2010/11
Skål International Lugano

Skål International Lugano (Switzerland) beat off three other finalists to be awarded Skål Club of the Year 2010-2011 during the Opening Ceremony of the 72nd Skål World Congress in Turku. 

List of previous winners

The Executive Committee of Skål International has agreed new rules governing the competition “Skål Club of the Year” in order to increase interest and greater member participation in the competition. The revised rules for the competition are as follows:

 The General Secretariat will select a number of Clubs who have fulfilled the criteria which appears on the Skål International website. The criteria are as follows:

• that the Club has paid its membership fees to the General Secretariat by 28 February 2012.
• that the Club has returned a list of its current members to the General Secretariat on or before 31 March 2012.
• that the Club has sent a Form 2 showing the current officers by 13 April 2012.
• the number of new members in the previous calendar year is taken into account which should be a minimum of 10% net increase or 10 new members or more (calculations based on period from30 April 2011 to 30 April 2012) .
• that the Club registered a voting delegate at one of the three previous Skål World Congresses.

Once the General Secretariat has established the list of Clubs which qualify according to the criteria outlined above, it will contact these Clubs by the beggining of May and ask them to submit a short presentation (maximum seven minutes) on CD Rom outlining why that Club feels it should be a candidate for Club of the Year. The deadline for submission of presentations at the General Secretariat will be 22 June 2012.

Once again, all members worldwide will have the opportunity to vote for their choice of the "Skål Club of the Year" through the Skål website from 1 July to 31 August 2012. All members can cast a vote and the votes received will be equivalent to 20% of the total votes, the remaining 80% being awarded by the judges during the Skål World Congress to be held in Seoul & Incheon, Korea. The judges will consist of the two Vice-Presidents and one Director of Skål International.

To give the opportunity to other Clubs to win the award, any Club that has won will not be allowed to apply for the award until four years have elapsed.

The winners will be announced by the President of Skål International, Enrique Quesada, during the Opening Ceremony of the Congress. The prizes for the winners will be as follows:

• First prize - the Michael O´Flynn Perpetual Trophy and a free Double Congress registration for the next Skål World Congress.
• Second prize – Single registration for the next Skål World Congress
• Third prize – Single “Congress Only” registration for the next Skål World Congress

(This could be subject to modification depending on the number of Clubs participating).

The selection of the eligible Clubs by the General Secretariat and the voting results will be subject to inspection by the Executive Committee and/or the Skål International Internal Auditors.