^ While I didn't register because I knew I couldn't go, I appreciate Randy going to the effort of offering such a neat gift to the FT Community. Randy's generosity in general and specifically to the FT community is well known and has been personally experienced by many many FT'ers. This is another one of his gestures of appreciation and acknowledgement to FT and what its grown to become.

This questioning of the integrity of Randy and the process is often stomach turning - the invite to enter stated that the "winners" would be selected. They were - end of story - who cares if it was a random number generator, one of the HOM folks picking a paper from a hat or whatever process Randy chose to utilize. This was his gift to the community and clearly up to his discretion on how to distribute it.

Congrats to those that are going, bummer for those that wanted to but are not.