FLOPPYs

The FLOPPYs are a joke awards event started in 2006 in response to the dreadfulness of the YUMAs that year. They were created by Matthew Tole and Sarah Leese, the new and outgoing Station Directors at the time. They were named the FLOPPYs because that was the best object they could come up for prizes - floppy disks. After some discussion, it became an acronym: For the Love Of the People and Programmes of YSTV.

The awards continued after 2006 with many regular categories, including Nicest Member. New awards were also introduced including The Bew Award (for Doing a Bew), named after Emma Bew and the Alex Muller Award for Presentness. In recent years, the floppy disks have been augmented with (uncategorised) Deeply Valued Departed discs for the graduating members. Traditionally the awards are organised by the new and outgoing Station Directors and the Social Secretary, and held upstairs at Evil Eye.

Awards by Year

The point of the FLOPPYs is to give every active member at least one award.

2006

In 2006, the FLOPPYs were held on the steps of York Minster, after the YSTV End of Term Meal. They were presented by Matthew Tole and Sarah Leese who had spent an afternoon coming up with the awards, nominations and winners!

Show Awards

• Least Original Programme: LipSync
• Most Over Used Set: YSTV Week Set
• Best New Show: YSTV Sport

People Awards

• Human Encyclopedia Award: Richard Ash
• Most Travelled Member: Rob Humphrey
• Best Foreign Member: Iain Cooke
• Meglomaniac Award: Rowan de Pomerai
• Society Dinosaur: Selbysaurus
• Most Fertile: Rick Selby
• Kev Loves That Stuff Award (for the person who has loved the most stuff this year): Kevin Larkin
• Fruit Award: Ian Martindale
• Best Oldgoer: Dave Baker
• Back In My Day award: Rob Humphrey
• Humanitarian Award (for the person who had to put up with Ian the most): David Furey
• One Word award: Sarah Cheyne ("Sorry")
• Best Bullshitter Award: James Blackshaw
• Most Compulsive Member: Ian Martindale
• Most Opinionated Member: Rowan de Pomerai
• Windiest Member: Rick Selby
• Nicest Member: Sarah Cheyne
• Wildlife Award: Matthew Tole
• Most pregnant cockney ex-station director: Sarah Leese
• Lifetime achievement award: Rob Humphrey
• YSTV Personality of the year: Kev Larkin

2010

• Most Reluctant Sportsperson: Sarah Pickles
• The Unicorn Award: Alex Muller
• The 'Hi, My Name Is... and I'm a Twitter Addict' Award: Alex Muller
• The “I’ll Start My Degree Tomorrow” Award: Simon Harris

2011

Compiled from photos by Viv Chung.

• The Original Bew Award (for the Original Doing a Bew): Emma Bew
• The Alex Muller Award for Presentness: Vivan Jayant
• Friendliest Member: Matt Johnson
• Most Parental: Sarah Pickles
• Nicest Member: Sarah Pickles
• Best Social Costume: Sarah Pickles
• Best Willow Moment: Sam Nicholson
• Best Sound Bite: Emma Bennett
• Best Cabler: Tom Gregory
• Best Use of the Costume Drawer: Greg Ebdon
• Best Nickname: Marie N'Giggidy Giggidy Ba-Ba Mills (courtesy of Steven Perring)
• Ethnic Sensitivity: Marie Mills
• Best Dressed: Michael Miller
• Most Likely Flasher: Michael Chislett
• Most #Epic Moment: Sanat Misra
• spam​@​ystv.co.uk: Vivien Chung
• The Boomerang Award: Mark Friend
• The Longest Member: Alina Selega
• The Animal Likeness Award: Marcus Tibbitts
• The Poser Award: Michael Miller
• The Resistance Award: Samuel Crowley
• The Sobriety Award: Alex Balmer

2012

Compiled from photos by Viv Chung.

