That’s okay about the feet. Now I don’t have to find socks for the joystick.
I sent this message to d3v, and he told me I should post it in this thread.
Okay, so currently we’ve got the somewhat finished butteroj stick. Planning to be triple wireless. We have: the Wii from Toodles. Leo from Gummo. Case from Butteroj. Steel Panel from Lightning Label. Parts, JLF and OBSF buttons, already are on hand from akihabarashop. You’ve done art, but I need to see it again. I happened to lose that in my file deletion via new HDD. But, it may need to be revised, for the credits.
I’m probably going to ask J&J Super Modding if they’d like to wire this stick. I know J&J Super Modding would easily beat out any possible wiring, and could all have the feature for wiring on the back credits.
I may be able to get another sponsorship from Focusattack and Foehammer for another stick, Jaleel was happy to lend a hand, and as a thanks for the videos I’ve been working on for his line of products.
Next big thing is the legal shebang. Want to get a lawyer to get the mess worked out, but god knows how expensive that will be. Maybe it would be less for helping out a non-profit, but there are still the state fees. I’ve got about $300 from the leftover Evo funds and the old donations, though I honestly gave $100 of it to Duckie in his time of need a day before the article was published, 6 days and $500 back on rent, it’s what I could do. It was the only money I really had after rent and holiday gifting, but I’m more than willing to pay all of it back into SFJ.
The important thing about this is getting a bank account to pour any funds into, and a way to have a fee-exempted PayPal account with a donate button.
Tournaments I can easily go to: CEO and Final Round. Do want to attempt the online deal, I know people want it, and it would raise a lot more money. We could easily consider elsewhere, but someone else will have to man the booth, and that was rough. I wouldn’t take any of it back, but I sat at it the entire time, like 12 hour shifts, surviving on the pizza Joe would bring me. I just don’t know if anyone else is really, really willing to do this. Evo’s a no-go for me, unless if people -really- wanted to send off again, but the prices are going to be ridiculously stupid. I mean, it was my purpose to be there, but if people really want to enjoy themselves, they’re going to lose a good bit of their enjoyment time there, unless if we employed shifts, which is… ehhh… It’s just easier to sit there the entire day.
Gonna get back on the website. everything’s a bit incomplete.
Have professional business cards. Didn’t have these at Evo, sadly, but I have enough to last whatever.
Banner would be a good thing to do. I think we’ve gotten our feet in the door, by just a few inches, at least. We just need to keep up, and I know this is my fault that things have fallen apart. I got too wrapped up in school, and had too many stupid HDD mounting and unmounting errors, but that’s fixed.
Next? Gotta find a better charity. I’ll try emailing Child’s Play. Red Cross Japan was very unhelpful. I never even got a receipt or anything, they’d hardly talk, since they go through $1500 pretty easily. Something smaller, but still a good cause.
Anyways, I really want to get this going again. We’ve all put a lot into this, and I’ve been letting everyone down not finishing it up.
After this, J&J said it would likely be better to do double wireless, to make power management easier.
Another thing that was posted, was by Duckie. Support individuals, not big businesses. I really don’t know how many cases there are like Duckie’s, but if we could just bring a more profound and direct change to one or two lives instead of being surmounted to a tiny, worthless organization by big organizations. Considering we raised $1500 our first go, perchance we could organize $1000 care packages to the people who are in their time of need, or hey, even a $1000 scholarship to exceptional students of the fighting game community. I don’t know, I’m just brainstorming, trying to give everything a touch
Publicity is also something we’ll need to work on, but I think the outreach to exceptional members of the community will possibly help give us an edge. Again, if anyone else has some other ideas, let me know.
Also, shirts sound excellent. I’ll check my local shirt shops to see if they do silk screened printing to give them a level of quality similar to the TeamTechTalk ones we received.
