The Great Geobakeoff 2019 – the results!

Team @longrat finally gets off the ground with @geolsoc #geobakeoff entry for cave of Crystals. All edible pic.twitter.com/SULFDyrlKk

— Liz Laycock (@longrat) May 7, 2019

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There were also many Lego Iains, including this from Emmeline Grey!

And here they all are! (Incidentally, I hope all these montages are demonstrating why the blog round up has been slightly delayed this year. SO. MUCH. GEOCAKE. MUST. LIE. DOWN.)

100 points: The Black Panther Vibranium Mine Battle

Here we are. At last, we have made it to the final challenge. The pinnacle of geo baking glory. The impossible sounding geology/baking/pop culture crossover challenge we strive to come up with each year.

This year, it was an easy choice, thanks to Marvel releasing a block buster, Oscar winning film about mining and mineral resources, just for us. We challenged you to bake the final battle of Black Panther, which takes place within a vibranium mine. Of COURSE it was ridiculous. Of COURSE loads of you did it anyway.

We did encourage you to be creative here, beyond the boundaries of the film itself, so high five to Fiona and Meg who took us at our word and included some dinosaurs. Because everything’s better with dinosaurs.

Presenting our entry to the #geobakeoff challenge:
T’Challa and and Killmonger’s fight in the vibranium mine!

Complete with moving train, glorious sound effects from @Sed_Meg and totally ecologically accurate animals roaming the landscape above pic.twitter.com/H50xvloJeF

— Fiona Seaton (@Plantdirt) May 25, 2019

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Applause also for this pun-tastic entry from Alex, and a rare appearance for bread in the geobakeoff.

Okay, saving the best till last when it comes to #geobakeoff puns. It’s…. the Black Panther Vibranium Mine Fight, featuring…

… wait for it…

T’challa bread.

Also featuring Killmonger, Shuri and the heart shaped herb.@geolsoc @longrat @geowriter @flo_dem pic.twitter.com/BSVNL34O9K

— Alex Booer (@alexbooer) May 27, 2019

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Well done to every one of you who remained undaunted by our increasingly ridiculous demands, and delivered an edible vibranium mine battle:

The awards

So overwhelmed have we been by your geobaking enthusiasm this year that prizes are being awarded all over the place – it simply didn’t seem fair to limit ourselves to four!

We’ve introduced two new awards this year, starting with…

The team award

A shout out to the many teams who pooled their talents together this year! So much so that you’ve inspired us to inaugurate a new Team Classification prize this year…(Still works within the Tour de Bakeoff theme, for those wondering…)

This year’s inaugural winners are the team from William Howard School, who delighted us with a plethora of geobaking excellence!

The companies award

We love seeing workplaces teaming up to hold their own bakeoffs, so we thought we’d introduce an award just for you! This year, it goes to Swedish geotechnical firm Geoveta, who sent us some fabulous entries via Instagram:

The Green Apron award for most points accumulated

A huge number of entries this year meant that the Green Apron Award was more hotly contested than ever. This year’s joint winners, for baking every challenge on the list, are Alex Booer and Tsvetomila Mateeva – congratulations both!

King/Queen of the Mountains

The polka dot apron award for best geological representation is another tie this year! The first award goes to geobaking stalwart Liz Laycock, for her incredible Cave of Crystals, and to Katharina Halbmayer for her excellent carbon mineral cupcakes.

Congratulations both!

The White Apron Award for Best Young Baker

The white apron award for best young baker was hard fought as ever. This year’s award goes to team House Raptor (Bryony, 15, Ruby, 13 and Tanith, 10) who between them completed all the challenges, including an amazing biscuit vibranium mine! 

The Yellow Apron Award for Overall Winner

WE MADE IT.

This year’s highest honour, the Wollaston Award of the geobakeoff, the coveted yellow apron, goes to range_free over on instagram, who sent us this incredible moon landing recreation, complete with ‘a lava tube & skylight for moon colonization & a South Pole crater – the future location for the first female lunar astronaut to collect water samples’.

Not only that, but it was auctioned for the Columbia Stem Alliance #girlsinstem camp, and featured our #GSLWomen logo – a worthy winner! 

If you’re still with us, you deserve a lot of cake. We always say it, but this year really was a spectacular, bumper edition of the greatest geological baking challenge ever conceived by a press officer and a policy officer having a slow day in the office in 2014. Enormous thanks, as ever, to everyone who takes on the geobakeoff challenge with such ingenuity, humour and enthusiasm – you never fail to brighten our days and our social media channels!

As ever, do continue to post your creations on social media using #geobakeoff – we always love seeing them.

Until next year!