People's Choice Awards

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The Iowa Geocachers Organization hosts a People's Choice Awards Banquet each spring to recognize all of our great geocachers.

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Our 2024 event will be held in Bremer County on April 21, 2024. This will give everyone an opportunity to revisit the location of the 2023 Hike-N-Seek and chase any caches you didn't have a chance to last fall! The event venue is:     

Sweet Water Welcome Center

100 N Main St.

Tripoli, IA 50676

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Make sure you log your Will Attend on the event - GCAKNCF

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If you want to visit town early, there is also a CITO Event that morning - GCAJR6Z

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If you are interested in chasing the nominated caches, you can find a public bookmark list HERE. You can also scan this QR Code to access/download the list.

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The 2024 categories are:

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1.  Most Creative Traditional Cache - any traditional geocache that went above and beyond in location, description, container, etc.

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2. Most Creative Multi-Cache - any multi-cache that went above and beyond in location, description, container, etc.

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3. Most Creative Mystery/Puzzle Cache - any mystery/puzzle geocache that went above and beyond in location, description, puzzle, container, etc.

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4. Most Extreme Cache - a geocache with a difficulty or terrain rating of at least 3.0 that truly pushed your limits either in finding or reaching it.

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5. Best Handicapped Accessible Cache - any geocaches with either the handicapped-accessible attribute or terrain rating of 1.0.

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6. Best Online Photo - photos submitted by anyone with logs in 2023 on any Iowa geocache (cache does not need to be published in 2023)

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7. Best Online Log - logs submitted by anyone in 2023 on any Iowa geocache (cache does not need to be published in 2023)

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8. Outstanding GeoArt - any collection of geocaches of any type that create a picture on the cache map (collection of caches that form a picture will only be considered for this category and cannot be nominated for outstanding series).

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9. Outstanding Series - any collection of geocaches hidden by one or more coordinated CO's that revolve around a theme (collection of caches for this category do not form a picture on the map and cannot be nominated for outstanding geoart).

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10. Event of the Year - any event type is eligible; if it is an invidual's annual event and has won this award before, it is not eligible. The annual Hike-N-Seek event is not eligible for this award.

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11. Best Hike-N-Seek Cache - any cache of any type that was placed as part of the 2023 Hike-N-Seek event in Bremer County that went above and beyond in location, description, container, etc.

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Guidelines

• All nominations need to be for geocaches hidden in the state of Iowa during 2023, unless indicated otherwise. All nominations will be reviewed to ensure eligibility within the nominated category.

• A collection of caches can only be nominated for either GeoArt OR Series, not both.

• You need to be an active member of IGO to be eligible to vote.

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