Digital Cowboys 146: 2010 Charity Gamerscore Marathon

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jan 14, 2014 | 0 comments

Episode 164: Originally published March 5th 2010.

Guest: Chris Brown of The Married Gamers

This is an account of what happened on the weekend that Tony and I spent a whole day trying to get as many points as possible on a single new Xbox account. The aim was 5000. In return our community made donations to Medecins Sans Frontieres; an independent aid organization who were at the time saving lives in Haiti and Chile.

What you have here is the 54-minute version of that whole day. I found that the best way to contextualise it was to edit together the sound clips with occasional narration in the style of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It’s definitely not your average podcast.

From the moment we began, we had a chatroom open with a webcam broadcasting our progress to our community. You guys were there for us round the clock, even during the desolate early hours of Sunday morning. We’d like to thank all who kept our spirits us and supported this endeavour. Also our deep gratitude goes out to all who donated.

Thanks to Paul, Lizz, Jeremy, Sassy, Finlay, Steve, Linda, Carolyn, Tim, Bowlby, Superslug, Ted, Joe, McFluffin, Edie, Brandon, James, Chris and Kelly Brown (Especially Chris who does a guest spot in this very show) Dukeboxs, My barber, Malcolm, Sam, Gareth, Phil, Jeff, Mike, Dean, Quizzical Demon, UGN, Bernard, Gary, John, Sinan, Michael, Elmo and everyone else. And of course MASSIVE thanks to Giles who arranged this whole thing with us and donated £750. It was a hugely significant moment and our community genuinely helped people and changed lives.

We raised £1,520 in aid of MSF.