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X ATM092
The Hatchery Team Liquid
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Posted - 2013.01.31 14:48:00 -
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Dear CCPs and general forum goers at large, I have a proposal. Not so long ago one of the members of the mighty Hatchery ran an Iron Man (2.4 mile swim in the sea, 112 mile cycle, 26 mile run) to raise money for a cancer charity and being the loyal bros that we followed his training and progress and sponsored him and it was a terrific success. And we were all content being proud of him and feeling vicariously good about ourselves. Unfortunately though, he was not satisfied with this and demanded more of us.
The villain in question (a Mr Big Monkey in eve) has now challenged us to join him in doing a Tough Mudder (a team assault course challenge) as a corp for charity. This seems like an exceptionally good idea and a chance for us all to meet each other, hang out and test our eve bonds in the real world. If we can pull it off it'll mean corpmates coming from around Europe and the Americas to England for a few days of exhausting pain followed, most likely, by excessive alcohol consumption and maybe a LAN roam.
So, that's the background, but I imagine you're wondering how it involves CCP in any way (unless you've read the title in which case you know where I'm going with this). I would like CCP to sponsor us by running a PLEX for good for our entry into the event with all the proceeds going to the charities we raise money for. Furthermore I am willing to seed the PLEX for good sponsorship with a personal donation of 1000 PLEX (560,000,000,000 isk) to guarantee that we raise at least $15,000 for charity. So even if nobody else feels like donating we will still raise a colossal (to my innocent student mind) amount of money for some really great causes. If CCP are unwilling to run a PLEX for good campaign for our charities but are willing to sponsor our attempt by offering a cashout of the PLEX we donate as a team then that is also acceptable and we will raise as many PLEX as possible (still at least 1000 from me) to donate. All money will be handled by CCP etc and given directly to the charity, I don't expect CCP to use me as a trusted third party, not a scam.
If, as we hope, CCP are willing to run a PLEX for good then I'm hoping the $15000 minimum will be dwarfed by the amount we can raise from the community. We are willing to blog our training and progress for the event and look forward to showing how the bonds of a space empire can have a big positive impact on the lives of real people and achieve something pretty incredible. Naturally we'll document the trials of the event itself for an epic blog post afterwards. If a CCP rep wants to show up and video us falling over, getting electrocuted and the rest of it then we're on board with that, it's for a good cause.
If that hasn't convinced CCP then I'll get pragmatic and list why you should absolutely hit this. - Really, really good press from charitable donations that you don't actually need to pay for. - Even if you don't run a PLEX for good you can still make a considerable charitable donation from my PLEX alone which again, you don't actually need to pay for. - Potential new subs from showing how awesome eve corps can be. - A chance to show how different CCP and the eve community are from other MMOs and the way that CCP work with eve players to create what is undoubtably the best MMO community. - A lot of money for charity. - It's been years since the last one, why the hell not do some good. - Didn't want (or indeed own) those PLEX anyway.
We're looking at entering the south west UK Tough Mudder on 21-22 September 2013. Link is here. http://toughmudder.co.uk/events/south-west-2013/
Some money from the entry fee of the Tough Mudder goes to Help for Heroes, a British charity which does some amazing things to help injured soldiers and their families recover and rebuild their lives. I would ideally like to raise money for a number of other charities as well though. Perhaps, if CCP agree to our proposal, people could vote for a shortlist of charities and then, if they had a specific charity in mind, write it in the description in their contract. Just a thought.
If anyone has any questions then feel free to ask them here. CCP know my email address I assume so they can email me regarding that. I'll tell our keen team members to post confirming that they're doing this. |
tofucake prime
AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse
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Posted - 2013.01.31 15:17:00 -
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Hey ho everybody. Along with Mr Kwark and Mr Monkey, I am one of those rising to the challenge of Tough Mudder South West. I've been overweight for as long as I can remember. I never really thought I would be able to lose weight or do any of this kind of stuff before. But watching my corp mate Big Monkey go from couch potato to Iron Man in 8 months, I said "**** that noise" and committed to getting healthier.
Personal health issues, general laziness, visits to my doctor, reddit, a huge community on Team Liquid itself [dedicated to fitness], friends...none of that got me motivated before. A random guy I'd never met from a video game did. I know of others in EVE who are also partly responsible for this (though it's not my information so I won't say who) as well.
Maybe it's weird that a random guy 3000 miles away from a video game got me motivated at last. Maybe it's weird that I'm telling everyone about this, as I'm generally a pretty private person.
But maybe it's not.
We all decided to do the Tough Mudder amongst ourselves, just because. But when Kwark said "why not ask CCP?" we got all the more enthusiastic. Getting healthier was awesome. Meeting each other at last was going to be super cool ("fetch", if you will). Beating one of the hardest physical events was going to be even better. But if we can do all that and at the same time raise money to get other people healthy, that's just the ****.
We really would like CCP to help us out with this. And if they let us, we really hope the rest of the EVE Universe will help as well.
And if they don't, you can all still join us at Tough Mudder. We welcome any of you to join us.
And to start off the personal chronicles of our progress:
Male 6 ft / 1.82m 25 years old Start date: January 1, 2013 Start weight: 270 lbs / 122 kg Current weight: 239.2 lbs, 108.5 kg
Started with a new diet: keto. I cut out all sugars and nearly all carbs. And also nearly all alcohol :( This weekend I will start exercising and training my body for Tough Mudder. |
Mandini Arcturus
The Hatchery Team Liquid
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Posted - 2013.01.31 16:46:00 -
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While I won't be running, there's a good chance I'll fly over from the US to watch EVE nerds running, and also to make fun of Kwark's BW play in person. :)
Edit: Oh and I would also donate PLEX to this for sure. |
aetherguy881
Malformed Entity C.L.O.N.E.
