Family Potluck
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Event Links
- 2015 - April 5, Family Potluck
- 2014 - May 11, Family Potluck
- 2013 - March 16, Family Potluck
- 2012 - March 3, Family Potluck
- 2011 - March 5, Family Potluck
- 2010 - March 14, Family Potluck
Event Description
2012 Similar to last years, this was planned as a three hour event from 7-10 PM, with the first hour being a potluck-style dinner, and then two hours of activities and games that families could compete in. The McCormick kitchen was reserved from 3-7 PM for families to cook, and the event was held in the Brown Living Room. Dishes were judged in different categories (best meat, best vegetarian, best dessert, best presentation, and President's Choice), and points were given to the families with winning dishes. Families were then all given 50 points, and could then lay points on the line as they competed against other families. The families with the most points at the end won prizes.
2010 This is a new event we made to replace this year's Lunar New Year festival, since our schedule was pushed back due to ITASA and we had trouble reserving a large venue. The event had two main parts: a potluck-style dinner from around 7:30-8:30 in McCormick Dining, followed by a family talent show and game booths from 8:30-10:30 in the living room. We also reserved the country kitchen for cooking. The event was open to all GBM members, but we encouraged family participation by giving out prizes for potluck dishes (best meat, best vegetable, best dessert, best presentation, and president's choice), as well as prizes for talent show entries (best overall, most creative, best display of family bonding, and honorable mention/most enthusiastic) & playing games.
The booths were battleship twister, Taboo, family quiz, and family photo-taking.
Notes
2012 - Preparation
- Get the google form out to families early, and remind them to fill it out often
- Stress on the form to specify amounts that they'll use for each ingredient
- Have families specify on the form which dish is going to be entered in which category (limit each family to a few entries per category?)
- Figure out who will be judging (exec? non-cooking exec? only a few non-cooking people? people specially kept ignorant of who's making what dish?)
- Figure out how the judging will be done (unanimous decision? majority rules? preferential voting? approval voting? how are ties broken?)
- Figure out the categories (meat, vegetarian, dessert, presentation - it might be good to perhaps also do best sandwich, best noodles)
- Figure out the prizes (snacks? gift cards? to where, and for how much? separate prizes for winning in a food category, or only for an overall thing?)
- Figure out what games and activities there'll be
- Figure out how the overall competition will work
2012 - Setup
- Be sure that you have all your utensils ahead of time
- Make sure that you get your games ahead of time
- Setup doesn't need to be terribly complicated - tables for food to be placed on, and places for people to sit (people don't seem to mind sitting on the floor
2012 - Notes
- We spent $326 on food, and $75 on prizes ($30, $25, $20 to Infusions), plus some jellies as a consolation prize
- There were 6 meat entries, 4 dessert entries, 1 vegetarian entry, and 3 entries for best presentation
- There were four judges
- Each judge voted for 3 meat entries, 2 dessert entries, and 1 best presentation entry
- For games there was: Battleship Twister, Taboo, Cranium, Pictionary, finger fencing, the balance game, and the human knot game
- Families were given 50 points, plus 5 points per win in a food category
- Families could challenge other families for a certain number of points - the winning family would then get that many points from the losing family
- A spreadsheet was used to keep track of families' points - the idea was to have one person from each family come up after each thing and report what happened
2012 - Ideas
- Give families more time to cook, or strongly encourage them to start early. Figure out what to do ahead of time how late entries will be handled.
- Have the board games set up ahead of time
- Explain games via email ahead of time
- Instead of having families being able to "bet" points, have the winning family get a certain number of points, and the losing family get less points (the fear is that families will collude and just keep trading wins)
- Have separate prizes for winning a food category
2012 - Winners
- Best Meat: Seafood pan fried noodles by ATS Gangsters
- Best Vegetarian: Alfalfa sandwiches by Funky Monkies
- Best Dessert: Hoddeok by >U
- Best Presentation: Patrick's Watermelon Hedgehog (http://i.imgur.com/nhVE3.jpg) by ATS Gangsters
- President's Choice: Hoddeok by >U
- Overall 1st: JBAPB
- Overall 2nd: ATS Gangsters
- Overall 3rd: >U
2011 Setup
- We had the green living room - space was slightly limited but still manageable. Food was served in dining.
