How it works
Trophy text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 24 pieces. Cups with two handles from one line to sixteen, medals and podiums for first, second and third, a plaque, a shelf and a plate that takes a name.
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How these trophies are built
Wikipedia's Trophy article describes the loving cup, a common kind of trophy: a cup, usually on a pedestal, with two or more handles. So a cup here is a bowl with a handle on each side: braces on the smallest cups, a pair of short hooks on the larger ones. Trophy goblet, no handles is the exception.
Put a name on it
Trophy with a name plate takes 11 characters in place of YOUR NAME; a longer name pushes the edge of the plate out.
- Squash-proof has seven pieces with no run of spaces: the four one-liners, a cup, a podium and a medal.
- For a results post, Three cups on one line is 17 characters wide and Medals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd is 23.
- The trophy and medal emoji are on trophy emoji and medal emoji.
Questions and answers
How do you make a trophy with keyboard symbols?
Type {\_/} on one line: a brace for each handle, then a backslash, an underscore and a slash for the bowl. Put a 1 where the underscore is for first place. For three lines, copy Small trophy cup.
Why are trophies shaped like cups?
Winners were once handed real cups. By Wikipedia's Trophy article, chalices, traditionally made in silver, went to winners of sporting events in the New World at least as early as the very late 1600s: of horse races, and later of boating and early automobile races.
Who stands where on a podium?
By Wikipedia's Podium article the highest platform is traditionally in the center for first place, with a lower one to the winner's right for second and one to the left for third. From the front that reads 2, 1, 3, as on First-place podium.