With a total of 12 events so far for Bingothon, starting all the way from 2018 and raising more than $30k for various organizations, there are many events to look back on! You may find details about them below:
BINGOTHON WINTER 2023 – 5 YEARS OF BINGOTHON
CHARITY: Fred Hutch Cancer Center
AMOUNT RAISED: $2,500
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Celebrated 5 years of Bingothon with special logos!
- Featured sleek, updated layouts!
- Featured the 5th Anniversary video during intermissions!
- Crossed the $30k threshold for total donations collected in the marathons!
- Crossed the $15k threshold for total donations collected for Fred Hutch!
- Featured a special Generic Bingo where donors could suggest their own goals via their donation comment!
BINGOTHON SUMMER 2023
CHARITY: Doctors Without Borders
AMOUNT RAISED: $2,030
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Displayed the very first showcase of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom bingo!
- Featured our first interview with Doctors Without Borders within intermissions, which were also posted on social media!
- Featured a higher emphasis on highlight content in intermissions
- Featured a Team17-sponsored run of King of the Castle, where the runner could interact with chat in various ways!
BINGOTHON WINTER 2022
CHARITY: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
AMOUNT RAISED: $3,431
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- The first REGULAR event streamed exclusively on the Bingothon Twitch channel!
- The first event to offer badges to its runners and volunteers!
- Saw the premiere of Minecraft Chaos Bingo, a crowd control-like mod that allows interactions in the game via donations!
- Saw the opening of our TeeSpring store just days before it started!
- Featured the runner with the most runs in a SINGLE event so far – TK47!
- Featured a game provided by event sponsor Team17 as a bonus run, being Golf With Your Friends!
BINGOTHON SUMMER 2022
CHARITY: Doctors Without Borders
AMOUNT RAISED: $3,500
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon, SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- The REGULAR event with the highest amount of donations (excluding special events like UER)
- The first event to feature tiered incentives!
- The first event to reveal its incentives gradually rather than have them all out in one go!
- Featured the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Bingo Bash Season 2 Finale as a run!
- Featured an amazing rematch of the Blind Bingo Series as its (almost) final run!
- Featured a game provided by event sponsor Team17 as a final bonus run at the end of the marathon, being Overcooked: All You Can Eat!
BINGOTHON UKRAINE EMERGENCY RELIEF
CHARITY: Project Hope
AMOUNT RAISED: $5,652
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- The first time an event is done outside of the usual winter/summer period!
- The quickest event to organize (2 weeks)!
- The first event to require cutting runs out of the schedule due to too many submissions!
- The event with the highest amount of total donations so far!
- The event with the most event-on-event increase in donation totals ($2,596)
- Featured the finale of the Blind Bingo Series!
BINGOTHON WINTER 2021
CHARITY: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
AMOUNT RAISED: $3,056
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon, SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Our longest event so far clocking at around 76 hours!
The event with the highest amount of total donations so far!- The event with the most prizes so far!
BINGOTHON SUMMER 2021
CHARITY: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
AMOUNT RAISED: $2,238
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon, SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- The first event that featured intermission videos that talked about the charity in between runs!
BINGOTHON WINTER 2020
CHARITY: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
AMOUNT RAISED: $2,120
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: Bingothon, SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Our first marathon that was co-streamed on both our Twitch channel and SpeedRunsLive!
BINGOTHON SUMMER 2020
CHARITY: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
AMOUNT RAISED: $2,069
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Our first event that crossed 72 hours of total runtime!
BINGOTHON WINTER 2019
CHARITY: Pure Earth
AMOUNT RAISED: $700
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Our first season-themed event!
- Our first event featuring an interview with a guest from the charity!
BINGOTHON 2019
CHARITY: Doctors Without Borders
AMOUNT RAISED: $3,020
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: European Speedrunner Assembly
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- The first marathon including the host bingo!
The biggest event-on-event increase ($2,380!
BINGOTHON 2018
CHARITY: Doctors Without Borders
AMOUNT RAISED: $640
WHERE WAS IT STREAMED: SpeedRunsLive
WHAT WAS SPECIAL FOR THIS EVENT:
- Our very first event!