough that they would have let us abseil down the side of Central Hall
  • LA1, for running a cable in front of Six (6) fire exits while the opening ceremony was going on
  • Tom Cheyney, for dipping the end of a (live) 16A cable into the lake. By physics

Best Plates

Winner: Robert Walker, for managing to buy plastic plates for the awards