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2009-03-07T02:48:00.002-06:00

This website is no longer in use, we now use the domain

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www.TheSpeedGamers.com

2008-09-05T11:31:00.004-05:00

We have our new website up, so anyone who goes to www.thespeedgamers.blogspot.com , we will NOT BE UPDATING THIS SITE ANYMORE! You must go to www.thespeedgamers.com to view our marathons and to be updated on everything TSG.

Once again, www.ThespeedGamers.blogspot.com is NOT being used by us anymore.
Go to www.Thespeedgamers.com

Halo Marathon Details!

2008-09-03T21:09:00.007-05:00

Surprise!

We've decided to put on a Halo Marathon to prevent too much downtime between marathons. The marathon will only be 24 hours, but we will still give out prizes and treat it like any other of our marathons.

You will be able to view us LIVE from our website and also interact with us through chat/email.

Details:
Games: We will beat Halo 1,2,3 campaigns all in legendary, with any left over time we will play the viewers!

Time/length: We will start on Friday September 26th at 6pm cst and end Saturday the 27th at 6pm cst . (24 hours)

~TSG

A succcessful Siege!

2008-08-27T20:13:00.015-05:00

UPDATE: it turns out NOA is open on sundays! please keep calling 1-800-255-3700 and ask for earthbound!

We all had a great time, thanks everyone who called NOA or emailed them. We want to give a big shout out to STARMEN.NET the godfathers of the ebsiege. Without them this marathon would never of happened. We hope we were able to help in the effort of bringing the Earthbound/Mother series to the United States. We've gotten word from a couple of people that NOA received somewhere around 2,000 phone calls asking about Earthbound/Mother this weekend.GREAT job guys, thanks for being kind and respectful to the Nintendo representatives. Hopefully we will find out soon if we've made any impact. As soon as we know we will relay the message. If you won a prize we've emailed you, please respond with your shipping address and also your shirt size if you were a grand prize winner. In the next couple of days we will post our Halloween marathon info.

Prize winners:
Earthbound Poster:Tristan Chapman
Mother 1+2 (GBA):Michael Quell
Starmen.net Swag winner #1:Dominic Jersak
Starmen.net Swag winner #2:Kevin Chai

EarthBound Marathon Details!

2008-08-19T14:35:00.018-05:00

Usually I leave a "thank you" post up for a week for the previous marathon,but since the turn around for our Earthbound marathon is so quick I need to unleash the details immediately. Before I do, I would like to thank everyone who contributed. Whether you donated or posted about us, dugg us, promoted us, you all were great; We love you all. The Grand total raised for St. Jude is now over $6,100!!

Earthbound Marathon Details:
We will be streaming a feed live on our website of us playing Mother 1,2,&3 from August 28 at 4pm till August 30 at 11 pm (55 hours straight!). We will feature chat along with video to create an interactive event. Our main goal will be to encourage phone calls to Nintendo of America (NOA) requesting Earthbound to be brought to the U.s in some way shape or form.

Here's a more detailed explanation:

This is directly copied and pasted from Starmen.net and explains what we will be doing. We will be asking everyone watching the marathon to call Nintendo of America. Our request to them will be to please port over Mother 3 to North America, bring EarthBound to the Virtual Console, or even ask about a potential Mother 1+2+3 DS Compilation. Let them know you want to see more Mother/EarthBound in the US again!

We need as many people to keep calling in for the best impact. Previous examples of this effective maneuver is when Zelda: Master Quest was brought to North America after 500 people called Nintendo. The previous PK-Call'Ns made a definite impact on Nintendo of America. NoA Representative's still talk about how many calls they gotten during these events. In fact, recent information tells us that Mother 1+2 was flagged for discussion due to a high volume of calls during a previous PK Call'N. However the calls stopped and it was assumed that interest had died and it was never brought up again. This time the interest won't die and the calls won't stop.

Be original and polite in your call and mention why you are calling. Mention you read about Mother 1+2 in Nintendo Power, or heard about Mother 3 released in Japan, the Mother 3 iTunes tracks, or have just been a long-time fan of that wacky SNES game from years ago. Or even ask them straight out, "where is EarthBound?" And keep in mind you want to talk about EarthBound, not promote an event or a web site so....

...DO NOT MENTION PK-CALL'N, EB SIEGE, THESPEEDGAMERS OR STARMEN.NET!

