Roses 2015

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.

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 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 Antony 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