Goad to be Friendly

On this page, you will find the results of the Goad to be Friendly competition concluded on October 31, 2003 in which clans prove why they are the friendliest. The entire text of the competition is to be found here.

Before announcing the winners we wish to thank all our sponsors that brought you the running commentary and the many people too numerous to mention behind the scenes who helped make this event possible. We wish to acknowledge a special word of thanks to VeggieChess' own kyrontf who designed the custom artwork for the awards as well as to freebsd.org and microsoft.com for providing operating system software as well as to gimp.org (who provided the excellent open-source graphics program The Gimp) and again to microsoft for the propriety software PhotoDraw. Another special thanks goes to Livinglegend for his meaningful statement regarding the Admins Clan. Finally, we wish to recognize the contributions made by Phlabibit whose Chess Lords! are now in alliance with VeggieChess and thank all donors for the special prizes that have been contributed to specific individuals. And now, without further delay, on with the awards ceremonies!

Below are listed all the winners and their award plaques which are suitable for framing, profiling and even avataring. For a full size view of the plaque, just click on it.

Here are the results of the main competition:

Penultimate Winner for his exceptional enthusiasm, tremendous techniques and fantastic friendliness zach918

Acuity for connundering contagious confusion and demonstrating dynamic detection of strategic strikes royalchicken

Participation for straightforward simplicity and convincing clarity timmytoilet

Conciseness for breathtaking brevity orkyboy

Here are the special awards:

Noble Gesture for wonderfully withdrawing from the competition so as not to violate the conflict of insect clause phlabibit

Visonary for the existence of RedHotPawn and the inclusive spirit which brings the world a little closer through chess russ & chrismo

It has been a great event and shows the fine quality of people that we have on RedHotPawn who have demonstrated the highest standards of courtesy and sportspersonship with a little bit of appropriate and skilful goading thrown in. Our thanks to all participants and spectators and of course, a special thanks to donors who are providing some special prizes.