DO THE MEATEO
Only a couple of things. Most has been said so I'll keep this short!
Venue:
Loved it totally. Denton and Essentia were great hosts and treated me to many an American meal (that was awesome being from Australia). Where possible I tried to be in the streaming room to boost the # of people on camera as there were few of us around at times. The streaming room had little airflow and I found myself often becoming really tired, and had to continually head elsewhere to get air. Probably couldn't avoid this though but having people constantly yawn on stream would be evident.
Donations:
It was great to be part of raising so much for charity. To help drive donations you could possibly add options for all bid wars including naming characters - people may be turned off donating if they need to add their own suggestion first. For example with Chrono Trigger Puwexil and Essentia + commentators could suggest 2-3 possible names for each character based on who helps out in that community (although people can still add their preferences later). This makes it easier for people to start donating for these games a lot earlier in the marathon and hype bidding wars.
Something I was upset with was that we donated to name Kain in FFIV after one of our regulars who almost always donates towards our streams. He got named originally but after the onsite snipe his name got completely removed from the 4 that were chosen even though his name was second in the donation list (the onsite snipe even didn't top this name in the list). This was apparently pointed out by viewers but not picked up by the moderators until after the race was over.
Runs:
It was awesome seeing these games live! A suggestion could be to set up the bot in chat to alternate between hyping both the charity and also the runners/commentators during the run. This builds the RPG community and helps promote our future events.
I'd love to attend another one of these, it was well worth it!
Venue:
Loved it totally. Denton and Essentia were great hosts and treated me to many an American meal (that was awesome being from Australia). Where possible I tried to be in the streaming room to boost the # of people on camera as there were few of us around at times. The streaming room had little airflow and I found myself often becoming really tired, and had to continually head elsewhere to get air. Probably couldn't avoid this though but having people constantly yawn on stream would be evident.
Donations:
It was great to be part of raising so much for charity. To help drive donations you could possibly add options for all bid wars including naming characters - people may be turned off donating if they need to add their own suggestion first. For example with Chrono Trigger Puwexil and Essentia + commentators could suggest 2-3 possible names for each character based on who helps out in that community (although people can still add their preferences later). This makes it easier for people to start donating for these games a lot earlier in the marathon and hype bidding wars.
Something I was upset with was that we donated to name Kain in FFIV after one of our regulars who almost always donates towards our streams. He got named originally but after the onsite snipe his name got completely removed from the 4 that were chosen even though his name was second in the donation list (the onsite snipe even didn't top this name in the list). This was apparently pointed out by viewers but not picked up by the moderators until after the race was over.
Runs:
It was awesome seeing these games live! A suggestion could be to set up the bot in chat to alternate between hyping both the charity and also the runners/commentators during the run. This builds the RPG community and helps promote our future events.
I'd love to attend another one of these, it was well worth it!