Yet another contest give-away. Frogpants swag and a Signed Scott Johnson book!

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Geekjock

Here is yet another Contest for everyone to win some great stuff while helping us raise money for a great cause.

My good friend Scott Johnson over at the Frogpants Network has donated a box o swag (pic coming soon), and an Artist Edition softcover of his kickstarter book as well. That will be a signed copy with a sketch inside. Truly a one of a kind prize offering!

How to enter: Simply go to our First Giving donation site by clicking HERE. For every $5 donated you will have one entry into the drawing. Just simply put FROGPANTS in the comments field when you sign up. Also all donations are Tax Deductible, and you can print out a tax receipt right when you donate.

I will have an end date for the contest soon, and I will update this post. We will announce the winner on an upcomming episode of TMS PM

Any Q’s please post in the comments to this announcement and good luck!

–Dan

Announcing the “Gamers for Cures Countdown Pic Contest”

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Adam

Hey everybody,

We have a new contest that we hope will raise awareness of Gamers for Cures and our goal of raising money for the Turner Syndrome Society of the United States. Everyday we have been posting a countdown pic leading up to Nov 7, the day of the Gamers for Cures 24 Hour Board Game Marathon. Here is today’s (Oct 7) pic btw:

31 days until the big event!

We have a really cool prize, a copy of Tiny Epic Defenders from Gamelyn Games!

Look! It’s a bunch of Tiny Epic Defenders!

How the contest works is like this:

Prize is a free copy of Tiny Epic Defenders
Each day a pic will be posted on the @gamersforcures twitter account
To enter, retweet the daily countdown pic of the day with your guess of what game is featured for that day
The first person to respond with the correct answer on Twitter will receive an entry
The day of the event we will randomly choose from all of the entries, that person will win the prize!
We would love for you to be at the event (or stop by the store) to pick up the prize, but we can ship it to your address, but only in the United States
The Contest will last from the 30th day (Thursday Oct 8) to the last day (Friday Nov 6) leading up to the Marathon (countdown pics 30, 29, 28, …. all the way to 3, 2, 1)

Have fun, and remember to retweet your guess of what game is shown for that day. Even if you don’t get the winning guess, retweet us anyway! We’ll announce who correctly guesses each day, and contact the winner by Twitter or email or in person, you get the idea.

Just a quick reminder, Saturday Nov 7th, 2015 is the date of the big event, and it is being held at The Gamer’s Armory in Cary NC. You can always follow us on Twitter or on Facebook. To donate to the event go to our First Giving site, don’t forget to learn more about Turner Syndrome at the Turner Syndrome Society website. And don’t forget about the Unpub 6 Designer Table contest, the post for that contest is right below this one.

Happy Gaming!

-Adam

2015 GFC Unpub 6 Designer Table Contest

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Geekjock

Yet another contest for this year’s Gamer for Cures!!!

Just like last year, Darrell Louder, game designer extraordinaire and head honcho over at Unpub.net has graciously given us a table to raffle off to raise some money for Gamers for Curee.

We will be Raffling off a DESIGNER TABLE FOR Unpub 6!! This is the real deal folks. If you are a budding game designer this is the best place on the planet to show off your prototype, get it tested by amazing game testers, and get tons of great feedback. Some feedback even by the likes of publishers and fellow designers.

How to enter: Simply go to our First Giving donation site by clicking HERE. For every $5 donated you will have one entry into the drawing. Just simply put UNPUB in the comments field when you sign up. Also all donations are Tax Deductible, and you can print out a tax receipt right when you donate.

Any Q’s please post in the comments to this announcement and good luck!

Also for more info for Unpub head to Unpub.net

–Dan

35 Days until the Marathon!

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Adam

That’s right, just a short 35 days until the 5th Annual Gamers for Cures 24 Hour Marathon to raise money for the Turner Syndrome Society. Remember, it’s happening on Saturday November 7, 2015 at The Gamer’s Armory. We have the official event flyer done, all of the events listed are happening and more. If you want an event flyer to print out you can click here for a pdf version. Also remember to follow us Twitter (we’ll be doing a picture a day countdown to the event, like the one above) and on Facebook. To donate, you can go to our First Giving site, where donating is fast, easy, and secure. Upcoming we will have details on “The Wall”, specifics for various events and raffles, and Dan has some info about the Unpub6 contest.

-Adam

Meeple Balance Challenge #MeepleGFC2015

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Geekjock

So this year we are going to do a Meeple Balance 2015, sponsored by Meeple Source, for a nice early head start to the fund raising for Gamers for Cures. People take pics of themselves balancing meeples on their nose their finger their hat, a table etc., then go to the Gamers for Cures First Giving and make a donation. After that be sure to challenge others to do the same!

Make sure to use #MeepleGFC2015, as well as get our sponsor of the Challenge, @meeplesource in the tweet and at the end of the contest period we will be giving away $25 to Meeple Source!! We will give it away on 9-13-15.

