Clubs and Societies Awards 2013

reunion

To get the ball rolling on a similar thread to last year.

New & Improved Clubs
Mountain Bike UL
Parkour
Ultimate Frisbee

New & Improved Societies
Fan Forum Society
Psychology
Racing and Motorsport

Best Club Event
Karate Shotokan, Karate IV
Kayak, Kayak IV
Ultimate Frisbee, Siege of Limerick

Society Event
Debating Union, Deb U Open
Out in UL, Rainbow week
Poker , Student Masters

Best Club Person
Archery, Thomas Brouder
Parkour , Conor Hurley
Ultimate Frisbee, Barry Walsh

Best Society Person
Comedy, Tim Foran
Drama, Tighearnan Noonan,
International Soc, Kennedy O Brien

Best Club
Archery
Karate Shotokan
Kayak

Best Society
Debating Union
International Society
Out in UL


Does anyone know who was recording it?

Who is your favourite to win in each category?

ShhCat

I'm really hoping International don't win Best Soc. Their hust was terrible. Didn't mention funds or anything of the like. Plus, they just rehash the same ideas every year. Their main point was that they has 960+ members. Woop de doo, you get them handed to you.

BostFrond

Best New and Improved.
Soc Fan Forum, based on presentation anyway, though motorsports could snatch it too,
Club It think it'll be Mountain Biking, based on the presentation but parkour put up a fight too...

Best Event.
Club I think Kayak has got this one down.
Soc I'm extremely biased but am hoping for Out in UL, if not, Deb U.

Best Person.
Club Conor Hurley will take it home.
Soc Could it be anyone but Tig really?

Best overall.
Club Kayak, more than likely.
Soc Once again biased to Out in UL but yeah, other than that Deb U again, maybe they'll finally break the tradition of not winning

BriBrows

Best
Soc -I'm hoping for Out in UL to win Best Society and Best Soc Event, but it may be tough competition. I don't know about International Soc's previous hustings but there is 900+ of them, so you have to take into consideration a lot of committees could have had international students present. I hope Out in UL get it, that last slide really showed they are the best society. Woo Hoo for life saving. As for Deb U, I know nothing about them really so I can't say. They had an alright hust.
Club - I honestly don't know, Karate mainly based on I saw a few people I know do karate in the room.

New and Improved
Soc - Fan Forum, they seem awesome enough, I enjoyed their slides and don't remember the rest.
Club - Ultimate Frisbee's finances just look at them guys. Pretty convincing hust.

Best Event
Club - is between Kayaks and Frisbee, but I think Kayak will get it.
Soc - OUT IN UL GUYS!!

The Best Person
Soc -Tig, I don't even know the guy but I know everyone loves him.
Club - Maybe Parkour?

sigmund.jung

reunion wrote: »

To get the ball rolling on a similar thread to last year.

New & Improved Clubs
Mountain Bike UL
Parkour
Ultimate Frisbee

I like parkour in this.

New & Improved Societies
Fan Forum Society
Psychology
Racing and Motorsport

unfortuntely never heard of any of these

Best Club Event
Karate Shotokan, Karate IV
Kayak, Kayak IV
Ultimate Frisbee, Siege of Limerick

Kayak have this sown up. the Karate event was awful

Society Event
Debating Union, Deb U Open
Out in UL, Rainbow week
Poker , Student Masters

interesting one, missed the poker night but the other two were impressive

Best Club Person
Archery, Thomas Brouder
Parkour , Conor Hurley
Ultimate Frisbee, Barry Walsh

conor most likely.

Best Society Person
Comedy, Tim Foran
Drama, Tighearnan Noonan,
International Soc, Kennedy O Brien

Very tough call, all men really gone above and beyond the call of duty here. I just have a feeling KOB will get the job done here, despite his horrible beard.

Best Club
Archery
Karate Shotokan
Kayak

kayak is favourite but i want archery to win

Best Society
Debating Union
International Society
Out in UL

impossible call, see who gets the most people on the day voting but i think it might be debating's year

Doctor_Mossie

New and Improved

Soc- I'm biased in favour of Forum. I think we've a pretty decent shot.
Club- Parkour are a pretty strong club, the slave auction was placed just before hustings to get the word out. I heard that they've been in this category for a good few years now, does anyone know how many?

Best Event

Soc- Probably Deb U's IV. Rainbow week had a few setbacks last semester that weren't Out in UL's fault.
Club- Don't know as much. Kayak have gotten a strong buzz from what i've heard.

Best Person

Soc- Tig's such a huge figure in C&S. I didnt know the other two until the elections started just there.
Club- Don't know any of the club people. Best of luck to all of them.

Best Overall

Soc- Out in UL. Solid year, everything done right from what I saw. Lot of good committee work.
Club- Kayak I think. Strong showing overall in C&S and on campus.

SarahBeep!

Doctor_Mossie wrote: »

New and Improved

Club- Parkour are a pretty strong club, the slave auction was placed just before hustings to get the word out. I heard that they've been in this category for a good few years now, does anyone know how many?

