If you were one of the 60+ fundraisers who joined Game Over, T1D! this summer, thank you! Our community raised almost $40,000 for Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) and had a blast doing it.
For anyone who’s raised $100 or more since July 1, we’ll start shipping out Season 6 T-shirts and other prizes in mid-October. Read on for news about TwitchCon, NDAM, and a Ready Type 1 Ambassador making a difference across the pond.
Breakthrough T1D Play at TwitchCon
Headed to San Diego this weekend? Let’s meet up! Members of the Breakthrough T1D Play team will be at the show Friday through Sunday. If you’ll be there too, email us or track down Josh and Nukkuler on our Discord to set up a rendezvous.
Prepping for National Diabetes Awareness Month (NDAM)
Not sure how this happened, but November is right around the corner! Our annual NDAM fundraiser will run all month long—it’s the ideal time to spread diabetes awareness by sharing your T1D story to your streaming audience. Registration opens October 2 on Tiltify.
Streamer Spotlight: Audentior
In December 2001, Ready Type 1 Ambassador Audentior started having troubling symptoms such as weight loss, extreme thirst, and an unusual number of bathroom breaks. You know where this is headed: the fourteen-year-old was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, coincidentally on the same day his dad was diagnosed with type 2.
Fast forward to 2020 and Covid lockdowns. After Audentior did some internet searches for diabetes charities, The Algorithm served up a JDRF ad on his social media. This led him to discover JDRF Game2Give (the old name of Breakthrough T1D Play). He joined our community, did his first charity stream during NDAM in 2021, and the rest is history!
On Twitch, you’ll often find Audie (as he’s affectionately known, and because we always misspell his username in chat) playing Sea of Thieves, No Man’s Sky, and building design games like Planet Coaster or City Skylines. He’s coming up on $2,000 raised for T1D research and advocacy with charity streams including “12 Games in 12 Hours” marathons, an epic playthrough of every Mario Kart track, and a lively Sea of Thieves event cohosted with fellow Ready Type 1 Ambassador Toonafeesh.
Audentior used to be a teacher and these days makes his living as a travel agent. “What gives me hope is that slowly T1D is becoming a more accepted and understood condition in the workplace,” he says of the progress Breakthrough T1D is helping with. “It is more accepted by employers that people with the condition are more likely to have issues surrounding it.”
All of Audentior’s campaigns have supported his local affiliate, JDRF UK.* To support your local Breakthrough T1D chapter or affiliate, select them during your Tiltify campaign setup.
*JDRF UK will adopt the new Breakthrough T1D name in October.
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