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 store@thespeedgamers.com
Thanks for everyone’s support,
store.thespeedgamers.com
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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 comments@thespeedgamers.com 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’ve got two more copies of Zelda Skyward Sword to give away, all thanks to forum members YellowPepper and Daskichan. This time around we will be giving out copies pseudo scavenger hunt style.
*Story Time*
The Happy Mask guy has stopped by our forum after his ventures through Hyrule and he needs YOUR help. While traveling he has lost many iconic items from the Zelda series that he had picked up on his journey. Each day, from November 1-16, there will be a new riddle posted about these missing items. If you think you have cracked the riddle, you can send up to 3 guesses (please send all 3 guesses in the same email) to happymask@thespeedgamers.com of what you think the item is. Your answers can help solve the mystery of the missing items….somehow…somehow.
If you answer correctly the Happy Mask Guy will send you a triforce piece with the item pictured on it. There are 16 total pieces and when fit properly together it will reveal a secret image. Using an image editing program like photoshop, MS paint or gimp, put together all 16 triforce pieces and email the finished image to happymask@thespeedgamers.com. Make sure to get in all of your answers by November 18th. We will pick 2 winners randomly from all the contestants who completed the triforce.
Riddles will be updated in this forum post
It has been decided to try and monetize the site. It’s been something we’ve often discussed, but always decided against because we thought that it might alienate our supporters, plus we didn’t want to seem trashy. That’s still our concern, but that reality is that we’re not receiving enough revenue from the twitch.tv ads or the store to keep up with maintaining the site.
We know most of you use ad blocking software, and we do wish that you guys would disable such software to help us out. The current ads on the blog are per click, excluding Fangamer which is per sale. Soon we will try to get per impression ads, which would lead to more revenue.
Now the revenue we do make will always go directly back into supporting TSG. First it will be used to pay site costs, or upgrades (aka new forum software). 
Second is prizes for contest, giveaways, or other events plus shipping costs for prizes. Running TSG is pretty costly, and often times we have to dig into our own personal funds to support TSG and keep it running, which is obviously unsustainable.
I want to thank you for your continued patience and support.
You are welcome to leave your comments on this post, but remember be respectful.
Update!!: Thanks to YellowPepper, 3 participants in the pumpkin carving contest will win a copy of Zelda Skyward Sword!!! You must live in the U.S to be eligible to win Skyward Sword and you must carve a Zelda themed pumpkin to be entered.
Fall is upon us and in just a few short weeks so will Halloween. Each year we hold a pumpkin carving contest in which the community can show off its artistic ability. This year, we will randomly select 2 of the participants in the contest and gift them “The Binding of Isaac” on Steam in spirit of the holiday.
You can carve the pumpkin however you would like, but since our Zelda marathon is coming up it would be awesome to see a few Zelda themed entries! In order to enter the contest, simply post in the following forum thread an image that includes your pumpkin and a sheet of paper with your forum name, or post a youtube video of you carving the pumpkin. You must submit your entry by November 1st.
Contest thread: http://bit.ly/pqIc9C
If you want to check out some of last years entries, here’s the 10′ thread: http://bit.ly/oJF3mA
I’ll post my own carving attempt this week on our youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/thespeedgamers . Good luck and have fun!
You know how you tidy up the house when you’re expecting company? Well I figured the 20 million zillion people tuning in for the Star Wars marathon shouldn’t make do with those OLD bio pictures. And so many people have joined the staff since then! So they needed pictures too, right? So I took the liberty of updating everyone’s picture on the Bios Page. And give a hand to Local for dealing with the hassle of updating the section itself!
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