The NoA Representative might correct you and refer to the SNES EarthBound. They may assume that you didn't know about this game. Don't be abrupt, they are only providing info that they feel would help you. The NoA Representative will likely give an address to write in to Nintendo. If you would like to write to NoA check out PK Mail'N! They may ask you about your subscription to Nintendo Power, so try to be polite and understand that they are trying to keep you informed.

The NoA Representative most likely will have no new information. Politely thank them and tell them you will be a calling back soon to check up to see if any new information is available. Call back again in a few days time to see if any new information is available. If not, thank them again and call back once more in a few days! If there is still no new information, then ask to speak to an available manager and see if they can help you out. Call as often as you can and get your friends or family members involved as well! And this time don't worry about the length of the call. Ask what you want to ask and show that you are a fan of the series! But always be sure to be polite and thank the person you are speaking with when you call. Following this should result in a smooth call!

Heres NOA's contact info: 1. Dial the toll free number: 1-800-255-3700
2. Wait until the recording starts telling you the Menu options.
3. Hit Zero.
4. Wait to be connected to NoA Representative.

Prizes: We are going to give out prizes upon completion of each game. The way we do this is we randomly generate a winner from the people who emailed us during that games game play period.

3 Prizes: Earthbound 1+2 (GBA), Earthbound Poster, Prize from Starmen.net (TBA)

The Event Starts Thursday Aug 28th at 4 pm cst and end Aug 30 at 11pm cst

www.TheSpeedGamers.com

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at TheSpeedGamers@gmail.com

Another Successful Marathon!

2008-08-15T02:26:00.018-05:00

Mission Complete!! Over $6,100 was raised for St. Jude!!
Thanks to everyone for your help!
An update will be coming soon with more information, but for now, the contest winners are:

Metroid (NES): Joe Baltes
Metroid (PAL VC): Fraser McMillan
Zero Suit Samus Plushie: Douglas Reyes
Metroid II GB Cartridge: B. J. Brown
Metroid (GBA): Andres Bravo
TSG Poster: Kyle Tallaire
Super Metroid (PAL VC): James Stevenson
Super Metroid SNES Cartridge: Mathew Niznik
Super Metroid Wall Clock: Santeri Sevon

Grand Prize Winner, Metroid Prime 3 signed by Retro Studios: Andrew Redenbough

Check out Dwaggies head!!

Metroid Marathon Information..Check out our Grand Prize!

2008-08-11T21:41:00.017-05:00

The 72 Hour Metroid Marathon starts on Augusts 15th @6pm cst. We will be raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The marathon will be streamed live via webcam on our website. The webcam feed will give you both a view of the games we will be playing and also a view of the action going on in the room. We will give out prizes following each game to viewers regardless of where they live.

The Game list is : (In the order we will be playing them in, not in chronological order)
Metroid, Metroid Zero mission, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid Prime1, Metroid Prime 2, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime 3, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion

Join the forums to stay updated with everything SpeedGamers and chat with our great community! Click Here
or the url is http://forums.TheSpeedGamers.com

If you have any questions email us at TheSpeedGamers@gmail.com

PRIZE INFORMATION:

We have big news regarding the prizes that will be given away during the marathon. After the completion of certain games we will be giving away two prizes, one for Euro viewers and one for viewers in the states. If no Euro prize is listed, it means ALL viewers are eligible to win because the prize is not limited by region. For example, our Metroid clock prize will work fine wherever you live, however our U.S version of Metroid for the Nes cannot be played on a European Nes console.

Rules: In order to be entered to win a prize (except the grand prize) you must send an email during the game thats being played for that said prize. Each prize is given away upon completion of its game. This will be less confusing during the marathon.

In order to be entered to win the GRAND PRIZE, any donation a $1 or over will gain 1 entry, $5 and over will get you two, and $20 and over for 3 entries. Maximum 3 entries

Prize List:

Completion of Metroid:
• For U.S Participants Metroid (NES cartridge) along with NES controller
• For European participants Metroid on Virtual Console, or if winner has Metroid already, a game prize of equal VC-Point value (500 points).

