Puerto Rico Comic Con y Extra Life Puerto Rico hacen llamado a beneficio de los niños

Llamado a comunidad “gamer” a participar en

maratón de videojuegos de Extra Life Puerto Rico

Todos los fondos recaudados son a beneficio de la Fundación de Niños San Jorge

  San Juan, PR – El Puerto Rico Comic Con (PRCC), el principal evento de cultura popular y entretenimiento en la región, expande su misión a través de una alianza con Extra Life Puerto Rico, entidad sin fines de lucro cuyo objetivo es la recaudación de fondos destinados a la Fundación de Niños San Jorge.

  La entidad Extra Life Puerto Rico está reclutando “gamers” para que participen de un maratón internacional de videojuegos este 25 octubre; todo dinero levantado durante el maratón es a beneficio de la Fundación de Niños San Jorge, organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a ayudar a niños y niñas con malformaciones físicas y a pacientes pediátricos de oncología y hematología.

  Según Finees Almenas, productor asociado del Puerto Rico Comic Con, “invitamos a nuestros seguidores y a la comunidad en general a formar su equipo, inscribirse y jugar su videojuego favorito el 25 de octubre – pude ser desde Anrgy Birds o Minecraft hasta títulos más sofisticados. Lo importante es saber que se está jugando por una causa noble”.

  “Toda persona que participe del maratón de videojuegos de Extra Life tendrá la oportunidad de ser un verdadero héroe, ya que estará jugando a beneficio de los miles de pacientes pediátricos que la Fundación de Niños San Jorge atiende”, dijo Roberto López Guerrero de Extra Life Puerto Rico.

  El concepto del maratón del 25 de octubre es que los participantes jueguen videojuegos por 24 horas consecutivas a la vez que consiguen la mayor cantidad de auspiciadores posibles. Estos auspiciadores donarán $1 por cada hora que dura el maratón, para un total de $24. Las personas pueden inscribirse como jugador individual o en equipo, y/o hacer un donativo, en http://www.extra-life.org/team/extralifepr.

  Extra Life se fundó en 2008 en el Texas Children’s Hospital y forma parte de la organización nacional Children’s Miracle Network. Durante los pasados cuatro años consecutivos, Extra Life Puerto Rico ha apoyado el Children’s Miracle Network en su gestión de recaudación de fondos. Todos los fondos que se recauden por “gamers de patio” se quedan en Puerto Rico y son distribuidos por la Fundación de Niños San Jorge. El año pasado levantó más de $6,100 para los niños de Puerto Rico y el recaudo total en el maratón fue de más de 4 millones de dólares para salvar a los niños de todo Estados Unidos, Canadá y Puerto Rico.

Enlaces importantes:

Extra Life Puerto Rico:     www.extra-life.org

                                                Facebook.com/ExtraLifePR

Fundación de Niños San Jorge:   http://bit.ly/1dP1bXQ

Facebook.com/SJCFoundation

 

Puerto Rico Comic Con 2014: My Experience

                                               

 By Lil Leia 

   Hi guys! Today I will be discussing my experience at the 2014 PRCC. I was only able to go on Sunday, because I had to go to my grad party on Saturday (it was awesome by the way). But, nonetheless, I was aware of what happened on Saturday with the events and panels, the time extension, the bomb threat, the protests, and the extremely long line outside. Back to the main subject, I went on Sunday as a casual Wonder Woman, and I arrived with my dad at about 9:30 A.M.-ish. I didn’t wait for more than 30 minutes in the line, and based on Saturday we were ready to expect a 2 hour+ line outside. Well, we were wrong. :P Anyway, we entered maybe about 15 minutes after the doors opened, and what was waiting for us was pure awesomeness. We started with the right side of the convention center, and then made our way through. We stopped at lots of booths to look at the stuff they had and if we liked something it was very likely that we would buy it either on the spot, or later on when we made the first run through the con. We stopped at the HUGE booth that Atlantic University played the games they had made to exhibit at the PRCC. Then we entered the Artist’s Alley, and we picked up a couple of things from some booths, had a chat with some of the artists we knew and were friends with beforehand. And then came the Autographs Area. We only made the line for Max Hernandez (Agent Jasper Sitwell from The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD), who was a super cool person! We took a couple of pictures with him and he signed a Funko Pop Agent Coulson figure we had, he wrote “I touched Lola!” (if you don’t know already, Agent Sitwell is a Hydra double agent, and Lola is Coulson’s precious 1962 Red Chevrolet Corvette). Afterwards, I crossed paths with Dalai Dama, DLaw, and Temper, then with a couple of my Dad’s friends and coworkers, took a couple of more runs across the con to see anything we might have missed, bought some last-minute stuff, watched the last part of the cosplay contest, and sadly left. It was an awesomsauce experience, and I cannot wait for the 2015 edition! See ya! 

Useful Tips for Cosplayers

  By  Marjorie Morningstar of Cosplay +Sz

Here you’ll see a few tips for con attendees in their cosplays. You will find them useful for a smooth experience.  Concerning you:

• Be well rested. I know it's difficult to have a good sleep the day of the con. Between the excitement and the final touches for the cosplay we tend to sleep only a few hours. Plan ahead to have everything ready and sleep well

• Have a good breakfast. You don’t know how many hours you will spend at

the entrance line and you will need lots of energy so you can strike awesome poses. So eat before you get there and charge up for a day of complete fun.

• Be prepared. Have a bag with essentials like:

  o A bottle of water (you can refill at the water fountains) and snacks. o Sewing Kit. You can be a super hero, for yourself or any other with this amazing kit. But take only what’s necessary (thread, needle, safety pins, etc.)

  o First aid kit. You don’t know what can happen, and while you wait for the cons medical assistance team you can prevent blood stains on your cosplay with a Hello kitty band aid.

  o A change of clothes in case of a mayor accident or discomfort. Also, in case your cosplay is too revealing and you are asked to change clothes.

  o Girly things. To all my fellow female cosplayers, if Mother Nature has called, take some extra female napkins/tampons with you. You don’t want accidents happening.

• Bring a buddy. You can bribe them with an autograph from a special guest invited to the con or with noms (noms are good bribes). Bring someone who can help you dress up, hold your things while tacking pictures, and enjoy the con with.

Concerning your Cosplay:

• Get it done. The best advice we can give is to have your cosplay finished ahead of time. Try it on and practice posses to make sure the outfit and prop(s) holds.

• Be prepared. Keep every piece of your cosplay together including your make up, so you can get dress with less hassle. You can find bathrooms outside the convention hall where you can get dressed if you need to. If  your cosplay needs body paint, you will need extra time in the morning for
preparations. Be careful not to mess the facilities in the convention center. Try it out first, check for allergies and check if the paint runs.

• Make safe props. There are a lot of different ways to make props, be sure  to use the safest materials for your safety and that of others. Remember that there will be a sea of people and you have to make sure not to hurt yourself or others.

• Strike a pose. Practice your poses with and without your props. You can injure yourself by doing something you are not used to do.

• Enjoy!