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Sounds like you know what's up.
On March 16 2011 01:16 Aphasie wrote:
3. You set up a paypal account to which watchers of the stream can donate. This can work pretty well. Diggity raised (i think) about 2k for children back in the Brood war days. The community is 10 or 20 times the size it was then. The donations will come. Most people can afford to chip in at least 10 USD.
The NPO just made a trust fund account here in Vancouver. If we agree to donate to the clinic, I can set up a PayPal account -- which I'll be doing anyway for fundraising campaigns that the other volunteers are running.
5. You pick one leader to organize the whole event. A person whos willing to put in the effort and has integrity, so preferably a well know and long standing TL member (Wouldn't want anyone to run off with the money).
I've definitely got time for the next few months, though obviously I'm not very well-known here. I'm up for playing an active role either way.
6. You set a date and time that will enable most people to participate and watch from BOTH EU and NA. (For instance would be running it right before TSL matches be silly)
This would all happen via ustream/Skype/etc, right?
7. Once you have cleared the players (pros) and shown this is a really good set up, you go for corporate sponsorship. Look at all the money put in in these types of tours already. For instance, i couldnt imagine Blizz not contributing when the people of their gaming community makes such an effort for relief.
That would seem to be the hard part. I work for a Japanese community magazine in Vancouver so I know how corporate sponsorships work, but my connections are mostly local businesses...
I guess the TL people would probably have some contacts.
64 pros sounds like a lot, but it seems easier than an open tournament.
Thanks for the advice!
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i think the idea of concentration (limited) manpower in 1 bigger tournament will profit most.
- Presumably more prize money -> better players/casters
- Less effort to organize
- Hopefully more interest -> more donations
- Less time taken / less collisions with other events
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I dont think tourneys on a national level takes anything away from an international one. Its just more chances to raise money. I do however think that the big money is in an international one, especially because of the "donation race" and corporate sponsorship. That where the most publicity and prestige will reach the most people and most money will be raised. But if people organize on a national level and pool earnings with the big tour it would be super awesome. It would make the publicity impact of sc2 larger (thus also helping our community) and i also think the money corporations put forward is proportionate to money raised by private donators.
Also you could enter the winner of the national tour into the international tour.
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By the way if anyone wants to get in contact with me, I'm on MSN under the hotmail.com address ragingrei. Should be a bit more convenient than PMs. I think you can find me on Skype under the same address too. (Don't mind my username.)
Also, I'm in the process of translating more information about the doc. Will upload some videos documenting his work on YouTube too.
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i think a series of showmatches would be cool to do. we could get some good players on board and have guest casters like day9 or chill and have some big matches. and have the proceeds from the commercials (if on justintv) go directly to the red cross or another charity.
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That's awesome. I think it'll be useful for a 64 player tournament too.
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This is a great idea to get the TL/SC2 community involved. Since Friday I haven't been able to get my mind off what's going on in Japan after been living there for almost a year and having a lot of friends in Japan. It's so frustrating to not be able to do something about the situation over there.
However as much as I'd like to help you out with this I don't believe I have enough knowledge or contacts to make this happen. Unfortunately you seem to be in the same boat. I'd love to help out with as much as I'm capable of but I really believe you should try reach out to the bigger casting crews at TL like iCCup, GLHF and RageQuit for example. If you can just get any of them involved in this I'm sure they will be able to take care of a lot.
By the way, you don't have to run a tournament. I remember last year when iCCup did some marathon king of the hill kind of event where they were raising money to cancer or some other disease which was a huge success. Basically you just need something that people will be willing to watch and then you will be able to get those donations with good casters working hard to get it.
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awesome thread and great ideas so far! =)
if there is a esports community that can pull sth like this off, its this one. therefore we need to trust in it and dont be all that pessimistic about the organisation:
as Aphasie already said, there are many pros playing for almost nothing (like go4sc2 cups)
->a 32-player cup should be possible. 16 would still be great
->reserving first round slots for major donators is a nice gimmick
to pull that off its important to get experienced casters and cup-orgas like esl,tl,...in eu and na who
->contact player and sponsors
->know how to make this an "event"
atm the awarness is pretty high, so the tourney needs to be soon. to help that one, well-known repressentative would be essential.
some additional ideas:
-sponsors add a fixed amount to every donation by viewers (like 50cent for every $/€ donated)
-get some story between games
-having the cup instead of another well known cup, set up by the sponsor of the usual cup
-get as many caster in as many countries as posible
-if we dont get support from big organisations like esl, its not the end. there are many (not that well known) casters who are doing a great job (special endrey, khaldor, husky,homerj...) still couldnt imagine day9 not wanting to cast a match^^
to contribute somehow, im going to make some esl caster aware of this thread right now =)
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So there's a few things that need to be done right now:
-Trying to get in touch with some of the TL people; it's not working too well so far for whatever reason. It could be that they're skeptical/cautious, but I don't want to speculate much further.
