The event:
The winners will be announced:
Saturday 21st of February, 2015
You can arrive any time from
noon for the award ceremony at around 1pm. There will be an area for trackables of all sorts.
In Darebin Parklands is the most excellent
Multi Darebin 1 - Darebin Parklands by ssmc4 which takes you on a walk around the whole park.
The Darebin Creek Bike trail passes very close to the event and runs from Latrobe Uni nearly to the Yarra River.
Schedule:
12noon ish - Arrive for BBQ lunch (Bring goodies)
12pm onwards - On site voting for caches to be listed in the Victorian Geocache Hall of Fame
1pm - Announcement of the Winners and Runners up
1.30 - Announcement of the admissions to Victorian Geocache Hall of Fame
Facilities and the event site include toilets, free BBQs (which we will be using) and a picnic shelter. The Darebin Creek Environment Centre also has its home here.
Nominations and Voting:
Nominations were invited from Victorian cachers, for awards in the following categories:
- Best Cache
- Best Traditional Cache
- Best Multi Cache
- Best Puzzle/Mystery Cache
- Best Cache Location
- Best Log
- Best Caching Photo
- Best First Hide
- Best Series
Voting has now closed.
Voting was open from 10
th of January until 5pm on the 20
th of February. Giving people who wanted to visit the nominated caches before voting on them 6 weekends worth of caching adventures!!
Results:
In the order they were announced at the awards, the Award Winners are:
Glanville Girls' Best First Hide
Waratah by The Double-A's
ahomburg's Best Caching Photo
Hänsel und Gretel by TeamThommo
Alansee's Best Series
Lake Eildon GeoTour by Lake Eildon GeoTour
Maccamob's Best Log
Archie B1 & B2's dnf log on The Terrible Hollow
day1976's Best Cache Location
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat with the cache Head of the lake by dpkcacher
gmj3191's Best Puzzle/Mystery Cache
FBT?? - Hydrant by FUF009
phetlern's Multi Cache - Runners up
Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead! by TeamThommo
noir colline affût by wozzle68
H Rehfisch & Co's Best Multi Cache
Camp Crystal Lake V2 by Jacko83
101geo's Best Traditional Cache
Sn ♂ by Glanville Girls
geostuff.com.au's Best Cache
Flight A127 by ThePacman
Don't Forget, there is a bookmark for all these caches on the right of this event listing.
The Rules:
- You can nominate three caches in the following categories.
- Best Traditional Cache
- Best Multi Cache
- Best Puzzle/Mystery Cache
- You can only nominate one cache in the remaining categories.
- There will be a maximum of 30 caches to vote on in any one category, if more 30 caches are nominated, they must receive more than 1 nomination from different people to be eligible. If more than 30 caches are still nominated, they will need 3 nominations etc.
- The caches must be published in Victoria during 2014.
- The caches must still be active at the end of 2014.
- You can NOT nominate a cache you have placed, a photo you have taken or a log you have written.
- Photos MUST be online on a cache log.
- Logs nominated for Best Log are to ONLY have been edited when they were made.
You don't need to have nominated a cache or even have voted in the awards to attend the event.