GUFF is the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund or the Going Under Fan Fund, depending on which way you're going.
Damien Warman and Juliette Woods win 2005 GUFF race
Damien and Juliette convincingly won the race to send an Australasian fan to Interaction, the 63rd Worldcon, in Glasgow, Scotland, 4-8 August 2005.
Votes counted in the U.K.
31 votes total:
29 paper, 2 electronic
1 Australian, 1 USA, 29 UK
First place votes
4 Sue Ann Barber
2 Alison Barton
3 David Cake
19 Damien & Juliette
3 No preference
Votes counted in Australia
36 votes total:
19 paper, 17 electronic
21 Australian, 7 UK, 6 USA, 1 Canada, 1 Fiji
First place votes:
4 Sue Ann Barber
5 Alison Barton
5 David Cake
18 Damien & Juliette
4 No Preference
Total first place votes: 67
37 Damien Warman and Juliette Wood
8 Sue Ann Barber
7 Alison Barton
8 David Cake
Thus Damien and Juliette had a simple majority of all votes cast, and no further distribution of votes was required. List of voters is here.
About GUFF
GUFF assists fans from Europe and Australasia to form closer links, by providing funds for well-known fans from one part of the world to attend a major science fiction convention in the other.
The GUFF winners are selected by popular vote amongst fans, after a nomination process. Winners are required to attend a specified convention in the host country, and become administrators until the next winner from their area takes over.
Although GUFF is often thought of as being for residents of Australia and the UK, people from other European countries and New Zealand are eligible to nominate and be candidates.
GUFF winners are expected (but not required) to travel as widely as they can in the host area, meeting as many fans as possible, but purely personal sight-seeing costs are not covered by the Fund.
Winners are also expected to report on their trip in fanzines and by producing a trip report in some form.
GUFF, like the other fan funds, is supported by donations from fans. We have provided several ways for you to donate. Please support GUFF generously.
Jean and Eric's GUFF 2001 trip report
The first draft of our trip report is available here as web pages; see links to right (or below, if your browser doesn't support CSS positioning properly). The final version of our trip report appeared in mid February 2002, as a printed 54 page fanzine with a colour cover; a PDF version is also available. See the Trip Report page.
