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Champions Queue 2023 Spring Trophy

The Champions Queue 2023 Spring Season trophy for Riot Games, a gold and purple helmet suspended over an illuminated hextech column on a sculpted stone base, with framed medallion awards for the individual players.

The Champions Queue 2023 Spring Season trophy built by Hoku Props: a gold and purple helmet floating above an illuminated hextech column on a stone base
Photo by Hoku Props Team

The challenge

Make a trophy that looks like it came out of the game.

The piece had to read as a Runeterra artifact rather than a conventional cup: a full-scale helmet, a glowing energy column, a weathered stone base with an engraved plaque, and a matching set of framed player awards.

The approach

Hoku modeled and printed the helmet, finished it in brushed gold and color-shift purple, engineered the lit column and its power connection into the base, sculpted and painted the stone with moss detail, and cast the medallions for the framed awards.

The Champions Queue 2023 trophy by Hoku Props from a three-quarter angle, the helmet floating over its lit blue column
Trophy, lit
The Champions Queue helmet by Hoku Props on a display stand before assembly, brushed gold horns and color-shift purple faceplate
Helmet, before assembly
Close detail of the Champions Queue trophy base by Hoku Props, hand-painted stone with moss and gold column clamps
Stone base detail
A framed Champions Queue award by Hoku Props with a sculpted helmet and engraved player plaque
Framed player award
Close-up of a cast bronze Champions Queue medallion by Hoku Props with a raised helmet emblem
Cast medallion

Photo by Hoku Props Team

Credit

Champions Queue 2023 Spring Season trophy and player awards built by Hoku Props for Riot Games.

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