Website Link: http://www.ffandmore.com/marathon.html
Well, hello again my fellow chocobos. Welcome to the thread that will be the planning and information hub for TSG's 4th Annual Community Week-long Final Fantasy Marathon. The first was organized by Masamune and Carnage, the second by Masamune and myself(slightly), and the third by Tanexion and myself. This time around, Tan's a bit busy with school, which is totally understandable, but both he and/or Masa are more than welcome to assist in setting up this marathon once more. If not, it's all good. I got this.
There's a few specific goals I'd like to stress for this marathon. The emphasis will be largely on community unison, something I feel has been slightly lacking in this awesome forum in the past few months. I won't be arranging a community FF marathon in the summer of 2013, so we all need to make this one go out with an explosion larger and more powerful than Zeromus's Big Bang. Also, while I am the head organizer of this event currently, I am totally open to any ideas or people who would like to help out.
As some of you know, I'm also an LPer on YouTube. It's not much, I suppose, and definitely nothing to brag about, but I'm going to do my utmost to get some LPers that I'm friends with to come and commentate as well. Not only would it bring more people in, but there's many LPers who whole-heartedly support TSG and would gladly help out the community. So I might ask some of the ones that I know, and if they agree, then awesome. I also want all of you! You want to be a commentator? I don't care if you've got less than 10 posts and no medals, put your name down on this thread! You're more than welcome to! There's no better way to get involved than to chat with people and do weird stuff on camera for three hours. Currently, there's no time-frame yet for commentators, except that they will be in 3-hour shifts. Volunteering now simply means that I'll mark you down on a tentative list that will help me organize the schedule as time grows nearer. Of course, you may un-volunteer if you need to. Crap happens.
As far as players go, these are currently even more tentative. However, I have a list of people who have already requested to play certain games. Here's what we're looking at:
[spoiler=Game and Player List:1mqvyroe]---------MAIN SERIES---------
Final Fantasy: Emptyeye2112 (tentative), megakidicarus (backup)
Final Fantasy II: KeyPaladin, frenchhorndude(backup)
Final Fantasy III: megakidicarus, KatTheBard(tentative backup) (NES)
Final Fantasy IV: Blaumagier, Masamune (tentative backup) (SNES)?
Final Fantasy V: KeyPaladin
Final Fantasy VI: rinimt, megakidicarus (GBA/SNES)
Final Fantasy VII: puwexil (PSX)
Final Fantasy VIII: Curse (PSX), Poxnor (backup)
Final Fantasy IX: PrincessLuna, Masamune (tentative backup) (PSX)
Final Fantasy X: Caracarn (PS2)
Final Fantasy XII: wee187 (PS2)
Final Fantasy XIII: Tanexion (PS3)
---------OPTIONAL-----------
Final Fantasy X-2: Caracarn (PS2)
Final Fantasy XIII-2: Neviutz, Zoning1138, and DRsynj
Final Fantasy Tactics: SpectacleG (PSX)
Crisis Core -FFVII-: eziothenarutard (PSP)
Dirge of Cerberus -FFVII-: Zeikuu (PS2)
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest: Nate Nanjo (SNES)
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years: Blaumagier (WiiWare/PSP)[/spoiler:1mqvyroe]
[spoiler=Game Schedule:1mqvyroe]Just to reclarify, these are all in Central Time.
Stream A:
20th Friday 6PM - 21st Saturday 5AM - Poxnor - FFVIII
21st Saturday 5AM - 21st Saturday 4PM - Puwexil - FFVII
21st Saturday 5PM - 22nd Sunday 7AM - wee187 - FFXII
22nd Sunday 7AM - 22nd Sunday 7PM - EmptyEye2112 - FFI
22nd Sunday 7PM - 23rd Monday 3AM - megakidicarus - FFIII
23rd Monday 3AM - 23rd Monday 2PM - Blaumagier - FFIV
23rd Monday 2PM - 24th Tuesday 4AM - rinimt - FFVI
24th Tuesday 4AM - 24th Tuesday 6PM - Tanexion - FFXIII
24th Tuesday 6PM - 24th Tuesday 9PM - Blaumagier - FFIV Interlude
24th Tuesday 9PM - 25th Wednesday 9AM - Caracarn - FFX
25th Wednesday 9AM - 25th Wednesday 11PM - megakidicarus - FFVI
25th Wednesday 11PM - 26th Thurdsay 7AM - KeyPaladin - FFV
26th Thursday 7AM - 26th Thursday 8PM - PrincessLuna - FFIX
26th Thursday 8PM - 27th Friday 4AM - KeyPaladin - FFII
27th Friday 4AM - 6PM: Catch-up time and/or filler. Stream B will be on more Friday. In the final hour, I may do a run of some FF games final bosses over again to end it off.