I'm not knocking Parkour but I am wondering why they keep going for Best new/improved?? If you've been saying you should be awarded best improved for 3 (?) years, why aren't the going for Best overall?? I think they're a great club and I think they'd have a decent chance at it too.

sigmund.jung

the cheats!

SarahBeep!

sigmund.jung wrote: »

the cheats!

Not implying that at all, one can't really cheat in these awards...

ShhCat

New & Improved Clubs
Mountain Bike UL
Parkour
Ultimate Frisbee

Parkour were really impressive this year. Went from jumping over fences last year to backflips. I agree with the most new and improved. Go for best no?

New & Improved Societies
Fan Forum Society
Psychology
Racing and Motorsport

Funny memes which held peoples (my) attention.

Best Club Event
Karate Shotokan, Karate IV
Kayak, Kayak IV
Ultimate Frisbee, Siege of Limerick

I can't remember but it looked like kayak were going for best club rather than best club event.

Society Event
Debating Union, Deb U Open
Out in UL, Rainbow week
Poker , Student Masters

Hoping Rainbow week wins, but if that doesn't DebU may take it home.

Best Club Person
Archery, Thomas Brouder
Parkour , Conor Hurley
Ultimate Frisbee, Barry Walsh

I think this was the best. Hard to remember now.

Best Society Person
Comedy, Tim Foran
Drama, Tighearnan Noonan,
International Soc, Kennedy O Brien

I'm slightly biased towards Drama, heck I was husting for Tig but anyway, if he doesn't get it KOB will.

Best Club
Archery
Karate Shotokan
Kayak

I remember this looking impressive.

Best Society
Debating Union
International Society
Out in UL

Again, biased. I'd like to see DebU take it home if Out in UL don't. It's time someone dethroned International.

reunion

Might as well give mine, since I started this thread!

New & Improved Clubs
Mountain Bike UL
Parkour
Ultimate Frisbee
They really hit home that they were bad last year but have improved so much. The others didn't feel as improved as they did.

New & Improved Societies
Fan Forum Society
Psychology
Racing and Motorsport
Just on the jokes alone they will win (regardless of content - but it helped!)

Best Club Event
Karate Shotokan, Karate IV
Kayak, Kayak IV
Ultimate Frisbee, Siege of Limerick
Kayak due to their kayak there and not really about the content that was going on. All 3 were fantastic events.

Society Event
Debating Union, Deb U Open
Out in UL, Rainbow week
Poker , Student Masters
I'm biased with Poker. Overall though I would say it's quite close in this category.

Best Club Person
Archery, Thomas Brouder
Parkour , Conor Hurley
Ultimate Frisbee, Barry Walsh
Presentations were grand (I can't remember much about them) but I do remember thinking Conor would be the one to win it.

Best Society Person
Comedy, Tim Foran
Drama, Tighearnan Noonan,
International Soc, Kennedy O Brien
Tig, well known does quite a lot with more C&S and came across as doing an outstanding job. Tim's had slides in the wrong places and just didn't come across great. Kennedy seemed like he did a good job but not an outstanding job which would put Tig ahead of him.

Best Club
Archery
Karate Shotokan
Kayak

Hard one to call, Archery with Karate a very close second. I would have said Kayak before this (based on what I thought of the event and individual husts) but it wasn't as memorable as the event submission.

Best Society
Debating Union
International Society
Out in UL

I felt Deb U should win this (they had a better presentation overall than the rest) but when Out in UL showed the thing about Out in UL saved my life, they will win.

Chris Martin

New & Improved Clubs
Mountain Bike UL
Parkour
Ultimate Frisbee
Like the sound of it, other 2 are older ones I believe...
Unfortunately not overly familiar with any of them...

New & Improved Societies
Fan Forum Society
Psychology
Racing and Motorsport
Biased towards Fan Forum Soc here as well,
Not sure how new you have to be to apply for new as well hear though,
They've potential to apply for something better I reckon..

Best Club Event
Karate Shotokan, Karate IV
Kayak, Kayak IV
Ultimate Frisbee, Siege of Limerick
Never saw any...

Society Event
Debating Union, Deb U Open
Out in UL, Rainbow week
Poker , Student Masters
Would be swinging towards Poker as it's the only one I'm in, but the Student Masters isn't a UL exclusive event, handed out some tickets alright as prizes,
Don't think they'll win this one... Sounds like something Out in UL will probably get...

Best Club Person
Archery, Thomas Brouder
Parkour , Conor Hurley
Ultimate Frisbee, Barry Walsh
Seen none of them.

Best Society Person
Comedy, Tim Foran
Drama, Tighearnan Noonan,
International Soc, Kennedy O Brien
Tig I'd say, seemed to be most popular, sounds like a nice lad too..

Best Club
Archery
Karate Shotokan
Kayak
Again, never saw husts but beforehand would've gone for Kayaking, generally seem to have a bit going on.

