Help me design a championship belt to award to the winner of my annual poker tournament league (1 Viewer)

[buzzmonkey]

Jack 3:16 says, "I just took your stack!"

 

[buzzmonkey]

Don't slow your roll, Jabroni!

 

[JMC9389]

So I'm going to actually do this.

Does anyone have any idea for what to put on the side plates? I can fully customize those too.

Going with this format:

https://www.undisputedbelts.com/col.../custom-championship-belt?variant=36421479631

 

[Dodger]

So I'm going to actually do this.

Does anyone have any idea for what to put on the side plates? I can fully customize those too.

Going with this format:

https://www.undisputedbelts.com/col.../custom-championship-belt?variant=36421479631

I am strongly considering this as well. Here’s how I see it…

• Main plate: similar logo to your league, club, poker room, etc. with the word “CHAMPION”
• Side Plate 1: Unique design for the current champion. Made after the champion’s official win with name, winning hand, and year. Comes off each year for champion to keep as a trophy when the belt is passed on to the next champ.
• Side Plate 2: A saying, quote, or mantra unique to your league.
  • Alternate idea: image of stacks of chips and/or cash
• End Plate 1: Running list of past champions. Gets updated with new engraving each year.
• End Plate 2: A secondary league or club logo with year it started (i.e. ‘Est. 2015’)
  • Alternate idea: swap this with Side Plate 2 to give more space for this design.

These are just some initial thoughts. We’ll see if other ideas come up, but would love to hear what you may have come up with so far.

 

[JMC9389]

What say you all? I'm excited! I just asked that they fix the image of the chips on the left side plate that was cut off but otherwise I think it's good to go! The bronze is going to actually be black and gray, no idea why it's that color on the proof. All images also are engraved in the grayscale version and won't show up as what appear to be photo negatives as pictured.

 

[Dodger]

What say you all? I'm excited! I just asked that they fix the image of the chips on the left side plate that was cut off but otherwise I think it's good to go! The bronze is going to actually be black and gray, no idea why it's that color on the proof. All images also are engraved in the grayscale version and won't show up as what appear to be photo negatives as pictured.
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Looking good. Yeah - have them correct that cut off image.

I think the bronze in the proof is from their stock template(s). Basically, anything that is custom is shown on the proof in grayscale. Mine had similar mix of grayscale and bronze in the proof. (And the bronze items were from their stock designs.)

 

[JMC9389]

Yeah, this thing rocks.

 

[Dodger]

Yeah, this thing rocks.

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YES! I told you it was legit!

Let me know your group’s reaction. Ours will be awarded in 2 weeks. My crew has no clue it’s up for grabs yet.

 

[JMC9389]

YES! I told you it was legit!

Let me know your group’s reaction. Ours will be awarded in 2 weeks. My crew has no clue it’s up for grabs yet.

I'm going to present it in just over two weeks as the prize being played for prior to the dry run for the league "main event" that will take place then. The league year will start in August and will be awarded after the year's main event in July, when the WSOP Final Table is usually dealt.

 

[linebacker55]

We have an annual poker "bottle" tournament just before Christmas. Everyone (20-25 players) brings a 40 ouncer of Liquor. We play it as a bounty game with $25000 chips and ONE free rebuy/top up. Pay top three in Bottles (12/8/3 was last years payout). Here's a few pics of the belt! Winner gets their name iengraved.

 

[linebacker55]

Per the title.

Rather than award a trophy, I love the idea of awarding this at the end of each tournament league season:

https://www.undisputedbelts.com/col...nship-belt-custom-text?variant=34893570277510

It looks like the text on the main plate and side plates can be customized. I'm thinking of customizing the main plate to read "Jack's Card Room" on the top line, and "Tournament Champion" on the bottom line.

The side plates are where I am having issues though. I like the side plate on the left that says "Poker Master Champion", but would inquire if I could change "Master" to "Tournament". The cards on the right side plate are fine, but I'd forego the "Aces high" text if I'm able. Does anyone have any suggestions for text to put there?

On the smaller end plates is where I have the most wiggle room. I'm going to use one and change out one of them on an annual basis and award a custom side plate with the winner's name and season year. For example, it'd read "JMC9389 2021-2022 Champion". Each year the belt is awarded, the undisputedbelt site sells custom extra side and end plates that could be made new each year for each new winner. Once a new champion is crowned, the old plates go off, the previous year's winner keeps their old championship plate as their trophy, and the new one goes on the belt, and so on.

Question is, what the hell do I do with the other end plate? I could use some ideas there. Do I just leave both end plates blank for the inaugural year until the first champion is awarded?

Also open to ideas for strap color, and main plate and side and end plate color combos. I'm willing to get creative here and not necessarily go for the traditional black and gold wrestling style belts.

Here's a few pics of my belt...

 

[Dodger]

We have an annual poker "bottle" tournament just before Christmas. Everyone (20-25 players) brings a 40 ouncer of Liquor. We play it as a bounty game with $25000 chips and ONE free rebuy/top up. Pay top three in Bottles (12/8/3 was last years payout). Here's a few pics of the belt! Winner gets their name iengraved.

Love it! The belts come out great, don’t they!?

Love the bottle tourney idea. May have to borrow that one for a game in the future.

 

[Jake14mw]

We need pictures of a winner wearing the belts!

 

[ekricket]

I love this idea. I have to incorporate that somehow!

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