I may have talked a little about this in the past, but I have decided that I am going to participate in the Extra-Life charity event.
For direct information on it, you can click here.
Extra-Life (EL) is a charity event that was started in 2008. The Sarcastic Gamer Community helped a young lady named Victoria Enmon in her fight against Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by sending her video games and gifts to help her with her stay in the hospital. She tragically died in January 2008. The Sarcastic Gamer Community however decided to put on a 24 hour gaming marathon that would raise money for the Children's Miracle Network hospital Victoria was at. Over 2 years they raised $302,000 with all of the money going to the hospital.
-all of this information, and more is found here
EL last year raised ~2.2 million dollars to help the Children's Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals. Thats an amazing amount.
I heard about this event the day it happened last year, and said I would take part. Here in Savannah, GA we have the Backus Children's Hospital which is the only one within a very large area. I am currently working on getting more firm details about Backus Children's, however I know only what I have experienced by growing up in this community, and working for Memorial University Medical Center which is what Backus is affiliated with.
This is an amazing center that we are very fortunate to have in this community. Thousands of children every year are better because of Backus Children's Hospital, and hundreds of thousands at least for the entire CMN community. Finding out how I can give to this wonderful cause filled me with so much excitement. Cue sentiment.
So the question is how does this work?
Its simple. On November 2, 2013 I will be participating in a 24 hour gaming marathon. Starting at 8am and going until 8am on November 3, I will play games nonstop. Everything on my PC I will be able to livestream at my site. I am going to work on getting the needed supplies to try and livestream my stuff on the Wii and PS3. Anything handheld though will be problematic. I know there are ways out there to broadcast it, but I don't know if I want to get the supplies for that since I haven't done too much livestreaming lately. I know I would do a lot more if I could hook my consoles up, but my handhelds I usually play on the couch or just resting somewhere. Even on the road. That will just complicate matters for me. I hate complication.
So I am going to play games for 24 hours. Great. Now here is where you all come in. You can donate money to my cause @ my extra-life fundraising page. I have a message up for all those interested and will work on updating it more and more as time goes on. To donate, just click on the SUPPORT ME! button. You can pledge as much or as little money as you want. Extra-life has this thing where you can say to pledge $24, which works out to be $1 per hour that I play. Do however you want. My goal is $2000 and I am going to work my butt off to get that. These kids deserve all the money that I can raise for them. I am going to toss my own money into this as well to help things along too.
Oh, and your entire donation is tax-deductible. Thats good for all you line item tax return people.
I will be adding a link to the site so you can always go to the page and donate without having to find this particular blog post.
So please join with me to help raise money to fight the evil villains that attack children: sickness, disease, cancer. All of it. Cause I will be damned if things will get worse for them on my watch.
Its time to stand up, put your credits in, and help make sure that all kids get to hit continue cause we got them extra lives.
This is an amazing center that we are very fortunate to have in this community. Thousands of children every year are better because of Backus Children's Hospital, and hundreds of thousands at least for the entire CMN community. Finding out how I can give to this wonderful cause filled me with so much excitement. Cue sentiment.
So the question is how does this work?
Its simple. On November 2, 2013 I will be participating in a 24 hour gaming marathon. Starting at 8am and going until 8am on November 3, I will play games nonstop. Everything on my PC I will be able to livestream at my site. I am going to work on getting the needed supplies to try and livestream my stuff on the Wii and PS3. Anything handheld though will be problematic. I know there are ways out there to broadcast it, but I don't know if I want to get the supplies for that since I haven't done too much livestreaming lately. I know I would do a lot more if I could hook my consoles up, but my handhelds I usually play on the couch or just resting somewhere. Even on the road. That will just complicate matters for me. I hate complication.
So I am going to play games for 24 hours. Great. Now here is where you all come in. You can donate money to my cause @ my extra-life fundraising page. I have a message up for all those interested and will work on updating it more and more as time goes on. To donate, just click on the SUPPORT ME! button. You can pledge as much or as little money as you want. Extra-life has this thing where you can say to pledge $24, which works out to be $1 per hour that I play. Do however you want. My goal is $2000 and I am going to work my butt off to get that. These kids deserve all the money that I can raise for them. I am going to toss my own money into this as well to help things along too.
Oh, and your entire donation is tax-deductible. Thats good for all you line item tax return people.
I will be adding a link to the site so you can always go to the page and donate without having to find this particular blog post.
So please join with me to help raise money to fight the evil villains that attack children: sickness, disease, cancer. All of it. Cause I will be damned if things will get worse for them on my watch.
Its time to stand up, put your credits in, and help make sure that all kids get to hit continue cause we got them extra lives.
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