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Title: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on November 03, 2011, 11:28:01 AM

(http://i.imgur.com/JTA9z.jpg)

A Starcraft 2 Charity event!

Hey everyone!  Do you like Starcraft 2?  Do you like being entertained?  Do you like helping out sick children?  Well then, I've got exactly what you need.  Welcome to the second showing of The Rumble in the Bronze!

What the heck is the RitB?  Basically, a bunch of talented guys from the Penny Arcade forums and I decided on a whim to hold a charity event with the proceeds going to the Penny Arcade Child's Play charity.  We somehow got a professional announcer and player, Geoff "iNcontrol" Robinson, to cast the event.  The hook was that all the players in the event would be bronze league level.  For those of you who don't know, the Bronze League is the lowest level of Starcraft players.

The results were amazing!  We ended up having several thousand people watch the stream and generated over $3,000.  This year we are doing it again and got Geoff to cast once again.  People really loved watching bad players go at it with Geoff making jokes at their expense.

I'm was thinking you guys might be interested in watching the event.  The stream will be on December 10th, starting at 6pm (EST), with a pre-show at 5pm(EST).  The event is free to everyone.  If you want to donate you can, but if not, could you at least pass along the link so we can get even more people to tune it.

Here's are our trailers for the event!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/jgONM5wIHKA (http://www.youtube.com/embed/jgONM5wIHKA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQJAcoPOfI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQJAcoPOfI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W518NVfXS94


And here is our official webpage:

http://www.rumbleinthebronze.com/ (http://www.rumbleinthebronze.com/)

Thanks for checking this out and let me know what you think.

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: Ceric on November 03, 2011, 11:43:03 AM

Sometime High Levels games can get a bit boring.  Though I do love the ones where a Top Level player goes against someone in Bronze whose good but doesn't know the high level game and get messed over because they are counting on them to know the common strats.

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on November 03, 2011, 12:42:37 PM

Last year as an encore, we had Geoff (a pro) go 2v1 against a pair of bronze players while commentating at the same time.  It was hilarious stuff.

In fact, you can watch the VODs of last year's events here: (part 1) http://blip.tv/trus/rumble-in-the-bronze-part-1-4504601 and (part 2) http://blip.tv/trus/rumble-in-the-bronze-part-2-4504794

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on November 19, 2011, 05:07:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQJAcoPOfI

Here's our second promo video.  Anyone planning on tuning in?

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: Ceric on November 22, 2011, 09:42:49 AM

Quote from: bosshogx on November 19, 2011, 05:07:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQJAcoPOfI

Here's our second promo video.  Anyone planning on tuning in?

Consider what I have December 10th but, I'll try to tune in.

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: Sundoulos on November 23, 2011, 07:05:45 AM

I'm sure that I'll probably try to tune in at some point. :)

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on November 23, 2011, 11:32:01 AM

Awesome!  Last year was a blast and this year we've had even more time to prepare and more people involved behind-the-scenes.  This should equate to a better and more entertaining event.  I'll keep you guys updated!

If you haven't done so yet, spread the word!

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on November 28, 2011, 11:52:30 AM

http://www.arcticnova.org/no/article/8155 (http://www.arcticnova.org/no/article/8155)

Our event just got an article written about it on arcticnova.org.  Cool!

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on December 01, 2011, 01:48:26 PM

Here's our latest promo trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W518NVfXS94

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on December 09, 2011, 03:50:59 PM

Don't forget!  Tomorrow is the big day!  Get there early for the pre-show at 5pm (EST).

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on December 09, 2011, 04:48:43 PM

This sounds hype. I'll have a look if I get a chance

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on December 10, 2011, 01:20:00 PM

The rumble begins in a few short hours and we just broke $1,000!  w00t!

Here's the stream. (http://www.twitch.tv/rumbleinthebronze)  Bookmark it now!

Title: Re: Starcraft 2 charity event
Post by: bosshogx on December 10, 2011, 05:00:42 PM

Here's a link to the stream! (http://www.twitch.tv/rumbleinthebronze)

We are live!!