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 Announcing the Southwest Divisional Solo Series regional participation trophy. Named the "Come and Take It!" trophy, it will be awarded to the region that has the highest average points per entry after all four divisional events.  The winning region will get to keep the trophy for the next year and gloat endlessly that their region is the best in the Southwest Division.

 Each competitor will be awarded points based on their finishing position (9pts -1st, 6pts -2nd, 4pts - 3rd, 2, 1, 1, 1. The only exception being uncontested class wins will receive 7 pts). The points for each region will be averaged over all four events and after the final divisional in Fort Worth, the winning region will claim the trophy. Each region must average 5 entries per event to be eligible. (So, 20 entries at one event will count)

 The "Come and Take It" name comes from the Texas Revolution battle where Mexico came to reclaim a cannon in the town of Gonzalez, to which the locals said "Come and take it". After a fair amount of bloodshed the cannon stayed put and became the source of pride for the Texans. but we figure the Louisiana regions will have a lot of fun laughing at the Texans if they come and take it away!

We have built a race tire shod cannon for the trophy and we will have it at every event this year to stir up interest and should have photos posted in the next few days.

 So, rally the troops and get to them to every event and "Come and Take It!".

Here it is... all you other regions can enjoy the picture, because Spokes will be keeping it in Austin for at least the next year!!

After 2 events, it's looking like an upset might be in the making! Red River Region has a small band of raiders willing to travel and take home the trophies! Red River is leading with an average 6.5 points per entry, with Lone Star Region not far behind in second place with 5.87 points per entry. Texas and Houston are still in the hunt with 5.75 and 5.47 pts respectively and their hosted events are right around the corner.

Red River is still on the bubble with only 12 entries so far. To qualify a region must have an average of 5 entries per divisional event. In contrast Houston is leading entries with 27.5 entries per event and they haven't hosted their own event yet! But this competition is only based on highest average points per entry... If Red River brings a combined total of 8 more entires to Houston and Fort Worth, they will be hard to beat!!! Come on Texans! You need to muster the troops and come defend the cannon!

We do have a small number of entries from unknown regions, so take a look at the people below and send me a PM if you know which region they should belong to.

UNKNOWN REGION 

Kyle Jones

John Putnam

Gary Shenk