Re: [piecepack] Trophy Cloth finished (plus piecepack goodies)!

["Tim Schutz" <hexchex@...>]

Looks really nice. Now there's even more of an incentive to win a piecepack
contest.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Hale-Evans" <rwhe@...>
To: "piecepack mailing list" <piecepack@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: [piecepack] Trophy Cloth finished (plus piecepack goodies)!


> Greetings all--
>
> The piecepack contest Trophy Cloth is finally finished, packed up, and
> ready to be shipped to Mike Schoessow on Monday.  Mike will sign it,
> with an annotation that he was the second contest winner, then send it
> on to the third contest winner after he announces the results of the
> contest on Monday.  I hope Mike takes the opportunity to play on it
> once or twice before he sends it to the third winner; it's not really
> fair to him that we took so long to get the cloth together that he has
> hardly any time with it.
>
> For those of you who don't know, the Trophy Cloth is a
> card-table-sized tablecloth embroidered with all four standard
> piecepack suit symbols, meant to be autographed by each game design
> contest winner and passed on to the next one.  I took a few photos of
> it before I wrapped it up for mailing today.  Here's a shot of it
> spread out on a card table:
>
>   http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/trophy-cloth/01_overview.jpg
>
> Here's a shot as it would be seen during a hypothetical piecepack game
> that requires placing the pieces of each suit next to their respective
> embroidered suit icons:
>
>   http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/trophy-cloth/02_pp_spread.jpg
>
> Here's a close-up of some of the very nice embroidery on the cloth:
>
>   http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/trophy-cloth/03_embroidery.jpg
>
> Here's a side view of the tablecloth, so you can see where we signed
> it:
>
>   http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/trophy-cloth/04_side_view.jpg
>
> And this one is mostly for me and Marty, rather than you folks -- a
> closeup of where we signed the cloth as the first winners:
>
>   http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/trophy-cloth/05_kidsprout.jpg
>
> It may look as though we pulled a John Hancock with our autograph, but
> it is very hard to write small with the fabric paint markers we were
> using, and there really is plenty of room on the cloth.  It will be
> years (at the current rate of contests) before we run out of room for
> signatures on the cloth.
>
> Technically, the embroidery was not that expensive, but the
> "digitisation", the conversion from a computer graphic of the logo
> into a set of stitches that the embroidery machine could use, was
> costly.  (The whole piecepack community will reap a benefit from this
> investment, however.  See my next message.)  While Marty and I both
> have small businesses at the moment ("small" is the keyword here), we
> are technically unemployed, and we could not have gotten the Trophy
> Cloth out the door without the generous financial assistance of
> piecepack players like you: Mike Schoessow, David Hassell, and Tim
> Schutz.  Thanks a lot, guys!  (The irony that Mike contributed a fair
> chunk of change to what was supposed to be his award does not escape
> me.  Thank you for being patient, Mike.)
>
> That's about it.  The package will go out to Mike via Priority Mail as
> early as possible on Monday.  Mike, you are still at the same address
> in Belmont as when you won the Ludic Synergy Contest, correct?
>
> Goodbye, little Trophy Cloth!  Come back to us soon! :-)
>
> Ron and Marty
>
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