Completion of Metroid Zero Mission:Zero Suit Plushie
Completion of Metroid II: Metroid II (Gameboy Cartridge)
Completion of Metroid Prime 1: Super Metroid Wall Clock
Completion of Metroid Prime 2: Metroid Poster used during marathon

Completion of Metroid Prime Hunters:
• (US) Metroid (GBA cartridge)
• (EUR) Metroid on Virtual Console, or if winner has Metroid already, a game prize of equal VC-Point value (500 points)

Completion of Metroid Prime 3: TBA

Completion of Super Metroid:
• (US) Super Metroid (SNES cartridge) + SNES controller
• (EUR) Super Metroid on Virtual Console, or if winner has Super Metroid already, a game prize of equal VC-Point value (800 points)

Completion of Metroid Fusion: GRAND PRIZE

and for our GRAND PRIZE! *Drum roll* : A copy of Metroid Prime 3 SIGNED BY The current RETRO STUDIO employees(Creators of Metroid Prime 1,2, &3). BECAUSE OF LEGAL REASONS YOU CANNOT RESALE THE GRAND PRIZE IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM!!

Retro Studios has recently given their blessing and will be generously donating our grand prize, a copy of Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) signed by the development team. We are very excited to have their help and will hopefully do justice to the series they helped build

for any questions you can write us at TheSpeedGamers@gmail.com

Mission Complete!

2008-07-11T02:32:00.015-05:00

We want to thank everyone who watched. We had a blast! Thanks Paul for stepping in and commentating for an endless amount of hours. Paul is now an official member of the team. We also want to thank Phil for the amount of effort he put into this marathon. The Mario marathon pretty much featured his skills.

To everyone who won prizes, I will be emailing you sometime this week requesting shipping info. If you'd like to go ahead and send it now, I'm fine with that too.

Now we turn our focus to the 72 hour Metroid Marathon on Friday August 15th for St. Jude. The promoting starts now! This is going to be our biggest marathon yet, and we will make it our most successful!

We finished 10 Mario Games in under 24 hours of gameplay, AMAZING

Mario1 - 8 minutes 10 secs (Philip)
Mario2 Lost Levels- 22 Minutes (Philip)
Mario 2- 1 hour 18 minutes (Rob Covington, not greenshirtyguy)
Mario3- 24 minutes (Rob Covington)
Super Mario World - 23 minutes (Mik)
Super Mario World 2 - 3 hours 25 minutes (Cameron)
Mario 64- 2 hours 2 minutes (Philip)
Luigi's Mansion- 4 hours 25 minutes (Daniel)
Mario Sunshine- 5 hours 27 minutes (Philip/Daniel)
Mario Galaxy- (5 hours 45 minutes (Philip, Paul as player2)

Total= 23 Hours 39 minutes

Peace out for now!

GameMarathons.com

2008-07-07T11:26:00.003-05:00

UPDATE: WE WILL BE STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON USTREAM for the Mario Marathon. The video will be embedded here on our website.

If you guys love watching our marathons then you should check out GameMarathons.com .
It gives you a list of all the marathons that have been scheduled, almost like a TV guide. I feel it will be instrumental in getting the word out for us and further broadening our community. Brilliant idea if you ask me.

TheSpeedGamer's have the biggest community of any of the gaming marathon groups, and also are the longest standing. I wanted to thank everyone for making that possible. We promise to only get bigger and better.

I also want to formally announce our Zelda Guinness world record run. We don't have a date set, but I'm getting in contact with Guinness to prepare for our run. We will be doing this event for charity. Keep visiting back for more info!

TheSpeedGamers International

2008-07-01T11:59:00.008-05:00

Update: All prizes have been shipped (except Kohilent, I still need your shipping address), please email me as soon as you get them. Ryan Wall, I sent you a make up prize for last event

In doing these marathons we've gained many friends from around the world. I've asked the opinions of some of the other team members and have formed an idea. Starting with the Metroid Marathon in August, we are going to team up with Dwaggie from England. Dwaggie is going to play Metroid Prime 1(possibly prime2 also) and have his girlfriend (Muir) commentate with him. It will be a smooth transition from our games to his, then back to ours. It will be as if we are all in the same room.

In the future we are considering having other "TheSpeedGamers" teams from around the world host their own events while we broadcast them on our website. These events would happen if, for example, there was a 3 month span that we weren't able to find time to host a marathon. This way we can ensure all our viewers wont go long stretches of time without a gaming marathon, and more importantly, we can raise more money for various charities. This will also cater to a bigger variety of personalities and interests. We'd like to think everyone loves us, but we know everyone is different.

