Oh, and at the risk of submarining my own chances, maybe (since FT is bankrolling a good-sized chunk of this shindig) one significant factor in choosing the two team members ought to be:
length-of-membership in FlyerTalk itself, or
number of posts, or
having been a member of a TalkBoard?

And, at the risk of discriminating based on net worth...
Since we seem to be about $9500 short of our $20K goal at the moment, maybe we should consider auctioning the spots -- once we narrow the field to a manageable list of genuine possibilities, we could begin the bidding at, say, $1000...and work our way up from there?
j.