The Cupertino site is a cleaner and neater venue than Ohlone College was but I'll never enter my car in another "participant judging" event again. It is a lazy way out for the club that hosts the show and turns out to be more of a popularity contest for the host club members cars. When a club hosts a show, allows the club members to enter their own cars THEN judge themselves....It is like politicians voting raises for themselves. This of course is important to people that appreciate winning a trophy occasionally. For everone else, carry on...
I will be at this show. I really don't CARE about an award, I get a big thrill out of talking to folks about my build so that is why I go, aside from checking out all the other cool cars. Since I am there I will wait to see the outcome of judging, however, I cannot see getting butt hurt over a $20 trophy. Besides, all they do is collect dust somewhere.