Foodmachine 2011 is proudly sponsored by the NJ S.O.B.s!
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It’s time for the Privateer Press community to band together again and help fight hunger through the annual Foodmachine charity drive. This is the 6th year now that Privateer Press gamers around the world have held Foodmachine charity events combining their love of gaming with their desire to help the needy. If this is your first time, don’t worry! It’s easy to get involved and this information will help you.
Foodmachine was conceived by the St. Louis River Dogs and has grown significantly. Now the torch has been passed to the NJ Somerville Ogrun Bokurs (NJ SOBs) to keep the movement growing. On behalf of all of us we want to first thank you, the Organizer. We know you’re going to be putting in lots of time and energy to make this event a success for both your local players and the overall effort to fight hunger in your local community. Despite many amazing advances in agriculture, there are still people who go to bed hungry at night, even in fully developed countries. You and others like you all around the globe are helping to make a difference by collecting canned goods for your local pantry.
The idea behind Foodmachine is simple – support a good cause by playing games and having fun. This can be a large involved event or a smaller tournament, it’s up to you. What matters is that your players have a good time, they donate canned food to a local organization, and everyone walks away knowing it was a day well spent. A Foodmachine event can be any kind of tournament format with this one twist: built in cheating! (Would you expect anything else from a bunch of SOBs?) By donating canned goods, players can "cheat" during their games. The more cans you donate, the more you can cheat. A list of suggested cheats can be found within the rules packet.
Getting Started
We hope to see you and others running Foodmachine events around the globe from November 1st through January 1st. This packet includes all the information and resources we think you will need to plan and run your event. We’ve included rules, player registration sheets, event reporting forms, and guidelines on working with the media to get the word out. Additional information, including some logos you can use for your promotional efforts, can be found at this website All you need to do is arrange a location and run the event just like a regular tournament and follow these extra guidelines. If you get stuck, the NJ SOBs and the Privateer Press community are always here to help. Click the "contact us" link below to email us with your questions.
Prizes
To bodge Foodmachine up to Page 5 standards, Privateer Press has again stepped up as they have in years past with prizes to help recognize the donations. They will be designing custom vinyl banners with their artwork and the names of the winners of each prize category of Foodmachine. Those categories are:
• Most cans donated overall
• Most cans/player
• Single largest individual donating
Additionally, the group that donates the most cans overall will win the traveling Foodmachine trophy. Email your results to foodmachine@njsobs.com so we can keep track of how many events were held and how many cans we collected. For scoring purposes, one "can" is defined as something around 12-14 ounces. The event organizer can count a can as worth 2 "cans" if it is big or small cans as only half a "can". [To encourage people to bring food other than canned vegetables, you might also count each meat-based can as 2 cans for the purposes of cheating, but don’t report it that way to us.]
It’s really great to see the numbers going up and every event, no matter how large or small, makes a difference! The winners will be announced in February at Templecon 2012.
Painting for Charity
We’re also kicking things up this year with a companion event for all the hobbyists out there. Orange is the official color of hunger awareness and so we wanted to combine that aspect of the charity into Foodmachine. Project: Orange Crush (Hunger) gives hobbyists the chance to devote their special talents to the cause.
We've drawn up a Tier 4 Shae army full of pirate models. We’re asking the community to sign up to paint a model from the army in an orange scheme of their choosing. The army will then be auctioned off for charity. Privateer Press' studio painter, Matt DiPietro, will be painting up Captain Phinneus Shae and the Commodore cannon in an orange-based paint scheme. In addition, this year's Formula P3 Grandmaster, Zach Lanier, will be painting up Dirty Meg for the army.
To participate, follow the link (here) and sign up to paint one of the models. Glue the model to a normal base but do not add any flocking. After you have finished painting it up, mail the model to Matt at Privateer Press:
Project Orange CrushMatt DiPietro will be basing all the models before having them photographed for their eBay auction. Your model must be at Privateer Press by December 2nd, 2011.
Questions?
For additional information: Click Here to email us!
Donate like you have a pair!
Thank you again,
The NJ SOBs
