As we announced earlier this month, Steve Wiebe will be participating in our Mario Marathon for ACT Today June 11-18th.

In case you are not familiar with Mr. Wiebe, here’s his bio taken from his website:

“Steve Wiebe was born on January 3, 1969 in Seattle, Washington to Ryan and Sandy Wiebe.  He was raised in Bellevue, Washington and has a brother, Ryan Wiebe, and sister, Cathy Lowell.  Steve graduated in 1987 from Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington, where he played basketball and pitched on the school baseball team.  Steve also played drums in the school symphonic and jazz bands.

Steve graduated from the University of Washington in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.  Steve worked as a testing and analysis engineer at The Boeing Company from 1996 to 1999 and then worked as a software testing engineer at BSquare from 1999 to 2001.  In 2004, Steve earned a Masters in Teaching degree from City University and is now teaching mathematics and robotics at Finn Hill Junior High in Kirkland, Washington.

Steve has held both the world record scores on the arcade video games, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior, and is one of the subjects of the 2007 documentary, The King of Kong, directed by Seth Gordon and produced by Ed Cunningham.  Steve also appeared in the 2008 holiday movie, Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon.

Steve currently resides in Redmond, Washington with his wife, Nicole, his daughter, Jillian, and son, Derek.  He has recently completed an 11 song Contemporary Christian CD, titled The King of Song, that is available for digital download and CD purchase.”

As we get more details we will fill you guys in!

Any promotion for this event would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Britt

Wew! What a marathon. Thank you everybody who watched and participated, this truly was a great marathon. We raised $11,465 for Halton Autistic Family Support group (HAFS) during the marathon.

So many great moments and memes spawned from this fun filled weekend and also the introduction of Psychotaku Tyler T and Heath. They were all great additions to the team and I look forward to having them from here on out. Also a great job to the new op team, you guys performed great.

Our next marathon is the Mother/Earthbound Marathon, May 7-9 for Susan G Komen, we cannot wait!

Be sure to watch the vlog that will be released later tonight for a video Wrap.

Details regarding the 72 hour Metroid Marathon that starts on March 12th at 6 pm cst:
We, TheSpeedGamers, are based in the DFW Texas area and play video games to raise money for different causes. We have been a group for nearly two years now and have raised approximately $125,000 for various causes.
Our events typically last 72 hours continuously in which we broadcast ourselves over the internet playing video game franchise’s to their completion while also providing video commentary. There is a chat room that accompanies the video game feed so that the viewers can interact with the players and other viewers. Everything can be viewed on TheSpeedGamers.com.

During the Metroid marathon we will be raising money for Halton Autistic Family Support Group .
Donations will be gathered using a chip in widget; debit, credit cards and paypal can be used to donate.

Game list and order:

• Metroid (NES VC) Oscar
• Metroid Zero Mission (GBA) Daniel
• Metroid Prime 1: Tim
• Metroid Prime Hunters (DS): Phil
• Metroid Prime 2(Blind Run): Britt, Heath, Rob
• Metroid Prime 3 : Baltes
• Metroid 2 (GB): Tim
• Super Metroid: Cameron
• Metroid Fusion (GBA): Daniel

Additional info:
Our goal will be $15,000. The chipin widget will go up Tuesday March. 9th. So far as prizes we have several Metroid Metal Cd’s to give away to viewers. More prizes will be announced as we get closer to the marathon.

Ok guys I am very excited about this!! First of all I’m making this post from my iPod touch I recieved for Christmas…but that’s not what this post is all about.
At Magfest I had the priviledge of hearing a band called Metroid Metal perform. If you have never heard of them head over to www.metroidmetal.com and listen to their music.
Seeing as how we are about to do a Metroid Marathon I sent them an email and they were pretty excited and have offered to donate several cd’s and perhaps t shirts (ok I forgot to ask about t shirts).
The album is titled Varia Suit and I love it, especially the Lower Norfair track.
I can’t wait for this marathon!

What a picture perfect marathon. We had a photo finish in catching our last and 493rd Pokemon. I can’t tell you how much excitement was flowing through the room. We are all proud to have raised over $18,000 for Ally’s House. We are about $1,000 short of $125,000 total raised for various causes.

Emails will be sent out shortly to those of you who won prizes :

• Meowth hat and Pokemon Indigo League season 1: Redraw
• Pokemon Diamond/Ho-oh plushie: Mike Furst
• Pokemon Pearl/Turtwig plushie: Justin Felke
• Pokemon Platinum/Palkia figurine: Ruju
• Shiny Team: Redah Winsblow
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Peter T.
• Pokemon Card collection: Stian Haugen
• Heart Gold: Tom Katzman
• Soul Silver: Chris Jolly
• Drawing of Pokemon team of your choice, by Anatotitan: Nicholas Viola
  

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Details regarding the 72 hour Pokemon Marathon that starts on December 18th at 6 pm cst:
We, TheSpeedGamers, are a group of gamers who play video games to raise money for different causes. We have been a group for nearly two years now and have raised approximately $100,000 for various causes.
Our events typically last 72 hours in which we broadcast ourselves playing video games while also giving commentary. There is a chat room that accompanies the video game feed so that the viewers can interact with the players and each other. Three games will be featured at a time, we will rotate the games being shown. Everything can be viewed on TheSpeedGamers.com.

During the Pokemon marathon we will be raising money for Ally’s House while trying to catch all 493 Pokemon.  There will be a counter so that the viewers can keep track of how many Pokemon we have caught.
Donations will be gathered using a chip in widget; debit, credit cards and paypal can be used to donate.

Gaming Rules:

• All Pokemon must be caught within TheSpeedGamer’s house, no trades will be done to outsiders,
• All pokemon that are only attainable through events only will be pre-loaded onto one of the carts.
• Games being played: Fire Red, Leaf Green, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, Pearl.

Additional info:
Our goal will be $15,000. Once we reach $5,000 we will show a trailer made by forum member ggs.cythe that will announce all of our marathons in 2010!  The chipin widget will go up Tuesday Dec. 15th.

More prizes! YAY.  Calvin and Ashigaru have sent us a boat load of holo Pokemon cards to give away as prizes, WOOT!

It should also be noted that the top 150 donators will be getting hand drawn Pokemon art from Anatotitan! She also has some original Pokemon themed art work that we will be giving away as prizes (pictured later).

Thank you to everyone who submitted checklists for our marathon, they were all great. After looking over them all, I have decided that we will be using C. Schwartz’s list. We will announce his prize during the marathon.

I’m at work writing this update so I don’t have any pictures of the prizes.  I’ll upload images when I get home tonight.

Prize update #2

Prize update #1

When I got home from work today I had 2 packages waiting on me. The first was from Ruju, it contained a brand new copy of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky. Next was a hand made Meowth hat and drawing from Koji.

Both of these will be prizes in our upcoming Pokemon marathon on Dec 18. The first prize updated included Pokemon Platinum from Cow , a  Ho-oh plushie from Cheesecake , and complete sets of Pokemon league badges from Yuso.