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I was hit with a hefty $200 Dream Host fee to renew our database. I never like to do big sales because I feel like it is a bit unfair to the people who have already bought our stuff, but I really need to put a dent in this cost. All shirts are now only $8 and our hoodie is only $15, all before shipping. If you’d simply like to donate to help us out, our paypal is [email protected]
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What a great event! Best ever? Quite possibly. I cannot thank the community enough for the job they did during our marathon. Promotion, activity, energy, you guys had it all. We are just shy of raising $20,000 for Rocking H Ranch. Right now we stand at $19,700 but you are still able to donate. We thought our goal of $15,000 would be hard to achieve, but just a couple of hours in we knew it was was going to happen. We could not have done it without our great promoters and all of our friends from around the internet who showed up help push us to our goal. A special thanks to Fangamer for their continued support and amazing prize donations. Also, thank you to the indie gaming devs and teams that supplied us with their games for giveaways; Team Meat, Humble Indie Bundle, Super Giant Games and Indie Royale.
I’m going to start work on a retrospective video like I typically do after our big events. Look for it to be posted within the week on our youtube channel. Be sure to sign up to forums if you have not already.
Stay tuned for more news about our upcoming events. We look forward this summer (June) to putting on a great event for ACT Today and also to catching all the Pokemon.
The first 15 people to donate at least $50 get to name Link in one of our playthroughs! You can send in your donations starting now and we will announce via twitter, our website and forums once all 15 slots are filled. The max amount of letters that we want you to use is 6, and if you want a better shot at getting your name in the original NES title, use only 4 characters.
Simply put the name you want in the “comments” part of your donation. If for some reason you are not able to leave a comment, you can email us at [email protected] and let us know what name you would like to use. The game your name will be assigned to will be randomly drawn. However, if you would prefer a specific game, leave a note in your comment or email and if no one else has claimed the game, we will automatically use that name.
As you can see on the front page of TheSpeedGamers.com, local and diana have spiced things up a bit with our donation widget. The donation widget is located on the right hand side about a third down our web page.
This marathon is in support of the Rocking H Ranch’s Charities: Paws for Reflection Ranch, Tara Sawyer Foundation, and Trent’s Retreat Nonprofit Foundation.
Remember you can claim your name starting now!
We will begin our 25th gaming marathon on December 16th starting at 6pm central. My personal favorite franchise The Legend of Zelda will be played for 72 hours around the clock. The event is in support of Rocking H Ranch charities. The charities are Paws for Reflection Ranch, Tara Sawyer Foundation, Trent’s Retreat Nonprofit Foundation. For more information on the charities you can go here: http://www.rockingh.net/Rocking_H_Ranch/Charities.html . You can view the entire marathon from our homepage, www.TheSpeedGamers.com
Our goal will be to raise $15,000 in 72 hours. If we reach our goal by 6pm central on December 19th, we will extend the event by 24 hours. We have raised approximately $290,000 for various causes since our inception in March of 2008.
We have had many great prize donations that will be given away over the course of the marathon. Everything from Master sword/shield and Ocarina replicas to boxed copies of A Link to the Past. I will post a full list of our prizes soon a long with a youtube video detailing the goods.
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