I am not taking requests from emails to host a marathon; they will all be hand picked by our team. One of these marathons probably wont occur for awhile now, not within the next 6 months. Our first guest player from around the world though, will debut during our Metroid Marathon (like I stated above)

Stay tuned for more info! And Don't forget our 48 Hour Super Mario Marathon starting July 11th!

Change in Plans

2008-06-28T23:39:00.006-05:00

UPDATED: JUNE 30th

We are going to add 2 games to our lineup and extend our deadline to 48 hours.

Mario1
Mario Lost Levels
Mario2
Mario3
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island
Mario 64
Luigi's Mansion
Mario Sunshine
Mario Galaxy

10 Games 48 hours.

Sorry about the slow process in getting your prizes. They should arrive soon.

It was brought to our attention that another group has done a Mario Marathon this past weekend. While we salute them on the job they did in raising money for a great cause, it does hurt our upcoming marathon. We're sure we are going to be accused of copying them and other such things but everyone should make sure to keep your cool. I thought about completely changing the Mario Marathon for another franchise, but after thinking on the subject for awhile I came to the conclusion that it would be impractical to switch on such a short notice. We will do our best to keep our marathon fresh and unique. Msico Aka Phillip, informed me he will be donating his copy of Mario Kart Wii (NTSC) for the grand prize in the Mario Marathon. Thank you very much Phil for all your help!

We wont be gaming for a charity this time around. We will use the 48 hours to promote the 72 Hour Metroid Marathon in August which we will be raising money for St. Jude. There is a possibility we will be having a SpeedGamer from overseas take part in the Metroid marathon if everything works our properly; no official word yet.

Upcoming Event News

2008-06-23T10:21:00.016-05:00

Updated: June 30th (The information regarding the Mario Marathon has changed, read the post above for the most updated information)

Hey guys,

I decided it's about time to inform everyone about our upcoming Mario Marathon, and also to give you info about our last event and future events. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who was involved in the Zelda Marathon. It was a huge success even though we fell just short of beating all 7 games in 72 hours. WE WILL COMPLETE ALL 7 IN 72 HOURS. Our next attempt might be months away, but it will be done. We surpassed our monetary goal of $1337 and raised $1355 for Giggles-Therapy! Thanks everyone who was there to supports us, donate, advertise, or was a part of in anyways.

Now, about our Mario Marathon. We will not be taking donations for the Mario marathon. We are going to use this 24 hour marathon to promote our next charity event in August for St. Jude. At that time we will be doing a Metroid marathon. There has been a lot of confusion about what games we will be playing during the Mario marathon so I'll clear that up. 7
1.Mario1
2.Mario2
3.Mario3
4.Super Mario World
5.Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (as chosen by our forums)
6.Mario 64
7.Mario Sunshine
8.Mario Galaxy

If we have any remaining time we will play Luigi's Mansion.

I will be posting the amounts each person donated in our last event eventually so hang tight. They will be posted under the donations list which is on the right side of our web page.

Now I would like to give you guys a tentative schedule for upcoming marathons and charities we will be gaming for.

24 Hour Mario Marathon- July 11th- Non Charity event
72 Hour Metroid Marathon- Early/Mid August- St. Jude (Cancer)
48 Hour Horror compilation Marathon- October 31- Giggles Therapy (Autism)
72 Hour Pokemon (gotta catch em all LOL ) Marathon - Mid December- ACT now (Autism)

I will be shipping prizes out starting this week, so if you are one of our winners please email me to confirm your address. Also, there is one person I never shipped there prize to due to not being able to send virtual console gifts to other countries. I will ship a St. Jude shirt out to you this week.

Lastly, I'm looking in to adding an art gallery to our site. We've received a lot of cool drawings, sigs, banners, and pictures from everyone, and we would like to put them up for everyone to see. Hopefully we can work that out soon!

Another Successful Event!

2008-06-16T21:50:00.012-05:00

UPDATE : Anyone who won a prize, please send us an email with your address info. We have the winners names and emails, so if you try so act as if you won, we will know.

