I don’t see a way on the AHA website to search for aggregate competition winners by club (i.e., all medals won by members of a given club based on the club listed upon entry registration). Am I missing it? If this does not exits, it would be a great new feature.
I’d prefer to avoid manually tracking competition winners for our club, when this is already available in a database.
Would be interesting to see how some of the larger clubs are “gaming” the Club of the Year system. Our club (KC Bier Meisters) entered a few different regions, but it obviously didn’t pan out as well as QUAFF, who I see is in at least 3 of the 5 reported regions as winners. Wonder if this will be the year that the BN doesn’t win COTY.
The BN took 8 medals in the NYC region. One positive thing about not going to NHC this year is hearing the booing and whining when the BN wins COTY…I’ve heard it that last 3 years.
In order for the booing to stop, I think will have to be a system like GABF where there is a “Small COTY”, “Mid-size COTY”, and “Large COTY”. Sure, there is the Gambrinus, but that still doesn’t allow tiny - but still epic - clubs to get any attention (or mid-sized ones either).