January 15, 2023 News and Notes

• Is it just me, or did Al Michaels not even buy the bullshit 27-point comeback last night?
• Not unexpected in the least, but AGDQ 2022 Online raised $3,442,033.
• The final tote, as of off the air at about 3:30 AM Eastern this morning for 2023?  Only $2,643,290.
• Because six figures had to be paid to get AGDQ out of their contract with their Florida hotel because of Ron DeSantis, the "Twitch Dump" at the end of the event could only net $100,000 to the total.  There were years it'd be three times that.
• If it can be kept to the economy, I can fully see this $800,000 drop.  That said, I do think more than a few "gamers" in the culture are more than willing to go "Get Woke, Go Broke" on this.
• The 2023 Summer Games Done Quick event will actually be a late-spring event.  May 28-June 4.
• It's not just this...  But why am I getting a gut feeling it's about to completely fall apart -- everything economically -- by about October?
• But perhaps even a larger announcement:  This is the 14th annual winter event, starting in 2010.  It is creator Mike Uyama's final Games Done Quick event.  He's stepping down from the organization as of the end of this event.
• R'Bonney Gabriel of the United States must now resign her crown as Miss USA.  Reason?
• She is the 2023 Miss Universe, winning the crown Saturday night.
• And it's not completely non-endemic to the blog -- there was controversy the Miss USA organization rigged the national competition for Gabriel to win, pre-shooting promotional material for her at a sponsor's resort in Cancun while she was still only Miss Texas.  The Miss Universe organization has suspended the leaders of the Miss USA competition for the allegations, and the investigation is still ongoing.  Now that Miss Gabriel is Miss Universe...  Hoo boy.
• I guess, then, we should do both:  The new Miss USA, to complete the one-year term, is Morgan Romano of North Carolina.
• Should the investigation warrant disqualification, the current first runner-up is Amanda Dudamel from Venezuela.
  
• Fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa this morning -- arrest for capital murder (that's Death Penalty) for Darius Miles of the University of Alabama basketball team.  Lower-end bench-warmer for the team.
• A redshirt sophomore and a recruiter for the University of Georgia were killed overnight this morning in a one-car crash -- just hours after the Georgia team celebrated it's domination of college football this year.