My goal is to help raise $50,000 in ~1 hour for cancer research during
AGDQ 2016 but the effort involves a lot of expenses. I am currently projecting the following expenses for asassyknitter and I for
our involvement at AGDQ 2016:
Equipment / games purchases (projected): $245
AGDQ 2016 fee: $40
Airfare: $1,471
Accommodations: $891
Dining out / groceries (projected): $350
Total (projected): $2,997
Some quick notes: Hardware costs for the DS bot are high and we need a couple pricey games this year. Registration is free for runners for AGDQ 2016 so we're only paying for asassyknitter's registration. Airfare is slightly higher than it was
a year ago largely due to AGDQ 2016 registration being so delayed and other factors but overall the prices aren't unreasonably high for the dates we are traveling. Accommodations are higher than last year because we're staying for a full 9 nights in order to volunteer with setup and teardown of the game room. Food costs are higher both because we're going for a few more days and because and we've discovered (ok,
I've discovered) that it's not a good idea to eat the cheapest food you can find right before a presentation in front of 100,000+ people.
We have
endeavored come up short to save up ahead of time and we are
fully only partially prepared to cover the full $3K of these projected costs personally; if you feel led to help offset our costs I will accept donations with much thanks via
Bitcoin at 1CknXDyb5jTG1Nw1hs437r6fnz7npBSEfA (consider getting a free
coinbase.com wallet) or through
this PayPal donation link. Due to some recent medical expenses that weren't covered by our insurance and some unplanned maintenance expenses we will likely need to dip into our emergency fund and/or sell a pinball machine to cover our costs but don't take this as a guilt trip or me begging; I say this to reassure everyone that we will do whatever it takes to get to AGDQ 2016 to present but we would be genuinely thankful for any assistance we receive.
As before, I can offer donors their choice of any games on
this games list which includes a few 3DS games and other goodies and we will pass on at least 10% of any donations we receive to PCF during AGDQ 2016. After the event I'll provide a full post-mortem to provide transparency of costs (the
SGDQ 2015 post-mortem is here). Donors who have my thanks include:
* A $50 donation from keylie - thanks!
* A $150 donation from endrift - I definitely appreciate it.
* A $100 donation from someone who wished to remain anonymous - this came in right when I really needed it, thanks!
* A $20 donation from dama1138 - I'm glad you got your own NES/SNES replay board going!
* A $30 donation came in from the faraway land where Reinhard harkens from - thanks!
* Someone who has been a fantastic anonymous supporter for the past three marathons gave $60 - most awesome.
* Out of the blue $10 came in from someone who opted to remain anonymous. Thank you.
* A TASVideos member who asked to remain anonymous kindly assisted with a $500 donation! Thank you.
* $50 came in from someone who isn't sure whether they want to be anonymous or not but I'm thankful all the same.
* A $1,000 donation from a donor who has helped out substantially in past marathons came in. You have been absolutely amazing, thanks!
* A $100 Bitcoin donation hit from an anonymous source, for which I am grateful.
* A fellow TASVideos member donated $250 but hasn't yet given permission to be outed - thanks either way. :)
* Your name here! :)
Thank you again to all who have supported my wife and I in the past and thanks for the continued support!
