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# If you don’t wish for the club to provide the regular Awards and/or Par Plaques for your rallye and instead you are creating them and getting them on your own you must notify Nick or Teresa Stefanisko at least 45 days before your rallye.
Our normal awards and participation plaques ("par plaques") are business-card sized refrigerator magnets. These are printed in color, laminated, and affixed by hand to adhesive magnets.
# If you have special artwork or wording you want on the Awards and/or Par Plaques you must submit it to Nick or Teresa Stefanisko at least 45 days before your rallye.
 
# At least 30 days prior to your rallye you must notify Nick or Teresa Stefanisko of the number of worker pins you will need.
The [https://therallyeclub.org/about_us.htm Awards Committee] can design par plaques and awards, but like ideas and sample art (often what is on the flyer) a month or more before the rallye. They often look similar, but don't have to.
# If you don’t do any of the above Nick and Teresa Stefanisko will take that to mean we are to create and order your Par Plaques and Awards. We will use artwork available to us related to your theme taken from you flier and other sources as necessary, we will make up the names for your workers and the RM, and order the standard number of pins listed below. (It has become practice to call the RM and CP workers something other than Rallyemaster and Worker. For example if Teresa were RMing a Monster Mash, she may be called “Rallyemistress of the Dark” and a CP worker may be known as “Faithful Ghoul”)
 
#* 1 for each rallyemaster
"Awards Committee" is an overstatement. As of 2021
#* 6 worker pins (2 Start + 4 CP)
* Eric Anderson designs the artwork and produces PDFs.
#* 30 award pins:
* Dean Stanton
#*; First Timer
** prints these PDFs (2 copies of 3 pages) in color,
#*: 6 total, 2 each of: First Place, Second Place, Third Place
** aligns a pair of pages (which need not be identical) **back-to-back**
#*; Beginner
** puts the pair of sheets in a lamination pouch
#*: 6 total, 2 each of: First Place, Second Place, Third Place
** laminates the pair of pages
#*; Novice
** uses a paper cutter to carefully trim the top and bottom
#*: 6 total, 2 each of: First Place, Second Place, Third Place
** delaminates the pair of pages to result in two sheets with plastic on their display side
#*; Senior
** uses a paper cutter to carefully trim each page's sides off and then to cut individual images.
#*: 4 total, 2 each of: First Place, Second Place
** uses scissors to trim the award if it sticks out beyond the magnet or to trim the magnet if it sticks out beyond the award.
#*; Expert
 
#*: 4 total, 2 each of: First Place, Second Place
These laminated images are stuck to peel-and-stick magnets **only if needed**. We affix to magnets only what we think we'll need, to save money. We also buy the magnets in large quantities rarely, because that also saves money.
#*; Master Expert
 
#*: 2 each of: First Place
We start with
#*; Top Score
* One par plaque for the RM and for each rallye worker (CP workers, registration workers, precheckers, assistant RMs) who want them.
#*: 2 each
* One par plaque for each car competing. Assume that will be 10 cars and make more before they are needed to avoid slowing down rallyists.
# Proofs of your Awards and/or Par Plaques will be available at least 20 days before your rallye. Proofs will be emailed to the contact email on your flyer unless you contact Nick or Teresa Stefanisko with a different email address. Awards will be ordered 2½ weeks prior to your rallye. No changes can be made after the order is made. Par Plaques are created 1 week prior to your rallye. No changes can be made to Par Plaques after that time.
 
# Email addresses:
At the start and/or finish, create
#; Nick
* One pair of First Place awards for every class that has an entrant. (No First Timers? Then don't magnet any First Timer awards.)
#: nick@stefanisko.net
* One pair of Second Place awards for every class that has at least two entrants.
#; Teresa
We could make only one such award if we have solo rallyists, so we don't magnet the second award they don't need (if it turns out that they win an award).
#: teresa@stefanisko.net
The start box contains scissors, in case the awards need trimming.
 
