Desert Bus for Hope 5

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Desert Bus for Hope 5 (AKA Desert Bus 5, DB5, De5ert Bus) began November 18, 2011 at 6:00PM PST. The event lasted 6 1/4 days ending finally on November, 25th at 12:00AM PST. That equated to 150 hours bussed after $376,167 raised for Child's Play Charity. An additional $2643.01 has come in after the bussing ended for a grand total of $378,810.01 raised for this year's event.

Events

  • An auction for a hand-crafted Doctor Who-esque scarf resulted in a bidding war between users dave_random and DuctTape. DuctTape eventually won with a bid of $3339, after Space Bidding (bidding over one's own bid) twice, and achieving the highest auction bid of all Desert Bus at the time.
  • Dostrow won the Ken "Value Added" Steacy live auction of a custom sketch with a high bid of $5,700.
  • IRC chat mod Ian 'Dix' Dixon, during his call in, challenged Kroze and Ashton to read/act out a slashfic written by chat users Fayili and Cho_J. Originally the DB Survivors Group Challenge donation was to be for $400 but thanks to the Group Challenge tag being left open during the following few hours, over $17,000 was raised for the challenge. To date this stands as a Desert Bus record for 'Most Expensive Challenge issued'. (the figure of $17,000 is nearly 75% of the total raised during the ENTIRE first year)
  • Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson spacebid himself from the mid $6000s to $10,000 during the live auction for an uncut sheet of Magic:The Gathering Innistrad Rares/Mythics Foil cards. To date this is the largest amount any Desert Bus auction has gone for.


Milestones

  • $500,000 lifetime donations
  • $750,000 lifetime donations
  • matched the previous year's total nearly 48 hours faster

Parody Songs

Skits/Challenges videos


The Kroze Ponies Trilogy

Quotables

Chat user bloodraven setup parsing of his logs for some unofficial Stats from the Chat.

Notable Memes

These are new or exceptionally notable memes that arose or were perpetuated during the marathon.

  • The Desert Bus for Hope Drinking Game returned this year with a vengeance.
  • Chess - Chess is used as a reference to Sex. This makes for many amusing double entendres.
  • "Well Dong" instead of "Well Done", named after a confusing font on the Titus the Fox game Graham was challenged to play simultaneously with Desert Bus.
  • "Myth Busted" In regards to an auction of Myth Busters SWAG, Graham challenged the chat to bust the myth that the auction couldn't go over $1,000. Henceforth the chat decreed that all auctions hitting $1000 must be greeted with hearty cheers of "Myth Busted!"
  • QWOP - The chat discovered how to break Graham the way WHARRGARBL broke Kathleen in DBFH4; a game called QWOP.
  • Star Trek Erotic Fanfiction - One of the first call-in guests was asked for their opinion on Star Trek Erotic Fanfiction, this lead to the same question being asked during every call-in thereafter.
  • I'm Notchicus- Thanks to many attempts being made by a 'fake' Notch trying to log into the IRC, Dix started saying I'm Notchicus which has been repeated many many times over various occasions.
  • AFRICAAAAAAAAA!!!- During a song challenge of singing Toto's Africa, Ashley kept yelling out "AFRICAAAAAA!" every time the word was said in the song it somehow caught on. Also one of the more annoying memes of DB5.
  • #TeamBidBot- the lord and master of the bidding was done by one excellently coded bot by Tyranic-Moron, then recoded multiple times by Ashton and Fugiman. In the end it made the bidding process incredibly easy for the LRR crew in the Moonbase to find bids amongst the craziness of the IRC live chat, and virtually eliminated the problem of fake bids from previous years.
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