If donations hit $1500, I'll tell my wife to get ass shots. If donations hit $2000, I'll tell my wife to make sure they are ass shots of the women. Paypal donations are at $1040, and mailed in check donations are at $150. Mailed cash is $20. Total is $1210.
Status update: The tournament is on for 3/26. I might have a broken foot from sparring at karate. It's either that, or a nasty sprain. Had an MRI yesterday since the x-ray was inconclusive. Regardless, I'm fucking playing on 3/26. I don't care if I have to get my foot bolted back together (hell, won't be the first time...), it's on. Still accepting donations, if anyone else wants to.
Tournament is next Saturday if anyone is still interested in donating. Turns out the MRI fractures were incorrect. CT scan said it's just severe bone bruising. We're having a practice tomorrow night, another one on Tuesday, then plan to dominate next Saturday.
Firstly, this isn't a large amount of money. Secondly, I don't think for a second it's any kind of a scam. And let's not have any posts along those lines, at least until after the tournament is supposed to have run.
Whoa, whoa - that's not the joke I was going for at ALL. I donated, and I don't think the tourney is a scam. I was just poking at Chater for not getting his T-shirt yet. Sorry aboot that.
No worries... my bad. I just know how quickly shit like that can get out of hand, and wanted to nip it in the bud, is all. Now, if I don't get my shirt, and have no tittie pics after the tournament is supposed to have run, well, it's on. Let's just say that I have BrianH on retainer.
The only word I have on the shirts is that they are going to be gold with purple writing, as those are apparently the Lions official colors. I won't see them until next Saturday. Don't worry Nettdata and Chater, I'm getting you guys a shirt.
I feel like a kid before Christmas, could barely sleep. Happens every year before the tournament. My grand total of fundraising was $1230. Almost all of that was from you guys! Thank you again to everyone who donated, everyone who has been supportive, and for the team name suggestions. Due to a kind of inside joke about a person we play with, we are naming the team "The Pain Train", which is stolen from this video: Registration is at 8, tournament starts at 9. It's in the boonies, and I don't know how my cell phone reception will be, but if I can get the 3G shit to pop up on my phone, I will take a pic of the t-shirts and post it to this thread from the tourney. If not, I should be home around 4 or 5, and will post stuff then. Our digital camera broke a few days ago, so I am sending my wife to get a DSLR camera today, so we should have some nice pics. Thanks again everyone, gonna go represent, yo.
There are 209 pictures, it's taking a bit to move from the camera to the computer... Then I have to go through them and see which are good. You'll love the t-shirt pics, though. Yeah, we hit a few rough spots in the playoffs. Pretty disappointed.
I got interviewed by a local radio station, too, about being the record setter for donations. You guys should have seen the look on their faces when I turned in $1230, it was awesome. Sorry the pictures aren't that great, despite me asking my wife to get a DSLR camera, she just bought a regular one. Going to return it tomorrow and get a DSLR. She also took all the pictures, and 99% of them are of me, which is A) to be expected, since she's my wife, and B) annoying, because who the hell needs 209 pictures of me playing volleyball? Tonka says, "That's a bad ass t-shirt right there."