=== Options ===
 
We could buy larger magnets and make larger awards, if desired. We have never asked rallyists if they would prefer those.
 
Rallyemasters can provide their own awards and participation plaques (par plaques), if they so choose.
Well before your event, please contact the [[TRC Board Structure|TRC Treasurer]] to discuss your budget, and contact the [[TRC Board Structure|TRC Awards Committee]] to let them know not to provide our standard awards and/or par plaques for you.
 
Normally presented awards are now on a [[Gimmick_Rallye_Class_Structure#Awards|separate page]].
 
== OLD Information ==
 
This is from long ago, when Nick designed and ordered award pins.
 
Our standard rallye awards are custom 1-inch pins ordered from [http://littleawards.com/littleawards/ Little Awards], and our standard par plaques are business-card size refrigerator magnets.
Each team gets one par plaque, and each winning team receives two pins (one for the driver and one for the navigator).
 
* [http://old.therallyeclub.org/pdf/Award%20and%20Par%20Plaque%20Process.pdf Award and Par Plaque Process] (PDF, 35kB) is the official manual for ordering awards and par plaques.
 
As of June, 2009, minimum lead time is
*3 weeks ahead for ordering award and/or worker pins
*1 week ahead for (3.5" x 2", 300 dpi) Par Plaques.

Latest revision as of 16:40, 9 October 2022

Our normal awards and participation plaques ("par plaques") are business-card sized refrigerator magnets. These are printed in color, laminated, and affixed by hand to adhesive magnets.

The Awards Committee can design par plaques and awards, but like ideas and sample art (often what is on the flyer) a month or more before the rallye. They often look similar, but don't have to.

"Awards Committee" is an overstatement. As of 2021

  • Eric Anderson designs the artwork and produces PDFs.
  • Dean Stanton
    • prints these PDFs (2 copies of 3 pages) in color,
    • aligns a pair of pages (which need not be identical) **back-to-back**
    • puts the pair of sheets in a lamination pouch
    • laminates the pair of pages
    • uses a paper cutter to carefully trim the top and bottom
    • delaminates the pair of pages to result in two sheets with plastic on their display side
    • uses a paper cutter to carefully trim each page's sides off and then to cut individual images.
    • uses scissors to trim the award if it sticks out beyond the magnet or to trim the magnet if it sticks out beyond the award.

These laminated images are stuck to peel-and-stick magnets **only if needed**. We affix to magnets only what we think we'll need, to save money. We also buy the magnets in large quantities rarely, because that also saves money.

We start with

  • One par plaque for the RM and for each rallye worker (CP workers, registration workers, precheckers, assistant RMs) who want them.
  • One par plaque for each car competing. Assume that will be 10 cars and make more before they are needed to avoid slowing down rallyists.

At the start and/or finish, create

  • One pair of First Place awards for every class that has an entrant. (No First Timers? Then don't magnet any First Timer awards.)
  • One pair of Second Place awards for every class that has at least two entrants.

We could make only one such award if we have solo rallyists, so we don't magnet the second award they don't need (if it turns out that they win an award). The start box contains scissors, in case the awards need trimming.

Options

We could buy larger magnets and make larger awards, if desired. We have never asked rallyists if they would prefer those.

Rallyemasters can provide their own awards and participation plaques (par plaques), if they so choose. Well before your event, please contact the TRC Treasurer to discuss your budget, and contact the TRC Awards Committee to let them know not to provide our standard awards and/or par plaques for you.

Normally presented awards are now on a separate page.

OLD Information

This is from long ago, when Nick designed and ordered award pins.

Our standard rallye awards are custom 1-inch pins ordered from Little Awards, and our standard par plaques are business-card size refrigerator magnets. Each team gets one par plaque, and each winning team receives two pins (one for the driver and one for the navigator).

As of June, 2009, minimum lead time is

  • 3 weeks ahead for ordering award and/or worker pins
  • 1 week ahead for (3.5" x 2", 300 dpi) Par Plaques.
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