Welcome to the fifth annual Brain Power Awards where we present honors to those who have done the most impressive Wacky Packages research in the previous year. Feel free to visit the open bar.
2004 was a hot year for wacky research, with a flood of new investigators entering the hobby due to the new series, and with a new series available for scrutiny. Indeed some fascinating research was done on the new series. We therefore may be entering a new era of Wacky Pack brain power. There could even be a prodigy child-genius on the horizon.
This year there is only one Brain Power category. In some years there is also a second category for the discovery that has the widest impact on the hobby, but this year there is no second category. One Brain-Power-naut will Brain Power solo this year. The committe was looking for the most impressive, interesting, and surprising research.
Nominations
- Tim Sullivan: For discovering the celebrated Mr. Coffin P1 Back Variation.
- Robera Lynn: The 2-asterisk 1977 Hostage without copyright typo exists. This harkens back to the Brain Power nomination of 2002 when Francis Khoury discovered the 2-asterisk copyright typo ("1NC" instead of "INC"). This is incredibly subtle. Even more subtle is the fact that there are variations with or without the typo.
- Rusty Erpenbeck: For his elaborate Crakola Patch Variation Theory (CPVT). It has long been known there were many Crakola Patch variations. But nobody was sure if maybe all possible variations existed. Rusty found the common themes and put together a theory which correlated certain patterns with others. It is all spelled out in this thread on the forum.
- Necrowafer (Tony Lagarto) for realizing the Totarillo/Sat Eve Post connection:
- Thomas Decare and the white back spit and spill non-variation variation.
see video and read about it in
this forum post.
And the Brain Power goes to ... the Brain Power goes to ... Tim Sullivan for the Mr Coffin P1 Back Variation. The committee was impressed by all nominations, however the task of noticing the subtle variation of the Mr. Coffin variation belies truly impressive brain power. Therefore Sullivan takes the BP in category one this year.
Congratulations to Tim, may you carry your reign with dignity, until you must pass on the crown in 2006.
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The committee thanks you for your interest. See you next year, and keep those gears turning.
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