- The general setup was the same as 2010
- A table was borrowed from the country kitchen for the projector to sit on, and a couch was parallel with and touching the table (separating the two sides of battleship twister)
Food
- Send out a google doc and have families sign up approximately 2 weeks before the event!
- Make a shopping list. (Check condiments and whatnot in storage first!)
- Purchased food with ZipCar at Super 88 (Get the Zipcar for approximately 4hours)Don't forget to get drinks!
- Delivered food to requested dorms
- Some families purchased their own food
- Spent ~$500 for food, ZipCar, and giftcards ($60 to Infusions: 1st place: $30, 2nd place: $20, and 3rd place: $10)
Winners for food: Best Meat Dish: >U(Emily Yang) with Rou Zao Fan Best Veggie Dish: Funky Monkies (Catherine Fan): Jiu Cai Dou Fu Gan Best Dessert: Funky Monkies (Catherine Fan): Papaya and Gelatin Best Presentation: Boba Shrimp Co (Jet Zhou, Juliann Shih, Garrett Lau): Basically everything President's Choice: Big Fat Fuzzy Love (Lindsey Shi): Pineapple Honey Salmon
Each food category winner earned 5 points for the family :]
Games
- 2 Twisters and 1 Taboo borrowed from McCormick
- 1 Cranium and 1 Taboo borrowed from Next
- Someone to be at the booth to explain the games
- <Instructions / Link here>
Overall winners for all the games earned 10 points for first place, 5 points for second place and 3 points for 3rd place.
Overall winners:
1st place: >U
2nd place: Big Fat Fuzzy Love
3rd place: Funky Monkies
2010 Setup
- We made a long line of tables in McCormick Dining for people to put their potluck dishes.
- We arranged the chairs and tables in the living room into four areas. The most setup was probably for battleship twister, which needed two couches to separate the twister mats, and a laptop & projector on top of a round table to display the grid.
- Since the furniture got moved around a lot for the activities, it really helped to take pictures of the living room beforehand so that we could put everything back the way it was.
Food
- Getting volunteer cooks
- Making the shopping list & purchasing ingredients
- Delivering ingredients to cooks
- Getting prizes & judges
Games
- Games can usually be borrowed from dorm supplies
- The photo booth needs a camera, some kind of cardreader or cable, printer, ink, and paper
- Someone to be at the booth to explain the games
Game Explanations
- Battleship Twister - (http://victorhh.com/exp/ATSactivities.swf) This requires two sets of Twister. Each family sends out 4 people to a mat. They take turns blowing up squares on the other mat that players then cannot step on. As the number of squares blown up increases, the number of people falling over will increase, leading to a last person standing, who wins for their family.
- Finger fencing - apparently there's an entire federation revolving around this o.O (http://www.fingerjoust.com/basics.htm) - you clasp hands with another person as if you're going to arm wrestle them, and then you both extend your index fingers and try to poke the other person (anywhere except the arm they're currently using).
- The balance game - stand facing the other person, a bit less than arms-length apart, with both hands up (as if you're doing the "watch out we got a badass over here" meme). You're trying to knock the other person offbalance by only hitting their hands - the first person to take a step loses.
- The ninja game - everyone stands in a circle, alternating between families. At the same time, everyone jumps back and strikes a ninja pose, and holds it. You go around the circle - each person can only do one "move", and their goal is to hit the hands of someone next to them. If one of your hands is hit, you can't use that hand anymore (hold your arm by your side). If both of your hands are hit, you're out. Last person standing wins for their family.
- The human knot game - everyone stands in a circle, and grabs a hand. Try to untangle the knot before the other family.
