User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Featured Story Acceptance Speech: The Great Quest Completed/@comment-1441098-20110606191635/@comment-1874924-20110607014725

As an adjective, "staunch" basically means "steadfast" or "loyal". As for TDI-G&S finally winning, the lesson here, as I noted above in different words, is that if you think you have a Feature-worthy story, keep nominating it, because you never know when the stars will align; and in the meantime, every month you have to re-nominate it is another month that it will have exposure on a high-traffic page.