Paper Plates award
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