Discussions

What are best practices to follow when we run out of medals at the end of a race?
Posted: Sept. 22, 2025
Is anyone using a mailing center that will mail medals and possibly shirts to participants worldwide and charge for that?
Posted: Aug. 28, 2025
Has anyone purchased a DIY engraver to engrave your own medals or offer engraving at events?
Posted: July 11, 2025
What non-traditional (i.e, medals, trophy, big check) awards have you given out that have been well received?
Posted: July 10, 2025
What's the best way to inform participants that the 2nd shipment of finisher medals won't arrive until after race day?
Posted: May 18, 2025
Any suggestions on what to do with leftover medals?
Posted: April 30, 2025
I've got 141 signed up with just over a month to go until race day. How many finisher medals should I order?
Posted: April 26, 2025
How would you expect tariffs to affect direct purchases of medals from China?
Posted: April 10, 2025
Other than award medals or plaques, what are some creative cost effective age group awards you guys have done?
Posted: April 7, 2025
How do you respond to runners who can't make it to the race and then ask you to mail them their shirt and/or medal?
Posted: March 28, 2025
What do races do with left over finisher medals? Any suggestions?
Posted: March 26, 2025
20% of runners chose to not receive a medal, yet many still picked up a medal at the finish line. How do you manage that?
Posted: Dec. 7, 2024
The proposed tariffs on China could very well increase the costs of race shirts and medals by 40 to 60%. What do we do?
Posted: Nov. 11, 2024
Who else is engraving their own wood medals?
Posted: Aug. 8, 2024
Does anyone have a handy tool/app they use to estimate a medal order?
Posted: July 19, 2024
How do you all distribute race medals? Do you put them in the swag bag or hand them out at the finish line?
Posted: May 23, 2024
What do you all do with outdated medals?
Posted: May 23, 2024
What do you use for staging medals at your finish line?
Posted: May 17, 2024
Looking for unique volunteer thank-you ideas. So far we've given them extra medals and swag along with a volunteer T-shirt.
Posted: May 10, 2024
How do you do the top 3 finishers medals? And do you separate the males and females?
Posted: May 3, 2024

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