06-05-2022, 02:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2022, 09:54 AM by allbetsonjames. Edited 1 time in total.)
This last Saturday London Royals Safety Aleksandr Milescu participated in Stream for the Service – an event organized to have different celebrities around the nation team up with military service members overseas in a day of online gaming. The games are streamed as well to raise money for different military-oriented charities and organizations.
Having been asked to participate, Milescu first laughed at the idea that he would be considered “celebrity” but agreed to participate. He chose to split any donations made during his stream between the USO and the Gary Sinese Foundation. The event would have him stream the game ISFL 2050 from 8pm to 12am, playing head to head matches against deployed soldiers and sailors who had signed up and won a lottery organized over the past weeks.
Streaming sounded easy to Milescu, but it turned out now to be so simple. He had a webcam and a pc, what else could be needed? Luckily the event organizers sent a tech to his apartment to get things set up. They brough in a professional camera and a mic that made him feel like a radio host. There were circular backlights that he had only seen before from women doing Instagram makeup tutorials. Programs were installed on his computer, a bunch of windows in windows in windows from what he could see. After it was all set up the tech informed him that all he had to do come 8pm was sit down and play. They would take care of the rest.
When the clock struck 8pm Milescu went live. It felt a little odd to be on camera in his own apartment. He was in from of local news cameras plenty, and even a number of web calls over the last few years, but in each of those cases there was someone on the other end to interact with. In this case, he was just speaking without much feedback to the faceless number of viewers he saw counted in the corner of his screen. Slowly growing to a respectable number, he launched ISFL 2050 and sent an invite to the first soldier up in his head to head. To keep things interesting, he selected a random team and went into this first match as Second Line.
As it turned out, Milescu’s skills on the field were much better than his gaming chops. In typical ISFL 2050 fashion, his anemic offense of short passes that fell incomplete and outside runs that got stuffed gave way to first down hail marys and nonstop fake punts. Even when playing defense his players dove helplessly after running backs, completely missed receiver assignments, and would make a great goal line stand just to give up the TD on 4th down. The game was fun, however, and seemed to attract viewers and an active chat room. Viewers started donating a dollar or two each time Milescu embarrassed himself on the field, which good new for the foundations, happed with decent regularity. The first match ended 10-35.
Over the rest of the night Milescu jumped around playing different teams. Silverbacks, Outlaws, Yeti, and Liberty all ended up under his control at some point. Most games went similarly to the first, but as the night progressed, he did occasionally pull of a great play and actually came away with two wins after all was said and done.
The event organizers told Milescu the night had gone great. Despite his limited celebrity status he had maintained a few hundred viewers at any given time, and had raised a total of $12,849 for the charities. He personally rounded that number up to $20,000 so each foundation he was raising for would receive an even 10k. Across the whole event nearly 1.2 million had been raised from all the different streamers. Despite being just a small number of that pot and being admittedly terrible at ISFL 2050, MIlescu had a great time and let the event organizers know to call him up the next time they wanted to do a charity stream.
Having been asked to participate, Milescu first laughed at the idea that he would be considered “celebrity” but agreed to participate. He chose to split any donations made during his stream between the USO and the Gary Sinese Foundation. The event would have him stream the game ISFL 2050 from 8pm to 12am, playing head to head matches against deployed soldiers and sailors who had signed up and won a lottery organized over the past weeks.
Streaming sounded easy to Milescu, but it turned out now to be so simple. He had a webcam and a pc, what else could be needed? Luckily the event organizers sent a tech to his apartment to get things set up. They brough in a professional camera and a mic that made him feel like a radio host. There were circular backlights that he had only seen before from women doing Instagram makeup tutorials. Programs were installed on his computer, a bunch of windows in windows in windows from what he could see. After it was all set up the tech informed him that all he had to do come 8pm was sit down and play. They would take care of the rest.
When the clock struck 8pm Milescu went live. It felt a little odd to be on camera in his own apartment. He was in from of local news cameras plenty, and even a number of web calls over the last few years, but in each of those cases there was someone on the other end to interact with. In this case, he was just speaking without much feedback to the faceless number of viewers he saw counted in the corner of his screen. Slowly growing to a respectable number, he launched ISFL 2050 and sent an invite to the first soldier up in his head to head. To keep things interesting, he selected a random team and went into this first match as Second Line.
As it turned out, Milescu’s skills on the field were much better than his gaming chops. In typical ISFL 2050 fashion, his anemic offense of short passes that fell incomplete and outside runs that got stuffed gave way to first down hail marys and nonstop fake punts. Even when playing defense his players dove helplessly after running backs, completely missed receiver assignments, and would make a great goal line stand just to give up the TD on 4th down. The game was fun, however, and seemed to attract viewers and an active chat room. Viewers started donating a dollar or two each time Milescu embarrassed himself on the field, which good new for the foundations, happed with decent regularity. The first match ended 10-35.
Over the rest of the night Milescu jumped around playing different teams. Silverbacks, Outlaws, Yeti, and Liberty all ended up under his control at some point. Most games went similarly to the first, but as the night progressed, he did occasionally pull of a great play and actually came away with two wins after all was said and done.
The event organizers told Milescu the night had gone great. Despite his limited celebrity status he had maintained a few hundred viewers at any given time, and had raised a total of $12,849 for the charities. He personally rounded that number up to $20,000 so each foundation he was raising for would receive an even 10k. Across the whole event nearly 1.2 million had been raised from all the different streamers. Despite being just a small number of that pot and being admittedly terrible at ISFL 2050, MIlescu had a great time and let the event organizers know to call him up the next time they wanted to do a charity stream.
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