The teams total amount raised is: $577!

Congratulations to the whole team for getting the donations in and for staying the 24 hour course.  Here’s looking forward to next year, an even bigger team and even more money raised for the battle against child cancer!

- Rei

Team Meerkat starts the Extra Life event at 8am PST (that’s 4pm GMT in the afternoon for you euros) on Saturday, and will continue to play games online for a full 24 hours until 8am (4pm GMT) on Sunday.

There are a few ways you can keep in touch with what we are doing and make sure we’re actually playing games, not goofing off;

Firstly, we will be streaming as much of the gameplay from the event as possible via two streams. We’ll also record the start, finish and any ‘special’ moments for your repeat viewing pleasure.  While we will strive to steam the whole event some games may cause live feed interruption, FPS’s have been playing up.

You can view the live steam, as well as any recordings, from Reishi’s computer here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/team-meerkat-live-reishi

You can view the live stream, as well as any recordings, from Akiliyan’s computer here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/team-meerkat-extra-life-event

We will also be making an appearance on MAD-Radio, a gaming related online radio station, twice. Our first show appearance will be at the start of the 24 hours to get things underway. The second appearance will be on Sunday, so you can hear how much we are hurting with only a few hours to go. Actual times posted Friday.

You can listen to the shows live at;
iTunes/VLC/Winamp – http://mad-radio.sytes.net:88/listen.pls
Windows Media Player – http://mad-radio.sytes.net:88

We’d like to thank all our sponsors so far for helping us reach our individual goals.  Our team member Reishi has reached his goal of $300 in donations, yay, so if you’d still like to donate please consider our other members. http://www.teammeerkat.com/sponsor-team-meerkat/

You can also follow our progress on twitter @teammeerkat

This poster takes elements from our site design we know you’ll love and throws them on a poster you can print out at work or at home, for fun or to help us get more sponsors!

Without further ado you can download and preview the poster below;

Download the Team Meerkat Extra Life 09 poster now!

We’ve all been beavering away and all the work is done on the most important pages. Over the next few days we’ll be pushing out some new blog posts on our personal preparations for the Extra Life event and over the coming months you’ll get to hear all the goings on with organization and our live coverage tests.

This new site is also the place where you’ll be able to setup gaming with us across the event and help us complete our 24 hour stint. The 24 hours will be long, there will be lows, highs and many many cups of coffee.

We’d also like to extend our thanks to family and better halves who’ll be putting up with our shenanigans across the event, we apologize in advance for waking you up with our giggles.

We also hope you’ll enjoy the gaming content we post, both Extra Life related and not, and enjoy using the site.

- Rei