Have there ever been tourneys for charity?

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I’m kind of new to the scene, so sorry if this is a stupid question.
But yeah, have there ever been pro-level tourneys where all the entry money went to charity instead of to the winners? If so, details?

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There was the fight for relief tournament for Japan, after the tsunami. It raised a lot of money.

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3

There was also the Topanga Cup in Japan that raised 400k yen for disaster relief.

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Also, remember the Chris Hu tourney drive after his home burnt down? They raised several grand overnight. O:

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There have also been tournaments like NEC (I think that’s the one) that do canned food drives as well.

Wasn’t there a benefit tournament for the west coast guy who died in early 2010? Never had interaction with him, but I remember it, because that death was seriously tragic for the community.

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I know Total Eclipse this year donated all their profits for the Japan disaster relief. There have been tournaments though in the US for either helping a fellow community member or raising funds for SBO qualifier trips.

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Over here down in Richmond, we had a tournament that donated funds to SIDS research after one of our own, Moose, lost his daughter to SIDS.

We’re going to have another one in January too.

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Sounds like Dasrik. I think they did have one.

This wasn’t a tournament but did happen recently:

I think most of the “charitable cause” tournaments are local events and so tend to slip through the cracks in terms of (SRK-as-a-whole) community awareness.