• The Bew Award (for Doing a Bew): Sarah David
• The Alex Muller Award for Presentness: Marie Mills
• Best Father: Matt Johnson
• Best Mother: Greg Ebdon
• Best Photographer: Charlotte Boyle
• Best Speech: Kieron Moore
• Best Dressed: Tess Humphrey
• Best Hair: Rachael Sherlock
• Best Couple: Sam Nicholson & the Servers
• Best Blagger: Steven Perring
• Nicest Member: Liz Pascoe
• The Stolen Member Award: Alex Williams
• The 'I'll Do My Degree Tomorrow' Award: Sarah Pickles
• The Sobriety Award: Sanat Misra
• The 'England Isn't a Country' Award: Sarah David
• Superfluous Surname: Joanna Starzynski
• The Sparkly Award: April Micallef
• The Microphone Award: Vivan Jayant
• The Smiley Award: Emma Bennett
• The Paid Member Award: Alex Muller
• The NaSTA'd Award: John Caine
• Gotta Catch 'Em All (The Pokémon Award): Alex Buckley

2013

• Sports Personality of the Year: Matt Johnson
• The Bew Award (for Doing a Bew): Marie Mills
• The 'Are You Even Human?' Award: Greg Ebdon
• The 'I Don't Know What the Fuck You Do, But It's Fucking Awesome' Award: Robert Walker
• The 'He Doesn't Even Go Here' Award: Alex Williams
• Best Dressed: Kieron Moore
• Best Hair: Peter Eskdale
• Best Arse: Matt Judge
• YSTV Mum: Helen Hobin
• YSTV Dad: John Caine
• YSTV Fairy Godmother: Sarah Pickles
• YSTV Kleptomaniac: Lucy Walters
• The Water Cooler Award: Lucy Walters
• Least Depraved and Furthest Away from Josh Hunter's Squalid Pit of Debauchery: David Heaton
• Bowie of the Year: Emily Torricelli
• King of the Willow: Chris Wall
• Most Traitorous: Adam Taylor
• Classiest Member: Megan Hollinghurst
• Adorable Award: Alex Buckley
• Saltiest Balls: April Micallef
• Nicest Member: Hannah Ruddle
• Sparkly New Member: Matt Hands
• Stolen Member: Anthony Williams
• Break Glass in case of FLOPPY: Lloyd Wallis

2014

• The Alex Muller Award for Presentness: Anthony Williams
• Station Captive: Lloyd Wallis
• You're a Mug: Kieron Moore
• I'd tap that: Tom Woffenden
• Hulk Smash: Robert Walker
• Best Ban(n/t)er: David Heaton
• Sparkly New Member: Liz Williams
• Staples Award: Alex Buckley
• Best On-Screen Male: Peter Eskdale
• RSPCA Award for Animal Welfare: Thomas Cheyney
• Best Hair: Kenric Yuen
• Sound Gal: Helen Moss
• YSTV Foreign Correspondent: Emily Torricelli
• YSTV Dad: Sam Nicholson
• Old Spice: Matt Johnson
• Kraken: Matt Judge
• Fairy Godfather: Alex Williams
• Scrubs Up Well: Ellen Dunbavin
• YSTV Mum: Grace Winpenny
• Stolen Member: Jess Courtney
• Cool Story Bro: Matt Hands
• Nicest Member: Rob Drane
• Sports Personality of the Year: Tim Copeland
• Smooth Operator: Rachel Burns
• Lost and Found: Christopher Parker
• Most Patient Member: Sam Nicholson
• Just Hold Me: Greg Ebdon

2015

• YSTV Mum: Sarah Mesterton-Gibbons
• YSTV Mum 2: Rachel Burns
• Our Favourite Biscuit: Matt Johnson
• Virtual Reality: Robert Walker
• Go the F**k to Sleep: Kenric Yuen
• The Last Man Standing: Peter Eskdale
• Nicest Member: Grace Winpenny
• Stolen Member: Sam Willcocks
• Creepy Uncle: Alick Perigo
• Best Hair: Sophie Monks

2016

The 2016 awards - in a departure from tradition - were held in the Wetherspoons Postern Gate.

