Hash Awards

[Yeast]

Virgin Dick posted this e-mail to the South Florida hashing community today, I like the idea of an annual Hash Awards Hash:
For the last couple of years I have had an idea of a So. FL Hash Awards event, including a trail and awards banquet, and now I want to get "serious" about it. I would love to think it could be an annual tri-county event, whose location could rotate from county to county each year.

Anyway, I am thinking about Saturday March 11, 2006 as the first one (about the time of the Academy Awards). I have a place (Bayside Hut) in Key Biscayne that has a stage and staging area for us, would give us beer specials ($7 pitchers) has great, fairly inexpensive food, probably some free appetizers, and seems ready to work with us.

I can't do it alone, that's for sure. I have a tentative list of awards categories (see below), but need your insights and input. Since this is the first one, I think it could be based on the last few years this time, and then yearly awards after that. I figure we can hand out "ballots" at the various hashes, and email them as well and rely on a
request that each named hasher only vote once. Since I'm not all that aware of all the Palm Beach Hashers, I particularly need help with that. I am also thinking we could start a Hash Hall of Fame (Maybe Baby Ruth, Blarney, and Patch, etc.) but again need input.

So, I need help and (hopefully) some financially sponsorship (Buff Bros.?) with the actual awards and/or T-shirts, and the "presenters." I am hoping that maybe we can inspire Itsy Bitsy and Silver Hummer to be masters of ceremony, and then all of you guys and others to be
presenters. We probably need a beermeister for the Hash part, as well. I'd set trail, but certainly wouldn't mind a co-hare or two.

I am thinking maybe a 1:30 pm start (hare away by 2), have the Hash and regular circle, and then the "banquet" from about 4:30 pm. (Bayside Hut says we have to be done before about 10 pm, as they have a radio station
promotion every Saturday night at 11 pm.).

So please let me know what you think, the sooner the better, and we can decide if we want to do it, and if it is worth the effort.
(OK, so following Anal's precedent, I would also make it a Virgin Dick trio, with this Hash on Sat. the 11th, my birthday hash on Monday the 13th, and a Full Moon on Tuesday the 14th (or Wed. the 15th).

Here is my first draft of the various awards (in no particular order):

Best trail of the year
Worst trail of the year
Best body (skin) part of the year
Best T-shirt of the year
Favorite Hash Bar of the year
Best On After of the year
Best "theme" Hash of the year
Hash Animal (dog) of the year
GM of the year
Best new name of the year
Ranging Hasher of the year
Funniest Hasher of the year
Bloodiest Hasher of the year
Happiest Hasher of the year
Drunkest Hasher of the year
"I fought the law and the law won" hasher award
Whiner of the year
Most lecherous Hasher of the year
Visiting Hasher of the year
FRB award
DFL award
Over Achiever Award
Fastest Hasher of the year
Slowest Hasher of the year
Angriest Hashers of the year
Hash Web site of the year
Most Perfect Hasher of the year

So, let me know what you think, your suggestions, whether it is worth doing, and the level of your personal possible participation..

See you on trail.

On On
the Virgin Dick

[Yeast]

Here are my suggestions:

The message board here has a feature that will let us do web based voting ! would probably be better than ballots ? We could set up a vote for each hash award/category

Every year for the past 4 years or so the Austin hash has been doing hash awards just like what you're suggesting here, VD. In fact, in 2002 we (NGB & I) won the award for best trail of the year (it was for our trail we set for the 2001 Interamericas Hash). They gave us a plaque adorned with pink bunny slippers ! They also give out appropriate "awards" to the winners of each category rather than a statue, plaque, etc. Maybe some of our awards could be t-shirts (best dressed, best t-shirt), mugs (best bar, drunkest of them all), first aid kit (bloodiest hasher), compass/map (ranging hasher), etc....

Here are my suggestions for a couple other awards categories:

Best Dressed Hasher
Best Naming of the Year (or change the Best New Hash Name of the year to "Best Naming/New Hash Name" ?)
New Boot/New Hasher of the year
BUFFest of them all

[dirtybuttkiss]

I would love to help out in any way I could, be it co-haring (I'm fast enough to lay some good bad trails), or just helping with the voting.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

[Yeast]

Here's another category that may be something we should do an award for:

Best BEER CHECK !

[virgindick]

The South Florida Hash Awards Hash is on, and the date is April 15, 2006 on from the (former) Marine Stadium on Key Biscayne (we rotate the awards hash annually across three counties, or maybe five counties if Nipples and Treasure Coast participate as we think they might), start time around 1 pm. The awards show (and the food) should start by 4pm, so if you can't make the trail, at least make the party.

The support has been tremendous (oh yea) but we still need ideas and help, especially from the various Palm Beach Hashes. Shell Shocked is doing the T-shirt. I have heard some are going to run in Boston, but I know that's on Monday, and we are hoping you can plan your trip(s) accordingly. Oh well, we'll miss you if you are not there.

