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Extra Life Charity Marathon: November 26 – Help Children, Win Prizes

by - 8 years ago

This is my 4th year raising money for Extra Life Charity and because the date of the marathon landed on the same weekend as BlizzCon, this will be the first time that I had to do my marathon on a different day. Over the years I have raised $2,000 total and this year with our first ever BlizzPro team we have reached $4,197 raised this year.

My personal goal is to hit $2,000 this year (sitting at $315 right now). I’d love to see BlizzPro hit at least $5,000 even though our year goal was $10k.

So what is Extra Life Charity? Well, it’s a way to support the Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. They can use this money for many things to help the families of kids that are going through some really tough times in their lives with health issues. It could be used to help provide games to keep their minds off the various treatments, research or training needed, or even purchasing life saving equipment. It’s considered unrestricted funds so it’s up to the individual hospitals to decide where it will be best used for. The hospital I am representing is the University of Kansas Medical Center’s pediatrics here in Kansas City.

What’s been cool about this charity is I’ve gotten to work closely with the local people involved with the charity and the hospital itself as well as gotten to speak with some of the children and families who have benefited from the money raised each year from people like you. It’s a big deal and your money, no matter how little or large, goes a long ways in making a difference.

Where

BlizzPro’s Twitch channel – http://twitch.tv/blizzpro

When

Thursday 7 PM CST November 26 (yep, Thanksgiving!) for 24 hours.

Games Played

  • Hearthstone
  • Overwatch
  • Fallout 4

How to Donate

If you’d like to help me reach my donation goal, you can donate here. Your donation is tax deductible.

How to Win

If you donate $5 or more you will be entered into a drawing for a SteelSeries V3 Prism Gaming Headset. Each $5 donated will give you another entry (so if you donate $50 you’ll have 10 entries). If I meet my $2,000 goal I will also give away a Nintendo 3DS XL (I’ll even let you pick the color). To enter, you’ll have to include your email in the donation so I can include you in the entries, any anonymous donations will not be included in the entry (sorry, just no way to know who you are).

I might have other fun little giveaways during the stream as it happens. Have to watch to catch them!

See you there!

 

 


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JR Cook

JR has been writing for fan sites since 2000 and has been involved with Blizzard Exclusive fansites since 2003. JR was also a co-host for 6 years on the Hearthstone podcast Well Met! He helped co-found BlizzPro in 2013.


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