GUFF was created as The Get Up-and-over Fan Fund in 1978, to complete the triangle whose existing sides were TAFF (the TransAtlantic Fan Fund, which sends sf fans between Europe and North America) and DUFF (Down Under Fan Fund, running between North America and Australia). Of necessity, the name changes to Going Under Fan Fund for southbound trips. (See ballot for more.)
GUFF Archive
- All the Past GUFF Races
- Latest Race Update
- GUFF Home (Australia)
- Australian Fan Funds Page by Irwin Hirsh -- highly detailed
Current Administrators - Europe: Ang Rosin -- ang dot rosin at gmail dot com
- Australasia: Damien Warman and Juliette Woods, 173 Portrush Road, Maylands SA 5069, Australia -- dmw at pobox dot com, juliette at pobox dotcom
Additional - The Northern Guffblower 5 ... August 1979 newsletter, with Chris Priest on GUFF's founding and its first winner
- Stranger in Stranger Lands: John Foyster's 1979 Trip Report (print edition 1996; second edition on line)
- Eric Lindsay's and Jean Weber's 2001 Trip Report
Announcements
September 2008 GUFF race announced, from Australasia to the 2009 UK Eastercon.
18 April 2007 Ang Rosin wins the 2007 GUFF race and will travel to the Australian National Convention in Melbourne: Convergence 2, 8-11 June 2007.
30 March 2007 At last, the 2007 GUFF race announcement and PDF ballot. The latter gives the voting deadline as 16 April 2007. Is this the shortest campaigning time ever to be allotted by a major fan fund?
January 2007 Damien Warman writes: "GUFF 2007 will convey a European fan or fans to Convergence 2, the 2007 Australian natcon. A bond of £10 or €15 together with the names of three European and two Australasian nominators is to be sent to either Pat McMurray (pcmcmurray at yahoo co uk) or Damien Warman (dmw at pobox com). Contact Pat or Damien for more information. Ballot to be available mid-February."
May 2005 Damien Warman and Juliette Woods are the 2005 GUFF winners.
Past GUFF Ballots
- 2007 GUFF Ballot
- 2005 GUFF Ballot
- 2004 GUFF Ballot
- 2000 GUFF Ballot
- 1999 GUFF Ballot
- 1995 GUFF Ballot
- 1984 GUFF Ballot
- 1979 GUFF Ballot -- the first!
- Candidates and Platforms from other ballots not archived in full