#WINNING

This is the last Thurtene post. At least for a year, because who knows, maybe I'll get back to St. Louis next year to see the Thurtene facades. Let's recap, shall we?

On Friday, April 13th the facade looked like this:

7 days later, on Friday April 20th, the facade looked like this:

That's the same front wall, just taken from a different angle.

Sometimes, I browse through these DIY blogs were people do incredible things to their living rooms or kitchens, but it takes them like 2-3 months. Granted, slightly different scenario, because I have my doubts on rather or not these facades could remain standing for 2-3 months. Plus there are nearly 200 people working on this facade compared to like 4 tops on those blogs. BUT STILL! Jeez-Louise! Pretty fricking awesome! 

On Sunday night, Thurtene honorary gives out the awards. There are a bunch of small awards for the other booths (best food, best activity, spirit for a non-facade etc.) But the big ones (The ones I care about) are given out for the facade.

They are announced in order of least exciting to most exciting. And USUALLY the same group doesn't win more than one award (sometimes they'll give spirit and another award to the same group)

The awards are:

1. Spirit: for participation in Thurtene's activities and have a large presence and excitement down on the lot
2. Best Production: for the play being the best
3. Best Construction: for overall facade construction being the best
4. The Burmeister Award: for overall excellence (basically its a combination of all three of the lesser awards

By sunday night there was a lot of discussion if the Burmeister just might be ours. But you don't want to jinx yourself, so there was also a lot of mentioning the word Burmeister - then quickly going to knock on wood. Luckily Thurtene = lots of wood (hahaha) (laughing at my own joke about wood = evidence not yet a real person)

We felt like we had just missed out on the burmeister the year before because of the lack of spirit, so the ChiO/Beta team put a lot of effort into showing our spirit this year. So when they announced spirit, and we didn't win the reaction was this:

I tried to compare it to Toddlers & Tiaras to somebody that night, and got made fun of. WHATEVER I <3 TRASHY TELEVISION. But it's like if you get passed over for a lower award, then you feel like you are probably winning a higher award. But there is always that little chance that you win nothing...

So next they announced best production. We had heard that the overall quality of the productions wasn't quite as good as usual this year. But we really liked ours soo....when a different group won spirit, the reaction was this:

Then they moved onto best construction. We knew that our construction rocked, but wasn't all that elaborate, so I actually didn't think we had much of a chance at construction either way. Anyway, we didn't win. Instead the group that had the other facade that I really liked (the Retro Gas Station) won and our overall's reaction was like this:

I think they knew what was coming next. Because next they announced the winner of the Burmeister award for overall excellence. This is like that moment of truth, because you are either walking home with no prize at all, when you thought you had a shot at the big one OR you are walking home with the big one. When the announced the winner, the board's reaction was like this:

WE WON!!!!

Celebration and pandemonium ensued.

Congratulations Chi Omega and Beta Theta Pi, on a wonderful Thurtene! There has been a major upswing in the result of our Thurtene success since I've joined ChiO

year 1: Winners of the spirit award

year 2: Winners of best production award

year 3: Winners of best construction award

year 4: Winners of the BURMEISTER

Awesome, now don't fall back down to winning nothing okay? I have expectations of a repeat next year =)