Pokéthon

Pokéthon is a series of video game charity marathons broadcasted on Twitch.tv where friends and family come together for 5 days and play every single game in the Pokémon franchise while raising money for various charities. Viewers can watch at Pokethon.net, interact with physical atendees by typing in the chat, and make a donation to the featured charity of the marathon. We've worked with several charity organizations such as Help Hope Live, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, and more. Every cent raised goes directly to go the charity; we don't see anything. Throughout these charity marathons are donation goals and incentives to encourage viewers to donate, such as additional game unlocks, fun side-events, goal wheels, scripted specials, and more hilarity. Our communal love for the beloved Nintendo & Game Freak franchise brings us together as friends from around the world.

While like the Zeldathon series of video game charity events, Pokéthon has a smaller team, being more recent. There is a lot of overlap between both marathon teams but ultimately each have their own uniqueness and charm. Each attendee presents an appealing charisma on camera to hundreds of watchers on the Twitch livestream along with having our own duties to take care of behind-the-scenes.

Since Pokéthon usually runs for 5 days straight, attendees alternate so that there's always a group of energetic people present on the live stream. I help with maintaining production quality of the stream by manning "Tech Desk", which utilizes a live streaming program called XSplit to broadcast our marathon to the world. I also help with reading donation comments from donors, making sure to communicate in a clear but unique way to entertain people at home. My main job, however, is to track and transcribe segments of events for later cataloging. I like to transcribe attendees' words into "quotes" so that their phrases are immortalized for all time at StreamQuotes.com.

Throughout all Pokéthons in the past few years we have raised over $65 thousand dollars for various charities.