• Best Hair: Sam Willcocks

2017

The 2017 awards saw a return to the traditional upstairs of Evil Eye

• Health & Safety Award For Being Healthy & Safe: Sam Hance
• Fifty Shades of Colour Grading Award: Raquel Bartra
• The Emily Friend Award for being a friendly graphics genius: Emily Friend
• Punctuality Award: Benjamin Whybrow (ironically not collected)
• The 'Staying Until The Very End Even Though She Doesn't Have To' Award: Amber Shakespeare
• Everyone's favourite fighting treasurer: Dan Maher
• Momentum Award for journalistic integrity and narrative: Joel Mitchell
• Wisest member: Kenric Yuen
• YSTV's guardian angel: Grace Downer
• Best stolen member: Matthew Stratford
• YSTV's favourite biscuit: Sam Willcocks
• Best on camera hot-dog consumption: Andy Tallon
• YSTV's in-house film philosopher: Adam Tye
• 'It means nothing' Award for meaning a lot: Fanny Kerekes
• Best Dab: Kate Whittaker
• All aboard the York Parties train: Jack Train
• Fiddler on the rig: Tom Lee
• Master of the Sesh(-ions): Lily Papworth
• Coolest Member: Courtney Brotherson
• YSTV's official Director of Better: Hui-Ling Phillips
• Katherine BellUnverified or incomplete information
• Edwin BarnesUnverified or incomplete information

2018

Also upstairs in Evil Eye. It was prepared by Katherine Bell and Edwin Barnes. These FLOPPYs were spray painted Silver.

• Adobe CC Award for Being A Celtic Creative Sam Hance
• Nicest Member: Stephanie Shires
• Can I See Your ID Award: Thomas Schubert
• Spam Warrior: Olivia Gibbs
• Best Stolen Member: Natalie Harris
• Bob Marley Award: Joe Patrick
• Making Constantine Sound Interesting: Theodore Bimson
• Most Reluctant Clubber: Matthew Stratford
• Benevolent Dictator: Edwin Barnes
• YSTV's Favorite German: Matthias Söhnel (German Tom's friend that visited him at the time)

2019

Once again back in Evil Eye. This year, the FLOPPYs were decided by a massive team: Outgoing Station Director Edwin Barnes, incoming Station Directors Stephanie Shires and Thomas Schubert, Social Secretary Zoe Dickinson, and Olivia Gibbs and Caroline Preynat-Viero, who just happened to sit next to them. These FLOPPYs were spray painted Gold (along with various other random objects lying around the Studio).

• The David Attenborough Award for Excellence in Narration Sam Hance
• Little Miss Sunshine Award: Stephanie Shires
• Time Management Award (for always submitting a minute before the deadline): Thomas Schubert
• Member with the Biggest Balls: Olivia Gibbs
• The Anser to our Prayers Award: Tom Lee (actually a hard drive instead of a floppy disk)
• Longest Standing Member: Kenric Yuen
• Most Quoted Member: Tom McGonagle
• Most Open Source Member: Adam Birtles
• Best Endowed Member: Andrew Waddle
• Most Arbitary Award: Jake Cullum
• Scariest Member: Cal Cooke
• Loudest Member: Charlotte Rogers
• Best Stationary: Celine Yu
• Best Sunglasses: Dan Derbyshire
• The Last of his Kind Award: Erhard Zurawka
• YSTV Mum: Hayley Louise Clark
• The "I'll do my degree later" Award: Joseph Wharfe
• The "Oh no, we're doing that for real?" Award: Andrew Battersby
• Most Impressive CV: Malikah Blake
• "#aesthetic" Award: Anastasia Arsentyeva
• The Natural Presenter Award: Caitlin McDonald
• Best Recorded Footsteps: Hope Shooter
• The Mark Zuckerberg Award for Excellence in Social Media: Jack Carter
• The "I'll write SoundCops, I promise" Award: Jacob Boyle
• Liza Mzimba's One Man Fanclub: Jonathan Hughes
• Best Hair: Karinna Hollins
• The Spelling Award: Klara Simonova
• YSTV's Resident Yankee: Lauren Voth
• The Best Newest Newcomer Award: Luke Simmington
• The Taylor Swift Award for Perseverance in Dating: Manuel Ausin
• Best Laugh: Matthew Zeffertt
• Double Agent: Natalie Harris
• The Countryfile Award for Best Sheep Herding: Piotrek Przyborowski
• The "Wait, You're Not TFTV" Award: Prakriti Jha
• The Pronunciation Award: Ran Christer
• The MIA Award: Richard Jones
• Best Stolen Member: Jacob Dicker
• The "Is He Still A Member" Award: Joe Patrick
• The Invisible Member Award: Matthew Stratford
• The No.1 Daddy Award: Edwin Barnes
• Best Couple: Tape Team
• YSTV's Favorite German: Annika Kohlstock (German Tom's friend that visited him at the time. I'm sensing a pattern here)