To commemorate the launch of the Vans x RFC Prison Issue LX, The Ringleaders Football Club hosted a tournament in Montreal with like-minded clubs from around the world. Up for grabs was "La Coupe des Coupes", or the Jeremy L. Patterson Jay Good World Cup as it's "officially" known. La Coupe des Coupes is more appropriate though, given the trophy's massive size and unforgettable design.
The trophy was conceived, designed and constructed from start to finish my Dan Finklestein, owner and designer at Consult. Dan says he received only the slightest instruction from The Ringleaders: to make something that rivaled the CONCACAF Gold Cup. They sent him a few pictures of the massive trophy with a short message:
“The trophy is incredible, two guys have to hold it because it’s so massive… We want something like that”
From there, Dan says he tried to make the trophy "as relative to The Ringleaders as possible while keeping it beautiful and clean." Bronze, brass and copper were out of the question given the two and half week window he had to work with, so he chose to work with stainless steel, which would "give it some weight and have the metallic feature a trophy needs."
After some rough sketches and a few 3D renderings -two and a half weeks isn't a lot of time after all- Dan had the stainless steel laser cut and welded. "The guy loves doing out of the ordinary projects so it was perfect", says Dan. While the stainless steel was being cut and welded, Dan created the wood base that the trophy rests on, as well as the lettering, all in the classic Ringleaders font.