Don’t forget to use this link to like people to the First Giving site for donations and be sure to put in the subject note in the donation MeepleBalance.

bit.ly/gamersforcures2015
Hopefully people will take a pic, make a donation and challenge others. All for the fun of charity!

So start challenging today!

Dan

A wonderful example of meeplebalance in action!

From @jjayess1

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First Giving site is now live for the 2015 event!

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Geekjock

If you would like to make your tax free donation to this years 5th annual 24 hour board game marathon to benefit Turner Syndrome Society of the US, the 2015 First Giving site can be found HERE!

We are currently accepting donations/sponsors for games, raffle prizes, food for event day for the marathon players and much more.

If you would like to donate please contact Dan directly via the contact form above or mail us at gamersforcures AT gmail

If you are a game publisher and would like to donate games to us at Gen Con please mail us and we would be happy to make arrangements to pick up games while attending Gen Con this year.

Only 4 short months till this year’s event!

–Dan

Mark your Calanders for the 5th annual Gamers For Cures Board Game Marathon!

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Geekjock

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far, and staying cool, and playing some games!

We have secured our date for this year’s event and with it being the 5th annual event we hope to make it the best one yet!!

This year’s event will be on Sat Nov 7th 2015 and as always will be at the Gamers Armory in Cary NC.

More details to follow but please follow @gamersforcures or @geekjockblog on twitter or like our Gamers for Cures page on facebook for updates!

—Dan

4th Annual 24 hour marathon is in the books. I cannot thank everyone enough!

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Geekjock

I will be posting my yearly wrap up sometime later in the month when I wrangle some pictures but I wanted to report how amazing the event turned out and thank a few people.

With the semi-official numbers in, it looks like our 4th annual Gamers For Cures 24 hour board game marathon to benefit Turner Syndrome Society of The US raised just over $17,000!!!

An amazing event and an amazing turn out.

Hard work sure pays off, and I am so thankful to our sponsors/game publishers and players for an amazing turnout.

I want to thank Adam Skelding for basically being my right hand man throughout all of this year’s planning and for doing an amazing job on all the printed material, the printouts and all things graphical! Thanks buddy!

Thanks to Laura Drew for being an amazing social media Guru!

Thanks as always to Scott and Crystal from the Gamers Armory for hosting and allowing us to have our event at their amazing store each year.

Thanks to CEI for donating the programs. They are simply amazing!

Thanks to Gary Delorenzo for donating our shirts and all the amazing support for our event!

Thanks to all the great ladies of the Turner Syndrome Society of the US for joining us and volunteering at our event and helping us spread awareness!

Thanks so much to everyone who donated and play and came out to support us.We cannot do this without your support and the fact that all of you out there take the time to join us, donate, or spread the word about our amazing event!

See you next year!!!

Dan

PS– I will be posting all the winners of all the items from the raffle wall to the big raffle winners in the coming days!

Thanks to all who have donated and sponsored!

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Geekjock

As more an more donations and sponsorships come in I wanted to take the opportunity to thank a few of them. A list ( and logos) to all of our great board game sponsors will be up real soon.

Special thanks to the Carolina Hurricanes, Dr. Jodi H. Foy, UNC and NC State athletics for donating items to our silent auctions.

I would like to also thank Ilene Stacey of Origami Owl for her donations of two gift certificates for our prizes to the event as well.

Also thanks to Cinnabon, Chick Fil- A, Mimi’s Cafe, Jersey Mikes, Dairy Queen, McDonalds, and Craft Public House, all for sponsoring food for our marathon players!

This weekend will be a truly exciting event with plenty of ways for people to win some exciting prizes.

If you cannot attend in person and would like to donate to the event go to our Tax Free Donation Page.

OR if you would like to buy some raffles for games or to win one of our big ticket items (TV/ XBOXONE/ iPad Mini/ 100$ Visa/ $50 Home Depot Gift Cert) go to the Gamers amory online store HERE

Unpub 5 Designer table contest!

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Geekjock

A quick announcement about a great contest to help raise some money for Gamers For Cures/ Turner Syndrome Society of the US.

Darrell Louder, game designer extraordinaire and head honcho over at Unpub.net has graciously given us an AMAZING gift.

We will be Raffling off a DESIGNER TABLE FOR UNPUB 5!! This is the real deal folks. If you are a budding game designer this is the best place on the planet to show off your prototype, get it tested by amazing game testers, and get tons of great feedback. Some feedback even by the likes of publishers and fellow designers.

How to enter: Simply go to our First Giving donation site by clicking HERE. For every $10 donated you will have one entry into the drawing. Just simply put UNPUB in the comments field when you sign up. Also all donations are Tax Deductible, and you can print out a tax receipt right when you donate.

Any Q’s please post in the comments to this announcement and good luck!

–Dan