Thanks everyone who watched, donated, advertised, and participated. We raised $1355!!! (Updated We have past LEET status due to Andreas Merkell's $50 donation today, june 18th) for Giggles-Therapy! , a local Autism organization. We got about 95% through the games and are very frustrated we did not complete them. However, we are overall pleased about the event.

I will be updating this post throughout the night and tomorrow. I need to clean up and get some sleep but wanted to at least post something for you guys. I'll post some more in about an hour.

-I posted a list of people who donated on the right side of our website. If your name is not on it and you donated please email me at TheSpeedGamers@gmail.com.

-I will post the amounts that each person donated shortly.

-keep checking back for updates!

Gaming for Autism only minutes away!

2008-06-13T14:41:00.028-05:00

8:00 PM (Friday) - TheSpeedGamers are underway with Britt leading. He is done stretching and ready to go on The Legend Of Zelda. Wish em luck guys! All updates after this one will be made UNDER the streaming videos below.

Watch live video from thespeedgamers's channel on Justin.tv

10:00 PM (Friday) Britt finished The Legend of Zelda at 9:31 and has already started dominating Zelda II (Links Adventure). Hopefull he can do as well with this one as he did the first one!

11:50 PM (Friday) Britt is still working away at Zelda II. He is moving along pretty smoothly. Hopefully he can keep it up. Also we have reached the $100 marker! To hear the donaters names just listen in to the main webcam because I try to read them pretty often. Right now our highest donater is Philip Elder with $65! Oh yah one last thing if any of you guys are having trouble creating an account to talk in the chat room send an email to thespeedgamers@gmail.com with your problem and I will do my best to help you. For any other tips to keep the video and other things running as smooth as possible just listen in to my random advice.

3:33 AM (Saturday) Britt has now completed the Zelda II meaning two games down and five to go! Now Mik has began Zelda A Link to the Past and is about 45 minutes into it. Wish em luck! Also we have reached the $150 marker! Keep up the awesome work guys =) Ill try to update again soon.

6:45 AM (Saturday) Mik handed the controller off to Tyler who is now moving along very smoothly in the game. Hopefully he can keep up the progress.

9:48 AM (Saturday) Tyler is still doing awesome. He is doing his best and pushing strong. Once again wish em luck! Also are donations are currently at $175 so keep the donations coming in!

2:26 PM (Saturday) Tyler has beaten Link to the Past and we are now starting on Ocarina of Time! The Giggles-Therapy donations have reached about $250! Keep it up! guys!

6:23 PM (Saturday) We are halfway through with Ocarina of Time and have raised over $400 for Giggles Therapy so far. Were gonna keep chuggin along, and you guys stay tuned in and keep the donations flowin!

8:00 PM (Saturday) 24 HOURS DOWN! 48 TO GO!!!! Yes 1 day down and 2 left to go. Rob is currently playing Ocarina Of Time and was doing awesome until he ran into a little mishap... yah the Wii froze... but dont worry we brought in Rob's Wii which had a file that was only about 30 minutes behind the current one. So a little time lost but atleast its nothing we cant recover from. We are currently at $433 in donations! So keep up the awesome work guys. I will do my best to keep you guys updated here on the blog but its a little harder since I lost my voice meaning I wont be on the laptop as much but expect something in a few hours because I will make sure Britt keeps things updated.

4:14 am (Sunday) We ran into our first major issue. The capture card causes the screen to be almost completely black to where Majora's Mask is unplayable. Now we are using our webcam to broadcast the game live instead of a direct feed. Majoras Mask is the only game that will have this problem since it is the only game being played on the Nintendo 64. So until we beat Majora's Mask we will have a webcam facing our tv while playing, but still maintaining audio commentary. Rob beat Ocarina of Time at about 2:30 am and we have raised $530 to this point. Currently we are working on getting cam2 up.

5:08 pm (Sunday) Majora's Mask is taking longer than expected... yah I know thats bad to hear. Sorry guys we are doin our best but lack of sleep is getting to us! We will do out best to get back on track. Wish us luck!

11:47 pm (Sunday) With Majora's Mask out of the way there is no stopping us. Tyler is tearing Wind Waker apart now and we are also back to our better looking setup. Hopefully Tyler can keep this pace up so he will be done in no time! Also our donations is currently up to $735 which is awesome. So keep those donations rolling in and get ready to see some crazy stuff =)

1:45 am (Monday) Right now Tyler is still going strong and dominating Wind Waker. Lets hope he can keep this going so we can move onto Twilight Princess. Also if your listening in right now we are taking lots of song requests so feel free to send them in! And remember to keep donating for the cause!!

