Miggy's Highlander Charity Draft Cup - $200+ Prize Pool, Goal of $2000!
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All merchandise proceeds will go towards charity: https://merch.firesidecasts.tv/collections/more-tf-charity-cup-2024
Rally round, come and watch this cup! In memory of Stephen “Miggy” Chavez, the Miggy’s Gift foundation is a charity committed to the awareness and education of Melanoma skin cancer.
Fireside Casts and more.tf are hosting a Highlander Charity Cup to honor Miggy, a former competitive TF2 player who passed away from Melanoma in 2017. Featuring some of the best North American Competitive TF2 players, 4 captains will create a team of 9 players each and duel it out in a 4 team double elimination bracket with $200 in keys on the line (with a potential prize pool increase). Come tune in and support a great cause.
Tournament Information
**Format:** 2-Day Highlander Draft Cup **Date:** Saturday, April 13th & Sunday, April 14th **Time:** Players/Teams will need to be ready to play at 5:45 PM EST Match will start at 6:00 PM EST **Goal:** Charity event, with initial 600$ matched and a goal of 2000$ for Miggy's Gift. **Summary:** 48 Advanced+ players , 4 captains, 4 teams in a double elimination bracket. 4 Captains will pick 9 Class Specific Starters and 3 all class backups. Captains will be announced after the signups are closed. Prize Pool: 200$+ In TF2 keys between 1st and 2nd place teams (80/20 split)
Schedule
Saturday, April 13th:
4:00 PM: Stream countdown begins 4:30 PM: Opening and event overview 4:45 PM: Tribute to Miggy 5:00 PM: Team drafting 5:45 PM: Team map pick bans 6:00 PM: Matches start | Team A vs Team C, Team B vs Team D 1st Matches End Winners of Round 1 play each other after pick bans, Losers of Round 1 Play each other after pick bans. Stream ends after Round 2's are done
Sunday, April 14th:
5:00 PM: Stream countdown and day recap 5:30 PM: Event continuation 5:45 PM: Tribute/Recap 6:00 PM: Lower Bracket Finals LBF (Round 3) ends FINALS, map pick bans | Winner of LBF and Winner UBF play One singular finals to end the cup (No bracket resets)
SIGNUP HERE (Must have Advanced+ HL Experience): https://forms.gle/d2pxMfk7SKG3ZWMh9
Important Links:
To add, we also released merchandise. Proceeds will go to the fundraiser after the event ends
https://merch.firesidecasts.tv/collections/more-tf-charity-cup-2024
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We also just received a generous donation to run some giveaways during the stream for milestones we reach, the fundraiser link (Tiltify) will have more information on what these giveaways entail!
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siyo said in more.tf x Fireside Casts Highlander Charity Cup - $200+ Prize Pool, Goal of $2000!:
Chavez
Ill be contacting the Chavez family about sending them the original art from the FLAN posters I did, you can auction them off to meet your goal and then some if you want. I’m gonna shoot them an email on details, but Ill also send the original artwork from the comic I did for Carpet, for his video THRU THE FIRE AND THE GAMES -standard edition- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZhVFBMd260&t=437s the comic is in the description.
I also got a old logo I did for TEZC, the original line-work for that and some art I did for Sid from TFCL, it was from a poster for a bball tournament or something.
Love you guys, hope this helps. -Future
edit: also submitted my app to play.
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As an update, our prize pool is NOW $550!
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We’ve now hit our original goal of $2000 to fundraise. We’ll look to raise more on the stream as we have a ton of GIVEAWAYS that require “target” milestones to be reached!
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This upcoming weekend is the charity cup!
As we’ve already reached our original goal of $2000, anything more is considered an extra win.
During the livestream, we’ll have a mixture of unusual items to giveaway based on the donations we receive during the stream (these targets will be activated on the Tiltify page as the day goes on).
For the progression of these donations and targets are as follows:
- $500 Raised - $50 Unusual Item Giveaway
- $750 Raised - $75 Unusual Item Giveaway
- $1000 Raised - $100 Unusual Item Giveaway
- $2000 Raised - ??
- $3000 Raised - ??
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Our broadcast talent has been announced for the cup!
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One day into this event so far and it’s been a blast to watch. Thank you to all the folks who contributed in setting this up. It’s been great to see everyone come together to remember Miggy and contribute for charity. Thanks guys
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SO proud and grateful for everyone involved in this event. Thank you for everyone organizing, playing, watching, and supporting such a good cause. I’m pumped for day 2!
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We raised over $6000 to end the tournament. Thanks to everyone who came in and watched and great work everyone!
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I would like to extend some thanks to a few people behind the scenes for their work:
- Mori - for the draft cup idea & the poll which made us shift towards us making it happen for charity
- Rogue - Getting us in contact with Miggy’s Gift
- Bethnicz - The video editor at Fireside who compiled the testimonials, photos, and videos for the Tribute Video
- zoey and Wall - for contributing extra testimonials
- Dr. Underscore - For rushing to complete the Fireside HUD and developing the draft system graphic for the cup. NOT POSSIBLE without him at all
- technomo - Helping design all the graphics including the poster, charity merchandise, and whatnot
- lacy avenue (nyna) - For coordinating between players & broadcast and tournament organizing as the only TO admin!
- antlers - helping make the looping fireside blurred stream background
- Melon & Jacob - Providing tips and advice ofc!
- Marilu Chavez - For helping setup the charity through Tiltify and providing us photos of Miggy
- keegan, kohlhagen, Sheena, and Rogue (again) - for audio testimonials for the video
- Nightfaul - The BIG WHALE who donated to the prize pool!
- Zagron, Alto, eXtine, zak, and Xenagos - All contributed as casters and it was great to have them perform well
- Jercer, EvenNine, DusterDan35 - The B Stream crew on saturday KILLED IT!
- joekiller - The mystery man behind the scenes who helped me come up with ideas for unusual giveaways and provided me unusuals for the giveaways itself!
Can’t count the amount of times Underscore/antlers/lacy/I spent up devising stuff and marketing the cup so GGs only heh.