SCHF Club of the Year

Official Rules for SCHF Club of the Year Competition:
(Revised 9/10/21)

  1. SCHF Club of the Year is awarded to clubs that earn points throughout a season. A season’s dates will be defined each time, but will generally start with an SCHF Bragging Rights (BRO) Competition, and end approximately two weeks before the following SCHF (therefore, a season is just short of one year).
  2. Points are awarded to clubs via their members entering specified homebrew competitions. These competitions come in two forms: CHA-Organized Competitions, and CHA-Recognized Competitions. 
    1. CHA-Organized Competitions are primarily judged by the CHA Board of Directors. These include the SCHF Bragging Rights Only Competition, and any CHA Best of Show Competition during the applicable season. 
    2. CHA-Recognized Competitions are homebrew competitions that meet specific guidelines for the season. In general, CHA-Recognized competitions follow these guidelines:
      1. They are Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP)-approved competitions, therefore, they follow the rules and regulations listed on bjcp.org .
      2. Their entry dates, deadlines, and judging guidelines are published in advance.
      3. Entry to the competition is not limited or restricted to specific clubs or groups of people beyond reasonable entry fees.
      4. The results of the competition, specifically Best of Show and Category/Table winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd place), are publicly available for competition point verification.
    3. Points are awarded for Best of Show and Category/Table places as follows: 1st place gets 3 points, 2nd place gets 2 points, and 3rd place gets 1 point. 
    4. Points are weighted depending on the competition. All CHA-Organized Competitions combined are 50%, and all CHA-Recognized Competitions combined are 50%.
      1. For Example: At the end of the season, assume 100 points are total points claimed for CHA-Recognized Competitions, and 25 points are the total points claimed for CHA-Organized Competitions. Those 25 points need to get scaled up by the weighting factor. For 100 CHA-Recognized Competition points, 100/25 = 4 Recognized Competition Points for each Organized competition point. In other words, 1 point in a CHA-organized competition is now worth 4 points in the weighted grand total.
    5. All point claims must be submitted to the CHA Board of Directors for recognition in the Club of the Year Competition. Send all claims to points@calhomebrewers.org . CHA Board of Directors reserves the right to verify all point claims using publicly available data.
      • A designated club member may submit points on behalf of any one of their club members.
      • The publicly available competition data must list both 1) the full name of the person placing in the competition; 2) their affiliated club.
  3. The SCHF Club of the Year will be announced at the season’s end SCHF. The Club will be given a trophy to commemorate the event. The trophy must be returned by the following SCHF.
    • While The Club is highly encouraged to have a booth at SCHF, it is not a requirement to win.