Trophies & Awards

Custom trophy decals for the club's tournaments: anvils for the Iron Man, tombstones and pumpkins for the Monster Mash, ornaments for the Tinsel Toss.

Trophies & Awards

Trophies are where a small club can look like a big one for not much money. Instead of ordering catalog plaques, each tournament gets a decal designed to its theme, cut to shape by a local sign shop, and mounted on a blank. The design cost is my evening; the print cost is a few dollars a piece.

The Iron Man gets an anvil, one per division, with the date in day-month order because the event was started by an Air Force member. The Monster Mash gets tombstones for the division winners and the tournament director, pumpkins for Best Costume, and a mustache for ’Stache of the Mash. The Tinsel Toss gets a round ornament with that year’s Santa on it. The Northwest Florida Championship has an island mark that lives only on the trophy.

The files are simple: a shape, the event logo, the division, and the date. What makes them work is the consistency. A player who has won three years in a row has three anvils that match.