1997 TAFF Race

The 1997 TAFF Race was an announced eastbound TAFF race that in the end didn't take place.

In TAFFlon Tudor 2 (November 1996) European administrator Martin Tudor announced:

Dan [Steffan] assures me that the North American fund can afford to send a representative to Intervention, the 1997 British Eastercon, in Liverpool. As this is scheduled to take place over the weekend of the 28th to 31st of March this doesn't allow a great deal of time.

So please get your nominations (three from North America and two from Europe), 100 word platform and bond to Dan Steffan at the address below as soon as possible. Nominations close on 2nd December 1996, voting closes on the 8th February 1997.

The news was repeated in Ansible 112 (November 1996) but 113½ (December 1996) updated that:

Dan Steffan, NA administrator of the TransAtlantic Fan Fund, announces that there will be no 1997 TAFF race to the UK Eastercon (Intervention, which had arranged a free room and membership for the TAFF delegate). Luke McGuff had been the only candidate to get in his nominations and other paperwork; another fan, Ian Hagemann, offered to stand in order to ensure there would be a race ... but seems to have been rapidly talked out of it, before the 2 Dec nominations deadline. Many fans who worked hard to restore TAFF's fortunes in the wake of the recent UK disaster feel let down by this cancellation. Nor is there any suggestion of when the next eastward trip might be. Can TAFF catch up by running two races in 1998?

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