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Gaming, drinking, and prize-winning - for the kids!

Dawdle.com and Midway Games are sponsoring the first-ever Child's Play fundraiser in Chicago! Join us for gaming, booze, and raffle prizes at Plan B Bar + Kitchen in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood! The event starts at 7pm and goes until 10pm, or whenever Plan B kicks us out.

Join us for gaming, booze, and prizes! We'll have an MK vs. DC (fine, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe) contest and some other special items. Totally inspired by Fünde Razor, we're doing our part to raise the spirits of some very deserving kids.

You can get in for $10 or get our special PREMIUM open bar ticket for $50. Each admission also gets you one entry into our raffle and you can buy additional raffle tickets at the event for $10 each. We'll also have a silent auction for some awesome gifts from Midway.

Raffle prizes include:

  • Commission-free accounts on Dawdle.com
  • $25 gift certificates to Warcraft.SwagDog.com for their guild hoodies and shirts, free shipping included
  • Game Party 2 Tournament for Wii
  • Mortal Kombat Kollection for PS2
  • Ultimate Mortal Kombat for Nintendo DS
  • Mechanic Master for Nintendo DS
  • TouchMaster 2 for Nintendo DS

Silent auctions for:

  • Full collection of all current Midway games for Xbox 360:
    • Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
    • TNA Impact!
    • Blitz II: The League
    • Unreal Tournament III
    • John Woo presents Stranglehold
    • NBA Ballers: Chosen One
  • Full collection of all current Midway games for PlayStation 3:
    • Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
    • TNA Impact!
    • Blitz II: The League
    • Unreal Tournament III
    • John Woo presents Stranglehold
    • NBA Ballers: Chosen One
  • Full collection of all current Midway games for Nintendo DS:
    • Ultimate Mortal Kombat
    • Mechanic Master
    • TouchMaster 2
  • Mortal Kombat Collection for the PlayStation 2

Since 2003, over 100,000 gamers worldwide have banded together through Child’s Play, a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over two million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world have been collected since the inception of Child's Play.

• We're going to have a Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe tournament - so practice your Kombos, Freefall Kombat, and Klose Kombat skills!

• Drink some of Chicago's finest beers! And hard liquors! And wine!

• In addition to the drinks and games, we'll have some raffle prizes! You can get additional raffle tickets are $10 each, and your admission gets you one entry into the raffle.

Many thanks to Dawdle.com and Midway Games for sponsoring Chicago for Child's Play! Also thanks to SwagDog for donating raffle prizes. We're always interested in adding additional sponsors - if you know a group who might be interested in sponsoring or donating raffle prizes, please have them contact community@dawdle.com.

And a tip of the hat to Joel Johnson and Brian Crecente for putting together Fünde Razor, which was our inspiration for this event. Thanks guys!

Chicago for Child's Play

When: Tuesday, December 9: 7PM - 10PM

Where: Plan B Chicago, which is kindly opening their doors to us on a Tuesday just for our Child's Play Fundraiser. Thanks, Plan B!

Plan B is located at:
1635 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647.

Plan B is just north of the North/Damen/Milwaukee intersection (on Milwaukee, not Damen). If you're taking the CTA, just take the Blue Line to Damen.

How: Show up ready to play games, drink top-quality brews/liquors/wine, and buy tickets to win prizes. You can buy tickets at our Chicago for Child's Play page on Eventbrite.

Why: We're doing it for the kids. All proceeds from the raffle and competitions go directly, 100%, to Child's Play Charity. (Well, Eventbrite is taking their fees. The sponsors are not.)

Who: Everyone is welcome, as long as you're over 21. Only 170 tickets are available.