Concorso Virtuale Italiano Dell’automobile 2020

The Alfa Romeo Owners Club 2020 National Convention hosted by the Alfa Club of the Rockies was postponed until July 2021.

Along with just about every other organization in the world, AROC has looked for ways to keep our membership engaged with the cancellations and/or postponements of National and Chapter events.

Those ways have consisted of Chapter level Zoom meetings, Detroit Chapter's Zoom tech sessions, posting of those tech sessions on the new AROC YouTube channel, AROC Chapter Presidents Zoom with the AROC Board, and now a new type of virtual event is on the way with the intention for all AROC members to have an opportunity to engage with other members.

Two AROC members, Karen Phillips and Richard Cross, presented an idea to the AROC Board of Directors to have some type of virtual concours and the Board thought that was a great idea.

So after naming Karen and Richard the “Event Czars” the Board got with Parabolica, the publisher of Alfa Owner, for a notification of the event in the July issue and the announcement of the awards in the September issue and things were off and running.

• June 15, 2020 – Last day for acceptance of COVID-2020 entries.
  
• June 20, 2020 – Email with Survey Monkey voting link to start voting on COVID-2020.
• July 6, 2020 – Last day to vote on entries.
• July 25, 2020 – AROC Virtual Convention. w/Business meeting & Board Officer election.

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COncorso Virtuale Italiano Dell’automobile 2020

The name of the event is COncorso Virtuale Italiano Dell’automobile 2020.  AROC Director Doug Zaitz came up with the title name for the event that kept it related to the COVID-19 virus causing all the schedule changes.  AROC Director John Justus began putting the online car show together along with input from AROC Director Arno Leskinen

AROC National is going to present a web based “virtual not a concours” car show. This will be available for all AROC members who would like to display their Alfa(s) in an online virtual concours setting. AROC members will then be asked to vote on a Winner for each class and a Best of Show overall winner.

The voting will be done online, like our Board of Director elections, and the awards will be presented at the AROC Virtual Convention w/Business Meeting & Board Officer election on July 25. 2020 and the results will also be announced in the September issue of the Alfa Owner.

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COVID-2020 Classes

Alfas through 1995 – 4 classes

• Open class – Spiders, roadsters, GTCs, convertibles
• Closed class – Alfas to 1995 - Closed - Sprints, GTVs, Milanos, Berlinas, Supers, coupes, sedans
• Competition-prepared class – race, rallly
• Preservation class – 1995 or older, semi / non-restored but still driven

Modern - 5 classes

• 8C class – includes coupes and Spiders
• 4C class – includes coupes and Spiders
• Giulia class – includes all levels; base, Ti, Ti Sport, Ti Carbon, Lusso, Quadrifoglio, etc
• Stelvio class – includes all levels: base, Ti, Ti Sport, Ti Carbon, Lusso, Quadrifoglio, etc
• Competition-prepared class – race, rallly

Other - 2 classes

• Commercial class – includes police, taxis, trucks, vans, etc
• With Character class– those with special paint schemes, modifications, or strange locations
  

COVID-2020 Rules

• One entry per member per class
• Member submitting chooses the class to enter (this will be reviewed by agents of the Event Czars to ensure proper or appropriate class)
• One Photo under 2 MB. It is up to the entrant to determine the content and angle of the photo to best represent their Alfa. Photo-shopped pictures are discouraged.
• No objectionable or obscene photos and no copyrights violations.

Eligibility:
Open to any current AROC member and their immediate family.

Entry Information needed:

• First & Last Names
• AROC Membeship #
• Primary Chapter
• COVID-2020 class you are entering (see Class list above as these are NOT standard AROC concours classes)
• Year, Model, and special edition on the entered Alfa – 40 characters max - Ex: 1978 Spider Nikki Lauda
  
• Comments with information about the Alfa Romeo you are submitting – 75 characters max
• One photo per car and smaller than 2 MB. It is up to the entrant to determine the content and angle of the photo to best represent their Alfa. Preferred photo format is a 4 x 6 photo. Do not post unapproved photos copyrighted by others.

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Questions & Answers

Below you will find answers to questions already asked by AROC members and hopefully this will help you with while entering your Alfa in the COncorso Virtuale Italiano Dell’automobile 2020.

How many photos can I have?

• One photo per car per class.  Several members with multiple Alfas have entered multiple classes.  One Spider went in Open, one Milano went in Closed, one 4C Spider went in 4Cs, and one Giulia Quadrifoglio went in Giulias.

Can I change a photo?

• No, you cannot change a photo, but you can tell us to delete an entry and re-enter that class with a new photo. Send your request to covid-support@aroc-usa.org.

What does Open class contain?

• Any Alfa with a fold down top or no top: Spiders, convertibles. 
• Spiders with removable hardtops are Open. After market sunroofs on Berlinas are not.

What does Closed class contain?

• Any Alfa with a non-removable hardtop. 
• Coupes - include any model with letters “GTV” in the model, Sprints, Jr Zs, TZs, Speciales, Montreals, etc
• Sedans - Berlinas, Supers, Milanos (75s), 164s, etc

What would be in Preservation class?

• Barn finds
• Entries that have visible rust
  
• Body work needed
  
• Alfa Red paint that faded to a whitish pink
• Spiders with fogged rear windows

What is NOT photoshopping?  

• Cropping the porta-a-potty out of the side background
• Resizing the photo so your Alfa is more prominent
  

What is photoshopping?  

• Solarizing the photo
• Making it a chalk photo