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.

I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the Mario Marathon was by far my favorite marathon. It’s bitter sweet that it’s all over. Bitter to say good bye to all of my friends and the fun we had, sweet that we raised nearly $60,000 for ACT Today and I can now rest. There’s no way we could have done this without all of you; Donators, promoters and viewers.

A humongous thanks goes out to Fangamer.net. What they did for our marathon and ACT Today was phenomenal. Nearly $10,000 was raised through their T-shirts, AMAZING.

I’m currently working on a commemorative video that will be posted late tomorrow and Tuesday at the lastest.

Thanks again,

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.

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
  

Aiyoh, I’m exhausted. I thought this marathon would be a breeze compared to our week long Final Fantasy marathon but I’m still beat.

What a great summer we had with you guys. I’m proud of our community that continues to grow and do amazing things for society.  I guess us gamers aren’t so bad after all, huh?

Our Halloween marathon starts Octobers 30th and lasts 48 hours. We will be playing the Resident Evil series and currently you can vote on the cause we are gaming for in the forums.

Thanks everyone for another enjoyable marathon.  The viewers were steady throughout and our store grand opening went great. I think the rest of the marathons you see from us will always either be for some sort of charity or cause. It seems to add quiet a bit more enjoyment for both the viewers and us.

Now we look ahead to the much talked about Final Fantasy marathon which starts July 17 and will last a week. More details will be posted soon.

If you won a prize expect an email shortly and I will ship ASAP.

We here at The Speed Gamers  want to give a shout out to all the Donors, Fangamer.net & Starmen.net for all the swag they offered for donations, the Fans, the Mods, the Chat Ops, the Mother players, and all the people who promoted this marathon.

This was by far the most successful marathon to date, and we really appreciate everyone who stopped by to join us.