OUR AWARDS
The images above represents a small sample of the trophies we have had at past shows.
PARTICIPANT VOTING:
Our show is a participant voting show. We are well aware of the controversies of a participant voting show and 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) You can't fool us. We do check for duplicates. Last year several voting cards had the same entry
number on their voting card two or three times with one card having the same entry number four
times. In fact, we even had voting cards turned in from the previous year's show, that's why we color
code the voting cards each year.
3) We don't encourage clubs members to vote for their clubs cars, but we also don't want to dictate
who you can and can't vote for, especially if your club has some great cars. As long as we don't see
a majority of club members voting for club cars, we will let the votes go through (and we will check).
However, if we find that a large number of club cars were voted on by the majority of the club
members resulting in many or most winning an award, we will address that issue.
Over the past three years, an average of 25% to 30% of the show attendees receive an award.
Therefore, if we find that the above situation has occurred, that club will not receive an award or will be capped to no more than 25% of the members receiving an award depending on the situation
which will be at the show coordinators discretion. Here are some examples we find every year:
Scenario #1: If we have a club of 12 members show up for the show and all 12 members (or a
majority of members) voted for their clubs cars, that shows us there was intent by that club to try
and sweep awards for that club.
Result: That club will be disqualified from receiving an award.
Scenario #2: We are also well aware of the buddy system meaning that clubs will pick certain
members of their club to win an award and all members will vote for that car or cars.
Result: If we see a voting card where a club has the same member(s) car voted on, those votes
will not be counted. All other votes will be counted unless will see some other kind of discrepancy.
Scenario #3: Similar to Scenario #1, if we see a large percentage of club members voting for club
cars, we will limit the awards.
Result: In this scenario, we will cap the number of members that can win an award to 25%. For
example, we have a club of 12 cars will a very high rate of members voting for their club cars, no
more that 3 members (25%) will win an award.
We do these above checks because we catch this every year, folks voting on their own car, only voting for
club member cars, even voting for their own car or a friends car multiple times on their voting card.
While not everyone may not agree with our process, we believe most will. Whether you come to the show on your own or as part of a club, we believe this process creates an even playing field for all attendees. If everyone played fair, we wouldn't have to do this. We had no less than 25 (or 10%) of the voting cards turned in last year that matched the above scenarios and we addressed them.
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: (Subject to change)
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.
