The 2002 event was the first to awarding the winners branding instead of tattoos. Stella Carey said the branding hurt much less than the pain she causes her students on a regular basis. The brands were applied by professional brander, Michael Hare, of Exotic Body in Sacramento, California. Additionally, Stella and Travis were each awarded a pig trophy. The trophy's frames were made by welding expert and bike frame maker Rick Hunter. Steve Smith assembled dissected piglet embryos into cylinders of formaldehyde and/or urine, that were held within each trophy.