EOTB: Lab Reminds The "Golden Ticket Giveaway" Ends Soon, Winner Chosen Next Friday

 

Yesterday, Linden Lab reminded residents that the number of days left to enter the Golden Ticket Giveaway is getting short. Tuesday July 14 will be the last day.

 

 The SL23B Golden Ticket Giveaway is heading toward its grand finale, and there’s still time to enter.

Residents have until July 14th to visit participating SL23B regions and click on the Golden Ticket kiosks for a chance to be selected. Each day brings a new opportunity to secure your spot, so don’t miss your chance to take part.

 

The 23 winners will be invited to take part at the last stage of the Giveaway, a televised event on Friday July 17 at 9AM SL time, where most will get 10,000 Linden dollar prizes with one lucky winner getting a million Lindens.

 

The last day of the SLB is Sunday  July 19.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

The SL23B Golden Ticket Giveaway

 

One of the big draws at this year's Second Life Birthday is the Golden Ticket Giveaway.  It offers a chance at winning something most of us will never see, a million Linden dollars. 

 

Who wants to be a L$ millionaire? Inspired by this year’s Golden Age of Hollywood theme, the Golden Ticket Giveaway promises to award one lucky resident a grand prize of one million Linden Dollars that can be used for a luxury virtual shopping spree or anything else you can imagine! 

 

One can enter up to five times a day until Sunday July 14. To do so, you visit one to five of the five kiosks around the SL23B grounds, such as the one at the "Red Carpet Welcome" at SLB Incredible (151/98/21). It should be noted that at least one kiosk keeps getting moved around, at least according to chatter in Second Life Birthday group chat. 

 

What happens next is of those who entered each day, one winner is picked for each of the 23 days the contest is active. The 23 winners are then entered in a second contest. 22 will get 10,000 Linden dollar prizes. And one lucky winner gets the one million Linden prize. 

 

It should be noted that some residents of certain countries are ineligible, and any taxes resulting from winning the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. So the winner should get ready to receive a Form 1099-MISC from the IRS. 

 

Read more about the contest in the official blog.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Team Sunbeamers Reach One Million Lindens, Beach Party With Roos With A Dream

 

 

 On the late afternoon/early evening of Friday May 26, the Relay for Life's Sunbeamer team reached a big milestone in it's 2023 fundraising season. It had crossed the one million Linden mark in the total amount of cash raised, and thus was Emerald level fundraising.

 

 And with the team reaching a million, a couple team members were called on to own up to commitments. For a certain reporter, it meant the return of the "Rita clone," which first appeared in 2017, and for the past few years was my offer to appear in for a week if the team reached Emerald.

 

This year, someone else had offered to be something else as well. Foxy offered to be a landwalker shark for a month if the team raised a million. And with the news came his finny look. As someone commented, "Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the water." It was also mused this would mean more tuna fish caught for the team.

Far from resting on their laurels, the following day the 'beamers hosted a "Beach Party" event jointly with the "Roos With A Dream." There would be two DJ sessions, the first with DJ Cynthia. The second one was with "DJ Kayla and the Roos." Following the event there was a volleyball competition and a boat race. Rezzdarnnit was the winner of the ball game. The fastest run in the boat race was from Liska, with a time of 166 seconds, who won a motorboat as a prize.

 

The event would be followed by a Memorial Day event at Club Cutlass with Cynthia Farshore once again DJing. At the close, Cynthia, who had done most of the building and organizing for the Relay event, logged off to get some much deserved rest.

 

The Sunbeamer and Roos Beach Party raised a combined 36,410 Linden dollars for both the 'beamers and Roos, getting the Sunbeamers to past 1,020,000 Lindens and Roos With A Dream to almost 800,000. Someone among the Sunbeamers commented it was no longer enough to reach the top ten, but to help out a few other teams along the way.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Roos! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan

Relay Fundraising Levels For 2023 Season Announced

 

 Yesterday on Wednesday February 1, it was announced in the Relay for Life in Second Life Volunteers group the team fundraising levels for 2023.

