MinnMax's Asheville Meetup Is Canceled, Donate To Save The Town

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

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Donate Here - https://bit.ly/minnmaxasheville

Breaking in for an emergency update here: MinnMax's "Big Community Meetup" in Asheville, North Carolina was scheduled for this Saturday, October 5th, but nature had other plans. Due to the devasting impact of Hurricane Helene on the area, we're forced to cancel the meetup. Please contact your airline/housing to get a refund and help spread the word to any friends who were going to attend. We're using this unfortunate situation as an opportunity to raise money for the community, which is struggling to get fresh water and electricity at the moment and will be struggling to rebuild for quite some time.

We've launched a campaign to raise money for Americares and specifically their efforts in North Carolina, all donations go directly to the certified nonprofit. Here's a description from them: "Americares is responding to Hurricane Helene to get critical aid to those most impacted. Your tax-deductible gift to the U.S. Disaster Relief Fund will help ensure Americares has the resources required to respond effectively and quickly to natural disasters and extreme weather events with medicines, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid for people in crisis and continue to help survivors rebuild their lives." Donate Here - https://bit.ly/minnmaxasheville

We'll be pushing the charity drive all week and hosting a charity stream this Saturday from 7-11pm Central - the time we would have been at the community meetup. The stream will be on MinnMax's YouTube channel. We'll get together to play some games online, feel free to leave suggestions in the comments below for any online multiplayer games you want to see us play.

Assuming the town will slowly be rebuilt, the plan is we'll return to Asheville in 2025 for the "Big Community Meetup." Additionally, we'll still be hosting a marathon "Give To The Max" charity stream later this November for a nonprofit in Minneapolis. Stay tuned for more info surrounding that event.

Our hearts go out to everybody caught in the path of the storm and a huge thanks to everybody in the MinnMax community for understanding and donating to this cause. https://bit.ly/minnmaxasheville

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Ben Hanson with MinMax with a quick update for you
0:04.9	if you've listened to the MinMax show you've probably heard over the last
0:08.8	several months we've been rallying the MinMax community to attend the big community meetup to celebrate our fifth anniversary
0:16.1	that was going to be happening on Saturday, October 5th in Asheville, North Carolina.
0:21.2	We held a huge contest on Patreon, let people vote, and people chose
0:25.5	Asheville, North Carolina for the big community meetup because it was a beautiful town.
0:30.6	This last weekend, Hurricane Helene destroyed the town.
0:35.0	Devastating impact a ton of flooding the brewery we were going to be meeting up at I believe is underwater at the moment.
0:42.0	It's horrific so this is a message to let you know,
0:45.6	do not come. The Community Meetup is cancelled for October 5th.
0:49.9	If you made travel plans to come to the meetup, please get a refund for those travel plans.
0:54.1	If you had friends coming to the meetup, please let them know not to go to Asheville.
0:58.4	We will return in 2025 to Asheville, North Carolina for the big community meet-ups.
1:04.4	So the fifth anniversary will just be delayed by a little bit.
1:08.3	It'll be more like celebrating the 5.3 year anniversary for mid-max. So stay tuned on details on exactly when we'll be meeting up but it will not be for a while so that's going to be in 2025.
1:19.0	For now we need to focus and help the town and the surrounding area recover.
1:23.6	So we've launched a donation campaign. You can go to Bitley slash MinMax Asheville.
1:28.7	We're raising money through the certified nonprofit called AmeriCares,
1:33.6	whose mission is to go into these disaster zones,
1:36.6	bring much needed supplies, help people survive,
1:39.6	help the town rebuild, medical supplies, water, humanitarian aid, everything like that.
1:44.9	So AmeriCare is the nonprofit and again the U.S.
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