So, we (and you if you like) are working on the categories and nomination ballot. It will be distributed to all the various South Florida hashes, both on paper and electronically. Then, we will do it again for voting. We will have an honor system for voting, and will ask each hasher to vote only once, and that will allow us to have anonymous voting. We really need help with the ballot and voting part, so maybe one of you software geniuses or genies can volunteer to help out.

We also need help cuming up with an award(s) for the category winners. Any ideas?

Here is the preliminary list of categories (in no particular order). Let us know what you think, and start thinking about your nominations.

Best Hash of the Year
Best Beer Check of the Year
Best Trail of the Year
Worst trail of the Year
Worst Beer Check of the Year
Skin Award - Best Body Part of the Year
Best T-shirt of the Year
Best Circle of the Year
Hash Song of the Year
Best On-After of the Year
Worst On-After of the Year
Hash Bar of the Year
Best “Theme” Hash of the Year
Hash Animal of the Year
GM of the Year
Rookie of the Year (Best New Hasher of the Year)
Best New Hash Name of the Year
Ranging Hasher of the Year
Weirdest Hasher of the Year
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Female)
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Male)
Buffest Hasher of the Year
Funniest Hasher of the Year
Bloodiest Hasher of the Year
Happiest Hasher of the Year
Drunkest Hasher of the Year
sluttiest Hasher of the Year
Grumpiest Hasher of the Year
Best Dressed Hasher of the Year
Best New Hasher of the Year
“I fought the law and the law won” Award
Whiniest Hasher of the Year
Most Lecherous Hasher of the Year
Visiting Hasher of the Year
Fastest Hasher of the Year
Slowest Hasher of the Year
Best (loudest) Whistle
FRB of the Year
DFL of the Year
Most Competitive Hasher of the Year
Angriest Hasher of the Year
Hash Web Site of the Year
Most Perfect Hasher of the Year

We will probably also have a Hash Hall of Fame, including a Founder's Club for those that have founded a Hash or 12.

Tentative Time line:

Select categories – by Feb 15, 2006
Nominations – by March 15, 2006
Voting – by April 5, 2006


See you on trail.

On On

the Virgin Dick

[threeandahalf]

It would be fairly easy to set up a group of polls on this forum. Each poll would be for a single award category, and the allowable responses for each poll would be the nominees for that category.

If you think SF hashers would follow an honor system you could leave voting on the polls open to anyone, or you could restrict it to hashers who registered here, which would cut down on the massive vote fraud that I predict.

[virgindick]

:)The polling idea sounds good to me, if you really think it will work. I think we may have to have multiple polling sites and/or paper ballots at the various hash events. I'm not really worried about the predicted massive fraud, it is a Hash event and would expect nothing less. Still, the honor system of one hasher, one vote will prevail. Hey, who do you think is going to count the votes anyway?

Really, if this site polling is workable, it would be great to try to direct most of the voting here. I'm a little shy of requiring registration, as the voting should be pretty much anonymous.

Would there be a limit to the number of categories?

vd

[virgindick]

Please spread the word!

OK, the time is nearing for us to decide on the Awards catagories and start taking nominations. (We are also putting together the other various components of this event, so if you want to volunteer to help, either with a specific part of the event, or in general, let Virgin Dick know, either in this forum, or by email at [e-mail])

Here is the current list. If you have additional suggestions, let us know now, as we will be asking for nominations for each of the awards beginning on Feb. 15, 2006.

South Florida Hash Awards Categories (draft)

Best Hash of the Year
Best Beer Check of the Year
Best Trail of the Year
Worst trail of the Year
Worst Beer Check of the Year
Skin Award - Best Body Part of the Year
Best Hash Name
Best T-shirt of the Year
Best Circle of the Year
Hash Song of the Year
Best On-After of the Year
Worst On-After of the Year
Hash Bar of the Year
Best “Theme” Hash of the Year
Hash Animal of the Year
GM of the Year
Rookie of the Year (Best New Hasher of the Year)
Best New Hash Name of the Year
Ranging Hasher of the Year
Weirdest Hasher of the Year
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Female)
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Male)
Buffest Hasher of the Year
Funniest Hasher of the Year
Bloodiest Hasher of the Year
Happiest Hasher of the Year
Drunkest Hasher of the Year
International Hasher of Leisure aka Most Traveled Hasher
Best Hash Nickname From a Formal hash Name
sluttiest Hasher of the Year
Grumpiest Hasher of the Year
Best (loudest) Whistle Award
Best Dressed Hasher of the Year
Best New Hasher of the Year
“I fought the law and the law won” Award
“I fought the law and I won” Award
Whiniest Hasher of the Year
Most Lecherous Hasher of the Year
Visiting Hasher of the Year
Fastest Hasher of the Year
Slowest Hasher of the Year
FRB of the Year
DFL of the Year
Most Competitive Hasher of the Year
Angriest Hasher of the Year
Hash Web Site of the Year
Most Perfect Hasher of the Year

There should also be a Hash Hall of Fame including a “Founders Club”

Time line:

Select categories – Feb 15, 2006
Nominations – March 15, 2006
Voting – April 5, 2006

[Yeast]

Here are my suggestions - eliminated/redundat categories - in my opinion - indicated by Red font:

