Extra Life 2019 Recap!

Another Extra Life Marathon completed and behind the Red Sector team, and another amazing time! To recap the absolute basics, as of the end of the marathon Extra-Life 2019 has raised almost $10,000,000 for the year ($9,663,137 to be exact), setting us up to once have another record breaking year! Our own records this year have also been effectively smashed as at $1,584.63, and neither is done yet, as Extra-Life will be taking donations right to the end of the year, so if you haven't gotten involved and helped these kids, there is still time! Our team's page is available by clicking the thermometer next to this post or click here! And thank you!

Furthermore, we have done all this so far despite the dickheads of the web rearing their heads again as there were SEVERAL DDOS attacks on the Extra-Life page throughout the marathon. For those who do not know, a DDOS attack is when someone overloards a server's ability to respond to users, disabling websites (and other applications) in the process. Yep! Assholes are assholes and cost the marathon time which could have brought in even more and yet we STILL did this well! Sometimes, the good guys really do win.

But on top of that, I'm sure you also want a recap of the big event this year as we at the Red Sector celebrated helping kids. Well, step on in.

Extra Life Update

On Nov 2nd, gamers from around the world will begin what has become a decade long tradition: a 24-hour marathon where outside of food or bathroom, there are no breaks. Just keep playing! For those brave enough and in areas that use Daylight Savings, it's going to be 25 hours, another tradition!

But this also means we are starting to reach the wire as we are just a few scant weeks from the final month before the big event, and we need your help to make it an even bigger year then last. And I mean that for me, my team, and the entire event. We have huge shoes to fill since as noted at the beginning of the year, we managed to bring in over $1000 as a team to help sick kids, and over $13,000,000 as an event. As always www.extra-life.org will have counts going during the marathon itself and with your help we can break both records.

So far we have managed to bring $225 to the table, no small feat in it's own, but we are are far from hitting the records we did before. We want to break those. After all, we do this every year to help really sick kids and have some fun doing it. But as I said, we need your help to do so.

If you would like to help us, you can do so by either clicking the "Make a Donation" button on the thermometer icon or clicking "donate" on our team page. As always, Extra Life is run by the Children's Miracle Network and everything goes to the cause. So thank you in advance, and see you out in the games.

Extra Life Update

Hi everyone. This is not going to be a long post, but as the year moves along, so does the big event so it's time for an update.

On the large scale, a lot has been going on already. The biggest event outside of the main marathon took place about a month in Florida, and while I wasn't able to watch the stream this year, ExtraLife United is a weekend-long marathon all it's own. With 250 gamers local competing to bring in prizes to the hospitals they are playing for, it is an epic event to witness, giving a face and place to the reason we do this every year.

In addition to this, PAX East has recently come and gone, and with it a drive for gamers to join up and be a part of the event. This may not sound like a lot, but when they get over 1000 new members to join up, that has promise to push what we can do in total even further! (And if are going to beat last year's total, we need that boost.)

And finally locally we have hit our own first milestone at $100 raised. Not a lot I know, but a first milestone should be noted, as well as the regular team starting to band together on our own page. So lets keep pushing forward! We CAN have an even better year then last!

Sources:

• Extralife.childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org: Boston Guild's Volunteerism at PAX East Sets a New Extra Life Record