I looked in the paper this morning, and the big digital graphics picture drew my eyes. Is that Dota? (I mainly watch Dota, :-o )
No, it is League of Legends
Siv HD recently streamed a donation marathon session and the end result is a million dollar total for Save the Children. The regional paper here, Eindhovens Dagblad picked up on that and wrote a nice article.
Here's the general front page:
The general gist: Siv HD decided to run a marathon donation session inspired by his friend Athene (Belgian streamer). His original goal was 50,000 dollars. While underway in the marathon, he received a live call from the American headquarters of Save the Children, who caught wind of the donation drive. This lead to a renewed enthusiasm from donors, going for a new goal of 100,000 dollars. Meanwhile this happened, the USAID organization promised to match the donations times 9 for a grand total of 1,000,000 dollars.
The paper also mentions the online streaming business and the ability of people to be a professional gamer and streamer.
This marathon was a group effort of about forty streamers total. I am assuming Siv HD is the most known of that bunch thus getting this focus with the resulting success. Edit: The total donation effort totaled up to 1.9 million dollars (according to the online article).
Ironically a big two page piece focused on a new GTA game and the violent games issue. Ending with bringing up the age divide and a helpful last remark stating it is human nature to like these games.
Edit: I've taken down the high res pictures, as it technically is copyrighted... but I'll see what a request gives me.
Oh that's really cool! I tuned in from time to time and was surprised that Siv apparently floated around 60k viewers most of the time, quite impressive. Good to see stuff like this happen - it's pretty astonishing that this USAID organization decided to put such a large chunk of money on top of it, too.
I don't like his stream, but now I love him as a person! Great initiative, and the best of luck to his session donating to a great cause so I'm definitely going to throw some money his way.
On September 14 2013 21:14 FrostRyan wrote: Can someone explain me the multiplier thing they were talking about?
Also his Pokémon videos is just gold.
For every dollar of charity donation that he received from the stream viewers, the USAID organization pledged to give $9. So if he reached the goal of $100,000 from stream donations, USAID would give $900,000.
On September 14 2013 21:20 Jek wrote: I don't like his stream, but now I love him as a person! Great initiative, and the best of luck to his session donating to a great cause so I'm definitely going to throw some money his way.
His "stack brotherhood" stream was the best thing to ever happen to LoL.
EPT
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