Right folks, somewhat inspired by previous events and suggestions on here and our previous homes, my mate Robbie and I will be playing the FIFA 12 non-stop for 24 hours from Friday 16 into Saturday 17 November, in a bid to raise money to buy some toys and games for Aberdeen Children's Hospital. Â We'd be grateful if you could take a moment to click on the link below to donate. Â And if you want to send an email of encouragement (and perhaps a large black coffee) about 5am on the day, that'll be fine!
We'll donate away when we figure out American Paypal. So how're you going to do it? Lots of 90 minute games? Coop games for 24 hours? A mix? Will you live stream it?
I've got a tournament set up with European national teams, which should be enough (with six-minute halves) to fill the bulk of the time, if not all of it. Â We'll toss a coin before each match to see who plays as which team. Â I looked into live-streaming, but the sites I looked at seem to only offer a limited amount of time without paying, and I wouldn't know how to stream the footage. Â Ideally I would've had three streams running, with a camera on each of us and one of the Xbox, but that seems to have been way too optimistic.
Sorry for the bump, but this is a week tonight. Â Get your Child's Play donations in first, but if you've got any spare pennies after that, we'd be grateful.
Folks, just a wee update on this.  We've managed to raise £464 so far, and I'm hoping a few more will come in to take us up to £500. What's amazing is that the Grampian Police charity, the Diced Cap have generously offered to match what we raise.  I don't want to draw focus away from the forum Child's Play efforts, but if you can spare even £1, it would be awesome.  You can visit the Just Giving page, or text YPWP99[space]£[donation amount] to 70070.
Awesome effort Andy. I knew nothing of this till now. On the road till Sunday, but will make a retrospective donation on Monday (will do Child's Play then too). If I forget, remind me.
We've done it! 24 hours (and about ten minutes while we finished the game we were on). We played 62 games together, plus another game each on Legendary at about 3am. I lost my one 10-0. Of the 62 games Robbie won 28 games, I won 19 and there were 15 draws. The total goal tally was 288 goals, 155 to Robbie, 133 to me. I have to say, about a third of the way through, the game stopped making sense to me. You know when you say a word over and over and over and it stops making sense? Playing FIFA has had that effect on me. For about sixteen hours I wasn't playing football, I was playing a weird set of abstract mini games. Weird.
Anyway, just wanted to say a heart-felt thank you for your support, both financial and the words of encouragement here, and on facebook and twitter. Right now we're at £594, and we're hopeful to get a few more donations in over the next couple of weeks, but with the Diced Cap matching what we raised, plus Gift Aid from the donations we received, we're looking at about £1,300 for the hospital. We're delighted.
Fantastic. Well done. I can attest from my 24 hour marathon that life has no meaning (my dark period of Civ 5 was the worst ever) when gaming. But ONE title only? Jesus.
I'm guessing you'll be taking a break from FIFA for a while.
Congratulations to you and Robbie. Go get some sleep.
Congrats on this. Feel genuinely bad about being unable to donate. Money is very tight and I can't make payments from my bank account due to some stupid new security measure HSBC have introduced.
Brilliant stuff, vaguely remember my mind melting down some time in the middle of Resi 4 (and half way through the wine) during my own marathon. If I had any more than a tenner to my name I'd have donated, dead sorry I haven't been able to.