fromwww.theguardian.com
3 hours agoReaders reply: Why are sports trophies so ugly?
But their form is mostly irrelevant to their function. In order to signify your tournament as more important than other tournaments, the trophy needs to be more spectacular in some way. So the tendency is to make them either bigger or more garish. They need to look valuable without actually being valuable, or the winners wouldn't want to give it to the next winners.
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