Pub and Club of the Year Process

Pub of the Year

1. Once the Good Beer Guide has been published, the GBG co-ordinator will provide a list of pubs in the latest edition to the Webmaster. This list should be broken down into 3 lists: Durham City, Town, and Country.
2. The Webmaster will use these 3 lists to generate a nominations form on the Branch Website which will allow up to 3 nominations to be cast from each list. Members will also be asked if they wish to take part in the final judging. This form shall only be accessible to Branch members using the website login system.
3. Any alternative methods of nominating, such as a “paper” form may also be generated if deemed necessary with any appropriate details for the submission of the nominations, e.g. email or postal address. Such forms will need to include the sender’s membership information so that Branch membership may be verified.
4. Branch members will be invited to make nominations using the agreed voting methods with nominations opening on the first Monday in October and closing on the first Friday in December (or as close to these dates as possible). Members should be invited to vote through the Branch Facebook Page and Group and using the CAMRA comms tool, ideally on the day that nominations open, November 1st, and at the start of the week in which nominations close.
5. On close of nominations, the Webmaster will forward a list of the 3 pubs receiving the most nominations from each of the Durham City, Town, and Country lists to the Pubs Group and the Durham Drinker distributers (collectively, the “wild card group”). This should be done in alphabetical order without the number of nominations being disclosed. The wild card group may then agree to replace up to 1 pub in each list with an alternative from the original lists used for nominations. This should be decided by 31st December. The 9 pubs selected after this process will form the Branch Pub of the Year Finalists. In any instance where someone nominates the same pub more than once on their form, the pub will only be counted as having received a single nomination on that form.
6. On the first Monday in January, those members who indicated that they wished to be involved in the final judging will be emailed the details of the 9 finalists along with score sheets, scoring criteria and an example/suggested scoring breakdown. Scoring will follow the system used by CAMRA for the Regional and National competition judging. These sheets are to be returned to the Webmaster by the last Friday of February and must have scores for all 9 finalists to be valid.
7. Once the deadline for the scoring of the finalists has passed, the average score for each pub will be calculated (simple mean). These will be used to determine the placings of the 3 pubs from each list; and the pub with the overall highest average score will be the overall winner and will be put forward to the Regional Pub of the Year competition – the Webmaster will contact the North East Regional Director to inform them of this pub. In the event of a tie the pub with the highest average for beer score will be deemed the higher placed pub. If this fails to separate the pubs the next category on the score sheet will be used in order. If this still fails to produce a higher placed pub the pubs shall be deemed joint holders of that place.
8. The final results will be announced on the first Monday in March on the Branch Facebook Page and Group and using the CAMRA comms tool.

Branch Cider Pub of the Year

1. Once the Good Beer Guide has been published, the GBG co-ordinator will provide a list of pubs in the latest edition to the Webmaster which are listed as selling Real Cider.
2. The Webmaster will use this list to generate a nominations form on the Branch Website which will allow up to 3 ranked nominations from the list. This form shall only be accessible to Branch members using the website login system.
3. Any alternative methods of nominating, such as a “paper” form may also be generated if deemed necessary with any appropriate details for the submission of the nominations, e.g. email or postal address. Such forms will need to include the sender’s membership information so that Branch membership may be verified.
4. Branch members will be invited to make nominations using the agreed voting methods with nominations opening on the first Monday in October and closing on the first Friday in December (or as close to these dates as possible). Members should be invited to vote through the Branch Facebook Page and Group and using the CAMRA comms tool, ideally on the day that nominations open, November 1st, and at the start of the week in which nominations close.
5. On close of nomination the Webmaster will allocate points to each nomination as follows: 5 points for a 1st ranked nomination, 3 points for a 2nd ranked nomination and 1 point for a 3rd ranked nomination. In any instance where someone nominates the same pub more than once on their form, only the highest ranked occurrence of that pub will be allocated points; any pubs in lower rankings will be promoted and have points allocated as per the new ranking.
6. The pub which has the highest number of points after this process will be the Branch Cider Pub of the Year; this pub will be put forward to the Regional Cider Pub of the Year competition – the Webmaster will contact the North East Regional Director to inform them of this pub. The pubs receiving the 2nd and 3rd highest number of points will be acknowledged as the runners up. In the event of a tie, the pub receiving the highest overall number of nominations will be deemed to be the higher placed pub.
7. The final results will be announced on the first Monday in March on the Branch Facebook Page and Group and using the CAMRA comms tool.

Branch Club of the Year

1. Once the Good Beer Guide has been published, the GBG co-ordinator will provide a list of clubs in the latest edition to the Webmaster.
2. The Webmaster will use this list to generate a nominations form on the Branch Website which will allow up to 3 ranked nominations from the list. This form shall only be accessible to Branch members using the website login system.
3. Any alternative methods of nominating, such as a “paper” form may also be generated if deemed necessary with any appropriate details for the submission of the nominations, e.g. email or postal address. Such forms will need to include the sender’s membership information so that Branch membership may be verified.
4. Branch members will be invited to make nominations using the agreed voting methods with nominations opening on the first Monday in October and closing on the first Friday in December (or as close to these dates as possible). Members should be invited to vote through the Branch Facebook Page and Group and using the CAMRA comms tool, ideally on the day that nominations open, November 1st, and at the start of the week in which nominations close.
5. On close of nomination the Webmaster will allocate points to each nomination as follows: 5 points for a 1st ranked nomination, 3 points for a 2nd ranked nomination and 1 point for a 3rd ranked nomination. In any instance where someone nominates the same club more than once on their form, only the highest ranked occurrence of that club will be allocated points; any clubs in lower rankings will be promoted and have points allocated as per the new ranking.
6. The club which has the highest number of points after this process will be the Branch Club of the Year; this club will be put forward to the Regional Club of the Year competition – the Webmaster will contact the North East Regional Director to inform them of this club. The clubs receiving the 2nd and 3rd highest number of points will be acknowledged as the runners up. In the event of a tie, the club receiving the highest overall number of nominations will be deemed to be the higher placed club.
7. The final results will be announced on the first Monday in March on the Branch Facebook Page and Group and using the CAMRA comms tool.

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