Tag Archives: 2016 marathon

Thank You!

With your help, we raised $10,000.71 for charity: water during UPickVG 5! That’s 333 people who get clean water access FOR LIFE, thanks to your support! And what’s more, we’ve raised over $31,942 for worthy charities over the lifetime of UPickVG! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for all the tuning in, donating,… Read More »

Mini Museum Prize for #UPickVG5

On Saturday June 4th starting at 12:30pm and ending at 1:30pm ET, we will be giving away a Limited Edition Mini Museum! This desktop acrylic museum contains ten amazing artifacts from earth and beyond. The Mini Museum is a portable collection of curiosities where every item is authentic, iconic and labeled. It’s been carefully designed to… Read More »

Steam Game Bundle Prize 2 for #UPickVG5

On Saturday June 4th starting at 4:30pm and ending at 5:30pm ET, we will be giving away a bundle of games via Steam.  This collection covers a wide variety of genres and includes the following games: The U-Pick Crew is very grateful to our own Doctor Gyarados for his donation to UPickVG 5, and we look forward to… Read More »

What’s in the Box?!? The Return of the Mystery Games

Last year during UPickVG IV, we introduced a really fun game mechanic to our game-a-thon: Mystery Games. We had no idea how well it would go over. Would people hate it? After all, the name of our fundraiser is “U-Pick…” as in, YOU pick the games we play on air. What fun is picking if… Read More »

Gravity Gun Replica Prize for #UPickVG5

On Saturday June 4th starting at 6:30pm and ending at 7:30pm ET, we will be giving away a Limited Edition Gravity Gun Replica.  This Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator is an officially licensed Half-Life 2 collectible made by NECA. The device is a life-size 1:1 scale replica of Gordon Freeman’s fantastic contraption.  It features orange LEDs, 2 handles, 2… Read More »

Fallout 4 Merch Bundle and Wasteland Workshop DLC Prize for #UPickVG5

On Saturday June 4th starting at 9:30pm and ending at 10:30pm ET, we will be giving away a bundle of Fallout 4 merchandise, along with a PS4 DLC code.  This bundle has all sorts of useful items for lone wanderers of the wasteland, including: Fallout 4 Vault 111 Beanie Travel the Commonwealth in style with this fashionable headgear.… Read More »

Gaze Into the Iris! Karma Points at UPickVG

We have a number of prizes for the UPickVG 5 charity marathon, donated through our sponsors and players. “Prizes? I love prizes!” you say. We do too! Who doesn’t? What prizes do we have? These! Just a few examples of fabulous prizes we have to give away during UPickVG 5! “How get prizes?” Well my… Read More »

Portal Gun Replica Prize for #UPickVG5

On Sunday June 5th starting at 6:30pm and ending at 7:30pm ET, we will be giving away a Limited Edition Portal Gun Replica.  This Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is an officially licensed Portal/Portal 2 collectible made by NECA. The device is a life-size 1:1 scale replica of Chell’s fantastic contraption, limited to only 5000 pieces worldwide. … Read More »