After leading the NAF since 2007 Lycos is stepping away from his position as President. Lycos was successful in three election campaigns with varying degrees of suspense and competitiveness to become the longest tenured President in NAF history. This time around we have the absolute certainty of a change at the head of our global Blood Bowl players society. Lycos has given greatly of his time in his role and has personally assisted on numerous issues that were important to NAF Canada. Not only has he headed the NAF organization but he also has managed to attend an average of 15.7 tournaments a year for the last decade. These numbers are almost inconceivable here in Canada and North America. If we look just at 2011, Lycos attended 26 ranked events, that is a tournament every other weekend for a whole year, that is a very serious commitment! While some might say, "Seriously? He should be committed!" I applaud the sheer presence in our Blood Bowl community such attendance creates.
This brings us to this election cycle. We have a wide field of candidates with 5 members being nominated, seconded and accepting their nominations. These people are, with links to their coach pages:
Beppe
Italy
Kilowog1
USA
MrHannah
UK
Sann0638
UK
Podfrey
UK
The election timeline (we are midway through right now):
-Nov 10th nominations open
-Nov 24th nominations end, Q&A begins
-Dec 15th election opens Q&A will continue
-Jan 5th election ends
The Q&A is underway and the debate is heating up here in the sticky announcements section on thenaf.net. I will keep up to date on the discussions and may share some of my thoughts, here or more possibly on my own blog so it doesn't sound like an official NAF Canada position.....
I would encourage all Canadian NAF members, and those in North American to read and participate in the discussion around the election as if you don't speak (write) you won't be heard (read)!
JTB
