The Runaway Guys Colosseum

A collaboration for good, supporting Direct Relief
The TRG Colosseum is hosted on Jon's channel, usually lasting one weekend out of the year. The events and games played vary each year with incentives for the audience to donate toward. These incentives can be as simple as impeding the players' progress of current games, to bonus streams such as the aftermath of the Chaos Cookie. Usually helping the audience to meet the incentives is notorious lamp thief Lord Dona'tor, who usually only appears during the Colosseum events.

History
TRG Colosseum's first run took place on May 4th-6th, 2018. The event raised a total of $112,610 for Direct Relief. This was also the birth of Lord Dona'tor, a man in a bath robe that demanded donations to Direct Relief and calls everyone a fool. The location this was produced at was the original location of the fabled Lamp, which sports a distinct metal spiral centerpiece and was famously taken away as hostage by Dona'tor with a ransom of donation trains with an arbirtary amount. The house this was produced at is not seen after this event.

The 2nd event took place from May 3rd-May 7th, 2019, produced in South Carolina, USA in a three-story vacation home complex. The event raised a final total of $183,790. The Lamp was rigged to be able to change color, and an incentive was added to specifically change a color with a hex value or color name.

The 3rd event, dubbed "Direct", was hosted from all members' houses remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the bumpers and intro sequence. The event raised a combined total of $230,236. The Lamp does not appear outside of the non-canon bumper, The Lamp, because Stephen and Mal had kept The Lamp at their house for safekeeping between events. This is also the first time Chaos Fortune Cookie was run as a segment by Jon, which he had done for previous charity streams. Now as an adaptation of the Stephen and Friends' Extra Life format, Jon's entire game collection was in the pool as a donation incentive to change the game every 30 minutes (see previous hyperlink for details). A long-running gag between Stephen and Jon's community (since Stephen's EL 2018) also ends in the first ever "Disc Only" segment to occur within Chaos Cookie thanks to "Game Boy Player (no game)" winning the donation incentive race at one point. This eventually spawned the podcast of the same name two months later that is still ongoing.

The 4th event took place from May 7th-9th, 2021, still produced remotely due to the pandemic while continuing the year naming scheme started in 2019. The event raised over $434,715 (the current grand total record to date), and also saw RosaJon host most of Jon's segments in part due to a previous charity stream's promise (from 2020). Lucah also starts using her VTuber avatar in some segments, now six months after her test "debut" (and a nearly a month after her model redesign). This was also the first year that commemorative shirts were available, with a design from Drew Wise. All shirt proceeds went to the charity. Jirard from TheCompletionist also made a guest appearance, as did Delcake (one of Jerod and Jules' mods, as well as Jules' roommate). Donna and Devin/Marriland, who were present in 2020, do not return (especially after the latter's resignation from regular content creation in late 2020). Once again, The Lamp does not appear outside of the non-canon bumper, The Lamp II: The Sequel to The Lamp. Stephen and Mal still have possession of it, and they taunt Dona'tor with it during a segment. (Mal was later revealed to be off-screen changing the lamp colors for the bit) The first Egg PAC bumper, "RosaJon Transformations", was aired preceeding Chaos Cookie on Day 2, with cameos of Jon, Rosajon, and Unedited Bear. This was also the first year the Disc Only intro was used to introduce the "Game Boy Player (no game)" segment of Chaos Cookie, now nearly a year after the first episode of the Disc Only podcast was aired, with art by PaperPennies (who also did the redesigned Egg PAC logo later that year) and a jingle by Popskyy.

The 5th event took place from February 26th-28th, 2022, happening less than a year after the 4th event due to expiring AirBNB credits at the end of February 2022. It was a hybrid event with multiple hubs set up in US (plus Calgary), and it raised $418,846. The stream was broadcast live from the same house that the 2019 event took place, comprised of the production team (MC, Jyggy, Kampy), Stephen, Mal, Emile, Tim, Tom, and Lord Dona'tor, which was dubbed "Team East". At Jules/Adri/Jack's house in sunny San Diego, California, alongside Masae and Sab, they all formed "Team West". Jon and Reese stayed home in Calgary due to travel restrictions. Tyler was meant to be in Team East but was stranded due to inclement weather, and Josh and Brooke opted to be remote from their home in Washington state without officially siding to Team West. Lord Dona'tor, however, was able to reunite with The Lamp after two long years as seen in the canonical bumper, "Lord Dona'tor Reunited". Likewise, Emile is able to "reunite" with Jon thanks to Mal's "craft project" in the bumper, "Cardboard Jon". Jon's community adopted it as an Alt-Jon immediately following the bumper's airing on stream. Now as the Colosseum Animated Bunch (TRG CAB), the second Egg PAC bumper, "TRG Remix", was aired preceeding Chaos Cookie on Day 1. Another shirt by Drew Wise was made available for the event, still benefiting the charity, but Jirard doesn't appear as a guest.

Egg PAC/TRG CAB Bumpers
Starting 2021, a group of animators in the Egg PAC community have gathered to create a bumper to represent the Egg PAC. After two successful bumpers were created and aired at the events, they established the TRG Colosseum Animated Bunch in 2022, following that year's charity event.

RosaJon Transformations (2021): For Colosseum 2021, Ben(Bmaster4114) had asked Jon if he could make a bumper with some people regarding the Rosa cosplay and transformation sequences and it was greenlit. The final project would not be revealed (outside a cyrpytic call for animators in the Egg PAC) until the bumper aired. The following were involved, in order of appearance:


 * Unedited Bear (cameo)
 * Rednaxela (music for all segments)
 * Aelita1234 (magical girl segment, before)
 * Yolk the Joke (magical girl segment, after)
 * JasperTheCrab (science segment)
 * Rhyme/PrimeExplorer (super sentai segment)
 * TheFlaming1UP (pokemon evolution segment)
 * PhillipDraco (editor and After Effects animations)
 * Ben(Bmaster4114) (organizer, gundam segment)
 * Jon (cameo)
 * Rosajon (cameo)

TRG Remix (2022): Despite having a less-than-a-year turnaround, they did it again for Colosseum 2022. They went with a Rhythm Heaven-style animation featuring all of the TRG friends with custom music. The following people are credited at the end:


 * TheFlaming1UP (Play a Mini Game! & Tap Trial - Lucah, Tyler, and Donna cameo)
 * Aelita1234 (Encounter! Hiker/Hiker Dance & Karate Man - Emile cameo)
 * Ben(Bmaster4114) (Initialize & Glee Club - MotionDan, Tom, Josh, and Jon cameo)
 * JoliVector (Capri Man's Theme & Samurai Slice - Tim and Mal cameo)
 * Camille Skyleste (Deku Palace & Blue Birds - Masae and Mipha cameo)
 * Rhyme and Learn2chillax (Megalovania & Rockers + Big Rock Finish - Jules, Jack, Jerod and Carlos (Carlos G) cameo) - Chillax did the background sketch for this scene (and helped with fact checking parts of this list)
 * Yolk the Joke (Lifelight & reference to Sonic Stereo - Stephen, Lord Dona'tor, and Lamp cameo)
 * Rednaxela (music arranger for main sequence remixes)
 * froreWolf/Wren (additional instrumentation, music arranger for the SMW Bonus remix in the credits)
 * roselii49/Rosie (organizer and planner)
 * Waddle_esau (beat correction)
 * PhillipDraco (editor, intro/outro animation in After Effects)
 * Special thanks to TRG!