I've been a lot less active here lately due to work ramping up and even busier since the this current pandemic. (I'm working remotely and since I'm single and don't have kids, I do a lot of extra work at times to cover for people dealing with family and children during these "interesting times")
With social distancing, isolation/quarantine measures in place it is currently impossible (and highly unsafe) for large in person events I attend to happen... which brings me to the topic of this post
"LANFest is hosting online charity video game tournaments to raise money for organizations battling Covid-19. Since COVID19 has stopped us from meeting in person, we decided to fight back."
https://lanfest.com/
They have multiple online events and charity drives benefiting research hospitals and charity of each event's choice
I'm attending "Infernalwan" this weekend
There is a twitch steam of tournaments going on here https://www.twitch.tv/lanfest
If you're interesting in helping out you could donate to my current event here
https://lanfest.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=1044
Northwest Food Bank is the local charity chosen by this chapter and we have 5k goal
https://lanfest.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=512
There is also a 20K goal national charity
https://lanfest.com/gamersfightingcovid19
https://lanfest.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=508
50% goes towards Vanderbilt University Medical Center a research hospital
https://www.vumc.org/
https://research.vanderbilt.edu/
50% goes to local chapters of LANFEST which distribute funds to charity of their choice (which consists of various food banks/food distribution related charities)
Volunteers of America Western Washington Food Bank-Emeral City, Seattle WA
Foodlink of Western NY- RoCLAN, Rochester NY
Austin Pets Alive-LANFest Austin, Austin TX
North Texas Food Bank-LAN All Night, Dallas TX
Oregon Food Bank-LANFest Northwest, Hillsboro OR
Help and Hope Center-LANFest Colorado, Castle Rock CO
Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services-LANFest Sacramento, CA
RoadRunner Food Bank-LANFest New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Feeding Tampa Bay-LANFest Tampa, Tampa FL
Community Emergency Service-BelowZero, Minneapolis MN
St. Louis Food Bank-Laclede's LAN, St. Louis MO
FeedMore WNY-MassiveLAN, Buffalo NY
The Food Pantries for the Capital District-ATRLAN, Albany NY
Families Unlimited Network-InfernaLAN, Puyallup WA
Atlanta Community Food Bank-LANFest Atlanta, GA
Chicago Community COVID-19 Response-WindyCity, Chicago IL
Long Beach Rescue Mission-Beachcon, Long Beach CA
I won't have any interesting pictures of this event but here's where I'm playing my games from
