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Revision as of 23:07, 3 October 2011

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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