Extra Life Stream Team 2014: Results and Thanks!

[Zeli]

This year was my first year being a part of a stream team for Extra Life. As a part of the Alliance of Awesome team, we played and streamed video games for 25 hours in support of Extra-Life and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Local Children's Miracle Network Hospitals treat thousands of children each year, regardless of their family's ability to pay. My own son spent months in a children's hospital so this cause is very dear to me.

As it was my first year, I committed to 2 hours. As I also don't have a gaming-stream audience, I set my goal at $100. I was surprised to surpass that amount. I was able to raise $168.37. Altogether, the Alliance of Awesome team of 9 streamers raised a total of $1,728.

As many of us in Alliance of Awesome do not have the required popularity on Twitch to begin a team there, we discovered that we could create a team using Hitbox. This allowed us all to stream on one team page and made it easy for people to find which gamer was live at any point in the day.

This was our Alliance of Awesome Extra Life 2014 Team Schedule
Click on the streamer's name to visit their Hitbox page.

08:00 - 12:00 -- Stargrace
12:00 - 14:00 -- Arislyn
14:00 - 16:00 -- HiddenWings
16:00 - 19:00 -- Kodra
19:00 - 21:00 -- Zellibeli
21:00 - 23:00 -- Scopique
23:00 - 03:00 -- Belghast
03:00 - 05:00 -- Scarybooster
05:00 - 07:00 -- Cav

This morning, I'm already making mental notes for next year. I've started to realize some things I could have done to better promote and support this effort. Experience is a great teacher. I look forward to doing this again next year and hopefully I'll do an even better job at it.

Thank you to Alliance of Awesome for allowing me to be a part of this great cause. Thank you to everyone on the Alliance of Awesome team who generously donated their time to be a part of this. And of course, thank you to all who donated and took the time to watch the gaming streams throughout the day.

Special thanks to those who donated to me.
Michael Romano
Jason Hamel
Brian Scott
Kurt Salmoiraghi
Mark Moran
Get Your Geek On Radio Show
Stephanie Good
Chris Smith
And to those who donated anonymously.

What is Extra Life?
www.extra-life.org/


Extra Life Team Sign-up Page
www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=16140


Hitbox Team Page
www.hitbox.tv/team/allianceofawesome


Time Block Sign-Up Spreadsheet
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A42X7x8grqn772hnCdp30Um3yHAqOsQtDaB-s2MzmhY/edit?usp=sharing

[Cavallina]

I had a great time watching everyone and participating. My big takeaway for next year is not to get up at five on a Sunday! I didn't have a lot of viewers since many were sleeping from their shifts. My 7 year old son watched the entire two hours and Slurms popped on teamspeak for the last half hour to run across the finish line with me.

My son thought it was really cool. I told him maybe him and I could do something together next year, like Skylanders or a similar game we could do together. So this afternoon he was playing Skylanders in preparation for next year and I could hear him talking as if there was an audience, it was classic!

I had a great time and managed to catch everyone.

I want to thank the following awesome people:
Shannon Hamel
Doghouse Systems
My Aunt Cindy
Regina Storo
Pat and Sharon Macken
MaryAnn Linane

[Slurm]

I'm so happy this went so well!

I'm actually jealous I wasn't able to participate more than popping into people's streams. Hopefully next year I can take a leg. Who knows, maybe we can get enough people on board and make it a full weekend event.

Way to go AoA!!!

[Saia]

After seeing this year, I'm also thinking I'd like to get in on this. I've got a year to prepare. Not much time!

[Scopique]

I really wish I'd had my RTMP server set up. It would have allowed several people to stream into the server, which could then pump out the signals to a single channel. That way, we could have had several people on at the same time, in one channel. It might have allowed people to play longer, or give/get wider support.

[Zeli]

Scopique You are talking so far over my head, but it sounds like it would be awesome to have something like that for next year!

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

Woot, I say. Woot woot.