Prizes, Awards, and Team Scores
Prizes
Winners in each Division
The top five teams in The Beginner’s, Regular, Thinks Faster Than Walks and Master’s Division receive prizes: the first place team gets a cake in the shape of a key, and the four runner-up teams each get a bottle of champagne and an award certificate.
In addition, we award highly coveted prizes for best-named and best-dressed teams. The competition for these is quite fierce so step up your game!
Year of the Ox (2009) Scores
Beginner Team Scores
| Rank | Time | Team Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:18:05 PM | Burox Obamoo |
| 2 | 8:32:35 PM | Alfred Hitch Ox & the 3 Investigators |
| 3 | 8:39:57 PM | Steering Committee |
| 4 | 8:41:56 PM | No Bull in the Gnu Year |
| 5 | 8:57:24 PM | Run, Gaby, Hannah, Dominique, Jenny, Kevin, Run |
» Full 2009 Beginner Division Results
Regular Team Scores
| Rank | Time | Team Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6:59:42 PM | Beefing Our Way to Victory |
| 2 | 6:59:43 PM | Goldie Ox & the Three Bears |
| 3 | 7:03:28 PM | Notori Ox |
| 4 | 7:08:16 PM | Lights, Camera, Oxen |
| 5 | 7:12:12 PM | Sum Dim Oxen |
» Full 2009 Regular Division Results
Thinks Faster Than Walks Team Scores
| Rank | Clues | Time | Team Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 8:20:42 PM | Oxwork Orange |
| 2 | 14 | 8:20:42 PM | The Oxes of Evil |
| 3 | 14 | 8:26:38 PM | Bum Steers |
» Full 2009 Thinks Faster Than Walks Division Results
Masters Team Scores
| Rank | Time | Team Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:19:24 PM | Friday the 13th Part VI |
| 2 | 7:42:48 PM | The Yoke’s On Us |
| 3 | 7:44:52 PM | Oxytocin |
| 4 | 7:46:21 PM | Sherloxen |
| 5 | 7:54:39 PM | Noir Cowbell |
» Full 2009 Masters Division Results
Complete standings from past years have been archived:
» view 2008 (or earlier) archives
Special Awards & Contests: Team Names
We encourage creative naming of teams. To reward that effort, we offer two different awards for best team names in pun and noir categories. Prizes are awarded to the top five team names in each category. In the event that more than one team chooses a winning name, the award goes to the team that registered first.
Apropos to that, this year's one-time-only “Best Oxymoronic Team Name 2009” went to
- Oxymorons (Ron Filion; Pamela Storm)
About the Jayson Wechter "I Never-Met-a-Pun-I Didn't Like Award"
The Jayson Wechter "I Never-Met-a-Pun-I Didn't Like Award" is given to the teams with the cleverest names, which are often related to the year of the Chinese zodiac (2009 is the Year of the Ox).
This year we had many more team name awards than ever before:
- Best Film-Related Team Name: APOCALYPSE COW
- Best Presidential-Themed Team Name BAR-OX OBAMA AND JOE BISON 2012
- Best TV-Themed Team Name: CATTLE STARS GALACTICA
- Best Topical Issue Team Name DON’T OX DON’T TELL
- Best Kind (of) Cow Team Name: RANDOM OX OF KINDNESS
- Best SF Lore Team Name: TEAM PARROT-OXES
- Best Outside Thinking Team Name: THINK OUTSIDE THE OX
- Best Use of the Word “Pun” Team Name: THIS PUN IS OX-IDENTAL
- Best Food-Related Team Name: OX TALE SNOOPS
- Best Noirish Team Name 2009 (tied): JUST THE YAKS, MA’AM
- Best Noirish Team Name 2009 (tied): THE BULL-ETTES
- Best Team Name: I HERD IT THROUGH THE BOVINE
Past winners include:
In 2008, The Year of the Rat: Tai Cheese; Ethyl Vermin; Rat@2E; Ratters Guild of American (On Strike Just in Vermin Plaza); Subprime Interest Rats
In 2007, The Year of the Boar: I Never Sausage A Team; Bacon it to the Streets; Days of Swine & Roses; Hog Day Afternoon; Born to Swill
In 2006, The Year of the Dog: Rex Marks the Spot; Dogged Pursuit; Ni Howl; Asta La Vista, Baby; Spay it Again, Sam.
In 2005, The Year of the Rooster: Poultry in Motion; Cockeyed Optimists; Huntin' Peckers; Capon Crusaders; Marco Pollo.
In 2004, The Year of the Monkey: We are the Chimp-ions; And Darwinners Are; Apes of Wrath; Marmoset Said There'd Be Days Like These; The Counts of Monte Frisco; Monkey See, Monkey Deux; Thelonius Monkeys
In 2003, The Year of the Ram (or Goat): Insufficient Ram; Shearluck Holmes; Goateam.
In 2002, the Year of the Horse: The Hoof Hearted; Those Opposed Who Say Neigh; Glueless; Hoarse Whisperers; The Neighsayers
About the Best Noirish Team Name Award
Demonstrate your knowledge of arcane femmes fatales and G-men from Film Noir history. We're big fans of the genre (in case you hadn't figured that out).
The Best Noirish Team Name is awarded for team names connected with film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction (which can be related to the Chinese zodiac). Past winners include:
2008 (year of the Rat)
- THE POSTMAN ALWAYS BRINGS MICE
- THE BIG SQUEAK
- PLAGUE IT AGAIN, SAM
- THE ERRATIC MOB
In 2007 (Year of the Boar): Truffles are my Business; The Other White Heat; Play It Again, Spam; Key Lardo; The Pig Sleep
In 2006 (Year of the Dog): Bark Passage; Belgian Malinoirs; Pup Fiction; Great Dain Curs; Big in Heat...
In 2005 (the Year of the Rooster): The Bantam Menace; Rhode Island Red Harvest; The Postman Always Cocks Twice; Coq Au Pinot Noir; Sweet Smell of Cluckcess...
In 2004 (Year of the Monkey): The Continental Ape; The Primate Eyes; Show me the Monkey; No Esc-Ape; The Manchurian Candidapes... and so on.
Special Awards & Contests: "Best-Dressed"
2009 Costume Contest Winners
The Butt Oxes, 2009 Best Ox-Themed Costumes
Fiona’s Ma Squad, 2009 Best Attired
Two prizes were awarded for the best dressed teams, one for the team with a theme related to the year of the Chinese calendar (again, 2009 is the Year of the Ox), and one for any sort of costume.