I am your official Fundraising Club representative this year. I'm sending a notecard with the levels for your records. We will be gathering our information from Sasun's teams totals page for the badges. Good luck to you all for an amazing year!! 

 

The levels are:

 

Bronze       $50 usd / $12,500 Lindens        
            
Silver          $200 usd / $50,000 Lindens        
            
Gold            $500 usd / $125,000 Lindens        
            
Platinum    $1,000 usd / $250,000 Lindens        
            
Jade         $2,000 usd / $500,000 Lindens        
            
Sapphire    $3,000 usd / $750,000 Lindens        
            
Emerald    $4,000 usd / $1,000,000 Lindens        
            
Ruby    $5,000 usd / $1,250,000 Lindens        
            
Topaz    $6,000 usd / $1,500,000 Lindens        
            
Diamond    $7,000 usd / $1,750,000 Lindens        
            
Crimson    $10,000usd / $2,500,000 Lindens        
            
Purple    $15,000 usd / $3,750,000 Lindens        
            
All-Star    $20,000 usd / $5,000,000 Lindens        
            
Super Star    $25,000 usd / $6,250,000 Lindens        
            
Supernova    $30,000 usd / $7,500,000 Lindens        

 

 

There's been some levels added for this year. Crimson (2.5 million Lindens) was added as a step between Diamond (1.75 million L) and Purple (3.75 million L), and after them All-Star (5 million L), Super Star (6.25 million L) and Supernova (7.5 million). 

 

Can any team reach this new top level? We'll eventually find out.

Sunbeamers Make Emerald: Part Two

It was a triumphant Relay Weekend for the Sunbeamers. After eight years, the team had finally raised a total of a million Linden dollars for this season, and getting Emerald rank for the second time (the first time it took not as much). Getting together for the group picture, one member rezzed a chunk of virtual emerald crystal. This included our star builders Cynthia Farshore and Shockwave Yareach, star DJs Snowy (Skylark Lefavre) and Mattie Carlton (Cynthia's also a great DJ), our newest member Omni-One Kenobi, team captain Rita Mariner, and one wiseguy reporter whom was sporting an unusual look.

Yours truly has a team tradition of doing "Platinum Avatar Challenges." So what would I do for one million? Earlier I was saying if we made that amount, I'd do "something crazy," bring back the "Rita clone" that I wore for a week in an earlier such challenge. Well, someone must have been listening as in the few days leading up to the Relay Weekend and on Saturday, we got over 200,000 Lindens. And so the "Killer Rabbit" is back, for another week.

Personally, it was a roller-coaster of a weekend, partially because of some sad news I'd gotten of a friend in real life. But the fight against cancer is an important one that brings me together with my friends online. And taking the victory lap, I would hear congratulations from a number of people for the Sunbeamers' achievement, as well as a few comments about "the million Linden dollar avatar."
 
Already, we're coming up with some ideas for next year. One was "Bid Me ..." well, we'll tell you in 2022.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Team Sunbeamers Hit One Million Linden Mark

 Right on the Relay Weekend, the Sunbeamer team achieved something it had never done before. Since reaching Sapphire rank, the team continued to get donations. And in the past couple days, over 200,000 Lindens came in. Finally at 8:27PM, the amount of money went over the one million Linden dollar amount ($4000 USD). 

[20:26] Rita Mariner: SUNBEAMERS  L$: 823,099
USD: $3,292.40  L$: 178,045
USD: $712.18  L$: 1,001,144
USD: $4,004.58
[20:27] Rita Mariner: WE are now EMERALD

The Sunbeamers reached Emerald level three years ago, but it took less money to do so. This is an amount that hasn't been seen since the days of it's predecessor team, the Passionate Redheads. 

Out of 149 teams, the Sunbeamers rank number 12. 

