OUR AWARDS
The images above represents a small sample of the trophies we have had at past shows.
PARTICIPANT VOTING:
Our show is participant voting show. We are well aware of the controversies of a participant voting show and a a judged show. It is very hard to get great judges for a car show. At best, most are volunteers and as we've always said, if you get a hundred judges, you will get a hundred different results. As such, we made the decision to keep ours a participant voting show.
Just deciding which type of show to go with was not good enough for us. If we are doing a participant voting show, we needed to make it as fair as possible and do our best to remove the issues that typically occur with such a show. As a result, we have developed our own unique back-end verification process with checks and balances to ensure that we have the fairest participant voting process anywhere. Granted, it won't catch everything, but it will eliminate a majority of the issues that surrounds a participant voting show. Our process involves the following:
1) You are not allowed to vote for your own vehicle. Each ballot is numbered with your entry number.
If your entry number appears on your ballot, that vote will be removed and will not be counted. The
remaining votes on your ballot will be counted.
2) We ask that you do not vote for any cars within your club. This is done to ensure that club members
do not vote for all their club members on their ballot. This is not a fair voting process for the other
participants in attendance when clubs vote 100% for club members. We have a way of obtaining a
list of all club members and match up their entry numbers on a spreadsheet. Should a member of
a club be found to have voted for one or more of their club members, those votes will be removed
and will not be counted. Votes for non-club cars on that same ballot will be counted.
OUR TROPHIES:
We included a few photos of our build process to give you a sense on what it takes to create these trophies. The list below is a standard list of our annual awards. Our awards process ensures that no vehicle wins more than one award in order to award as many vehicles as possible. The only exception to this rule is our annual "Car Show Raffle Package" which includes a trophy. This is a raffled package that is drawn at the end of the awards and a person having won a trophy could win this raffle as well.
This is the only situation where someone can win more than one award.
OUR 2025 TROPHY LIST:
Top Awards
1) Top 50 Cars
2) Top 10 Trucks
3) Top 3 Motorcycles
4) Top 3 Side-by-Sides
5) Top 3 Tractors
Specialty Award's
1) Kid's Choice
2) Police Chief's Pick
3) Fire Chief's Pick
4) J.W. Decker Classic Award
5) Pastor's Pick
6) Top Truck
7) Top Car
8) “Schultz Cup” – Best of Show (Top Vote Receiver based on category ratio)
Note: The Trophy List is subject to change at any time.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE SCHULTZ CUP:
A vehicle can only win the Schultz Cup one time. The winning vehicle with the most participant votes at the end of the show will be deemed the winner. We will use a calculated formula that measures the ratio of vehicles in a given category against the votes received in that category to fairly determine the correct winner.
If the vehicle receiving the highest volume of votes won the Schultz Cup in a prior year, then the vehicle that received the second most participant votes will be deemed the winner (the previous winner's vehicle would then receive a "TOP" Award in their class. In the event of a tie, and if neither vehicle has previously won the award; the tie breaker will be decided by a single vote by the show coordinator.
ANNUAL CAR SHOW AWARD RAFFLE:
This is a trophy, but a raffled off trophy. Here is how it works:
1) Register and pay prior to July 1st for the current year's show and you are
automatically entered.
(Note: if you register after this date, you will not be included in this raffle)
2) Your vehicle must be present and displayed at the show to be eligible for the raffle.
3) At the conclusion of the awards ceremony, we will draw a lucky number.
4) If your entry number is drawn, here is what is included in the package:
a) You win a nice trophy that will be awarded at the show.
b) Your vehicle is featured on the dash plaque, show trophies, &event t-shirt next year.
c) You entry fee for next year is waived.
d) Your entry number will be #1.
e) Reserved parking for next year's show anywhere at the show for you and a friend.
NOTE: You must provide us advance notice of where you want to park and your
friend must be registered or plan to register for the show.
f) Your name and vehicle info is added to our show trophy on display in Town Hall.
g) A lifetime of bragging rights.
To provide these custom trophies, the designing starts a year in advance to allow enough time throughout the year to have these built in time for the show.
DID YOU KNOW?
As you can see by these photos, the build process is quite extensive. In the end, we come out with a completed product like the trophy below from a few years ago.
Our trophy build process is very involved. Although trophies may be the same style, we make sure that no two are ever created to be identical. Each trophy is unique in one way or another. At times, some are even serial numbered like this version was.
