I wanted to let everyone in a little bit on the behind the scenes work that goes on before the tournaments.
The majority of the work that takes place for the monthly master's tournaments is the creation of the trophies.
Creating the trophies takes over 6 hours of work from start to finish. Each trophy is hand made.
The flipper trophies are made using the older style flippers without flipper shafts. They first must be filled in to make the bottom surface flat. To do this several layers of cardboard are cut out and then glued into the flipper bottom. Once the surface is flat the flippers are they super-gluded onto the frames.
Each of the frames is then preped for the artwork that has been created in adobe photoshop.
Each of the pieces of artwork are then printed onto thick paper stock using a termal printer.
Each of the pieces has to be cut out individually to match the size of the frame, then carefully positioned and aligned. They are they taped from behind into place to preserve the alignment.
Here are the completed trophies (well almost). Each player in a monthly masters tournament receives a trophy. So the typical tournament has an average of 20 trophies!
The trophies are pretty easy to make, but it just takes time to make this many of them.
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