An Unusual Charity

It was about a week ago that I overheard a friend talking about Extra Life. I was in the middle of playing Final Fantasy XIV with a friend and he mentioned it over Ventrillo while talking to someone on the phone; he forgets that he does not use push-to-talk. When he returned to the game I asked him about it and he gave minimal details.

"Yeah, you try to raise money for charity and play video games for 24-hours" said Zachary. 

I was immediately interested. Every Fall I start to want to do something charitable. This sounded like an opportunity to do something I love for charity. I didn't think twice about it, I wanted to do it. I shared info with my brother and he too was immediately interested. 

Extra Life is an annual 24-hour video game marathon that raises money to help heal sick kids at your local children's hospital. This year's event begins at 8:00am in your local time zone on October 16th, 2010. The idea is simple and brilliant. There are minimal costs associated with setting everything up so 100% of donations go directly to the hospital of your choosing. 

My brother and I have recently been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2, so we decided we would team up and try 24-hours of Team Fortress 2. In return for people's support and donations, we will spend a full 24-hours playing. We chose to support Children's Medical Center of Dallas since we have had a sister and a cousin treated there when they were younger. 

My wife turned out to also be incredibly enthusiastic about the idea so she has offered to help by maintaining this blog during event. So not only do people get a great feeling for supporting and donating to a great cause, we will also be providing them with live updates of our 24-hours. 

Overall, our hope is to bring friends and family together to help us support our local children's hospital. Everyone deserves a chance to live a healthy life and we feel it's important that all kids have a great facility to help them. So please help us  reach our goal or go beyond it.

 If you have donated, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. If you wish to donate, links are provided on the right, either of our pages is fine (both is great!). If you are unable to donate but support our cause, then please leave comments and let us know. Furthermore, everyone please feel free to share this with friends and family. 

Once again, welcome to our page and thank you for your time and support.