"The little team that could" has done it once more.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Chrismas Expo Has Raised 2.5 Million Lindens After Five Days

Tuesday December 10 had a couple milestones for the Relay for Life Christmas Expo. Two days earlier on the Sunday Relay Rap, Stingray Rainmaker had stated, "'IF the Christmas Expo meets its goal of $20,000 it will enable the ACS to bring the VR Goggle Program to a new Childrens Hospital and reach many many more Kids in treatment!" That likely spurred the Relayers to donate more. By 5:35 PM Tuesday afternoon, the two million Linden mark had been reached. Late in the night, the total passed two and a half million Linden dollars.

"We are at L$2,566,823," Nuala Maracas, one of the women behind the Expo, told me, "We did L$550,000 tonight, was an amazing night. ... Our goal is $20,000 US  (L$5 Million)." When asked what the high point of the Expo was, she answered, "Seeing communities from all over SL,  Goreans, Kids Tinies and more all coming together to help us get those VR Headsets for the kids with cancer. The biggest one is learning that because of the Christmas Expo that the Society is making this a  program, not just research.

"When I first approached Jeff (Sting), our American Cancer Society Staff Partner, about the VR Headset for pediatric cancer patients as the possible recipient for the Christmas Expo fundraising efforts for 2020, he was not aware it was even a Society program.  He looked into it and learned more.  With persistence the Society agreed and we were able to announce it as our goal! As a result of what we are doing here the Society has decided to make it a patient program and if we reach our goal it will expand to another hospital."

The Expo goes on to Sunday, December 15.

"ForMax" Event Raises Over One Million Lindens

Late last month, noted content creator Maxwell Graf sent out a plea for help saying he and his wife were facing an eviction, and with no savings was asking people to come to his store and buy an item or two so he could have more cash. Very quickly, people began organizing a shopping fundraiser to help him out more.
There were many stores involved in the event taking place in the Apple Fall sim. By Friday October 6, 250,000 Lindens had been raised. When the event finally ended yesterday on October 10, it had reached the one million mark.

Thank you - we did it!
The ForMax Event has come to a close. I am literally shaking as I write this, as the level of love, help and generosity of the Second Life Community has shown us what true spirit means. The amount raised has topped across the donations/raffle and creator items over 1,000,000 Linden. This hopefully gives our Max a safety net for the short term so he and his family can start to plan their new chapter. A list of all sales is already available to Max for audit (locked script) and donations/raffle in addition.

You did an amazing thing for a Man who has helped so many himself, and you all made a difference this week. Thank you. Thank you.

There was also a raffle held, which was won by JessyWildCat Resident. with Zero1112 Resident and CrazyandSweet Resident as second and third place finishers.

Those still interested in dropping by the event area to purchase an item can head to Apple Fall (128/133/29), at least as long as the stalls remain. More information can be read in the event's Facebook page.

 Hat Tip: New World Notes

Bixyl Shuftan
 

1.1 Million Linden Contest Announced by the UVA

On Friday March 1st, the University of Western Australia announced their "6th Machinima Challenge." For this contest ending on June 30th, there's a substantial prize.

We are happy to announce the 6th Machinima Challenge put forth by the University of Western Australia (UWA). The theme is 'Reflections'. Sponsored by the Parramatta City Council, MetaHarpers (Arhenn Oberlander), AviewTV, Freemason Magic & UWA the prize pool sits at L$1,100,000 (approx USD 4,500). We hope you are inspired by this to create many wondrous works as you have been through the years!

More details can be found on the UVA blog: http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/ .

Passionate Redheads Reach 1 Million Linden Mark

On Thursday June 10, the Relay for Life group Passionate Redheads announced their success in reaching their one million Linden mark in their fundraising.

Many of the group were at a party in Ashira's Enchanting Ballroom at the Isle of Adaron, the party starting at 5 PM SL time. It was 5:52 PM when Sabine McGettigan announced, "We just went over L$1 Million!!! Go Redheads!!!"

"We have all worked very hard for this." Daaneth Kivioq, whom provided the picture, would later say, "Thank you."