Whats the Stillwater/Harry Phillips award?
When I announced the competition I really envisioned basic red and white workers. I was afraid the top guys wouldn’t be happy if they had to do lots of work and then didn’t win. My friends immediately began thinking of how to subvert the rules and I overreacted and became a butthead threatening to not allow anything but a very narrow description. And when we saw the entries only HALF of them fit the category. We didn’t disqualify anything. So the guys that figured out something creative within the rules got screwed. Their creativity wasn’t appreciated. And the guy that had the most creative fish within the rules was from Stillwater. Next year we’ll award those fish and anything else we find interesting, up to four fish. Creative rule-breaking became something encouraged. In 2005 we’re retiring, er, renaming the award After Harry Phillips, who personifies the contrary and humorous nature that inspired the award. The 2011 rules are up.
