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 2025 event details are still being finalized. We hope to plan the event in Jackson County to give everyone an opportunity to revisit the location of the 2024 Hike-N-Seek and chase any caches you didn't have a chance to last fall! We'll provide more details as we're able.​

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​However, this year, we are taking a new approach. The nomination period will run from January 1, 2025 to January 23, 2025. After that period closes, we will send out a communication with all the nominated caches. Voting will not open until early March, which will give you over a month to do some research (visit the nominated caches, read logs on cache pages, etc.) and think about which caches you may want to vote for!

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The 2025 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 2024 on any Iowa geocache (cache does not need to be published in 2024)

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7. Best Online Log - logs submitted by anyone in 2024 on any Iowa geocache (cache does not need to be published in 2024)

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8. Outstanding GeoArt/Series - any collection of geocaches of any type hidden by one or more coordinated CO's that revolve around a theme (please note these are a combined category this year, so nominations may or may not form a picture on the map)

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9. 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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10. Best Hike-N-Seek Cache - any cache of any type that was placed as part of the 2024 Hike-N-Seek event in Jackson 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 2024, 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 will need to be an active member of IGO to be eligible to vote.

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