6:21 am (Monday) Tyler has almost completed Wind Waker! I hope you guys enjoyed his awesome game play along with Wind Waker's awesome graphics. Now get ready for an awesome boss fight and then its time for Twilight Princess!!! Also I would like to point out that we have a total counter so that you guys will know the current total we are at. The counter can be found at the top off this post. Our current total is $867 so keep up the awesome work guys!!!

11:25 am (Monday) Tyler completed Wind Waker around 8:30 so thats means there was only one game left which is Twilight Princess only we ran into one very small problem.... the problem is the person scheduled to play is very ill and can not get make it. But don't worry msico one of our viewers and highest dona tors has drove over to beat twilight princess. Yes you heard me, one of our viewers has now joined TheSpeedGamers and is doing his best to help complete the goal of 7 games in 72 hours. Also we have reached $973 in donations which is really awesome! I would like to write more but I need to get back to the channel. I will try to update again soon and guys keep those donations coming in!

1:00 pm (Monday) Philip (misco) is moving smoothly through Twilight Princess. Lets hope he can keep this pace up. As for the deadline which is currently 8:30 pm (due to technical difficulties which everyone in the channel agreed upon) who knows if we will be close only time will tell. As for donations we are currently at $1071 which is $19 away from how much we raised for St Jude. So keep those donations comming in and sit back and watch Philip speed game through Twilight Princess for the Wii.

2:30 pm (Monday) Philip aka misco is not holding back on Twilight Princess and is just destorying it. Lets hope he can keep this pace up and we will see how things turn out. Also guys we have BEAT our old donation record which was $1090 because now we are currently at $1187 and we don't plan on stopping there so lets keep those donations rolling in. I would also like to point out our two top donators who are both around $200 and the usernames we recognize them as are Muir and Fettouhi so guys if you see them give them many many thanks!

6:00 pm (Monday) So far we have raised $1,222!! Great job guys! Only 3 hours left in the marathon (9.00pm cst) Phillip is just about to start the Desert Temple.

9:00pm (Monday) We got so close to finishing but finished just short. We raised a grand total of $1,305 !

TWO days Left!

2008-06-11T10:14:00.003-05:00

Guys we are almost there! Everyone is working on trimming our times down a little bit. The prizes are still uncertain, but we will have it all worked out by Friday. This is our last leg of promotion till the event, so it's time to go all out. Post in forums, submit stories to websites, anything and everything. Once again, we are gaming for Autism this time around, and 100% of donations will go to Giggles-Therapy. Their website is www.Giggles-therapy.com

I also wanted to thank the Zelda informer forums real quick for helping promote us on their website.

Keep up the good work guys.

-TheSpeedGamers

TheSpeedGamers@gmail.com

A Big Thanks to TheWiicast

2008-06-03T11:17:00.004-05:00

Hi guys,

Sorry for not updating lately, we have all been pretty busy. TheSpeedGamer's promo is in this weeks episode of the Wiicast! Like I've said before in other posts, Will D'angelo puts on an awesome show and we owe him very much for all the help he has given us. A big percentage of our forum members and viewers are from Will's mentioning of us on his show and blog.

Check out his website and be sure to check out his show at www.Thewiicast.com He gives you everything from news and rumors and all sorts of information concerning the Wii in his weekly episodes. It's my number one stop for the Wii lowdown.

Our event is only about a week and half away! Guys keep up the good work!

~TheSpeedGamers

The Friday Update

2008-05-16T16:56:00.005-05:00

We've been trying to find an Autism organization to whom we would donate.This time around we wanted to donate to a local organization. We decided to donate to Giggles-Therapy located in the DFW Texas area. For more information on them you can visit their website www.Giggles-Therapy.com

and now, without any further delay, we FINALLY bring you our promo!

Thanks Killer340 for uploading our video to youtube!

News Coming Friday!

2008-05-15T06:12:00.000-05:00

Friday at 5 pm cst we will name the Autism organization that we will be donating to. Also, along with the organization name, we will finally unveil our SpeedGamers Promo/trailer/video.
So everyone check back Friday @5pm cst for the updates!

