2023-4 Corvette of the Year Competition and New Rules
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2023-4 Corvette of the Year Competition and New Rules
2023-24 Corvette of the Year Competition… Announcement and rule changes.
Members!
This season’s Corvette of the Year competitions in each Generation will begin soon. This thread is a notice about some of the rule changes this year, designed to increase participation and enable more competition for more members within the classes.
Rules changes for 2023:
· Moderators are not eligible for entry into the contest
· Active solicitation of other community members for votes is prohibited
· Classes with more than X entries may be split into subcategories as may be appropriate to the area of competition. For example, on C2s, we might split the class into 1963-64 and 1965-67. Another possibility would be to separate lightly modified cars in the unmodified category from entries with no modifications.
· Establish a new category for resto-mods to include cars of any/all years or generations.
The majority of these rule changes are in order to enable more competition among participants and to encourage more members to participate. For example:
Some classes, a good example being C2 Unmodified, traditionally have an enormous amount of entries at a high caliber. It becomes near-impossible to fairly choose 10 finalists with the level that cars that miss out. This new rule, which allows a splitting of any class over a certain number, allows us to at least reduce the sheer number of participants and increase members’ chances to both make the 10 finalists for voting and/or increase their ability to compete.
We decided through feedback that matching up high-end restomod cars against lightly modified cars is unfair and suppresses interest. It seems clear a full-blown restomod from C3 has more competitive similarity to a restomod from C2 than it does against a C3 with a wheel change and a pinstripe.
Of course, decisions for classification are left to the entrants, but as a guide, “restomods” will be considered customs with high-end modifications like chassis changes, LS replacements, etc. We acknowledge there’s no accepted definition for this term.
Remaining rules from previous years remain unchanged. Questions about those rules, reasons for Disqualification and any other concern are welcome in this thread.
We would like members who might not have felt inclined to participate in the past to consider these rule changes and potentially plan to enter their appropriate generation/classification before the posted cutoff dates for entry.
We will add more information to this thread as it becomes available. but Jim (Savewave) and I will monitor these threads and answer questions as they arise.
Members!
This season’s Corvette of the Year competitions in each Generation will begin soon. This thread is a notice about some of the rule changes this year, designed to increase participation and enable more competition for more members within the classes.
Rules changes for 2023:
· Moderators are not eligible for entry into the contest
· Active solicitation of other community members for votes is prohibited
· Classes with more than X entries may be split into subcategories as may be appropriate to the area of competition. For example, on C2s, we might split the class into 1963-64 and 1965-67. Another possibility would be to separate lightly modified cars in the unmodified category from entries with no modifications.
· Establish a new category for resto-mods to include cars of any/all years or generations.
The majority of these rule changes are in order to enable more competition among participants and to encourage more members to participate. For example:
Some classes, a good example being C2 Unmodified, traditionally have an enormous amount of entries at a high caliber. It becomes near-impossible to fairly choose 10 finalists with the level that cars that miss out. This new rule, which allows a splitting of any class over a certain number, allows us to at least reduce the sheer number of participants and increase members’ chances to both make the 10 finalists for voting and/or increase their ability to compete.
We decided through feedback that matching up high-end restomod cars against lightly modified cars is unfair and suppresses interest. It seems clear a full-blown restomod from C3 has more competitive similarity to a restomod from C2 than it does against a C3 with a wheel change and a pinstripe.
Of course, decisions for classification are left to the entrants, but as a guide, “restomods” will be considered customs with high-end modifications like chassis changes, LS replacements, etc. We acknowledge there’s no accepted definition for this term.
Remaining rules from previous years remain unchanged. Questions about those rules, reasons for Disqualification and any other concern are welcome in this thread.
We would like members who might not have felt inclined to participate in the past to consider these rule changes and potentially plan to enter their appropriate generation/classification before the posted cutoff dates for entry.
We will add more information to this thread as it becomes available. but Jim (Savewave) and I will monitor these threads and answer questions as they arise.
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06-06-2023, 02:13 PM
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2020 C6 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (appearance mods)
C6 of Year Winner (appearance mods) 2019
2018 C6 of Year Finalist
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Why not allow previous winners to take part annually?
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