Since user-specific custom hovertexts are out of the realm of possibility as people have mentioned above, it seems like the best options are either stacking the trophies next to each other or having one trophy for reigning champions and another alumni trophy for any past iterations won of a given tour. My personal was to have them stack for both individuals as well as team tours because although I am no tournament player and most of the people here especially the ones holding said trophies are more aware of the value of individuals over team tour, I still cannot say that one more as to me it seems more like a way to create a hierarchy among different tournaments making some accomplishments seem greater than the other, which I'm not personally a fan of but with that said it leaves us with one direction to move in and taking it forward, I'd like to address some of the ideas people came up with for the alumni trophy and why they might not be the best. I'll make it clear that I am completely aware of the fact that the people who proposed these versions did not claim it to be the be all end all but instead just something to gauge the direction to move forward in, hence, my intentions are in no way to tell people what's right and wrong or that they should only listen to me or to say that my version is ultimately superior etc, I'm not about that at all but its rather to help people understand why I think so which will come in handy when I explain the thought process behind my versions. So Lets start.
For reference sake, these are the 3 current trophies I will be looking at mainly alongside the current alumni of their kind:
Tony's version:
I definitely like the idea of a border around the trophy, however the major problem with this is that it goes against pretty much every other badge/trophy out there having a washed-out blue border, plus the visibility isn't so great. There's also an issue for the alumni trophies being indistinguishable from other tournaments.
Peng's Version:
I can call this nothing but ambitious, as this'd imply that all the current reigning trophies need to be revamped to a completely new style as well as the trophies people are current familiar with, being turned into alumni trophies instead which makes it even more confusing. This would've been fine otherwise.
Raiza's and Earthworm's versions:
Although these are probably my favorite ones out of all of these, the problem is that the point of a design is first and foremost to get the message across, if it takes a moment for the average person to distinguish alumni trophies from then something can be improved, I like the direction but I think alumni trophies should be more subtle looking and clearly speak (past champion) if that makes any sense.
Tony's other version:
This is probably the closest to practical out of all of these, I'd say. Gray trophies work best for alumni and the borders are pretty visible allowing for a clear distinguishability between each of them, the only issue is that they don't quite follow the same principles as the other badges/trophies,
With all of that said, I'll move on to the versions I made. The basis, if I didn't do a proper job at explaining them, are basically visibility, distinguishability and practicality. It needs to be clearly visible from the size you're supposed to be looking at it, it needs to be distinguishable from the reigning champion trophies as well as alumni trophies of the other kinds, and lastly it needs to work, as in, it needs to let you know within first glance that yes, this is an alumni trophy for x tournament. Here's the journey:
A closer look:
Going from top to bottom, I started with the border idea, didn't quite like it, started experimenting with the frame more instead, looks pretty ugly, highlighted the trophy with black outlines and then darker outlines on top, still didn't look well and just made it blend even more into the background messing with the visibility of it. I tried lowering the brightness and upping the saturation, it gave me an idea of bright colored outlines which started to give me a better sense of direction, bright outlines contrasting with the black outline right next to it make it clear when viewed from the appropriate size, then I started messing around a bit more adding another layer of a darker outline to blend it into the blue background, this time changing the trophies color back to normal instead of the darker one, however the blue didn't feel quite right, it also blended a bit too well in the WCoP trophy, so I decided to go back to the black background which I think is the best paired with gray, it keeps the same feel of the other reigning champion trophies while not distracting the attention from the trophy itself keep the clarity where it should be. Lastly I started tweaking slightly more and ended up with the standard border that we use for all the badges/trophies. Here's the finished version:
Here's how they look on ElodinNotBurger's:
Now to close this, I don't mean to say this is the most perfect version by any means, I found it interesting so decided to share my opinion and worked on it a bit to show what directions we can take from here as well as my thoughts behind them. This is mainly a proposal if anything and I could be the only one who feels the way I do so feel free to share your thoughts or criticism if you have any, so that it can help improve what we are currently working with.
