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Trophy/Award Placement Divisions

 
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New Placement Divisions?   Yes... We implemented a new system for our award  placements, AND we are confident that after each of you tries this out... you will never want to do a show without it! 

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This "new" system was used at the last three mini shows held at Hooters and Twin Peaks over the last 14 months. Its usage resulted in no complaints over all three of the shows combined! 

As of July 2009... this new system for dividing the awards between the different types of entries will be permanent. The example at the bottom of the page will  allow a clearer understanding of this all works. Its actually much simpler than it sounds. AS AN ENTRY IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE AWARDS SYSTEM DESCRIBED BELOW. Everything will be clear i9f you look at the awards example towards the bottom of this page. There are several avantages to this system:
[a] it's fair
[b] it means we will always have trophies for any type of entry that shows up on the day of the show.
[c] it's possible to have more than 1 Bracket One trophy [First Place size award] per type of entry. It all depends on how many entries of that type came and what they scored.
[d] this system also allows to keep our "entry fees" the same despite the rising costs of trophies.
 

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What is the same?   The entry fee is still the same. You still  get 2 armbands with each entry. There are still trophies for all types of Domestics, Imports, Low Riders, Motorcycles, Trucks, and all the rest of the "food groups". The Entry forms and Score sheets are still the same. . And we still have three different trophy sizes!
 

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What is different?   There are two main differences that will be noticed quickly. One is that categoris will not be listed before the event because there will be awards for all categories of entries! Catgories and the number of awards available for each category will be detrmined on the day of the event based on the various percentages of entries that came within each major division of categories [Truck, Import, Domestic, Hot Rod, and motorcycle]. Then we will break it down again regarding for example.... the type of Import entry it was... Supra, Nissan, etc..  Each entry grop wil have a certain number of trophies alotted to it based on its overall percentage of the total entries that came in that day. The other noticeable difference are the "terms" used. The main "terms" are listed and defined below.

1. The large trophies that used to be called First Place trophies are now called Bracket One trophies.

2. What were called Second Place trophies are now called Bracket Two trophies.

3. Third Place trophies are now called Bracket Three trophies.
 
4. Points Range is the range of points in which a particular Bracket of trophy is awarded in. The Point Range may  vary a slight bit  [5-10 points] between shows for various reasons [ pre-registrations figures were off, etc.] the point range for each backet of trophies is 40 points. Here is the the Point Range for ALL FUTURE Mean Streets shows:
BRACKET ONE =  210-250 POINTS
BRACKET TWO = 170-209 POINTS
BRACKET THREE = 130-169 POINTS

5. Alotted Group is used in a similar fashion as some of the terms for categories that we used before; but now  they are used in a much broader range. This also means that each particular Alotted Group or Category could possibly have more than one Bracket One Trophy within it as ong as it gets the points to recieve and the trophy does not go past the alooted ecentage of trophys allowed  for the Category or Alotted Group.
 
6. Award Ratio - This means  how many trophies are given out in relation to how many entries that registered to compete. Mean Streets will always strive for a 1 to 2 award ratio. Meaning if there are 100 registered entries that we aim at giving out 50 trophies so that 1 out of every 2 entries wins an award. This keeps the competiton REAL. Somebody has to lose or it means nothing to win! Of course... we must take an educated guess based on our pre-entries and the prior show's entries when we order our troiphies. So.. if we do not order enough... its because somebody out there did not pre register or they did not attend our last show.

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Here is an example of hypothetical car show contest that will make all of this come together simpy for you!

This is how it works....For our example we will use 200 entries with 40 of them being Imports, and then the example entry being a Honda.

1. We determine how many entries we have; and divide it by 2 = how may awards we give out. So 200 divided by 2 = 100 awards for our "model" example.
 
2. Our first Alotted Group we are discerning is Imports; and they had 40 entries; so 40% [or 40 trophies]of the 100 trophies can be given out will be "alotted' towards being won by Import entries.  
 
3. Now lets look say that out of the 40 Import entries that 8 of them were Hondas. Thats 20%. So 20% [or up to 8] of the available 40 Import trophies could be allotted to Honda entries if they were to score high enough to deserve one by reaching into the proper "points range".
 
4. Then we take the scores of that Alotted Group [Imports/Honda] and push them next to the Points Range to determine who won what size trophy! Keep in mind there can be no more than a total of 8 trophies alotted towards Honda entries. Also keep in mind that out of 8 possible awards that maybe only 6 of the Honda entries scored high enough to deserve a trophy by hitting the required scores in the different awards bracket points requirements.

For our Model Example... lets say [just for our example] that out of 8 Import/Honda entries only 6 scored above 129 points. These 6 winning scores were:

   212= wins bracket one trophy
   196= wins bracket two trophy
   188= wins bracket two trophy
   169= wins bracket three trophy
   156= wins bracket three trophy
   136= wins bracket three trophy
 
 

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