what game you playing dawg? On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:04:26 AM UTC-4, morlockhq wrote: > > Our Extra Life teams are playing 24 hours of board games to raise money > for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals > > Adrienne and I, co-hosts of the Great Big Table podcast ( > www.greatbigtable.com) are running two Extra Life teams to raise money > for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. > > While Extra Life (www.extra-life.org) started as a video gaming effort to > support a children's hospital in the name of a board and community member > of the Sarcastic Gamers website, it has since grown and expanded and become > an official fund raising program associated with Children's Miracle Network > Hospitals. > > As many of you probably already know, in recent years the board game > community has stepped up to play designer board games to raise money for > Extra Life instead of the video games that got Extra Life off the ground. > This year, Adrienne and I decided to join the fray as a way of supporting > the Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis where my daughter underwent a > life saving cranial reconstruction procedure last February. To that end, > Adrienne is captaining an Extra Life team for our Great Big Table board > gaming podcast (www.extra-life.org/team/greatbigtable). > > *If you are a listener of the show or follow us on our blog ( > www.greatbigtable.com) or on Twitter (twitter.com/greatbigtable), or a > guild member, consider joining the team or supporting a team member. * > > We talk a little bit about our Extra Life efforts in our latest episode, > Episode > 003 - Finding a Game > Group<http://www.greatbigtable.com/2012/10/great-big-table-podcast-episode-003.html> > . > > I am captaining a team based out of our church where we are hosting a > marathon weekend of card and board gaming. *We'll play games across > October 19th (6 - 9 pm), October 20th (7am - 9pm), and October 21st (noon - > 7pm) for a total of twenty four hours of gaming.* If your going to be (or > would like to be) in the Southern Indiana area (Evansville to be exact) > across that weekend, join up and come and play games to heal sick kids. You > can find our Extra Life team page at > www.extra-life.org/team/stpetersgamenight. There should be food and > snacks (feel free to bring some) and lots of games. > > If you can't (or don't want to) join one of these teams, there are other > ways you can help: > > *Spread the word about Extra Life (www.extra-life.org) in general and the > Great Big Table (www.extra-life.org/team/greatbigtable) and Saint Peter's > Game Night (www.extra-life.org/team/stpetersgamenight) Extra Life teams > in particular:* > Raising awareness is as easy as sharing some links and putting in a good > word with family and friends and it can have a tremendous effect on the > overall success of Extra Life's goals. It is really appreciated and goes a > long way. All the money raised goes to Children's Miracle Network > affiliated hospitals with the goal of healing sick kids. > > *Support any other team:* > Don't want to support us? That's cool, support any other team out there. > There are over 1600 teams currently signed up to play video and/or board > games for 24 hours to raise money to help sick kids. Look to see if your > favorite website, gaming company, podcast, celebrity, game store, or friend > already has a team. The guys and gals from the D6 Generation, Game On! With > Cody and John, Game Salute, Exploring Games and Gamerchris.com, and a > host of other gaming groups already have teams. Support their efforts. > > *Create your own team:* > There's still time to create your own team and commit to playing games for > 24 hours to heal sick kids. Just head over to www.extra-life.org and > create an account. Accounts come in two forms, Classic and Platinum. The > only difference is that a Platinum account costs $15, but that money is to > cover the cost of creating, shipping, and handling a t-shirt that you'll > get as a reward if you are successful in raising $200 or more. If you don't > want to a t-shirt, choose Classic as its free. Once you have an account, > you can join a team or create your own team. You could make a team with > friends, family, co-workers, forum members, fans of the same TV show or all > of the above. Then go out and raise money for playing games for 24 hours. > You don't even have to play 24 hours straight if it doesn't work with your > schedule. The important thing is that you are raising awareness about the > good work that is done in Children's Miracle Network Hospitals around the > country every day. > > Thanks for considering this. Good luck to you all. >
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