Hi guys George here as usual


As some of you may have heard or seen, our leader Toby has retired from GameToAid.

GameToAid was Toby's idea and it was him that suggested to Brodie to start a group and stream marathons for charity.

Since our first marathon in December 2010 Toby has been the main leader of the group and has lead us well in all of our 7 marathons.

Toby has stated that he feels GTA is in a really good place at the moment and in good hands. But his main reason for retiring is that he would like more time to work on other things, though no one but him could tell you what that includes, my guess is that one of those things would mostly be uni as he is a full time medicine student.

On behalf of myself and all the guys at GTA, I would like to thank Toby for his hard work over the last 3 years, GTA would not have gotten to where it has without him.

So what does this mean for us? Well we are probably going to have a long talk about it very soon but I can confirm that we will be soldiering on without Toby. We actually already have a number of ideas for the next couple of marathons and if you were with us the other day you would have possibly heard Brodie talking about the monthly "Nostalgic Streaming" we plan on doing. More info regarding that coming soon.

In terms of Toby, he has said that he will still be a moderator in the chat and watch our marathons so he will be close by but if you ask me I think that his retirement wont be permanant, if we stay together for a few more years I'm confident that he will re-join. The door will always be open for him.

Also thank you to all who joined the last marathon, we raised $6,113 and passed the $50,000 total raised mark of all our marathons combined.

If you get a chance to thank Toby on the Facebook page or via his Twitter (@tobscure) then please do so. :)



Although I'm sad I'm really excited about the future of GameToAid, don't worry it's in good hands.



Thanks again and all the best to all of you and I hope to see you soon.



Kind regards, George

Hey guys,

As most of you may know by now our 7th marathon "Worst Marathon Ever #2" starts tomorrow night (July 12) at 9pm Adelaide time. (I probably should have posted this here earlier but I've been really busy and completely forgot, apologies.)

Be sure to head over to worstmarathonever.com (gametoaid.org will re-direct you to us) to join the stream and help us as we raise money for Charity Water.

I and the rest of the team look forward to you joining us for what will be one of our more interesting marathons we've done. Hopefully we can pass the $50,000 total raised money mark over the next few days! Who knows maybe we'll do something special?


See you in the chat. :)


Love George

Hey guys,

So the YouTube highlights of the marathon are on our channel, you can view them here: http://www.youtube.com/user/game2aid

If there's a certain part of the marathon you'd like to find, or if you just want to watch the whole thing then you can do that here: http://www.twitch.tv/gametoaid/videos?kind=past_broadcasts

Finally, Toby has written a wrap-up on the site about the marathon but more importantly has opened a poll to decide where the school house we've raised money for should be built. You can vote here: http://gametoaid.org/blog/dawn-of-a-new-day.html

Please remember there is no right or wrong answer, any selection you make is a great selection.

All the best,

George

Hey guys,

On behalf of all the guys from Gametoaid I'd like to thank all of you who tuned into the marathon over the last few days.

We ended up raising $6705 for Free the Children to build a school in a poverty stricken country and had a lot of fun in doing so.

Just about every game was finished (with the exception of 1 terrible game) and we recieved some great fan art too! (Especially of me!)

This marathon like all others has been a great success and if you managed to donate or refer or even just tune in, thanks SO MUCH, it really means a lot to us and the connection that we have with all of you is a special one that we all treasure within.



So where to from here? We do plan to continue having marathons of course and I can tell you that we have some great ideas for our next marathon which will more than likely take place during the second half of the Australian winter this year. In terms of announcements you can follow us on twitter @gametoaid or on our facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/gametoaid?fref=ts or even here to find out what exactly is happening in regard to future marathons.

I plan to be more active as an admin on this group and keep you guys all up to date on what's happening and Hell even play a game with some of you! Youtube highlights of the marathon will be up within the next month I imagine so I will post here when you can go check them out (subscribe to game2aid on YT)

Once again thanks heaps you're all amazing, sorry for the long message I'm so tired right now and have just dragged on and on but yeah...until next time.

:)


George

Hey guys George here, just posting a friendly reminder that our next marathon "THE APOCALYPTATHON" will begin around this time next week on www.gametoaid.org

I look forward to seeing all of you there and promise to discuss ways in which we can make this group more active.

Kind regards, George