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Posted - 2013.01.31 23:05:00 -
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Our alliance has some guys doing P980X and Insanity. They're updating each other on our forums. |
Chessur
Life of lively full life thx to shield battery
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Posted - 2013.01.31 23:05:00 -
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I will participate in this.
6'1" 170 lbs Dead LIft: 330lbs Bench: 185lbs Back Squat: 315 lbs Clean: 185lbs 5K Time: 18:00
I hope this goes through because I will fly to the UK for this even, as it could be awesome! |
Tombes Gunner
Life of lively full life thx to shield battery
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Posted - 2013.01.31 23:41:00 -
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I am also in! This is an awesome motive for me to get up of my *** and get active. It is more so and incredible opportunity to raise a lot of money for a charity or multiple charities. And I really hope that CCP and the EvE online community get behind this.
As for the personal statistics I am unsure for now as I have not started the intensive workouts that I will need to succeed in this and therefore have not looked at my weight height etc. I will gladly update this post when I start my vigorous working out next week. |
Altaen
Calamitous-Intent
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Posted - 2013.02.01 14:39:00 -
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Good luck guys. Very cool way to spend your spriches. |
X ATM092
The Hatchery Team Liquid
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Posted - 2013.02.03 02:44:00 -
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:( No CCP interest? |
tofucake prime
AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse
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Posted - 2013.02.03 14:02:00 -
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Perhaps they have to go through all sorts of different departments and such before they reply. I'd give it another 2 weeks at least before calling them out. |
Seranova Farreach
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.02.03 14:11:00 -
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no, plexAIDs and other things of the like are detremental to the plex economy |
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Mikhael Taron
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.02.03 14:42:00 -
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Seranova Farreach wrote:no, plexAIDs and other things of the like are detremental to the plex economy
This means the price on the eve market will drop and she won't get as much for her plex as she does now.
You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time. You can make a fool out of yourself anytime.
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X ATM092
The Hatchery Team Liquid
55
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Posted - 2013.02.03 15:38:00 -
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Seranova Farreach wrote:no, plexAIDs and other things of the like are detremental to the plex economy And how about the liquidation of PLEX already owned by an individual and removed from the economy? Would that be detrimental? Or would right click selling 1000 PLEX be more so? |
Rroff
The Xenodus Initiative. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2013.02.03 15:41:00 -
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Really you need to contact CCP directly if you want to organise something like this - a dev might see the thread and get the ball rolling but its likely to be a lot slower. |
X ATM092
The Hatchery Team Liquid
55
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Posted - 2013.02.03 15:43:00 -
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I emailed them as well. |
ORCACommander
Obsidian Firelance Technologies
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Posted - 2013.02.03 17:49:00 -
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Mikhael Taron wrote:Seranova Farreach wrote:no, plexAIDs and other things of the like are detremental to the plex economy This means the price on the eve market will drop and she won't get as much for her plex as she does now.
no she means the opposite. every time ccp has done something like this it removes a massive amount of plex from the market driving prices up by people looking to profiteer out it. |
X ATM092
The Hatchery Team Liquid
55
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Posted - 2013.02.03 18:11:00 -
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If CCP are unwilling to run a PLEX for good then we could still do a private PLEX for sponsorship agreement. I already own the PLEX mentioned above. |
Firebolt145
Calamitous-Intent
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Posted - 2013.02.03 18:38:00 -
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Really hope CCP consider this in some form.
Will be making a trip down there come September too ^_^ |
0migawa
Life of lively full life thx to shield battery
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Posted - 2013.02.07 18:14:00 -
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Would love to see a response from CCP. I don't see anything wrong with this idea, it's basically free positive publicity. |
Firebolt145
Calamitous-Intent
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Posted - 2013.02.13 23:56:00 -
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Still no word? :( |
X ATM092
The Hatchery Team Liquid
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Posted - 2013.02.15 00:18:00 -
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They said they'd get back to me, nothing beyond that. |
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Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
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Posted - 2013.02.15 02:09:00 -
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This may be the first time someone has ever said it, but I think Features & Ideas is actually the wrong forum for this. |
Firebolt145
Calamitous-Intent
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Posted - 2013.02.15 09:45:00 -
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It's technically an idea, but I guess it doesn't belong in the 'Technology and Research Center'. Hadn't noticed that before. GG OP. |
tofucake prime
AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse
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Posted - 2013.04.11 14:59:00 -
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Well?
In continuance with the promise to blog about progress, I'll give an update: Down to 220lbs, been doing CrossFit/selfimposedtorture for a couple weeks details: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=406015
Surely some sort of discussion has happened? Even if it was one CCP employee talking to themself. |
Jacid
nul-li-fy Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2013.04.11 16:08:00 -
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Defiantly worth a bump, I have a tough mudder planned in my future.. just not in europe but good luck with getting the donation things sorted |
X ATM092
The Not Hatchery Corporation
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Posted - 2013.05.23 01:09:00 -
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Logged in after a fairly long absence from doing much eve related and saw that there had been a reply to this. Just to update, we're going ahead and doing this anyway without CCP help. |
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