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== 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 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