2008 Iditarod BSSD Iditabuddy Awards results

[flowerpower]

Morning all, coffee all around. Tangles, you still cooking breakfast? Omlet and pancakes with a side of bacon please.

[tanglefoot]

hey fp...so.....tired......need........sleep......
ems was a sweetie and cause we were quite gave me the chance to get off work for a few hours to cacth up sleep...caught lance coming in..was great no one on the cam so it played like it was real time!

theres a few sausages left! its 4.37pm here...so they might be a bit cold!

[flowerpower]

Just noon here, guess I need to find some breakfast tacos!

[tanglefoot]

hi gang just forwarded the first email to our musher winners, martin and rohn buser to tell them of our awards and their wins. heres a copy of the email sent to them. over the next few days/week i will try and email the rest of the mushers.

maybe we should find some little trophy of sorts to send to them?
what do you think?

tangles

Dear martin and rohn

hope your back safe and sound and relaxing post race as best you can! wow what a race this year in the iditarod, we were rooting for you and thought the flying tracker idea was fantastic, really made us all laugh! Rohn your runs were fantastic, and we were all rooting for you to win rookie of the year and to finish the race, we are very impressed with your finish, congratulations!

Anyway apart from congratulations to you both for finishing the race, i wanted to tell you guys that you have both won some more awards!

i dont know if you are aware but there is a website called the bering straits schools district iditaproject or BSSD for short the website is http://www.mushing.bssd.org

its run by the kids and techers of the bering straits schools as a public website for all iditarod and mushing fans, but is also home to the forum members of the old cabellas iditarod forum. they are collectively known as the 'idita-buddies' and come from all over the world such as the UK Norway, poland, all over the USA and AK and use the forum at bssd as their home. they are all hardened iditarod and mushing fans and use the site for live links during the race, updates, share info on mushers, discuss run rest scheduals etc etc, its basicaly the friendliest and most hardcore mushing fan forum. some of the lengths members go to find information and support the race and mushers from around the world is astounding and all in good humor!

each year after the red lantern has arrived in nome we get together to have our own idita-fan banquet, vote on our own awards for both members of the site and the mushers running the trail. all members vote over a weeks period on their pick for the awards ceremony.

this year martin won one award and rohn one award as voted by the iditarod fans!

firstly martin you won the award for the most comical moment in the race this year, for your flying tracker trick! it was one of the funnest things us iditarod fans have seen during someones 24 mandatory layover, next to the hawaiian shirt of course!
you were unanamously voted the winner of the award by 97% of the members voting! a record!

we also have an award for the best looking musher, this year it was voted by over 65% of the voting members to be award to THE BUSER BOYS! the two of you, martin and rohn, won the award together as although you were both racing seporate races, you were still considered a team and most of the members voted you both as the best looking mushers in the 36th running of the iditarod!

to give you an idea how many folks voted, this year we had over 11'000 posts on the forum during the race from race fans at bssd! i think the new itc site had about 3000.

iam afraid we dont have anything to send you guys, cheque or trophy wise at the moment but were working on it!

so well done boys, you guys and your beautiful teams won two extra awards and have given us much enjoyment, heart aches, surprises and laughs and inspiration during the race this year, congratualtions both and thank you for all you both do for our sport of mushing!

best wishes

matt hammersley (tanglefoot) and the members of the BSSD iditaproject forum.

p.s if you would like to see the rest of the awards follow the link,
http://mushing.bssd.org/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=50
i know the fans would love to hear your replies if you have time during the off season, we have some great mushers dropping in do to questions and answers with the fans. regualar iditarod mushers such as rick holt, darryl seavey, karen ramsted and a few others are all members of the site.

[fladogfan]

Very nice, tangles. As to an award, what about those brownies?? I'd chip in on that or whatever y'all decide.

[ThisSpaceForRent]

fdf...first we need to teach matty bout the difference in a brownie and a cookie....LOL...Tangles, you KNOW i kid....

Cookie


Brownie




tsfr

[fladogfan]

tsfr
you little kidder you

are cookies called biscuits in UK?
whereas in USA, biscuits are delish with country ham (yo undertaker!) or sausage in the middle as a sandwich! or used to slop up sausage gravy, yum
fdf

[tanglefoot]

yup biscuits are called called cookies in the usa, and brownies are just called cakes haha muffins are not big puffed up brownies they are small flat bread type of pancakey type thing hahaha....and its tom-ah-toe not tom-ate-oh hahaha

cookies sound great idea or i was thinking you can get small trophies,..ive got some left over from a sled dog race here where we didnt get rid of all the trophies we had made up for it..could get the plaque changed and send them out? would only cost a few $ to get the wording on the plaque changed as i have the old trophies kicking about in a box that i cant use, they will sit there for ever more other wise! they look like little shields with gold metal plaque engraved. we could just get the plaque changed to BSSD FORUM iditarod 36 best looking musher etc etc

what do you think?

[fladogfan]

Sounds good to me, T
I'll kick in some doe-ray-me

[DustMusher]

they look like little shields with gold metal plaque engraved. we could just get the plaque changed to BSSD FORUM iditarod 36 best looking musher etc etc

what do you think?

Shields? Like the Breaker's were using? HUMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!

Is there something you need to disclose to us Matt?

I think they would be a great idea -- very appropriate even if it is an inside joke and if the winners ever ger bored and happen to read the breaker's thread so much the better.

DustMusher