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The Texas e-Sports Association is pleased to announce the 'Play with the Pros' Charity Event. The event will consist of 30 hours of consecutive streaming where we will be joined by a number of well-known pro players and StarCraft personalities. The goal of the event is to have a great time giving the community the rare opportunity to interact with well-known players while raising money for an excellent cause.
Logistics **UPDATED**
Begin: Saturday 8:00pm CST
End: Sunday 11:00pm CST
Stream **UPDATED**: Thanks to iNkA who has kindly allowed us to use his stream!
The stream is now: http://www.twitch.tv/inkasc
The Event
During the event, we will host different players for a few hours at a time. While a player is on the stream, they will participate in a wide variety of activities including:
- 'Play the Pro' matches with stream viewiers (1v1, 2v2, 4v1, FFAs, etc)
- 'Play the Strat' (Stream audience suggests strat to use against stream viewer)
- Team Battles (team battles that pit professional teams against each other)
- 'Mono-Battles with stream viewers
- Custom games with stream viewers (user-made maps)
- Show-matches between players (+ friendly banter in Skype!)
- Interviews using questions from Stream Audience and this thread
Thus far, the following players have confirmed attendance in the event.
- coLFireZerg
- coLRyan
- coLTriMaster
- GoSuPokebuni
- QxGAxel / Axeltoss
- QxGiNkA
- QxGtheognis
- sixjaxViBE
- ThisIsJimmy
- vileState
- vileHawk
In addition, we are anticipating the attendance of 5-10 other players, pending scheduling confirmations. If you are a player that would like to join the cause, please PM me at your earliest convenience! An official schedule will be released on Friday once we have given time for anyone who wishes to join. (Each player's time on the stream will be catered to their game preferences.)
The Charity
Since this is a community-focused event, the community will decide the chairty all revenue will go to! The following poll will be open until the event comes to a conclusion Sunday evening.
- American Red Cross
- Child's Play
- Doctors Without Borders
- Save the Children
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Poll: What charity should proceeds go to?Doctors Without Borders (113) 47% Child's Play (80) 34% St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (22) 9% American Red Cross (12) 5% Susan G. Komen for the Cure (7) 3% Save the Children (4) 2% 238 total votes Your vote: What charity should proceeds go to? (Vote): American Red Cross
(Vote): Child's Play
(Vote): Doctors Without Borders
(Vote): Save the Children
(Vote): St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
(Vote): Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Donations
We encourage donations to any of the above charities. Alternatively, TeSPA is offering organization 2011-2012 T-shirts to anyone with a $20 dollar donation. If you would like a T-shirt, the cost (about $6) of the shirt will come out of the donation, but we will send all proceeds to the winning charity at the conclusion of the event. To make such a donation, visit this link on our website.
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great :D doctors without borders ftw!
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I love it when the community gives back. Will try to tune in when I can!
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Child's Play is one of the favorites around here. I love those guys!
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Last weekend, battling Esports cons; this weekend, battling Esports charity drives.
we are busy buddies, aren't we?
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Another awesome event by TeSPA. I'll most definitely be watching
Keep it up y'all!
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I'll be watching and I'll make sure to donate. What an amazing event. Glad to see such a large portion of people giving back to the community.
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Great thought! I'll donate some if you get a paypal up and going! 
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On August 05 2011 16:49 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:Great thought! I'll donate some if you get a paypal up and going!
Glad to hear it! We have a PayPal donate button set up on our website here if you want to submit your donation through us. There is a 'Donate' button strictly for donations of any amount. In addition, we have a 'Buy' button, where you can donate $20 for one of our organization new T-shirts once they are designed and released. With the 'buy' option, we will subtract the cost for the shirt (about $6) and shipping and donate the rest. The choice is yours! With any donation, you'll get a shout out on stream.
Be sure to submit interview questions for your favorite players using this form.
Thanks for the support!
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I told you Child's Play would win!
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Tell David, (the one who took his picture with Huk) that he is a beautiful human being. <3 Tespa, and can't wait to see the stream! Also, were I able root for State, Hawk, and Firezerg achieving first, I would :D
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Very nice,
To raise the most money you should add some benefits like if you give $50 you can play X games with the pros if you give $100 you can play Y games or something along those lines.
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Sounds really nice, will definitely tune in, Child's play looks like will be receiving the proceeds.
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Doctors without borders, they do good work
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Thanks for the enthusiasm so far everyone! We should have a couple updates later this evening.
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Pretty excited to see this happening, will definitely be watching!
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Holy shit I really need to remember to keep going to these TeSPA meetings back at UT. I went to MLG Dallas 2010 with you guys and since then I've been too busy to really go. 
