Help us choose the pin
Diamond State Curling Club has been around for almost a decade! That’s right, this March will be our 10 year anniversary. Last month we sent out a request for our club members to come up with designs for our 10th anniversary pin and we got a pretty good response! Thanks to those who submitted design ideas, we have 6 pins to choose from. Now we need the help of all our members!
Follow the link below to help us choose the winning pin design. With 6 options we’re going to be utilizing ranked choice voting, otherwise we could end up with a “winner” who only got 18% of the vote. Use the form to rank your choices 1 thru 6. We’ll use the rankings of all our members to choose the winner. There are slight variations in the methods of how “ranked choice” voting results in a single winner. In most real world scenarios they all point to the same winner, but sometimes they can differ. If there isn’t a clear winner we may send out one more ballot with the choices narrowed down to the top two contenders.
Voting is open to members in good standing, so if you’ve been dragging your feet about renewing membership, you should probably go do that. Voting will close January 15th, or once all active members have submitted a ballot. We chose that date so I can give a verbal reminder at both Sunday and Tuesday league. But vote early if you can, we’d love to get the pin order in as early as possible.
Pin Designs
The image below displays all the pin designs to scale, with our primary club pin and 5th anniversary pin displayed for comparison. Where ever you see the color grey, that indicates the nickel plated material of the pin. That material needs to be present between changes of color, but it has also been used in some pins as part of the design. If you submitted a design and it looks slightly different, it’s because we had to make the design work with the manufacturing process.
That crazy looking border is for scaling reference, the long bars are 1 inch by 1/4 inch, the short bars are 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch. The area inside the border is 11 inches long by 4-1/4″, so a standard piece of paper folded the long way. Whatever method of zoom on whatever screen you’re viewing this on, you should be able to use something from that information to get an idea of the size of the pins. Conveying the true size of something digitally can be difficult, I tried.
Below are images of the pins individually so you can zoom in on them, each image is a 1-3/4″ square, so the pins are all the same scale within their images.
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Option 4
Option 5
Option 6
Some really great designs submitted, thanks to everyone who participated! Much better response than our 5th year. Here’s to another fun filled decade of curling!
Brian Hufe
Vice President