Gripper certification schemes

Another repost of an old article of mine:

Fortunately for the grip freaks among you most gripper company owners, even if for marketing purposes as much as anything, have gripper 'certs' (certifcates or awards) for closing their hardest models.

Here's a few quick examples:

Ironmind - Captains of Crush. While the rules have changed over the years it's now currently using the CCS (credit card set) and you are awarded a certificate and your named placed on their honor role / cert list if you close, under their rules, any of the following - a CoC 3, 3.5 or a 4.

Heavy Grips

They call you a grip master if you shut their HG350 model but used to have award schemes for their large HG400 and 500 models (indeed using a CCS they used to award $500 for the HG500). I'm not sure if the scheme is still running but as yet I do not think anyone claimed the $500

RB

I think one of the RB distributors has a TNS (table no set) award scheme for the RB 300's and above. TNS'ting is the hardest of all of the schemes.

Mashmonster

A scheme created by the Gripboard in which they have Warren Tetting carefully construct according to some quite anal specs (thus hopefully keeping the small variations at bay) their MM grippers. An MM0 requires you to shut your own CoC 3 and an MM1 is the same as a harder CoC 3. They then go up to MM5/6 which is a a little below and a little above a 4 and finally they have the MM7. Currently I'm at the MM5 level and am awaiting my turn on the MM6. I have a (on long term loan from Neil 'Twig' Belcher) a MM7D (d = dud as it's nearer to the MM6) which I can close on a good day.  

If you know of any more let me know (esp if I can win some money ha ha).