Best Hash of the Year
Best Beer Check of the Year
Best Trail of the Year
Worst trail of the Year
Worst Beer Check of the Year
Skin Award - Best Body Part of the Year
Best Hash Name
Best T-shirt of the Year
Best Circle of the Year
Hash Song of the Year
Best On-After of the Year
Worst On-After of the Year
Hash Bar of the Year
Best "Theme" Hash of the Year
Hash Animal of the Year
GM of the Year
Rookie of the Year (Best New Hasher of the Year)
Best New Hash Name of the Year
Ranging Hasher of the Year
Weirdest Hasher of the Year
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Female)
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Male)
Buffest Hasher of the Year
Funniest Hasher of the Year
Bloodiest Hasher of the Year
Happiest Hasher of the Year
Drunkest Hasher of the Year
International Hasher of Leisure aka Most Traveled Hasher
Best Hash Nickname From a Formal hash Name
sluttiest Hasher of the Year
Grumpiest Hasher of the Year
Best (loudest) Whistle Award
Best Dressed Hasher of the Year
Best New Hasher of the Year
"I fought the law and the law won" Award
"I fought the law and I won" Award
Whiniest Hasher of the Year
Most Lecherous Hasher of the Year
Visiting Hasher of the Year
Fastest Hasher of the Year
Slowest Hasher of the Year
FRB of the Year
DFL of the Year
Most Competitive Hasher of the Year
Angriest Hasher of the Year
Hash Web Site of the Year
Most Perfect Hasher of the Year

[Virgin Dick]

That's great, Yeast. I think we probably need to pare it down some more, if we can. Still, if anyone cum up with a grea new catagory, we can always add it.

[threeandahalf]

Oh, you can't leave out:

Best Hash Nickname From a Formal hash Name
Best (loudest) Whistle Award

But I would drop:
sluttiest Hasher of the Year
Grumpiest Hasher of the Year

I think I would focus on categories that relate to specific events throughout the year - injuries, arrests, particular trails and beer stops and circles, etc.

I would leave out most of the vague categories - happiest, grumpiest, buffest, etc.

I do like "Most Perfect Hasher of the Year", which I assume is like the Oscar's Best Actor.

If we could cut the categories down to 20 or less I would be willing to do some metal fabrication and make trophies.

[Yeast]

Yeah, 3.5" I have to agree, the awards should relate more to hasing events/names/etc and we could probably omit some of the more general categories such as "happiest hasher", "gumpiest hasher", weirdest, sluttiest, etc......

Also the awards are meant to be special so having too many of them is not a good idea, I like the idea of haing 15-20 categories

I have some ideas for award items, and will e-mail you separately since I think it would be good to keep at least most of them secret, that is, if we can !

[dirtybuttkiss]

To help weed out some of the awards it would also be a good idea to trim out the ones that don't pertain to a particular hasher or group of hashers like best/worst on after. After all, who would accept the award then?

[virgindick]

Cutting to 15-20 awards really works, not just so that 3.5 can make enough awards, but also we will have time ot present them. I think we will have individual presenters, so time is a factor.

I think we can reach a concensus for the say, 20 awards and get on to the nominations soon. In the meantime, Yeast is working on prizes for the awards.

There is more to cum, so stay tuned and keep the comments and suggestions cuming, please.

[virgindick]

OK, let's decide the catagories. Can you guys set up a "poll" listing each of the 42 possible catagories and then we can let anyone that wants to vote, vote for up to 20 of the catagories and we will then use the top 20 catagories and start taking nominations. I think I can set up a poll on the Yahoo site(s) as well, and we can just ask people to only vote in one place. If they really care so much as to vote more than once, do we care? I think not.

I figure if we can get this "poll" up by Wednesday, we can give it week and go from there.

What do you all think?

Here is the list, again:

Best Hash of the Year
Best Beer Check of the Year
Best Trail of the Year
Worst Trail of the Year
Worst Beer Check of the Year
Skin Award - Best Body Part of the Year
Best T-shirt of the Year
Best Circle of the Year
Hash Song of the Year
Best On-After of the Year
Worst On-After of the Year
Best "Theme" Hash of the Year
Hash Animal of the Year
GM of the Year
Rookie of the Year (Best New Hasher of the Year)
Best New Hash Name of the Year
Ranging Hasher of the Year
Weirdest Hasher of the Year
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Female)
Sexiest Hasher of the Year (Male)
Buffest Hasher of the Year
Funniest Hasher of the Year
Bloodiest Hasher of the Year
Happiest Hasher of the Year
Drunkest Hasher of the Year
sluttiest Hasher of the Year
Grumpiest Hasher of the Year
Best Dressed Hasher of the Year
Best New Hasher of the Year
"I fought the law and the law won" Award
Whiniest Hasher of the Year
Most Lecherous Hasher of the Year
Visiting Hasher of the Year
Best (loudest) Whistle
FRB of the Year
DFL of the Year
Pack Hasher of the Year
Most Competitive Hasher of the Year
Angriest Hasher of the Year
Hash Web Site of the Year
Most Perfect Hasher of the Year