 Isn't this totally like a brewery giving a pub an award for selling it's beer, Why not just say Berghaus has brought out a new top with stupid styling in an overpriced fabric that bobble's and pill's like nobody's business. Polartec are on par with goretex for marketing materials that don't perform outside of a laboratory. In fact I'd go so far as to say they are pretty much just marketing companies.
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 I happen to think it looks good value for money tbh. I think there are far more over priced items you could have picked on tbh. I have several items with Polartec fabrics made by all sorts of brnads like Rab, Haglofs, Berghaus and they are all fantastic. £70 for a new and award winning item really isn't that expensive.
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You're either a plant or you simply didn't get my first point, which was that this purely a marketing exercise, it's like giving yourself an award. Also, if you think £70 for a hooded fleece jumper is good value then you must be very well off, especially for one where the zip hasn't even been put on straight, it looks like something Bruno or Austin Powers would wear. Personally I've had a number of polartec items, three in the last year. Firstly a Monatane Oryx which was returned after it bobbled and pilled badly in the first few days from normal wear. Secondly, a Mountain Equipment fleece jacket which also would have been returned for the same reason had I not accidentally put a hole in it, and a pair of outdoor design gloves which also did the same thing but were so cheap I wasn't that bothered. So, three different weights of polartec fabric, from three different manufacturers all degraded quite badly in a short space of time.
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 Never had a problem with any Polartec tops. Some still going strong 10 years or more down the line.
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 i've never had any problems with my polartec stuff either. but then i don't play with sandpaper or velcro.
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Maybe I'm just imagining the bobbles on my ME as I sit here and type this then. It's too heavy for outdoor use so I use it like a cardigan, for pottering about and at work, it's never been near any sandpaper or velcro or a rucksack, yet it looks like it's done ten rounds with a meat tenderiser. Perhaps my expectations and standards are just too high, spending good money on gear and expecting it to still look good after a few months of light use. Tssk, silly me.
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i'm imagining bobbles on my montane oryx. just can't do it though. i'll have to wait until it gets some.
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I have a wee chunk of Powerstretch stuff (fleeces, gloves, etc), and they've all been excellent. Certainly a major improvement on regular fleece fabrics.
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I guess you guys are just hanging the stuff up and not using it then.
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come, that's a little unfair. I'm not saying there aren't bad Polartec fabrics (windbloc is, I think, a bit duff without excellent venting) but powershield has always had a very good reputation, and from my own experience powerstretch is excellent. I suspect you've just been unlucky. It happens, but you can't generalize from your own experiences alone.
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The whole point of the internet is generalising about stuff based entirely on your own personal point of view, and porn, and downloading music and films "illeagally" I think I've had enough variation of polartec materials over the years to be able to make a judgement and have an opinion. This ME is thermal pro, I think the Oryx was powerstretch, neither is the quality I would expect for the price. I've got a cheap sprayaway fleece which I've bouldered in and that doesn't have any bobbles on it, there's some wear on the elbows, but other than it looks as new. Maybe I got a bad oryx, but I had no problems taking it back because it hadn't been the first one returned.
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I guess you guys are just hanging the stuff up and not using it then. Not true. I wear mine every Sunday for 18 holes of golf. I wear it to the Lodge bowling nights as well. Still in good nick, apart from a small burn caused by the chairwoman of the Croquet club dropping her pipe on it.
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This thread has made me spit my brew out onto my keyboard, i'll have to wipe it off with a bobbly fleece top 
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"I guess you guys are just hanging the stuff up and not using it then"... ROFL  ... and I'm the plant!?
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What a load of rubbish. How can this win a innovation award? It's just a direct copy of the Patagonia R1 hoody - which also uses Powerdry and has been about for at least five years. I'm sure the fact that Andy Kirkpatrick used to work for Patagonia and now works for Berghaus had nothing to do with it!
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Are people really that bothered about who wins these awards?!... you need o gt out more!?
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It's not an award it's a marketing exercise, and putting a diagonal zip on a hooded fleece is not innovation. I guess you're just as bothered otherwise you wouldn't keep posting replies.
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oh. that's a zip?
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Boobleing.....is that like wombleling???
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What a load of rubbish. How can this win a innovation award? It's just a direct copy of the Patagonia R1 hoody - which also uses Powerdry and has been about for at least five years. I'm sure the fact that Andy Kirkpatrick used to work for Patagonia and now works for Berghaus had nothing to do with it!
Aye, from AK's twitter a while back "Yes I had some input on the Smoulder hoody, but I guess it's not hard to see where the inspiration came from!". I don't have a problem with that, it's certainly a bit more competitively priced at £70 (a few places selling at closer to £60) vs £100 which many people are more than happy to pay for the R1.
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