Need to catch a ride to the event? Need to find or fill a hotel room? Use this thread to help you find folks. 

You can also connect right to our Discord travel channel here: https://discord.gg/kMhUDuj

https://nasamarathon.com/games/

Runners, please let us know if anything about your availability has changed.

In the interest of focusing on more on site things to do besides the obvious mafia/werewolf games, darkfox and myself will be hanging out in the general discord voice channel to facilitate some brain storming sessions for ideas on what we'd like to do. We're both in EST, so we figured we'd hang out a few evenings in the next 2 weeks to talk to anyone interested in ideas and will be attending. We will tweet out the day of and inform the discord for whoever is around. Lets discuss ideas in this thread as we update things from our discussions.

Some of the ideas we have currently are:
more challenge games (i.e. beezy, fzero gx)
local mystery tournament
mini-game scoring/mashing/etc. competitions
video game scavenger hunt (find things in games as a team against other teams)
mini-panels put on the 2nd stream put on by attendees
blinzer might have a IRL mario party worked out
fighting game tournaments (whatever games people play)
mario party tournament (quo has a thread made for this already)
puyo puyo or tetris tournament
various boardgames
PC LAN games if enough folks bring PCs
trip's out to places around Toronto (we'd most likely have to take a train/bus for large groups depending on distance. checking with the hotel concierge about options) (ideas for where to go are downtown Toronto, Canada's Wonderland, local arcade, and the big mall nearby)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIBcEj_jls

let me know what you think. could social media for speedrunning or seasonal leaderboards be a good direction?

More info can be found here: https://nasamarathon.com/info

For those who will be crossing the border into Canada to attend NASA2017, here is are some helpful links with information about what to expect:

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/help-aide/faq1-eng.html
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/checklist-aidememoire-eng.html
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/declare-eng.html#_s8

In summary: don't bring weapons, drugs, animals, or mass amounts of food with you. You will likely have a harder time reentering your country than getting into Canada, especially for Americans given the current political climate around travel bans.

Do not give the officers a hard time or a bad attitude! This is not the time to make epic memes about haha activate it. The officers have complete discretion over whether or not you will enter the country. Be cooperative, answer their questions honestly, and you won't have any issues. In the case that you are selected for a random search, which in my experience having crossed the border hundreds of times is very rare, so long as you follow the info above, you will not have any problems. 

If you are an American and need info on obtaining a passport, I suggest visiting a Walgreens near you: http://photo.walgreens.com/walgreens/storepage/storePageId=Passport-Photos

What did you think of this years event? What went well? What could be improved?

We'll have staff comments at a later point in time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liisd0h6lmc

Similar to last year, preNASA is an online marathon that aims to raise donations to help fund our 2018 live event venue. This will help lower the attendance fee for folks.

You can submit here: https://www.speedrun.com/preNASA_2018/submitrun

(They've been live for a few days but I forgot to make a thread)

Hello everyone,

In the tradition of Spookathon's legacy of Halloween and Horror themed speedrun marathons, NASA will be hosting the Horror Thriller Monster Marathon. Any loosely Halloween or Horror-themed video game speedruns can be submitted.

The Marathon is a one day 24-hour event that begins at 12am EST on Sunday, October 29th, and ends at 12am Monday the 30th.

It will be streamed on the NASA Twitch channel: twitch.tv/nasa_marathon

Submissions are open now! They will close on Sunday October 22nd at 12am EST.

It's gonna be scary

Speedrunning

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

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preNASA2018 Games List

prenASA 2018 submissions are LIVE

NASA 2018 June 4th - 10th!

Schedule is Out!

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