Haiti Benefit Tournament [Squishyg is the victor]

[Industrial Helix]

Tuesday January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck 10 miles off of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. Following the initial shock, 12 aftershocks reaching over 5.0 continued to rock the beleaguered capital. The level of destruction is near total, encompassing people's homes, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Port-au-Prince and even the Presidential Palace. As you read this the death toll rises and others continue to be trapped.

The idea behind this tournament is to raise awareness of the disaster that has befallen Haiti, serve as a link to news and pictures and provide links and ways for people to donate. Each player will receive THREE PMs throughout the course of the tournament which will provide links to stories and pictures and encourage donations through recognized charities (I will NOT be asking for money and donations are NOT required, only strongly encouraged).

If you do choose to donate, please (if you like) let me know via PM and you will receive special recognition in this thread and the newsletters.

How to Help [spoiler]The easiest way to donate is by text:

***Cell phone users can text "HAITI" to "90999"and a donation of $10, charged to the phone bill, will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts.

***People can also text "YELE" to "501501" on their cell phones, and $5 billed to the user will be donated to Yele Haiti, the charitable foundation established by musician Wyclef Jean to help his native country.

The Red Cross website:
http://www.redcross.org/

Yele Haiti has a donation link on their home page:
http://www.yele.org/

UNICEF's website also has links for donations:
http://www.unicefusa.org/

Catholic Relief Services has links to donate and news regarding the Catholic Church's activities at this time in the country:
http://crs.org/

American Jewish World Service has info on donations:
http://ajws.org/

While I haven't been able to confirm this myself, but many coinstar locations are accepting your loose change to be donated towards the American Red Cross. UPDATE: I took my coins into the coinstar machine nearby and indeed, you can donate to charity through the machine. UNICEF has a Haiti Specific charity to donate to, but a number of other charities, including the American red Cross , are available to donate to.

Help to advertise this tournament and awareness (copy the following and remove stars, put in profile signature):

[*url=http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=106575][img*]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/Shone/haitiearthquake.jpg[/img*][/url*][/spoiler]


News and information: [spoiler]Boston.com's The Big Picture on going photograph focus on the situation in Haiti:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/earthquake_in_haiti.html

US Red Cross is out of supplies in Haiti:
[url]http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D72M4G4&show_article=1[/url

France fears all in U.N. Haiti HQ is dead:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE60C1GR.htm

Thousands feared dead:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20100113/twl-cb-haiti-earthquake-1be00ca.html

The Battle for food and supplies
http://wcbstv.com/national/haiti.earthquake.haiti.2.1427143.html

Access to clean water and basic health supplies a major concern:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arxZJfdcT_i0

More photos out of Haiti:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1243201/Haiti-earthquake-pictures-The-unimaginable-horror-torn-country-apart.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/haiti_six_days_later.html

Rescues Beat the odds in Haiti:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/world/americas/19haiti.html

U.S. troops Sent to bolster Security:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aU_HnMNzGw6A

The state of living conditions in Haiti camps:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21203781.htm[/spoiler]

GAME INFO:

Round 1: 8 games of 8 players, Haiti, Auto, Sequential, Flat Rate, Unlimited, Sunny

All players will be organized via random.org

Winners go on to

Round 2: 8 player, Haiti, Auto, Sequential, Flat Rate, Unlimited, Sunny

List of players
[spoiler]1. Foreverman
2. Industrial Helix
3. vegnagun
4. ETROPAL
5. Little Witt
6. kawe85
7. downunder Inc
8. fumandomuerte
9. UTAlan
10. HerrZ
11. GRIMWOLF
12. DJENRE
13. amazzony
14. Frito Bandito
15. colton24
16. J to the D
17. ender516
18. Sandstorm1903
19. qwertylpc
20. SuicidalSnowman
21. mrbang
22. DSLucifer
23. sportsgod24
24. sugc7
25. angola
26. vodean
27. D-Apocalypse
28. J_A
29. MarVal
30. 00iCon
31. dragon dor
32. saraith
33. carlpgoodrich
34. TalynStarburst
35. Ess # Miw
36. taxmanjle
37. manc
38. Johnny Rockets
39. Dondersteen
40. badmoon
41. general_electric
42. Aalmeida17
43. Jobiwan
44. Strider24
45. jpcloet
46. FattyNoob
47. squishyg
48. Lucky6
49. SirSebstar
50. OutSider
51. ghasek
52. superkeener
53. thenobodies80
54. pela666
55. WolfMist
56. phillipm
57. benga
58. murphy16
59. jwahl2
60. ChrisBeerens
61. Zarg78
62. shaneback
63. Jennybh
64.Nicky15[/spoiler]

Reserves [spoiler]1.sensfan
2. pierluc
3.reelkmcn
4.
5.[/spoiler]

[Foreverman]

Please sign me up for the Haiti Tournament.

[Industrial Helix]

Added, thanks!

[ETROPAL]

in

[JOHNNYROCKET24]

I dont think we are permitted to use site features to raise money.

[vegnagun]

Count me in please!

[Industrial Helix]

gotcha and gotcha, thanks guys!

@ JOHNNYROCKET24

I don't think I'm using site features to raise money; that would be something like charging entrance fees which is a no-go. But, I'm making a request for people to donate to an established charity while running a tournament to raise awareness, ect. I guess if you consider tournaments and forums site features, which I guess they are, it's breaking the rules. But I understood and was told site features is more like charging fee to enter a tournament, which as I understand it, I am not doing.

[Little Witt]

in

[Industrial Helix]

Updated with more news articles.

[kawe85]

in plz

[downunder Inc]

count me in

[fumandomuerte]

in please IH

[UTAlan]

In, please.

[Industrial Helix]

I added you guys in, thanks for joining.

[lostatlimbo]

this is a nice thought, but I can't help but note the irony of playing a war based domination game on the Haiti map as a way to acknowledge the disaster.

to help Haiti, we're symbolically waging war on Haiti! heh

[HerrZ]

Please in

[GRIMWOLF]

please sin me in to the hatti game

[Industrial Helix]

this is a nice thought, but I can't help but note the irony of playing a war based domination game on the Haiti map as a way to acknowledge the disaster.

to help Haiti, we're symbolically waging war on Haiti! heh

Yeah, I thought of that too and it made me slightly hesitant. I dunno, I think the benefit of telling people, "hey, this is going on down there." and showing how to help outweighed the bad.

Out of curiosity, you wanna join lostatlimbo?

[DJENRE]

in

[amazzony]

Sign me up, please.

[Frito Bandito]

Great effort, kudos to you!

In please!

[sensfan]

for now, put me as a reserve but i might join as a player later.

[Industrial Helix]

Thanks everyone for joining.

sensfan, your in at reserves for now

[colton24]

In

[J to the D]

I'm in.