As I sit here watching the Gaming 4 A Cure marathon(which you can watch right now until Tuesday, February 21st at this link), I'm reminded of what a crazy almost year it's been on JTV/Twitch (a story for another time.) As I gear up for a "cast til I pass out" for 5K followers on March 2nd, I would take a look back on the follower celebrations of the past, near future, and beyond.
100 Followers - Beatles Rock Band Story Mode in One Sitting on Expert Guitar/Bass and Vocals
This was a pretty simple event, and also my first follower celebration of any sort. This was also the first cast I ever did a game-themed channel design. At the end of this accomplishment, I sang Blackbird while sick and with my first shitty mic.
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250 Followers - Rock Band 2 Endless Setlist 2 in One Sitting on Expert Guitar
To date, this is probably still one of the TOUGHEST follower celebrations I've done. Not only was I playing this on Expert guitar, the setlist is roughly around 5-7 hours to play, and with some minor carpal tunnel my hands were almost dead by the end of it. To day this remains one of my proudest accomplishments on cast.
500 Followers - 40 Hour Merry-o Thon
When this cast started out, it was only meant to go 24 hours. What happened was a 40 hour marathon that included many great moments and is STILL my favorite cast to date. There were many awesome moments, and this is still one of my favorite highlights with what can only be described as a laugh orgy.
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1000 Followers - Failed Attempt to Beat Dead Space/Dead Space 2 on Hardest Difficulties in One Sitting
I say failed attempt because the original goal was to beat both of these games back to back in one sitting, and mainly due to poor planning I had to give up on Dead Space 2 around Chapter 7. I eventually beat Dead Space 2 (and later one sat Dead Space 2 on Hardcore on it's own), but I want to eventually beat both in one sitting back to back...
1500 Followers - Portal 1 and 2 Back to Back in One Sitting
From a pure gameplay perspective, this was probably my favorite series to cast back to back for a follower celebration, the Portal games hold a very special place in my heart, and to play them both was simply amazing.
2000 Followers - Custom 50 Song Endless Setlist
This could probably be considered my second favorite appreciation cast, especially since everyone picked amazing songs and it was so great to play songs picked by people I hold dear to my heart on Twitch, and to explain why they mean so much to me.
2500 Followers - Dead Space 2 on Hardcore in One Sitting
Title explains it all. Moving on.
3000 Followers - Multiplayer Weekend Extravaganza
Although this didn't quite go exactly to plan, it was still fun to celebrate this milestone by playing video games with a lot of my viewers, including a hilarious co-op run with Chatia12. Despite getting people to join on console day, the rest of it was great and I had a wonderful time.
3500 Followers - EddiePwnNoobzRuckus
Ghetto cast, enough said XD
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4000 Followers - Uncharted Trilogy in One Sitting
Although the Dead Space casts and Endless Setlist 2 were hard because of the difficulty, this is definitely up there as one of the hardest celebrations I've ever done. Up to this point whenever I did an impromptu marathon or a marathon over 16 hours, I usually had people on Skype to help me stay awake. This time however I forged on without anyone in my ear yelling and cheering me on, and somehow I was able to accomplish all of it in 25 hours. This ranks right up there with the Endless Setlist 2 as proudest accomplishments on cast go(not to mention my one sits.)
5K Followers - WhateverTheFuckIWannaPlayAThon
On March 2nd, I will be donning the marathon and celebration robes once again to ring in another milestone on JTV/TTV. This time I will be trying to break my own personal record of casting for 40 hours straight, playing whatever games I want and see fit. A few special things planned, and I cannot WAIT for it.
7500 Followers - Custom Setlist Extravaganza (75 songs)
Another version of the 2K follower cast, but this time with 75 songs. Should be fantastic :D
10,000 Followers - The Last Hurrah
This will be the final celebration milestone for followers on Twitch(maybe 25K, we'll see.) I will still do marathons and special events, this will just be the last one tied to follower count. Dead Space 1 and 2 in one sitting, possibly more.
