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(wasn't sure which forum it belonged in or if it even belonged in a forum at all so I'm blogging it for now)
Starcraft 2’s beta is going strong and with many fun tournaments, events, and streams we have seen that the Starcraft community is huge and strong. That being said, I want to try and bring some good.
I am doing a 24-hour streamed Starcraft 2 marathon from Midnight EST on April 24th, to Midnight on April 25th to raise money for Amnesty International, a NGO dedicated to protecting human rights around the world. The event will be myself streaming mostly 1v1 ladder games for a full 24 hours breaking only for food and washrooms etc. I am also going to get a few notable people to show up and talk to the audience, maybe even play a few games for the good people and generally put on a fun show. I have no confirmations yet, but a handful of prominent people have said they would be willing to come out.
When they aren’t on, I will be playing and talking to the audience, and generally having a good time.
I will have a chat with Amnesty tomorrow regarding setting up a chip-in, but for now you can still donate here.
If you are at all interested in helping out with the show by entertaining, moderating the chat room, sitting in to give me a second voice to talk with between guests shoot me an email at elitistpodcast@gmail.com or PM me on Team Liquid.
Let’s do some good.
 
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Calgary25977 Posts
I'm not really seeing how this raises money. Good luck though. It also probably would have been better to do the stuff you're planning on doing first, instead of making a post saying you're planning on doing it.
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I guess the word plan was a bad choice. The date is set and there are a lot of people interested in doing it, I'm just not comfortable confirming anyone until we get closer to the day of and they can tell me 100% whether or not they can make it.
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On April 14 2010 01:26 Chill wrote:
I'm not really seeing how this raises money. Good luck though. It also probably would have been better to do the stuff you're planning on doing first, instead of making a post saying you're planning on doing it.
It raises awareness about the organization. How does any charity event raise money?
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By planning on doing it I meant that barring a fatal heart attack or something unforseen it will happen. The indecicive sounding language is just because I'm a science undergrad IRL and you can't say thing are definite in that realm. >_>
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Maybe Chill means to say what part of some fat dude playing video games alone in his room is supposed to inspire people to donate to charity
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cool, next time you try to do something nice let me know.
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Calgary25977 Posts
On April 14 2010 02:09 TheElitists wrote:
cool, next time you try to do something nice I'll try to shit all over it too.
Dude, there is a fucking huge disconnect between doing something nice and doing what you always do.
This is "me playing video games like I always do but now it's for charity." Explain to me how that works.
Edit: To be clear, charity drives work by either raising awareness or showing people examples of leadership that they should emulate.
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plus amnesty international is a shitty organization =(. toooo political. by investing your charitable efforts in them you're restricting the contributors you bring in to leftists and the ignorant.
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8748 Posts
This isn't raising awareness? It's like a cyclist who cycles across a continent to raise awareness. Yeah, you know he cycles all the time anyway. But he's doing it in a special way (across the continent, or in this case, gaming for 24 hours straight) and he's getting coverage.
I think it just loses its appeal and doesn't seem as special because we have people constantly streaming shit anyway.
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I think delivering substantial "content" onto the table first before offering people the option to donate would be more feasible (take the Day[9] Daily as an example of substantial content).
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well there's going to be much more than just me playing games, if anything that's just something to do if nothing else is available at the moment which will likely happen in a course of 24 hours but there's more.
I have gotten some interesting interviews done over the last few months of some prominent people in the community and I'm going to try and get some great interviews to entertain the viewers during the event. I have also worked out some time with a bunch of Team EG members who are going to get us to obs some matches against some of the US's best SC2 players. There's personalities like Diggity and Day[9] that have said they'd be interested in coming on at some point to help out. Other commentators like Rise and Husky have said they are going to see if they can come out for the event and I still have people to message. Also someone from Amnesty may be coming on to talk about the organization as well.
I'm actually hoping that over the 24 hour show we will have much more than just my fail starcraft playing.
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Everyone does what they can. I am not big on charities but at least you are trying to do something with SC2. Good luck and hope your event goes well.
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Just a suggestion. Try doing something unique that would appeal the general audience. That way, you would have more chances on receiving donations. Everyone's been doing interviews, livestreams, commentaries, etc. already.
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Melbourne5338 Posts
On April 14 2010 01:33 TheElitists wrote:
I guess the word plan was a bad choice. The date is set and there are a lot of people interested in doing it, I'm just not comfortable confirming anyone until we get closer to the day of and they can tell me 100% whether or not they can make it.
I think you could've at least waited until you confirmed the charity and obtained their approval and support. While I'm sure charities welcome your efforts and any donations, I would assume they would prefer the opportunity to research about things before you attach their names to it.
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Canada9720 Posts
it's nice that you want people to donate to amnesty international. but your approach is a little silly. you may as well just have written a blog with the text "hey guys, amnesty international is cool. you should donate to it".
like floor plan said, you sitting around "doing stuff", enacting some vague plan of maybe playing sc2 for a day straight and maybe interviewing a few people is just... well it's kinda stupid.
your heart's in the right place, tho, bud.
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how are u going to be making money streaming for 24 hrs?
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If this is something he feels good about doing then whats wrong with it, sure he could've used more of his time to plan an even greater event but hey, isn't this far better than just doing the 24h burst for himself? Its comparable to charity concerts where the people are encouraged to donate while listening/watching, in a bit smaller scale.
Good luck
edit: Just an idea, but if there's some hardcore mass gamer you could do a very special marathon for charity by playing until a certain amount of money has been donated. It'd be awesome in quite a few ways. =)
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to be honest i'm stunned at the replies in this thread. especially from everyone downplaying the guy's effort. tbh none of the common ways to raise $$ for charities make sense if you think about it. how is walking for charity any different than this? "i'm walking like i always do but now it's for charity". it still raises awareness so it can't hurt. hell, i've never heard of amnesty intl before this, so we're already moving forward. pop in a little special icon & title, say "Hour 4 of 24 -- SC2 Amnesty Stream" people will read it and go "whoa why is this guy streaming for 24hrs straight" click & learn about amnesty intl and maybe even donate.
good luck man =)
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On April 14 2010 03:57 Puosu wrote:
If this is something he feels good about doing then whats wrong with it, sure he could've used more of his time to plan an even greater event but hey, isn't this far better than just doing the 24h burst for himself? Its comparable to charity concerts where the people are encouraged to donate while listening/watching, in a bit smaller scale.
Good luck
edit: Just an idea, but if there's some hardcore mass gamer you could do a very special marathon for charity by playing until a certain amount of money has been donated. It'd be awesome in quite a few ways. =)
Nothing wrong with it, it's just likely to generate an equal proportion of donations to the amount of effort put in/required to hold such an event.
Maybe the world would be a slightly better place if we all occasionally raised an approximate $30-65 for our 24 hour gaming sessions for the red cross. But it would be significantly better if we all took the time to participate in the countless "walk for thingthatkillsyou" events, but walking is like, tiring.
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