Extra Life Game Marathon
Extra Life is an annual 24-hour video game marathon that raises money to
help heal sick kids at your local children's hospital. Extra Life
begins at exactly 8:00 AM in your local timezone on
Saturday, October 16th and ends at 8:00 AM in your local timezone on
Sunday, October 17th. So far over 2000 gamers have registered to participate in the Extra Life marathon and have raised over $300,000 for the program so far. If you would like to learn more about Extra Life please go here.I invite anyone that is a fan or community member of Area51 to sign up and join the Area51 Gaming Extra Life team and do what we all already love to do play video games.
Extra Life Team Page: Link
Orgins of Extra Life
Extra Life began in 2008 as a way of honoring a young lady named Victoria Enmon. Tori's battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L.) inspired the Sarcastic Gamer Community in a way that is difficult to describe. Members sent in video games and bought gifts to try to keep Tori's spirits up despite numerous hospital stays and 3 bouts with the deadly disease.
Tragically, we lost Tori to cancer in January of 2008. Later that year, I asked my partners at Sarcastic Gamer if they would be interested in Extra Life, a 24-hour video game marathon to raise money for the hospital that treated and fought beside Tori. In 2008 and 2009 Extra Life raised a combined $302,000 dollars, 100% of which went directly to help kids like Tori at my local Children's Miracle Network hospital (Texas Children's).
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