[2020] Thank you for the Extra Life support

Hi everyone,

First, thank you for the support for my own Gw2 Extra Life campaign.

But, really, thank you to everyone that helped out with the many, different Extra Life campaigns that went on this weekend. So many of you shared the links, told your friends, tuned in, and donated. Every bit of it helped. In one day, the Extra Life organization was able to generate $6.3M for children's hospitals!

Specifically, though, I want to thank Kit The Traveler. She tuned in almost right at the start of the stream. I am sure you can imagine that moderating a Twitch stream is not an easy task. Kit just started handling the moderation on her own. She took it upon herself to remind people that we were here for charity. That it wasn't an officially sponsored ArenaNet event, and that therefore I wasn't able to talk about unannounced info. I noticed this, and so I tossed her a moderator tag. I never reached out to her beforehand. This wasn't anything planned. I just figured it would be easier for her to have the tag, and she could wield it as long as she was watching. She stayed the entire 24 hours. And, when she was also in game, she threw up links to map chat. She kept the whole Twitch chat running.

Thank you, Kit. It was a tremendous help to have you there.

Also, I still have one unfinished task from the stream. About half way through we met our goal. So, I offered out to Twitch chat to come up with things they wanted me to do, and I would do them if we managed to double our goal. I agreed to a few things ....

• A "friend" that I was streaming with suggested I wear the mask from my most recent Halloween costume. Thanks bud.

• Someone from Twitch chat suggested I dance on the stream. (I chose to do the Norn dance).

• Another dear "friend" of mine was watching in Twitch chat. They suggested I wear a Steelers jersey. You see, I am a die hard Hawks fan, and I will never forget February 5th, 2006. Also, yes, the jersey is way too small, but it's the only one I could find.

I agreed to do all of these things if we reached the goal. And reach that goal we did! But, we reached it in the final minutes of the stream, and I was delirious from sleep and elated from the excitement. I totally forgot about my promises until the next afternoon when I woke up.

So, for anyone who was watching the Extra Life stream that day. This is for you. Enjoy your .... reward?

Thank you again to all who were involved this weekend

Les