2005 NSS T-SHIRT SALON RESULTS
Chairman: Kim Fleischmann

A total of 26 T-shirt designs were entered this year, 4 more than the number of entries received and judged in 2004. All of the T-shirts with front and back designs were judged as single entries, as requested by the entrants. The designs were evaluated for impact, artistic rendition, caver appeal, and technical quality.

Best of Show (medal)
Faces of Mammoth - 2001 Mammoth Cave Restoration Camp by Bonnie Curnock, Spotted Bat

Merit Award (blue ribbon)
Trolls in Holes by "Big Bill" Roberts, Southern California Grotto, and various California "trolls"
Universal Caving Symbols by Bonnie Curnock, Spotted Bat
Front Royal Grotto by Jeff Jahn, Front Royal Grotto
2004 Carlsbad Lint Camp by Bonnie Curnock, Spotted Bat

Honorable Mention (green ribbon)
BATS 10th Anniversary by Michael Young, Battlefield Area Troglodyte Society
2004 Karst-O-Rama by June Dawson, Greater Cincinnati Grotto
Cave Research Foundation - Cumberland Gap Project by Kenneth Storey, CRF
Caving Impaired by Gordon Birkhimer, Bubble Cave, LLC
Bat / Dingbat by Bonnie Curnock, Spotted Bat

Judges: Jay Balakirsky, Craig Hindman, and Kelsea Johnson