Just some highlights from the video. Siv HD raised $107K for SavetheChildren in just 12 hours and $1 million dollars with the multiplier buff that USAID gives. INCREDIBLE. This is just from one gaming community, and one that has been regarded as toxic for quite some time. During the stream, Siv was pushing no one to subscribe to his stream, and instead use that money to donate. For those who did subscribe during his stream, he took that money and added it back into the donations instead of keeping it for himself. Throughout the day, he was playing with viewers of his stream on his team. Before each game he would ask those in twitch chat to post their in game names and he would invite them.
His efforts even got him on the front page of a regional paper in the Netherlands. This is the link to a forum post about it
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=429090
This is the link to the papers website article, although it is a little short
http://www.ed.nl/regio/eindhoven/gam...doel-1.4004093
Video Games Charity Event (Proof that video games can do good)
) and play a fair bit as well (even though I suck
) The thing that is different about Siv from the majority of the other streamers is that he isn't a pro (far from it!) Most streamers are at least Platinum tier, if not Diamond tier (Tiers are bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond and then challenger) Siv floats around the silver and gold difficulty in matches. He doesn't play the game to win, he plays to have fun, and the video clearly shows that IMO. Siv was doing this charity event for gamingforgood.net in partnership with SavetheChildren charity, and lots of other streamers (primarily WoW) were participating as well, although none hit the mark that Siv did. I watched the majority of this stream throughout the day last Sunday, and it was just amazing. For 12 straight hours his stream was holding around the 60K viewer mark on twitch. Amazing.
Originally Posted by Prude
at the nes Punk play nes games for 24 hrs to raise money too. I think this year's is over though,but it's nice to see people use games to fund great causes.
