Amtgard Food Fight

Event Dates

Since 2011, Amtgard Food Fight has expanded to include the entire month of 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. Their interest and support started the spread into other Kingdoms. Dame Sylvanista of the Celestial Kingdom was the first to use Amtgard Food Fight in her description of the event in her Kingdom’s newsletter. It quickly stuck as the name for the growing effort. Lands continue to join the effort each year and we hope to celebrate 100% participation by the Kingdoms very soon.

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.
  
• Since its inception we are proud to say that lands participating in Amtgard Food Fight have raised over $44,800 in support of their local food banks and pantries.

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)
  
• Auctions
• Special battlegames
• Dunk tank

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.

How is the winner determined?

We would prefer it to not be based solely off of money; however basing it off the buying power seems most appropriate for helping the various organizations succeed/getting the help where it’s needed most. Through various sponsorships and donations the buying power of the organizations is significantly stronger that ours as individuals.

For every dollar ($1) raised, it equates to approx. $13 dollars in buying power through sponsorships and charitable discounts already in place supporting many of the charities we will raise donations for. The tally is based on that buying power. So, each canned food/item is awarded a 10 cent credit.

This year we are also attempting to account for volunteerism. To do so, we have established the following guidelines.

• $$$$ = Actual amount raised
• Food donations = .10 raised/item
• Volunteer time = $5/hour and cap of 250/hours per kingdom AND cannot exceed their total raised in cans+cash (Volunteer time must be spent in direct support of the food charity.)

An item/effort can only count once. Ex. Working to raise money and donations, only the donations count and not the time spent. In keeping with the mission and intent of the Amtgard Food Fight, groups are encouraged to hold activities at the local level/parks and not base their contributions solely on the larger events. While this is often easier (often may prove more profitable) the relationships built in the local community through a grass roots program of local support are often just as vital.

2015

Executive Committee: GoldCrest, Randall, Grix, Francis and KatnChains

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Leanda Belbanes/Maeve	$
Emerald Hills	Amethyst Panther	$
Celestial Kingdom	Julianna Archanna	$
Golden Plains	Tako	$
Iron Mountains	Vardos Puddingbait	$
Golden Vale	Promethea/Stephiroth	$
Dragonspine	Lila von Weiss	$
Wetlands	Harold B. Thundervoice	$
Neverwinter	Ravenos Kinslayer	$
Blackspire	LadyZearah Raven	$
Crystal Groves	Uni/Sir Shiva	$
Rising Winds	Raphael	$
Desert Winds	Scrye	$
Tal Dagore	Leeda Li	$
Northern Lights		$
Westmarch	Amazonprincess Tina	$
Total

2014

Executive Committee: GoldCrest, Randall, Grix and Sylvanista

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Artemis of Burning Lands	$22,641
Emerald Hills	Angelica Kraushaar	$3,766
Celestial Kingdom	Renjara End 'OH	$2,582
Golden Plains	Kismet Fyrechyld	$2,489
Iron Mountains	[Ormar Svensson]	$1,450
Golden Vale	Promethea & Stephiroth	$857
Dragonspine	Azrael-Jade	$3,934
Wetlands	Jiffee Mourningwood	$2,741
Neverwinter	Newlok tree	$4,644
Blackspire	Pungkow	$489
Crystal Groves	Pheonix	$825
Rising Winds	Southside	$332
Desert Winds	Loup	$1,286
Tal Dagore	Poobah	$6,775
Northern Lights	Dezmon Mainland	$1,404
Westmarch	Kat NChains	$71,527
Total		$127,742

2013

Executive Committee: GoldCrest, Randall, Iago, Grix and Sylvanista
Food Czar: Francis (runs the Feast at Clan)

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Artemis	$1,462
Emerald Hills	TBD	$0
Celestial Kingdom	Blackwolf Wyngarde	$3,079
Golden Plains	Renity	$5,158
Iron Mountains	Little Bird	$177
Golden Vale	Tokwan Vaunt	$120
Dragonspine	Lila von Weiss	$7,146
Wetlands	Kittah Rahbet	$339
Neverwinter	Cody Blakstar	$4,546
Blackspire	Mavoreen	$241
Crystal Groves	Pheonix	$863
Rising Winds	Lady Jet	$6,529
Desert Winds	Nidalap	$1,113
Tal Dagore	Gafiltafish	$2,134
Northern Lights	Dolphina	$3,333
Westmarch	Tamara	$18,464
Total		$54,704

2013 banner is being made by Azrael-Jade
Warlord Sports donated an additional $250.

2012

Executive Committee: GoldCrest, Randall and Iago

Kingdom	Representative	Amount Raised
Burning Lands	Artemis and Arminius	$1700
Emerald Hills	Dailin	$88.80
Celestial Kingdom	Sylvanista	$2015.05
Golden Plains	Renity	$3455.97
Iron Mountains	Cio Cio and Rafeki	$2296
Golden Vale	Jace Lanes	$250.85
Dragonspine	Randall	$3010
Wetlands	Ascolis	$5
Neverwinter	Squire	$72.70
Blackspire	Moonshine	$695.75
Crystal Groves	Phoenix	$1002.64
Rising Winds	Wat	$830
Desert Winds	Matthias	$2402.55
Tal Dagore	Wisp	$2200
Northern Lights	Dolphina	$7000
Total		$27,025.31

2012 banner was made by

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.

2011 banner was made by

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
2010 banner was made by

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

2009 banner was made by Shelai