Stream B (starting times are extremely flexible):
20th Friday 6PM - Neviutz, Zoning1138, and DRsynj - FFXIII-2
21st Saturday 12PM - EziotheNarutard - Crisis Core
22nd Sunday 12PM - SpectacleG - FFTactics
23rd Monday 6PM - Caracarn - FFX-2
24th Tuesday [Anytime] - Zeikuu - Dirge of Cerberus
25th Wednesday - 26th Thursday - Open Filler Time (Blaumagier's TAY takes priority if he wishes to play)
27th Friday - Open Filler Time
Rest is catch up/filler[/spoiler:1mqvyroe]
[spoiler=OPEN Commentator Schedule:1mqvyroe]ALL TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL TIME
Friday July 20th
6PM - 9PM - wee187
9PM - 12AM - rinimt
Saturday July 21st
12AM - 3AM - eziothenarutard
3AM - 6AM - otter
6AM - 9AM - colwin1
9AM - 12PM - Araman
12PM - 3PM - ArgonMatrix (tentative)
3PM - 6PM - Mr. Olimario
6PM - 9PM - rudy06
9PM - 12AM - BuizelBro, rudy06 (tentative backup)
Sunday July 22nd
12AM - 3AM - notmman
3AM - 6AM - Magichands
6AM - 9AM - ASephiroth
9AM - 12PM - colwin1
12PM - 3PM - UltimateHero13
3PM - 6PM - TheFearowofTime
6PM - 9PM - rudy06
9PM - 12AM - Ice
Monday July 23rd
12AM - 3AM - narutomoon
3AM - 6AM - Magichands
6AM - 9AM - Zeikuu (tentative)
9AM - 12PM - Daskichan and Nijntjes
12PM - 3PM - ctizz36
3PM - 6PM - lloppunny
6PM - 9PM - jakepeter
9PM - 12AM - EziotheNarutard
Tuesday July 24th
12AM - 3AM - FlibberMagee
3AM - 6AM - Essentia
6AM - 9AM - ASephiroth
9AM - 12PM - untuxable
12PM - 3PM - rinimt
3PM - 6PM - colwin1
6PM - 9PM - the1stpkmnfan
9PM - 12AM - TheGuyWithKnowName
Wednesday July 25th
12AM - 3AM - EziotheNarutard
3AM - 6AM - FlibberMagee
6AM - 9AM - Masamune
9AM - 12PM - untuxable
12PM - 3PM - colwin1
3PM - 6PM - WolfAmadeus
6PM - 9PM - TheGuyWithKnowName
9PM - 12AM - EziotheNarutard
Thursday July 26th
12AM - 3AM - narutomoon
3AM - 6AM - Magichands
6AM - 9AM - Katsu Hikari
9AM - 12PM - UltimateHero13
12PM - 3PM - rinimt
3PM - 6PM - eziothenarutard
6PM - 9PM - TheGuyWithKnowName
9PM - 12AM - jefferlope
Friday July 27th
12AM - 3AM - narutomoon
3AM - 6AM - Magichands
6AM - 9AM - Mr. Olimario
9AM - 12PM - colwin1
12PM - 3PM - Daskichan
3PM - 6PM - wee187[/spoiler:1mqvyroe]
[spoiler=Tentative Commentator Volunteers(Outdated):1mqvyroe]wee187
Zeikuu
Dannydaw003
Daskichan & Nii
eziothenarutard
the1stpkmnfan
Rudy06
Mr. Olimario
KatTheBard
kemimets23
notmman
Ice and Gridlock
Muzy72
megakidicarus
Johne
PLUMPKIN
shinra114
TheFearowofTime
SpectacleG
NYVideoGamesFreak
BuizelBro (tentative)
Iron Punkle
Araman
bradff7
colwin1[/spoiler:1mqvyroe]
If you volunteer to play a game, there are a few necessary things. One, you must keep in contact with me. If you suddenly don't say anything to me for over a month and a half about still being able to play, I will consider you un-volunteered. We've had issues with this in the past, and this is one of the steps I'm taking to counter this. You can see my contact info at the bottom of this post. Also, as currently with the case of Final Fantasy VI, there are two people requesting to play. Many solution are available, one being that both could play different parts of a game. This would mainly be worked out between the players. I know megakidicarus has played FFVI for this marathon in the past, and rinimt is definitely up to the job as well. There may definitely be backup gamers as well should the main player be unable to play for whatever reason. However, to be a backup player, the same rule applies: you must keep in contact with me, or I will remove from the list. It doesn't mean you can't sign up again, but for the sake of my sanity and organization, I am doing this.
There is a rule I'm going to be adding as far as commentary shifts go, and that is that you must either have a webcam or some computer screen capture device to commentate. I'd really appreciate it if there were no "black screen" commentators this year. So either you show yourself with a webcam, or you show your screen and allow for some interaction. This just makes the marathon a bit easier to watch for the viewers on the whole.
Another rule, and equally important, if you plan on having a Skype call in your commentary shift, not including yourself, you may have no more than two people in the call with you. So there can be you, and two additional people in the call. This is mainly because I've gotten some complaints about the past two marathons where there wasn't enough chat interaction and too much of the commentators chatting to themselves in the call. I know it's true, because I also did it, and was in a few Skype calls like this, not really aware of that problem at the time. Now I am though, so I'm laying that rule down.
Lastly, the charity. This is currently undecided, but I've been wondering if it's possible to play for "To Write Love On Her Arms", better known as TWLOHA. They're a "non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery."
Estimated Time Frame:
Friday July 20th, 2012 - Friday July 27th, 2012
6PM Central Time
My Contact Information:
You may either:
-Send me a PM via TSG
-Send me a PM via YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/wee187 )
-Email me at wee187@gmail.com
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