~TheSpeedGamers

Gamers don't kill prostitutes for money

2008-04-30T00:35:00.001-05:00

Tearing through seven games in 72 hours and raising $1090 for their efforts through online donations after posting videos of their progress on the web, the Arlington, Texas-based friends donated the funds to a leading cancer research institute in the U.S.A.

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Autism organization announcement coming soon

2008-04-23T20:05:00.000-05:00

Next week we are going to meet with a local autism organization and discuss our fund raiser. If all goes well we will be able to officially announce our decision on what organization we will be raising money for late next week. I will keep you guys up to date on whats going on as soon as we know.

~Britt

Thank you TheWiiCast

2008-04-21T21:11:00.000-05:00

We have recently been put on the front page of www.thewiicast.com. Thanks Ferenc for getting us on the front page , and also a big thanks to Will D'angelo. Will is the creator of TheWiicast and has a weekly broadcast that gives you the scoop on all things Wii. Anything from reviews,news, and rumors, if it deals with the Wii he has it. I started watching shortly after the release of the Wii (I believe a week after) and have been hooked ever since. Will helped us out immensely last time in the promotion of our first event. I highly recommend you check out is website www.thewiicast.com

Letter/Receipt and more from St. Jude

2008-04-20T18:17:00.000-05:00

This letter was addressed to me but it's for all of you guys who watched us, donated, promoted for us, helped us in any way. Any recognition we receive is you guys too.

Click the photos to see enlarged

TheSpeedGamer's Gaming for Autism Promo

2008-04-13T15:32:00.001-05:00

For A High Resolution version of the trailer CLICK HERE

I posted a High resolution video of the trailer and also a youtube version since youtube is the most popular of all video hosting websites. Credit goes to Cameron for the trailer. He did a really good job, check it out!

UPDATE:

Ferenc has also made a Promo for us! Great job guys, thanks for all your help. You are all doing an awesome job of spreading the word.

For A High Resolution Version of Ferenc's Promo click here!

Both of Marth18's promos will be added win he's finished his second, in case anyone was curious.

Also, we should the Autism organization that we will be donating to by next week. For anyone interested in the receipt for St. Judes, were hoping to of gotten one by the end of this week. I called them last week and they said it has already been sent. If you would like immediate gratification, call 1-800-4stjude and you can ask how much Richard Lariviere (Richard is my first name) raised from Arlington, Texas.

Link Wins! 7 Zelda Titles in 72 hours Returns June 6th!

2008-04-03T19:55:00.001-05:00

Update: Our next marathon has been pushed back a week to Friday June 13th.

Link beat Samus 3-1 in a best of 5 Brawl. This means we will attempt 7 Zelda titles in 72 hours again starting Friday June 13th at 8pm cst through the 9th. The charity we will be gaming for is uncertain, although we do know it will be for autism;email us at thespeedgamers@gmail.com with suggestions. WE WILL NOT FAIL! The Metroid marathon will be played most likely in August.

Heres the list of Zelda games in case you missed our first marathon:

The Legend of Zelda (NES)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES)
Zelda A Link to the Past (SNES)
Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)
Zelda Majoras Mask (N64)
Zelda Windwaker (Gamecube)
Zelda Twilight Princes (Wii)

We received our St. Jude prizes.

Heres a High resolution picture of the prizes. HERE

We have told St. Jude that we will be doing another marathon for them in August (our Metroid marathon).

Thanks everybody for watching tonight! I will update the site again tomorrow with a new theme, pictures, and more!
TheSpeedGamers

P.s
To the two Canadian fellows who couldn't receive your virtual console prizes. I will email you shortly in regard to your prizes.

Pre Event

2008-03-28T11:38:00.000-05:00

We are going to hold a Pre event to determine and then announce our next marathon. A level 9 Samus and Link are going to fight it out on Super Smash Bro's Brawl in a best of 5 match, 2 stock, no items, on Final Destination. The winner's series is which marathon will be taking place on June 6th-9th. The loser's series will be played later on in the summer. We will be gaming for Autism in our next marathon regardless.

Also, we will be reading emails during the match and taking 5 challengers after the conlcusion of Samus v.s Link

Come to our website on Thursday Arpil 3rd at 9 PM cst to watch the epic battle. You can also catch a glimpse of what our new capture card looks like in action!

Thanks,
TheSpeedGamers