Summer Marathon 2024
June 14-16, 2024
In support of the Liam Foundation
Winter Marathon 2024
December 5-8, 2024
In support of South Carolina Firefighters' Burned Children's Fund
The Rando Marathon is a biannual weekend event celebrating all the great and wonderful video game randomizers. The event is held on the second weekend of June and December, each year. The marathons raise money for charity with 100% of all proceeds going to the charity. All randomizer communities are invited to join these events.
¶ Current Drive in Support of the Burned Children's Fund
¶ Fundraising drive opens November 10, 2024
All proceeds benefit the Burned Children's Fund, a charity dedicated to easing the recovery process for pediatric burn patients and their families in South Carolina. 100% of all proceeds will go to the charity.
The link below is for the previous Summer 2024 marathon and will stay active until December 4, 2024
¶ About the Marathon
Each marathon is a three-day showcase of randomizers. The focus is on randomizers of all shapes and sizes, from RPGs to platformers. If your game can be randomized we invite you to submit it. Once all the submissions are in, the marathon committee will go over the list and will watch the various submitted runs. A schedule will be created from there, filling in the various time slots from 10:00 AM on Friday all the way through to 11:59 PM Sunday night (all times EST/EDT).
Current Marathon Links:
- Schedule of the Event
- List of Donation Prizes (Pending)
- List of Marathon Donations (Pending)
Important Dates:
- September 29, 2024: Marathon Submissions Open; Prize Submissions Open
- November 8, 2024 @ 11:59 PM: Marathon Submissions Close
- November 10, 2024: Marathon Schedule will be Released
- December 5, 2024: Marathon Preshow
- December 6-8, 2024: Marathon
- December 11, 2024: Prizes are drawn
- December 12-19, 2024: Prizes are sent out
Winter Marathon submissions are open
Donations:
All donations to the Marathon will go to the charity. The FFR community will not handle any of the monetary donations for the foundation and 100% of the proceeds of the Marathon will go directly to the foundation..
Prizes:
Daily prizes will be offered during the marathons. A full list of prizes is made available before each event.
¶ Requirements for Participants:
- All runs must be streamed live. Players should in the “Marathon Waiting Room” voice channel at least 30 minutes before their run.
- Although the runners are not required to hang out in chat and see what people are saying, it is encouraged that comms (and the marathon host) keep an eye on chat so they can interact and explain the randomizers being played.
- Players must have a timer on screen for syncing and timing (especially during any scheduled races).
- While on stream, and in interviews afterwards, players must comport themselves and act to the expected standards for on-air behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: no cussing (including epithets and slurs of any kind), no rants about the other player, no rants about the marathon, no rants about the format, no rants about the streaming service. This extends not only to the on-air portion of the event but to Twitch chat and public-facing Discord as well. Anyone that acts in a manner counter to the professional attitude and bearing we expect from our participants at this event will be removed from air and barred from future events.
- All participants must be on the FFR discord for the duration of the event.
If you do not want to follow these rules do not volunteer for the event.
¶ Frequently Asked Questions:
I saw your post in a community I frequent. While I like that game, there are other randomizers I'd much rather submit to the marathon. Is that okay?
Yes. We would love to see any and all randomizers get submitted to run in the marathon. If there's a game you'd like to run, please fill out our submission form! (Submissions are now closed.)
What happens if I submit a game that someone else has already put in for the marathon?
Well, there are a few ways we could handle it. Depending on the runs:
- If the runs are different enough, even though they're for the same game, both runs might make it into the marathon separately. Think ALttPR where one player could run Open Boots Standard while the other could play Inverted Crosskeys Glitched. Those are very different runs while still both playing in A Link to the Past. There's a solid chance both would be viable on their own.
- If the runs are similar enough, or the marathon schedule is very cramped, we may talk to certain runners and see if they'd like to find a shared flagset they could play and run it together as a race. This would allow both players to participate while still putting a good run on the schedule.
- If we have a great number of submissions we'll have to pick and choose what runs can get in. This could be based on length of the run, content of the run, and/or any number of factors. That doesn't mean one run was better than another, just that one fit the schedule (and the games around it) better. While one run makes it in, other runs could be kept on "standby", that way if we end up with a large gap in the schedule (due to other runs finishing early, or a runner having to cancel), we can swap a standby run in (assuming that backup runner is still available).
I made a submission to the marathon but didn’t hear back yet on whether mine was accepted or not. Was it?
This specifically pertains to runs submitted before the deadline. If you've put in a run, you won't hear back from us (unless we had questions about your submission) until we put together the schedule, and we honestly can't do that until we have all the submissions from players. We won't begin the process of arranging the schedule until after the deadline, and that's because we need to see:
- What runs were submitted.
- What times players are available.
- How we can fit it all together.
A schedule like this is a puzzle and we have to have all the pieces before we can assemble it. Worry not, though: we will send out an @everyone ping once the schedule is arranged to let the whole group know when everything is official.
If you are curious if your submission went through, though, you can ping the @marathon-staff to confirm. We're happy to check for you at any time.
Are we able to submit more than one game? If we did, would only one of our submissions get chosen?
You can submit more than one game. When you submit you can say "please only choose one" and list your preference, if you have one, or you can simply leave it open and let the marathon staff choose runs as they desire. Plus, if you submit more than one with open availability there's a chance all your runs could get in.
¶ About Final Fantasy Randomizer
Marathon Staff:
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them at the @marathon staff at the FFR Discord: adr, Chanigan, Dani, Darkmoon, JShydell, LordFizzlebeef, LuffyDV, Matty, Serisan, SirLinkalot, and WindFox.
FFR Links:
¶ Marathon History
| Event | Dates | In Support Of | End of Day 1 | End of Day 2 | End of Day 3 | Grand Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer Marathon 2022 | June 17-19, 2022 | The Liam Foundation | $1,943.00 | $2,660.00 | $4,035.00 | $4,285.00 |
| Winter Marathon 2022 | December 9-11, 2022 | MUSC Children's Health and SC Firefighters' Burned Children's Fund | $2,050.10 | $3,645.00 | $5,848.00 | $5,903.00 |
| Summer Marathon 2023 | June 16-18, 2023 | The Liam Foundation | $1,651.00 | $3,419.88 | $5,114.00 | $5,114.00 |
| Winter Marathon 2023 | December 8-10, 2023 | MUSC Children's Health and SC Firefighters' Burned Children's Fund | $1,720.17 | $2,935.01 | $3,680.00 | $3,725.00 |
| Summer Marathon 2024 | June 14-16, 2024 | The Liam Foundation | $2,095.00 | $2,820.00 | $4,295.00 | $4,465.00 |
| Winter Marathon 2024 | December 6-8, 2024 | South Carolina Firefighters' Burned Children's Fund |