Ground-Score - verb - finding useful/badass items on the ground discarded by others, usually at a large festival. ex: "Dude, check out these wet glow-sticks I just ground-scored."
Of course, many would say that ground-scoring is just a euphemism for stealing, but in most instances the ground-score is entirely legitimate, and it usually evens out to a zero-sum game for everyone. But more on that later...
Of course, many would say that ground-scoring is just a euphemism for stealing, but in most instances the ground-score is entirely legitimate, and it usually evens out to a zero-sum game for everyone. But more on that later...So here goes. All Good Festival 2009. Four days of music and camping. WeDrink's big push into the open, our first major face-to-face exposure with these charitable stainless-steel bottles. I'd been preparing for this weekend for over two months...
Wednesday was an adventure in itself. After an 8 hour trip into West Virginia, we soon found ourselves being given shoddy directions, leaving us in some twisty hilly back-road. After the shenanigans involved with turning around a Tahoe towing a U-Haul, all on a road not much wider than kiddy-pool, we finally found our way to the the All Good festival site. We got our camp-site in order, checked on the WeDrink Bottles, and got some good sleep for the weekend ahead...
Woken up around 6:45 by the light and heat, Sam, Steve, Jenna, Jayne, and myself all began the preparations for the next four days of promoting Wedrink's stainless steel water bottles. After putting up our tent, we realized something: our banner was pretty big, and it hung low over the front of tent. This was a problem as it blocked the inside, and choosing to drape it across the back or in front of the tables would just diminish its visibility.
After a quick look around, we noticed that nearly every other vendor had ways of rigging their banners above the tent; usually done with 10-foot PVC pipes
We were in a jam. We didn't have any PVC pipes. And the festival gates were opening in a couple hours.We immediately split up to find anything we could use to rig up the banner. After 15 minutes, Steve returned with some large sticks from the woods. Wow we're scrambling. I proceeded to have a small conniption while we determined a way to rig the banner to the sticks to the tent.
Then it happened. Jenna returned with the most sopping wet ground-score of all time.
"Hey guys, I found this trashed up rebar discarded over there." The gods of ground-scoring had smiled upon us. (side-note: we weren't introduced to the wonderful term itself until later that afternoon).
As it turns out, the rebar was the absolute perfect width, length, and weight to rig up onto the tent to raise the WeDrink banner. To make matters even more amazing, the ridges along the sides of rebar were perfect for zip-ties to strap down with.
Our second crisis had been averted, the Coleman grill sizzled an aura of bacon and eggs around our tent, and we proceeded to sell WeDrink Bottles all day and into the night.All Good officially started at 7PM Thursday night with performances by Keller Williams and Lotus. My favorite was without a doubt Lotus's late-night jam that segued into a cover of the old-school Zelda theme song.
I'm currently trying to find a higher-quality version. This song was unbelievable when you could really hear the bass and drums.
It had been a long and stressful two days, and the weekend hadn't even begun...
I'll be uploading the day-to-day adventures from the weekend over the next few days, so keep an eye out!
Best,
-Andrew
Related Posts:
Adventures of WeDrink at All Good 2009: Day One
Adventures of WeDrink at All Good 2009: Day Two
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