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Any body interested in a fundraiser that would be getting sponsered to do a 24 hour (maybe even longer and set the world record for longest hockey game) hockey game? I think it would be a great and rather amusing way to fundraise for the club. Get local companies to give us money for every hour we play. We could even ge media coverage. Just imagine how the people in Canada who set the world record for longest game would feel if it was broken by a bunch of people in New Zealand. Oh the comedy. Anywho, it’s an idea and it would be non checking since I don’t think any of our bodies could handle playing 24 hours of contact. Me and Simon have talked about it and thought it would be a great event not only for the club but to raise profile for th sport in the city and the country.
This is who we have to beat:
http://www.worldslongestgame.com/Kyle suggested this a while ago. I don’t think he got anywhere with planning it though. Count me in for 6 hours or so. Could be tricky finding numbers from 1am-7am or so I imagine.
The world record for the longest hockey game was apparently made ‘downunder’ previously with help of the Canadian Moose (13 hour game which has since been beaten). I’m not sure if it was in New Zealand or Australia though … http://www.canadianmoose.org/html/about.htm%5B/url:3b8qgmi8%5D
Ryan,
Whoa! I just checked that link you posted! +240 hours of hockey we need to beat!!! That’s a lot of hockey.
Ryan,
"Ryan":196o2mo4 wrote:Kyle suggested this a while ago. I don’t think he got anywhere with planning it though. Count me in for 6 hours or so. Could be tricky finding numbers from 1am-7am or so I imagine.
[/quote:196o2mo4]Yeah. Though it was an idea for future fundraising that I raised to see what people thought of it. So far I haven’t heard of a cause which would draw the sponsors enough to make it worthwhile. I was originally thinking of fundraising for a team to travel internationally. I thought it could raise up to $5000.
Though that 24 hour walk for cancer research thing would be a logical thing to think about if we were to think outside the club.
I don’t think the nights would actually be that hard. I came up with a draw model for it which only required 5 teams to get through those 6 hours, and no team played two hours in a row.
[color=green:ejbi3ctv]I say bring it on baby this sounds mint, shit I’ll even volunteer to do the grave yard shift. [/color:ejbi3ctv]
sounds like fun. Have to make sure we have plenty of players though. would we have to keep to normal end of period times etc, or could we sneak in longer between period breaks?
My original thoughts on the matter, which I’ll repost below, were that you’d run it as 24 sequential hockey games – taking an hour each. You could keep a total score from each bench for the 24 hours, but essentially it’d just be 24 games. That might be different from what Ryan was thinking, which might be a straight 24 hour game.
Here’s my original post earlier this year:
My second idea was after watching a heap of people produce thousands of cheese rolls to scrape together a few hundred dollars. I was wondering if the next time the club needed to do a big fundraising (for players heading overseas internationally or something) if we should play a 24 hour game of hockey. It’d run as 24 sequential games, just rope teams in and they pay their money, play three games (or more) during the 24 hour period. If each player paid $10/game, even if we had to pay full ice costs you’d earn $50/hour. But if we could get the ice rink to give us a discount for booking a 24 hour session, or get sponsorship (or both), you might look at earning about $3-6000, before you start selling food and raffles and whatnot at the same time.
You’d keep the score ticking over so at the end of the 24 hours it’d be 104 – 86 or something, but you’d match the teams up – so the peewees would play each other three times, the midgets would do the same, some DIHL teams would play a round robin within their grades etc etc.
And it’d be great publicity for ice hockey, we’d be a good shot for TV news on TV1 or TV3 – memories of those telethon things that were on in the 80s.
Really does sound like the kind of thing which would give huge publicity for Dunedin Ice Hockey. The ODT woudl lap it up, as would TV i would imagine. Oh and if a classy jingle could be written for whenever a donation comes in, it would bring a tear to my eye!
na what u want is a 24 hour straight game, no stops.
wen u wana change the next guys go to the bench and grab tops as people sub.
This would be awesome!
if he did, the only stipulation would be that we all have to grow chuck norris beards. Sorry Steffi-Pooh your out man…unless we draw on the facial hair lol. Me and Blake are already going pretty good with our beards.
hey this sounds like an awesome idea and i am sure a lot of us chch folk would come down and join in but i think a few of them might need some beers to keep playing but i am keen to come down and do it a
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