Glad to see this back in the buzz of FlyerTalkers. Here's the deal. I'm willing to put up $10,000 to get this going to create a two-person team representing FlyerTalk. Among the manynames suggested to me in addition to those volunteers are chexfan, PremEx, Vulcan, QuantumLeap, and Burkey.

I'm thinking of running this pastthe Talkboard on input of how to choose the Team FlyerTalk and also how to rasie the matching $10,000 which I don't think will be all that difficult even with the plan by beaubo though I'm willing to kickoff the fundraising of the other money by donating another $100.

While I'd jump at this in a second I'm very comfortable knowing that some of the best travelers in the world are on FlyerTalk and will put my support behind the team. There is little doubt of the ways we could leverage the knowledge this board has to finish well.

I would love to see thread stay active with support, comments and the formation of a real committee to put this all together. It's fun we can actually all share in..

Again, I'm in for $10,000 corporate sponsorship and another $100 in personal contribution toward funding Team FlyerTalk. We need team leaders and a rational and fair way to select the team.