Best Society
Debating Union
International Society
Out in UL

Out in UL won a few last year, wouldn't surprise me if they done the same this year, would be nice though, as Debating and Out in UL are against each other in two categories, if they both won one...

Chris Martin

Well I'll be damned, Poker got it...
Fair play!

SarahBeep!

A lot of shocks on the night! Nobody is wiping the smile off my face though!!!!

The_Protector

can someone throw up the results please

reunion

New & Improved Club
Ultimate Frisbee

New & Improved Society
Fan Forum Society

Best Club Event
Kayak, Kayak IV

Society Event
Poker, Student Masters

Best Club Person
Parkour, Conor Hurley

Best Society Person
International Soc, Kennedy O Brien

Best Club
Kayak

Best Society
International Society

Paddy McHugh - Best Fresher
Dillion Ryan - Ultimate Frisbee

Mike Sadlier - Outstanding Contributions (society)
Kevin O'Flaherty

Jason Hackett - Outstanding Contributions (club)
Conor Hurley

The_Protector

thanks and congratulations

Jester252

Forum won best improved?
When to a couple of their events and there were poorly ran

Delta Kilo

Jester252 wrote: »

Forum won best improved?
When to a couple of their events and there were poorly ran

Its a bit of a wild guess but maybe they have improved..? :P

reunion

Jester252 wrote: »

Forum won best improved?
When to a couple of their events and there were poorly ran

I don't think it's fair to judge them based soley on a couple of events. They did submit a nomination form and made the final 3.

It is all of the events since like mid March last year. I've been to a few and throughly enjoyed them. I've seen events run very well but I haven't enjoyed. They did the best presentation on the night (in my opinion) and they did seem like they tried to cater for as many in their society as they could.

I hope everyone who got nominated in best new/most improved categories takes that enthusiasm and try to win best club/society next year!

Congrats to everyone who got nominated.

Jester252

reunion wrote: »

I don't think it's fair to judge them based soley on a couple of events. They did submit a nomination form and made the final 3.

It is all of the events since like mid March last year. I've been to a few and throughly enjoyed them. I've seen events run very well but I haven't enjoyed. They did the best presentation on the night (in my opinion) and they did seem like they tried to cater for as many in their society as they could.

I hope everyone who got nominated in best new/most improved categories takes that enthusiasm and try to win best club/society next year!

Congrats to everyone who got nominated.

But is that not what they do? How am I meant to judge them if not my the events they run?

Delta Kilo wrote: »

Its a bit of a wild guess but maybe they have improved..? :P

The only way is up

SarahBeep!

reunion wrote: »

I don't think it's fair to judge them based soley on a couple of events. They did submit a nomination form and made the final 3.

It is all of the events since like mid March last year. I've been to a few and throughly enjoyed them. I've seen events run very well but I haven't enjoyed. They did the best presentation on the night (in my opinion) and they did seem like they tried to cater for as many in their society as they could.

I hope everyone who got nominated in best new/most improved categories takes that enthusiasm and try to win best club/society next year!

Congrats to everyone who got nominated.

We really really appreciate that, I'm still in shock!! Nothing could wipe the smile off my face today.


On a side note, we're not closed to criticism. Come to us with suggestions and we'd be delighted. Just don't bitch about us on the interweb

Jester252

Hold events on time not a hour later.
That one way fourm could improve.

SarahBeep!

Jester252 wrote: »

Hold events on time not a hour later.
That one way fourm could improve.

Feel free to PM me with specifics but it was suggestions and advice that made us most improved, not sniping

Jester252

SarahBeep! wrote: »

Feel free to PM me with specifics but it was suggestions and advice that made us most improved, not sniping

I wouldn't take suggestions from the guy that told you to start events late again.

SarahBeep!

Jester252 wrote: »

I wouldn't take suggestions from the guy that told you to start events late again.

Helpful as always :rolleyes:


ALSO, as much as I love Kennedy (HI KENNEDY! o/) I'm so sickened for Tig. For me, he's everything clubs and socs strive to be, all in one person. Really thought he was gonna take the Sadlier home this year.

(Well done to you too Kev but, y'kno, I'm blatantly biased!! :P)

The_Protector

what is forum society about ? I can't seem to decipher what they do, seems like popular alternative-culture soc. oooh look at us we're cool because we read comic books and we're adults

SarahBeep!

The_Protector wrote: »

what is forum society about ? I can't seem to decipher what they do, seems like popular alternative-culture soc. oooh look at us we're cool because we read comic books and we're adults

Feel free to drop by and have a loot at what we do ---> http://www.facebook.com/groups/213589951998088/

The_Protector

so basically nerd soc

Popoutman

^ sounds jealous!

J_E

The_Protector wrote: »

what is forum society about ? I can't seem to decipher what they do, seems like popular alternative-culture soc. oooh look at us we're cool because we read comic books and we're adults

What's your problem? They work well as a society and have a committed base.