Thank you every single person who donated during the final block of @GuardianCon In my specific block we raised $326,066.44 and collectively as a community we raised over $2,706,635.90

Gaming does good. I am blessed to share this platform and passion with all these people.

— Ninja (@Ninja) July 12, 2018

The Charity Marathon stream started on July 5 and ended today with Ninja’s segment. Overall the team of broadcasters – that also included Smashley, Datto, and Char – raised an incredible $2.7 million for the non-profit that helps provide cutting edge medical care to children across America.

GuardianCon itself starts tomorrow, and will feature tournaments for games like Destiny and FIFA, along with developer appearances from Warframe. Attendees can also do meet-and-greets with top streamers and catch live recordings of top gaming podcasts.

If the generous donation has inspired you, you can still donate over on the GuardianCon official site. 

$2.7M!!!! Congrats GuardianCon Community! WE DID IT! No, YOU GUYS DID IT! Thank you to everyone who donated! Let’s keep going!

— GuardianCon 2018 (@GuardianCon) July 12, 2018

“GuardianCon is an event by creators for creators to celebrate the good we do together in the world,” say the event organizers. “Over the past two years we’ve taken the passion and love within the gaming space, and applied it to be a driving force for good in the world by raising just under $2 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 100% of donations during our charity broadcasts go to St. Jude directly. We believe deeply in the sentiment that ‘Gaming Does Good’ and has the potential to change the world.”

The rumors are that Ninja’s big cash donation came from rapper Drake (who joined him back in March to play Fortnite on stream) or Fortnite developer Epic, but neither party has commented yet.

This article originally appeared on Games Radar.

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The concept behind the event was not an esports tournament, but one for a $3 million dollar charity prize pool instead. Epic paired 50 Twitch streamers/YouTube creators with 50 celebrities. “Celebrity” may be a stretch for many, but there were some bigger names in there, Chandler Riggs, the Walking Dead star, Community’s Joel McHale and at least three superheroes from the Arrowverse (including two Firestorms, Robbie Amell and Franz Drameh). But no one was bigger stars to the live crowd than Fortnite legends like Ninja and Myth.

The event was in an outdoor football stadiums which seems like a not-great plan in hindsight, given that it’s LA and burning hot outside, and also this is something that involves both the audience and the players staring at screens outdoors in the daylight.

With only three total matches, a solo practice, a duo practice and the big charity duos match, there was a lot of filler before and between the games, which probably only lasted an hour-ish in total, despite a 3+ hour stream that attracted at least a million concurrent viewers across a number of Twitch streams, plus more on YouTube, though official figures are still to come.

As expected, the event was heavily skewed toward the YouTube and Twitch pros who have played a lot more Fortnite than their actor/singer/DJ/NBA player counterparts, though many celebrities were experienced enough with the game to not be totally terrible. Though of course, some were, though most of the most embarrassing early deaths weren’t caught on stream.

This event acted as sort of a preview for future Fortnite events, as Epic has planned a $100 million worth of prize pools to give away across other events this year, and we saw the debut of spectator tools to help with that. The Fortnite World Cup was announced which will be a fan-pro driven event without pro team franchise spots, unlike other esports.

But, how did tonight go? It was pretty fun. Probably too much downtime, but if you follow the YouTube and Twitch scenes, and recognize most of the celebrities, it was cool to see them all together battling it out.

The winners were as follows:

Solo Warm-Up

NoahJ defeats Kinstaar

Duos Warm-Up

Kinstaar/Sean0 defeats Ninja/Marshmello

Final Duo Charity Match

Ninja/Marshmello defeats CourageJD/Kenneth Faried

That’s right, Fortnite superstar Ninja did what all his fans were hoping he’d do, take home the grand prize. He didn’t do so in the most exciting of fashions, as he and Marshmello spent most of their games, including the final, camped out in tall towers in the middle of safe zones, so we didn’t exactly see any high impact stream-like plays from him, but Ninja is an extremely talented player and he certainly didn’t win through blind luck alone. That means he earned $1,000,000 for the charity of his choice as the grand prize winner, with the other $2 million split between the other teams. It was also poetic he killed his friend and sometimes duos partner CourageJD for the final win. I believe Ninja will give his share of the money to St. Jude, as he’s frequently raised money for them so far, but I need to confirm that (Update: he actually gave his half to the Alzheimer’s Association).

It was a great event, and capped off by the Ninja/Marshmello win in storybook fashion. Well, as storybook as a charity tournament full of streamers and celebrities drowning in sweat can be, but the point is, it was a lot of fun. Check out a replay and skip the fluff to get to the rather good matches.

This article originally appeared on Forbes.

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