Being able to sit around and chat with Day9 and djWHEAT for half an hour should have reinvigorated my interest in the game though. 
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Show up to the event and get your desktop modded with a handle on top so that you can easily carry it to the next.
No accessories required. All parts provided. Just show up!
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On August 06 2011 19:43 cannedrice wrote:
Show up to the event and get your desktop modded with a handle on top so that you can easily carry it to the next.
No accessories required. All parts provided. Just show up!
Thanks for this awesome offer!
For reference, we are broadcasting from the University of Texas campus inside the ACA building. Since this is a community-driven event, all are welcome to come say hello or play in the room (for charity!).
Of course, we will be broadcasting the stream for the duration of the marathon online too. We will begin at Saturday 8:00pm CST and run through Sunday 11:00pm CST.
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On August 06 2011 19:43 cannedrice wrote:
Show up to the event and get your desktop modded with a handle on top so that you can easily carry it to the next.
No accessories required. All parts provided. Just show up!
BAH! I wish I were in town. My laptop needs a handle.
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really glad to be part of this : ) looking forward to it!
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The event will be starting in a little over one hour!
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I just got rocked in scbw
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This event is now live
You might get lucky and get to play with some pretty good players!
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Bump this needs to be on front page of TL
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Come on TL admins, this stream should at least be temporarily featured so we can get more viewers to this awesome charity event, pick up the pace.
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On August 07 2011 12:29 Hawk2 wrote:
Come on TL admins, this stream should at least be temporarily featured so we can get more viewers to this awesome charity event, pick up the pace.
Not to mention, we have sixjaxViBE (and vileState) on the stream playing right now, and ViBE's just streaming what he's doing on his featured user stream
so if you're watching ViBE's stream and like what you see, be sure to go check out http://www.twitch.tv/texasesports/ !!
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+ Show Spoiler +On August 07 2011 12:34 KDragon5 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2011 12:29 Hawk2 wrote:
Come on TL admins, this stream should at least be temporarily featured so we can get more viewers to this awesome charity event, pick up the pace. Not to mention, we have sixjaxViBE (and vileState) on the stream playing right now, and ViBE's just streaming what he's doing on his featured user stream so if you're watching ViBE's stream and like what you see, be sure to go check out http://www.twitch.tv/texasesports/ !!
Help the children TL!
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Why are more people not watching this!!! Even if you don't want to watch for whatever reason, just open up the stream and mute it or something. It's for a great cause. I don't know why you wouldn't want to watch it anyway it is a lot of fun!
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Why didn't you get it as an event on TL calendar?
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Apparently it isnt quite big enough / well known enough.
It'll be going on for 20 more hours so there is still time!
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NOOOOO! Childsplay is losing! Vote for it because it was my suggestion .
Edit: Also, its switching over to Inka's stream because he's a boss.
http://www.Justin.tv/inkasc
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On August 07 2011 13:02 Pokebunny wrote:
Why didn't you get it as an event on TL calendar?
I think someone said he tried to.
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On August 07 2011 14:32 marvin. wrote:Show nested quote +On August 07 2011 13:02 Pokebunny wrote:
Why didn't you get it as an event on TL calendar? I think someone said he tried to.
Yeah, we tried and were denied. Still, spread the word! The more viewers we get, the more we raise for an awesome charity!
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This seems sick, hopefully you guys donate to Child's Play. While I like DWB, Child's Play deserves some love as well, I always love donating to them; such a great charity :D.
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How do us not pros get in on the action here
/bump
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On August 07 2011 14:45 sAfuRos wrote:
How do us not pros get in on the action here
/bump
Join channel TeSPA on bnet and listen to instructions via stream
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awesome event so far guys! :D
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This is really cool. Glad I get to watch some of it.
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This event needs to be highlighted, grr
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Just keeping it bumped will be the best we can do And spread the word! gogog
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Gonna be kick ass to see a 4v1lol I don't know why but I'm more excited by that than I am the standard 1v1. lol Good luck to you guys and thanks for hosting such a cool event!
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gogo docters w/o borders :D
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awesome stream!! Keep the viewers coming!!
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come support your favorite charity by tuning in!
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Bumped to support :D
great stream guys, really love it ;P
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One last bump before bed. Hope I didn't drive away too many viewers !
Do it for charity!
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doing great work guys, keep itup!
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Hope you guys are still alive!
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Nearly 24 hours in and still going strong! Thanks to everyone who has been tuning in and donating!
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thanks everyone for running this! was so much fun :D
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Everyone who made this happen is awesome. Even though its over donations are still accepted here.
Everyone involved is awesome. Also, I'm sure the hosts are going to be asleep for 30 hours now :D.
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