The StarCraft Tournament starts tonight!
StarCraft Carnage
It’s the last week of the fundraiser already! How did that happen? Well, what better way to start our last week than by utterly annihilating some of our favorite geek celebrities? We have a page completely devoted to the StarCraft Tournament, but here’s the low-down…
Tonight at 8pm CST, Cards Against Humanity squares off against the Acquisitions Inc. C-Team on our Twitch page. Half an hour later, it’s an all out geek musician war as Paul & Storm duke it out with The Doubleclicks. Then double-down at 9pm when Mikey Neumann takes on the winner of the first match, and again at 9:30 when the winner of the second match has to face Travis McElroy’s Run FanCast team.
We’re not done yet, though–at 10pm, Geek & Sundry goes up against the House Theater of Chicago, and at 10:30, Pat Rothfuss and Max Temkin from Unattended Consequences launch into battle against Iron Galaxy Studios!
It’s an entire evening of space mayhem, trash talking, and rousing chatroom banter hosted by Chris Geiger and Mary Beth Smith of The Nerdologues. You can even influence the battles! Each team name in the last couple paragraphs is linked to the Team Page they have set up to raise money for Heifer International. Whichever team raises more money than their opponent gets a tactical advantage during their match. So if you’d like to see The Doubleclicks absolutely mop the floor with Paul & Storm, donate to their page before their match! We would never choose favorites, not even if The Doubleclicks released a new album more recently than Paul & Storm. A shiny new album of wonderful wonderfulness. So shiny…
*ahem* So anyway, that’s just the first round of StarCraft. In a couple days (Wednesday, actually) Round Two starts up! We’ll have new brackets with all the winners from Round One, and again, you can donate to your favorite team to make sure they win. Is it fair? Probably not. Do we play favorites? Mmmmmm, maybe. But all the money donated goes to Heifer International, and that’s what counts!
We’ll be back on Wednesday to announce the new brackets and let you know what’s up, but in the mean time, you’re welcome to keep track of how your team is doing on the Tournament Page, and donate to make them do even better!
Last Week of the Fundraiser
Wait, did we say it was the final week of the end-of-year fundraiser? It went by so fast! But we suppose, once the fundraiser ends we can start drawing names for our Lottery Library and getting ready to send out all these awesome prizes, so we’re a little excited about that.
The fundraiser officially ends this Friday, December 8th, and until then you’re more than welcome to increase your odds of winning cool stuff by donating, either to our main page, to our StarCraft teams, or to any of the other Team Pages that feature specialty lottery items to expand our main lottery. All the money goes to Heifer International to support their awesome programs, like their East Africa Dairy Development Project:
Thank you everyone for joining us this year, and while we’re on the home stretch, we’re not done just yet! We’re still adding stuff to our Lottery Library, we have some auctions running, and as of this blog post, nobody’s died in the cruel vacuum of space during a heated virtual battle against other geeks.
Yet.