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I find it very hard to believe that the IMPBA Board would agree to "retire" the most prestigious award it has awarded at its biggest race for many, many years. I think it is a "slap in the face" to every person who has their name on a brass plate on that trophy who has won it in the past. For as long as I have been a member of IMPBA ( 1984 ) I have never heard of the trophy having to be shipped to an Internats. The person who last won it either brought it to the race or got it to someone who was going to attend. I am offended that the Board members who voted to discard this trophy don't have a clue to its history and importance to IMPBA. The last time I saw the trophy it was in Anthony Black's house ( his son Josh Black won it in 2012 for D Hydro ) in a prominent, safe place and indeed it looked like an old trophy but was NOT in any disrepair that I could see. This trophy should be sitting in Stu Barr's house...........no excuses. The people on the Board need to know where IMPBA came from to be able to see where it needs to go. You need to think about this one again.
Dick Tyndall
President, IMPBA 1995-1998
Dick Tyndall
President, IMPBA 1995-1998