Two weeks ago, Fall Guys announced the Battle of the Brands, a fundraising auction that would trade the top donation to UK charity SpecialEffect for custom in-game skins. After a fortnight of brands, companies, and individuals stumbling over each other to claim the winning bid, the event is over, and the last few minutes were rather eventful.
For a while, it looked like the winner would be YouTuber FGTeev with $510,000 -- an already enormous sum of money. However, right at the last minute, an interesting crew announced an incredible bid. G2 Esports, Aim Lab, MrBeast, and Ninja banded together to raise the winning donation to $1 million.
Developer Mediatonic is now in talks with the group to discuss the in-game outfits (all the contributing parties will get a costume each).
As for SpecialEffect, the impact of this fundraising stunt has been pretty big. As a reminder, the charity exists to making gaming accessible to those with physical disabilities by creating innovative control solutions for all manner of handicaps. In a post on the organisation's website, founder Dr Mick Donegan thanks the winners "for their amazing generosity".
Donegan says the charity has been facing funding problems due to COVID-19, and Fall Guys' charity auction will be "invaluable". He goes on to say that the auction itself has drawn more attention to SpecialEffect, meaning its services are more in demand than ever, so the money will be put to good use.
There's a nice feel-good story to kick off the week.
[source twitter.com, via specialeffect.org.uk]
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That’s a lot of money going to a great cause. Well played Mediatonic, they’re handling this brilliantly especially on social media.
It's so refreshing to see good news like this! These people deserve all the fame and success they are getting and they decide to return all of that back to the world. Wonderful people and a great game.
Beautiful stuff, hope this company stays independent forever, they seem like a wholesome bunch!
@nessisonett I love that they started this charity bid war in response to corperations being corperate and trying to get a piece of that viral pie.
Instead of accepting a bunch of brand deals for money they basically made a IRL battleroyale pitting brands against eachother to see how charitable they could be.
Mrbeast winning was a no brainer, I wonder if mrbeast is allowed to decide his own skin, and if he is if he will make it a pewdiepie skin seeing how much pewdiepie loves the game and how big of a fan mrbeast is.
@darkswabber I hope not, nothing would spoil the event more than having a skin made of a disgusting piece of human detritus like Pewdiepie.
@nessisonett different tastes for different folks, I would love pewdiepie skin personally.
I would also love to argue why pewdiepie isn’t a bad human being but I don’t know your reasons for disliking him so it would be sh*tty from me to assume it’s for the obvious.
But most off all I don’t want to antagonize you since I like your comments and what you have to say on here and on nintendolife.
EDIT: And now I just seem like a stereotypical pewdiepie fan typing a whole paragraph to defend him 😂 sorry for that.
@darkswabber This is a more informed and well rounded statement than I have ever seen on either site. I commend you.
I really don't like the ninja skin idea cause I hate that pretentious little punk, but hey, 1 million, worth!
Also, Mr Beast skin is hype!
@darkswabber simple and to the point, pewds is a bigot and acts like he is not one.
@sawaoyamanaka almost everyone is bigot, you might want to learn the definition of that word before throwing it around.
Seems really unfair for the 2nd highest bid that 4 people put in less each yet each of them get an outfit....but then again this is starting to seem like yet another Youtuber/streamer endorsement and was probably rigged like the top player seems to have been
@sawaoyamanaka Anyone who believes that, I got a bridge to sell them.
What a crock.
Good charity. Bad costumes.
@GamingVeteran wow, that is your “argument” I am not a bigot. Clearly you need to look at yourself in the mirror if you find what pewdiepie as ok. I don’t judge people by the colour of their skin.
This game is good for the world
@Subsided Yep, you got them. They gave a million dollars to charity just to get a few subscribers. Would you rather they sacrificed some virgins for your attention? Send away all the first born sons in their home town?
Who is MrBeast. 😆
@sawaoyamanaka You not liking what pewdiepie says or does makes you a bigot as well, that is my point. A simple google search can explain it for you. Bigot, a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions. You seem to think it only applies to race for some reason.
@GamingVeteran Under that logic, hating a Nazi for holding Nazi views would make you a bigot. I’m not gonna argue cause I’m knackered but your logic is faulty af.
@nessisonett Um no its not faulty at all, and yes that would make you bigot. Its literally the definition of the word. To be fair, both the words bigot and Nazi have lost almost all meaning within the last 4 years.
@GamingVeteran For argument’s sake, let’s say I think the Earth is flat. If you then told me that my beliefs were utter fiction and that the Earth was indeed round, are you a bigot?
@nessisonett It isn't hard to Google the definition but here is the top one, Bigot "a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions". It doesn't matter if the person is a Nazi who thinks the world is flat and says gators live in the sewers. If you don't like that person based on that then yes you are a bigot. It doesn't mean that persons opinion is right, but you are a bigot for not letting that person believe what they want to.
@GamingVeteran Anybody who believes in the world in such terms is an idiot. Call me a bigot all you want but if your beliefs contradict or impact on the happiness, wellbeing or basic human rights of another group of people then I’m within my rights to believe that person is a waste of space. But of course, that would make you a bigot for calling me a bigot based on my beliefs that person is bigoted. Then I would be double bigoted for believing you’re bigoted for calling me a bigot based on my beliefs that person is bigoted.
This comments thread took a turn
Can we stay on topic please!
Well, regardless of who donated the money, I think it's absolutely brilliant that Special Effect have received such a large amount of money, especially when it sounds like they really needed it. No doubt they will help a lot of people with what's been donated.
The costumes shown above could have been a lot more imaginative but, oh well! Plenty of others to choose from.
And that ninja guy worms his way into another game. How big must his ego be? At least pick a good design instead of a cartoon version of yourself. SMH
Anyone wearing that skin gets pushed off the platform by yours truly.
If anyone wants to take a break from bickering about youtubers, take a look at the impact this charity can have, great stuff here!!!
https://twitter.com/Mediatonic/status/1300766841040756736?s=19
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