Sorry to hear that you had to give this up Randy. What a great, great job you folks did on this.
It's a sign of how important the Freddies have become that Travel Industry Loyalty programs these days regularly brag about the awards they receive. And attending the cermony - what fun, and an opportunity to meet some of the industry folks is a real treat. I hope and believe the community can come up with a way to keep these awards going (it may have to go under a different name and we'll have to find a way to pool sufficient resources to keep such awards and a ceremony going - believe me, it is a really significant amount of work to do this).
In the interim, maybe we can come up with an online voting system to at least have an online announcement of some awards in 2010?