• Two for the Price of One
    Join us for 3rd Thurs With CHUM on June 18st at the usual time of 7:30 pm CT at Jake's Sports Bar or Zoom. We will be joined by Jenny Stock from NOAA's Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries! More details at this link.
  • 2nd Sunday w/ CHUM
    Join us for 2nd Sunday with CHUM on June 14th at 10:00am CT on Bowling Beach at Blue Lagoon! More details at this link.
  • CHUM stickers are here! Put one on your scuba tank, your gear box, your car, your forehead. See a club officer to get yours.
  • Become a full fledged CHUM member by paying only $35/year to become a Tiger Shark, pay for trips or even pick up an extra CHUM T-shirt or CHUM patch here: CHUM Payments.
  • For CHUM's list of greater Houston area dive shops, dive sites, and dive charter operators see this link.
  • CHUM - Houston's SCUBA Club is the sponsor of the Texas SCUBA Diver license plate. Get yours at MyPlates.com!
  • Stream2Sea! Great products that are good for humans and the reef. Use the affiliate link below or check out with coupon code “chumrocks” and get 10% off your purchase. Click this CHUM affiliate link to order your products.
  • Follow CHUM on these platforms to keep up with what the club has going on Facebook, Instagram, Scubaboard, and YouTube.

    And for Texas Dive Plates: TDP Facebook and TDP Instagram.

  • Questions, suggestions, want to lead a CHUM trip or learn about the CHUM officers? Contact us: Your CHUM Board of Directors.

2020 Calendar Contest: Voting Closed

DivingDoug

DivingDoug

Grand Poobah
First Name
Doug
Voting Closed (see results below)

Wow, we have some awesome photos submitted for this year's calendar. Too bad 2020 doesn't have an extra few months to include them all.

Please follow the link below to rate all the photos and help us pick the best twelve.
2020 Calendar Voting

Voting is open to Tiger Shark members only, but Nurse sharks are still welcome to go to the Survey and check out the great photos.

Polls close Nov 17th :)


[Voting Instructions ]
Please give each photo a score from 0 (burn it) to 5 (frame it)
The photos with the most points will be included in the calendar
 
Last edited:
DivingDoug

DivingDoug

Grand Poobah
First Name
Doug
3f5sfx.jpg
 
GWNDWN

GWNDWN

Tiger Shark
DAM CHUMmer
First Name
Ryan
So how does the voting work? You have to vote for every picture or is it your top 12? You can give them all the same rating?
 
Siren

Siren

Tiger Shark
First Name
Amanda
I am also a little confused. I usually scrunch up my nose at change, and this is very different than the way we have done calendar voting in the past.

Am I supposed to choose my 12 favorite photos and give them all a 5 rating? Or am I supposed to rate my favorite photos a 5 and my lesser favorite photos are 4, 3, 2, etc? Am I supposed to rate all the photos, or just 12 photos of my choosing? Can I skip rating photos if I don't want it in the calendar?

I don't mean to make this complicated, but the rating system in the past worked well for getting the most highly ranked photos in the calendar. This new way seems like most of photos in the end will have the same number of votes.

Please advise. I can embrace a new way of voting, I just need a little more help. :p
 
DivingDoug

DivingDoug

Grand Poobah
First Name
Doug
Sorry for the confusion.

You rate each photo and the ones with higher total ratings will make it into the calendar. Hopefully this makes the voting process faster/easier: just rate how much you like each photo and move on to the next one.

As for how you assign those ratings, if you give them all the same rating, you're cancelling out your own vote. Other than that it's up to you.
 
ReefHound

ReefHound

The Last Poobah
DAM CHUMmer
First Name
Todd
Personally, I like the new approach. (And it wasn't my idea.) I think it's much easier and faster to just click a link, click on star ratings, then submit. All from your browser.

Much nicer, in my opinion, than having to download a file, open in excel, drag pictures around a worksheet trying to establish a precise numerical order, then save and upload/email. A star rating is how you rate hotels, restaurants, or pretty much everything else. 5 stars = wowza, 4 stars = pretty damned good, 3 stars = decent, 2 stars = not so much, 1 star = get it out of here. That's mine. Rate them as you go. If it's wowza it's 5 stars, no need to keep going back and forth trying to decide if it's #1 or #2 or #3. We aren't picking the best photo of the year and I don't think we've ever distinguished between the top rated and 12th rated photo.

That said, I'm sure Doug will be happy to hear your feedback!
 
GWNDWN

GWNDWN

Tiger Shark
DAM CHUMmer
First Name
Ryan
I don't have a problem with the new system. It's just that it was completely different than all previous years and no explanation of how it worked.
 
Lakediver

Lakediver

Adam's Personal Travel Agent, Apparently
Diver of the Year
First Name
Jennifer
Wow, there were a lot of amazing photos submitted! It was hard not to just give them all 5 stars!
 
DivingDoug

DivingDoug

Grand Poobah
First Name
Doug
And here are the final 12 in no particular order:

https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/red-sea-rays.21073/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/9-c53-minesweeper-off-cozumel-bridge.20634/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/23-dreamgate-cenote-exit.20648/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/pair-of-freckled-hawkfish.21124/full
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/turtle-and-friends.21168/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/giant-moray.21082/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/red-sea-bannerfish-holding-his-ground.21121/full
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/geometric-moray.21071/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/gar-1.21353/
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/splendid-toadfish-excursion.21190/full
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/p6081265.21346/#media
https://www.chumclub.org/forums/media/rozi_a-2.21350/

Thanks to everyone who voted, and double thanks to everyone who submitted photos.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top