-I need to translate more information about the NPO, the doc and the clinic. Some people are still feeling like they don't know enough, which is perfectly understandable. I think I have enough convincing information (including videos) to make people feel safe about donating. If that utterly fails, we could always go back to the Red Cross -- but it probably wouldn't be as satisfying, and the Red Cross likely won't deal much with recovery efforts on an individual level once the victims' survival is more or less ensured. Those who've lost insurance coverage are bound to go under the radar once the dust settles.
Once we get more experienced people on board, we can start solidifying some of the ideas we've had so far.
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On March 16 2011 15:10 dump wrote:
So there's a few things that need to be done right now:
-Trying to get in touch with some of the TL people; it's not working too well so far for whatever reason. It could be that they're skeptical/cautious, but I don't want to speculate much further.
-I need to translate more information about the NPO, the doc and the clinic. Some people are still feeling like they don't know enough, which is perfectly understandable. I think I have enough convincing information (including videos) to make people feel safe about donating. If that utterly fails, we could always go back to the Red Cross -- but it probably wouldn't be as satisfying, and the Red Cross likely won't deal much with recovery efforts on an individual level once the victims' survival is more or less ensured. Those who've lost insurance coverage are bound to go under the radar once the dust settles.
Once we get more experienced people on board, we can start solidifying some of the ideas we've had so far.
Thats why TL should get involved. To hold the money even, so people feels more 'secured'(not saying i don't trust you, i do. :-)). I don't think Red Cross is the best idea if you know a doctor/hospital in Japan who could use the money as you said. Your points are good in this case. But of course anything is better than nothing, dont understand me wrong! Have you tried TL irc already? There's usually punch of staff hanging around.
People needs to remember that Day9, Husky etc are doing TSL so they are most likely busy the next couple of weeks.
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On March 16 2011 15:40 Grettin wrote:Have you tried TL irc already? There's usually punch of staff hanging around.
Been lurking there all day, but man it's so noisy in there with 1000+ people.
People needs to remember that Day9, Husky etc are doing TSL so they are most likely busy the next couple of weeks.
Aw damn that's right, too bad 
On March 16 2011 15:40 Grettin wrote:
Thats why TL should get involved. To hold the money even, so people feels more 'secured'
Yeah, if there's anything in specific I'd want the TL people to do it'd be to escrow and to maybe get us in touch with some more people who'd be willing to play/cast/organize...
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Okay, we started up a website yesterday:
http://www.stage-earth.ca/
We're still in the process of adding content (especially photos and earthquake information), but if there's any information that you think should be there, please let me know.
Still no word from anyone else in the community...
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I know he's not as well known as the others, but maybe you could ask AskJoshy to cast it?
http://www.youtube.com/user/AskJoshy
edit - by the way, that website tears me up. I'm not much help but in the way of some money I can spare. I would love to see a tournament. I'm going to donate when I get home, and I will donate again should this fundraiser happen.
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On March 19 2011 05:37 littlewisp wrote:I know he's not as well known as the others, but maybe you could ask AskJoshy to cast it? http://www.youtube.com/user/AskJoshyedit - by the way, that website tears me up. I'm not much help but in the way of some money I can spare. I would love to see a tournament. I'm going to donate when I get home, and I will donate again should this fundraiser happen.
Thanks, that might work too. It's going to be impossible to start anything until we have a fair number of prominent people on board...
I just realized I need to add a blurb about where that donate button takes the money.
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Oh also when you click 'hi from the disaster scene' it will not link to anything.
And are you going to post any info about the SC2 tourney idea? I was confused at first, I thought it was a totally unrelated site you mistakenly posted. Very lovely though.
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On March 19 2011 07:00 littlewisp wrote:
Oh also when you click 'hi from the disaster scene' it will not link to anything.
And are you going to post any info about the SC2 tourney idea? I was confused at first, I thought it was a totally unrelated site you mistakenly posted. Very lovely though.
Oh that's weird. I'm just using the standard WordPress template right now. I'll see if I can figure out how to change it to link to the post. Not much of a design guru.
And yeah, we're going to start posting information about the various fundraising projects we've got going -- though right now those blog posts by the doc are extremely powerful, and unfortunately we don't have much of a tournament to talk of just yet...
At the moment what we need is a way to get more prominent people involved.
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I linked this thread to MMO champ and once I get my next break I'll also link it to the escapist. Don't really know what else to do to help. :/
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On March 19 2011 07:10 littlewisp wrote:
I linked this thread to MMO champ and once I get my next break I'll also link it to the escapist. Don't really know what else to do to help. :/
Thanks a lot for all that.
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I would also add a link across the top to a short blurb about the Tohoku International Clinic itself -- its staff, its other doctors, stuff its been involved with helping (not just what the Dr has done) etc.
edit - and link to the Blizz SC2 forums, if you haven't already.
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