Get Ready For MinnMax's 25-Hour Charity Stream On Saturday, December 2nd With "Give To The Max"

Greetings generous MinnMax community! On Saturday, December 2nd starting at 8am Central, we're kicking off a 25-hour marathon stream to raise money for charity! Normally this is an "Extra Life" stream, but this year we wanted to highlight a smaller nonprofit outside of the Extra Life system where every donation will have a BIG impact so this year it's a "Give To The Max" stream! We'll be rotating through MinnMax cohorts and friends of the show, playing a ton of games, and doing a big charity auction at the top of every hour. Here's a link to last year's stream for reference. This stream will be on MinnMax's YouTube channel.https://www.youtube.com/minnmax

The charity we're driving all support towards is called Connections To Independence and their mission is to help support foster kids in Minnesota. You can learn more about them by clicking here and watching this video. For the foster kids! Confusingly enough, we didn't come up with Give To The Max, it's a charity drive through the donation site GiveMN - where every donation made from you all increases the odds the charity will get a $100,000 bonus. It's just a nice coincidence with the name!

Here is the site where you'll be making your donations, be sure to "Add A Dedication" and include your "wish", charity auction item, and consoles of choice for codes. That's the best system for leaving a comment with your donation at the moment, but we're working on it. bit.ly/givemax23 

If you donate any amount and include the game systems you own, you're automatically in the running to win a game code for stuff like Fae Farm, Party Animals, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, Curse Crackers, The Making of Karateka, Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, Super Bomberman R2, Paper Ghost Stories: 7PM,  Dead Island 2, Sea of Stars, Cities: Skylines 2, Humanity, Baldur's Gate 3, and a whole lot more. The game codes for Switch and PlayStation are US-only, but we also have region-free codes for PC and Xbox.

Special shout-out to Hugo Pereira in the community who we contracted to create the custom Leo the Genie art, we'll be auctioning off a limited edition t-shirt featuring Leo the Genie throughout the stream. Follow Hugo on Instagram here! https://www.instagram.com/hugop.arts

Things are very much in flux and we want to hear your feedback, but here's a rundown of the current schedule and charity auctions. The entire stream will be in the MinnMax Studio.

Saturday, December 2nd - https://www.youtube.com/minnmax

8am Central - Pictionary
- Kyle, JeffM, Charles McGregor, Hanson

10am Central - Everybody 1-2 Switch
- Kyle, JeffM, Charles McGregor, Hanson

12pm Central - PlayStation Demo Discs
- Grant, Best Friend Ronnie, Hanson

2pm Central - Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game Of The Movie
- Grant, Best Friend Ronnie, Hanson

4pm Central - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Bryan Vore, Game Informer's Alex Van Aken, John Carson, Hanson

6pm Central - Party Animals
- Sarah, Ana, Elise Favis, Hanson

8pm Central - Pokémon Stadium
- Leo, Sarah, Ana, Hanson

10pm Central - Jackbox Party Pack 10
- Leo, Sarah, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

12am Central - WarioWare: Move It!
- Leo, Sarah, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

1am Central - Taboo
- Leo, Sarah, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

2am Central - Retro Game Duels
- Leo, Sarah, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

3am Central - Mystery Game
- Jeff Cork, Leo, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

5am Central - What The Dub
- Jeff Cork, Leo, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

7am Central - Dreams
- Jeff Cork, Leo, Dan Ryckert, Hanson

At the top of every hour, we'll be doing multiple charity auctions for folks in the US only. You enter your bid in the YouTube chat, this is how much you're willing to donate to help the foster kids. If you're the winning bid, you click this link and make your donation and include the item you won in the "Dedicated To" section of the donation page. https://bit.ly/minnmax23

This schedule is also subject to change, but here's a rundown of when the auction items are up on the auction block...

9am Central - The Witcher First Encounter Statue from iam8bit, Game Informer Gold (A special issue of a Game Informer magazine from 2023 with a custom cover and special thick pages - not sold anywhere)

10am Central - Persona 5 Vinyl from iam8bit, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Game Informer Poster, Cuphead Collector's Edition from iam8bit

11am Central - Stranger Things Elegorgon Statue from iam8bit, One Piece Collector's Edition, Game Informer Gold

12pm Central - Super Mario Bros. Mystery Box, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake Collector's Edition, Give To The Max Shirt

1pm Central - Metal Gear Solid Bundle Including Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Limited Edition), Cribbage Board made by Ben Hanson's dad

2pm Central - Final Fantasy VII Shirt, Ghostbusters Yeti Cooler

3pm Central - A Date with Final Fantasy XVI's Clive Rosfield and a signed copy of the game and steel book by composer Soken and localization producer Koji Fox, Diablo 2 Resurrected Deluxe Box Set from iam8bit

4pm Central - Game Informer Gold,  Game Informer Spider-Man Poster

5pm Central - Game Informer Gold, Game Informer Star Wars Poster

6pm Central - Nintendo Live Bundle, Alan Wake 2 Bundle, Give To The Max Shirt

7pm Central - Sarah's Mystery Auction, Game Informer Gold

8pm Central - New Show Plus Bundle, N64 MinnMax Box, Nintendo Live Shirt

9pm Central - Hi-Fi Rush Bundle, Game Informer Spider-Man Poster, Game Informer Gold

10pm Central - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Limited Edition PS5, Metal Gear Solid Custom Poster

11pm Central - Twisted Metal Fridge (Must Pick It Up From Jacob Geller In North Carolina) Game Informer Gold, Mystery Shirt

12am Central - Dan Ryckert's Mystery Prize, Game Informer Spider-Man Poster, Give To The Max Shirt

12am Central - Yaniir Dice Set, Disco Elysium Collector's Edition from iam8bit

1am Central - Game Informer Gold, Final Fantasy VII Shirt

2am Central - Resident Evil 4 Collector's Edition PS5, Game Informer Spider-Man Poster

3am Central - Persona 3 Bundle, Game Informer Gold

4am Central - Game Informer Star Wars Poster, Cuphead Collector's Edition

5am Central - Game Informer Gold, Nintendo Live Shirt

6am Central - Give To The Max Shirt, Fae Farm Bundle

7am Central - Game Informer Gold

8am Central - Grand Prize, Give To The Max Shirt

Alright, that's a lot! We hope to see you there on Saturday, December 2nd for a fun marathon filled with games and merriment. We couldn't do this without you, so thanks again! For the foster kids! bit.ly/givemax23