STS: Extra Life

For October 2011, my charity team - the Fat Chance Heroes - participated in an annual charity event called Extra Life.  It is a 24-hour video game marathon intended to help raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals across the nation.  As residents of the Twin Cities, we chose to raise money for the Gillette’s Children’s Hospital in downtown Saint Paul.

In total, we were able to raise $231.

As promised, I made sure to document the event in order to prove to all of you that we did indeed stay up and play video games for 24 hours straight!  Of course, the greatest proof I have is this video!!!  It is not technically a Stranger Things Studios film, but seeing how they edited the movie from what footage we had, I am including it under their banner. 

Be warned, there is vulgarity, but it is fun none the less.  Enjoy!

Monthly Scoop: November 2011

It’s that time again boys ‘n’ girls!  Time to realize I did far too much talking, and not enough doing.  Time for the Monthly Scoop.

To begin, I apologize for the late post.  I promise I will make it up to you.  The truth of the matter is I have a large project I’m working on, and I was hoping to be able to write the blog for it last week.

Speaking of projects - what has JonnyDStrong been up to?


Extra-Life

As you may have read, the newly founded team, Fat Chance Heroes, had their first charity event.  It was called Extra-Life.  It is a 24-hour video game marathon to help raise money for children hospitals.  We had a good time, and recorded some of the event to prove we stayed up the full 24 hours.  I am currently editing the film, which is taking a lot longer than planned.  But as soon as I’m done I will post it on-line.

Extra Life

Two weeks from today, the Fat Chance Heroes will undertake their first mission as heroic good-doers.  They will endure 24 straight hours of video game playing on behalf of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.  All the money they raise will go to the Gillette’s Children’s Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Both Mystery Longshanks and Cold Man Fusion have been gung-ho about this event from day one.  Neither of them can decide which games they’re going to play for the duration of the event.  If anything, their biggest problem is that they only have 24 hours.

Blackout, on the other hand… not so much.  Don’t get me wrong.  She’s committed the event.  She’ll be there.  But she’s not the biggest video gamer, and she’s not quite sure if she’ll be able to stay awake for the whole thing.

Meanwhile, Mystery and CMF, are practically setting up a fallout shelter.  What supplies do we need?  Where do we set up the TVs?  Who’s on food rotation?  Who’s keeping who awake? How many people can be connected to the internet at a time? 

Oh yes, their training will be pushed to the max.

And it will be documented.  Never fear.  I intend to set up a camera, from which, once and hour, a photo will be taken of the war room so that people can see how the Fat Chance Heroes hold up.

Technically, Extra-Life takes place October 15^th into the 16^th.  However, due to schedule conflicts, the Fat Chance Heroes will be participating the following weekend instead:

October 22^nd at 8:00am, to October 23^rd at 8:00am.
The only challenge remaining is raise what money they possibly can for the Children’s Hospital.  So far, the heroes have raised
119 dollars

If you would like to support the heroes in the Extra Life charity event, visit their pledge page:

Fat Chance Heroes @ Extra Life

*Note: Extra-Life will only take donations until October 15th.




About Extra-Life
www.extra-life.org

Extra Life is an annual charity event that started in 2008 in honor a girl named Victoria Enmon, who died of lymphoblastic leukemia.  The Sarcastic Gamer Community donated video games and gifts to keep the girl’s spirits up.  In that same spirit, video gamers participate in the 24 hour Extra Life event to help raise money for children’s hospitals across the nation. 

Fat Chance Heroes:

Visit them at fatchanceheroes.blogspot.com

Find out about their Upcoming Events

Rise of the Fat Chance Heroes

“Doing good things, just maybe not very well.”

My rag tag band of friends needed a banner name for a charitable event we signed up for. The result was an impressive, yet unsupervised chain reaction. Naming ourselves quickly led to each participant creating their own hero name; then physical descriptions; and then powers and abilities. Now we’re looking into conceptual drawings, comic-esque short stories, team T-shirts, you name it.

Yet, a group identify also led to the idea that the Fat Chance Heroes should do more than just this one charitable event.

Click here to Meet the Heroes



Extra-Life  www.extra-life.org

As our first mission, the Fat Chance Heroes must endure 24 hours of straight video game playing. All the money raised towards this event goes to the Gillette Children’s Hospital in Saint Paul, MN.

When:October 22^nd, 8am - October 23^rd, 8am. Technically it’s the 15^th-16^th, however there was a group scheduling issue for that weekend.

Donate: Support the Fat Chance Heroes

Polar Plunge 2012

The Heroes will jump into a frozen Minnesotan lake in the dead of winter on behalf of the Minnesota Special Olympics. More information to come once they are registered for the event.