This week, as I’m sure you’re all aware, marks a huge step forward for Ready Up as a collective. On Saturday six of us are going to attempt to play Burnout Paradise for twenty four hours solid under the watchful eyes of official Guinness World Record adjudicators.
We will have to abide by their strict rules and regulations regarding manner of play and breaks for eating, toilet or a walk outside. Being a close knit site, we will have a support team on hand to help us out staffed by more Ready Up team members, all of them giving up their free time and travelling many miles to watch and help us with our attempt. It is also great to have such a strong showing from various family, friends and forum members, many of whom have never met us before.
No one is getting paid to do any of this, we are all doing this for the love of it and let’s not forget the most important part, all proceeds raised will be going to charity. I’m very happy to tell you in a first announcement kind of way, that for those of you able to come along and see us during the attempt that we will be selling lots of games and game related items. Once again, all money raised will be going to our nominated charity, so dig deep for that one. As it stands I am hugely excited by the event but at the same time I approach it with some trepidation, this is by no means a walk in the park, this is a test of mental strength, physical endurance and a will to win and of course a desire to not fail.
Everything is good, right? With regards to the record, most definitely, but there is a dark side to all this that has me seething with venom-coated hate and anger. As soon as we went public with our plans a very strange thing happened, and not just once, many times and it’s still happening over and over. Out of the woodwork are coming all these people brimming with negativity, offering words of been there, done that wisdom, telling us how they could do what we are going to do and have indeed done it.
As soon as we had opened up the comments for our attempt we were filled with various messages of un-support, sadly to the extent that the comments have been closed. Why, why, why are you people doing this? Is it an esteem thing or are you genuinely jealous that some people are getting up off their arses and attempting to make a difference to others who may be less privileged than us? Let’s not forget this point, and if you are one of the people who left us a nice comment please stop and think for a minute, we are doing this for a charity, not for personal gain. Personally I would love to turn up, say hi and be home tucked up in bed by one a.m., but on this occasion some friends and myself are going to stay up for more than twenty four hours to raise some money.
Does any of that deserve any of the negativity we had put upon us? I really don’t think so, so on this occasion I’m going to offer an olive branch to all you nay sayers, please come along and support us, donate some money to a really good cause and I will forget that any of the comments were even made. If on the other hand, you still want to keep up your self-righteous ramblings, I offer you a dare. Come along, stand in front of us and tell us why you are so much better than us and what we are doing. Please! There, I’ve blown off some steam and can now see clearly, of course everyone is entitled to an opinion, but in this case please think first.
Anyway there are only a few more days to go now, the final preparations are in place and everything is coming together nicely. If you can’t come along please still drop by our nominated charity and donate some money, if you know any of us personally fill out our sponsor forms or sponsor us online and wish us luck. There is still the opportunity to join us on LIVE during the event and be able to say that you joined in during a world record being set. If you do come along please don’t expect any long winded conversations from those of us playing, I’m sure you all understand why. We will be more than happy to see you turn up and mingle with our friends, family, support team and forum members; if we can manage we’ll say a quick hello.
Please also remember that our break times will be precious to us, so if you see any of us take a break don’t accost us for anything, if we can manage we’ll come and see you. There will be plenty of photo opportunities throughout the event and if you donate enough money I might re-enact my now famous “nakey with guitar hero pose” – in private of course! We really look forward to your support and continued friendship, just remember:
At Ready Up We play games, and you’re damn well going to know about it.
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