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 2018 recap

Another year of gaming to help sick kids is coming to a close, and another marathon to push and celebrate it wrapped up for many gamers this weekend. Everyone who played their Extra Life marathon on the official gameday started at 8 or 9 in the morning (local time) on Saturday and finished around the same time on Sunday. We here at the RedSector were no different. But every group’s goal is to do as much good as they can, and with the results we are seeing, I have to think we pulled it off.

Last year, Extra Life was able to raise over $11 million before December ended, and with the total as of the end of this marathon already toping $8.5 million with one more major weekend (the usual choice for rain day when gamers cant make the main marathon) next weekend and a whole 2 months before it has to close for December, it should be no surprise to anyone that I think we will again, break records like we have every year before.

However, I can happily report records have already been broken more locally. In 2016 we hit our personal record of raising $600 as a team for local hospitals to us. This year we blew this number out of the water bringing in over $1,000 during the marathon itself and reaching $1,100 at the time of writing! If we break another barrier, we will officially have doubled our record since forming the team!

But I believe if you’ve read this far, you are probably interested in how the event went. Please read on…

Extra Life 2015 Recap

The big weekend of Extra Life is now past us, and before we begin, I must apologize for the delay in this recap, even if it couldn’t be helped. But I will go into detail later. Suffice it to say, I really could only begin writing on this one about 3-4 days after we had finished.

Still, I'm sure the first thing on everyone’s mind is “How did we do?” Well, I think I can sum it up in one word: Phenomenal.