Amtgard Food Fight

Event Dates

2011 - The entire month of September

2010 - The weekend of 18-19 September

2009 - The weekend of 19-20 September

Origin

The Amtgard-Wide Food Fight was held the weekend of September 19-20, 2009. The idea for a Kingdom-wide Food Drive arose during a Dragonspine Circle of Knights meeting. The idea being to have the wide-spread kingdom of Dragonspine take one weekend and use it for a shared goal. Initially organized by Sir GoldCrest, this quickly grew into an Amtgard-wide initiative as Sir Iago and Squire Francis were already planning something between Dragonspine proper and Burning Lands. That started the spread into other Kingdoms and slowly but surely many of the other Kingdoms got behind the concept.

The hope is to focus support across multiple lands to show just how much impact we can have when we all work together towards one goal.

Initially organized in Dragonspine it came to encompass representatives and donations from almost every kingdom of Amtgard. Various lands throughout Amtgard held functions with the goal to raise food and money to be donated to food banks in each chapter's locale.

Basic Info

• The Food Fight is in September because it falls in a bit of a dead zone for food banks. They have spent the summer supplying free lunches to children usually supported through free/reduced school meals. They are trying to recover before the holiday rush sets in. People often associate food bank drives with the holidays. Obviously, this puts them a bit behind the power curve. Any support we can do in advance helps them be better prepared for the winter months/holidays.
  
• http://feedingamerica.org is the name/site for the national Second Harvest program. We ask everyone to look it over for local information on different ways to maximize assistance. The website has plenty of information that will often encourage support.
  
• Many people don’t realize that Food Banks step up and organize free meals to replace those normally served as free/reduced meals to children during the school year. Also, for every dollar raised, it equates to approximately 13 dollars in buying power through sponsorships and charitable discounts. Every dollar donated equates to about 10 pounds of food for hungry men, women and children.
• Each Kingdom/CoK simply establishes a POC to work with the individual lands to get some things planned/advertised.
  
• Once the event is completed, Kingdom reps post their results so that final metrics can be collected and announced, this lets everyone see the true impact.
• All proceeds/donations are for the local food bank/pantries.
  
• The type/running of each event is up to each land hosting it.
  

Some ideas

• Dollar/Can Food Tournaments
  
• Can Food Drive/Collections
  
• Sell sodas/snacks and donate profits (this is particularly good if you have something already planned that weekend)
  

Prize(s)

Prizes for the Winning Kingdom: Each year, the winning Kingdom will receive a banner featuring their heraldry and recognizing their achievement as the winner of that year's Food Fight. Other prizes may also be included, for example 2010's winner also was the subject of a Song written by Sir Forest.

2011

Executive Committee: GoldCrest, Randall and Iago

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Iago	$544
Emerald Hills	Alby	$161
Celestial Kingdom	Sylvanista	$1753
Golden Plains	Smiley	$3779.20
Iron Mountains	Grix
Golden Vale	Akrith	$175*
Dragonspine	Randall	$3645.07
Wetlands	TBD
Neverwinter	Covina	$111.40
Blackspire	Moonshine	$115
Crystal Groves	Hitorimono	$68
Rising Winds	Thorvald	$446
Desert Winds	Rico	$363.60*
Tal Dagore	Wisp	$814
FH of Golden Plains	Arminius	$758
Total		$12733.27

Food Fight events will be held the entire month of September

• - denotes results posted after the close of the event.

2010

Executive Committee: GoldCrest, Randall and Iago

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Iago	$166
Emerald Hills	Forest	$40
Celestial Kingdom	Sylvanista	$571
Golden Plains	Jeddak	$713
Iron Mountains	Kezgar	$439
Golden Vale	Ce’dar	$0
Dragonspine	Randall	$1043
Wetlands	Greasy	$30
Neverwinter	Covina	$46
Blackspire	Moonshine	$0
Crystal Groves	Wolfen	$0
Rising Winds	Michael	$230
Desert Winds	Loptr	$186
Tal Dagore	??	$130
Total		$3597

Donated items contribute $0.10 towards the total cash raised.

Food Fight weekend was September 18 - 19, 2010.

More information for 2010 can be found on E-Sam: http://www.electricsamurai.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21889

2009

Organizer: GoldCrest

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Iago / Caliana	$250 + 40 items
Emerald Hills	Warlord Sports	$120
Celestial Kingdom	Sylvanista	$597 + 150 items
Golden Plains		0
Iron Mountains	Hannibal	48 items
Golden Vale	Bowen	0
Dragonspine	Annabellee / Azrael-Jade	$396 + 62 items
Wetlands	Corwin	244 items
Neverwinter	Covina	338 items
Blackspire	Tseng	0
Crystal Groves	Angela Mastersinger / Lodan	180 items
Rising Winds	Thorvald	592 items
Desert Winds		0
Total		$1363 + 1654 items

Food Fight weekend was September 19 -20, 2009.

Due to scheduling conflict, Westmarch held a later event, collecting $241.39 and 237 more items