The Runaway Guys Colosseum

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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.

Direct Relief is a humanitarian charity giving medical support around the world. Read more about their mission here.

History
Click the sub-headings for the playlist of that year's event!

2018 - Everyone is Here!
TRG Colosseum's first run took place on May 4th-6th, 2018, produced somewhere in Virginia. The event raised a total of $112,610 for Direct Relief. All three Runaway Guys, JoshJepson, TomFawkes, Reese, Masae, Stephen, Mal, Tyler, Devin/Marriland, FamilyJules, Adriana Figueroa/Adrisaurus, and Jack/ToxicxEternity were present, along with a few auxillary guests. The production team consisted of Direct Relief Gaming and now-Kinstone team members SuperMCGamer, Jyggy11, KampyDK, and Abra, known for their charity work through Zeldathon and other charity events. 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. They have not been at this location since this event.

2019 - The Mansion House
The 2nd event took place from May 3rd-May 7th, 2019, produced in South Carolina, USA in a three-story vacation home complex. With the core TRG friend circle and Kinstone production team (specifically MC, Jyggy, and Kampy) returning (including Dona’tor), a new mainstay segment type began in giving the spotlight the musicians of the group in their own segments. This change introduced Carlos/insaneintherainmusic, Sab_Irene, and Jerod/The8BitDrummer to the mix of guests, and Adriana got her own singing segment (modeled after her singing streams that she started doing just over a year prior at this point). The event raised a final total of $183,790. The Lamp was rigged to be able to change its light color, and an incentive was added to specifically change that color with a hex value or color name. There was also a Soul Caliber VI segment that featured custom-made fighters by Jewker. Some of these were Jon's early alts, such as Jumney's Rosajon, Icee's Joanne, and Tiger-Brows' Cat-Jon and Goose Jon (Female). This was the only four-day event, as the team opted to return to a three-day format for future iterations.

2020 - The Show Goes On, Directly to You!
The 3rd event, dubbed "Direct", took place from April 17th-19th, 2020. The event was done 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. All guests/production staff from the 2019 event return (MC hosted the master stream from his home). Three new guests for the event were related to relationships, one of them being Donnabellez since she was dating Tom at the time, Similarly, the wives of Jerod and Josh—former Twitch staff Erika/Chatia and FireLordBrooke respectively—make their first guest appearances in the history of the event. However, 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.

2021 - Limitations Breed Creativity
The 4th event took place from May 7th-9th, 2021, still produced remotely with a similar setup as the previous year due to the pandemic. The year naming scheme started in 2019 continues, dropping the “direct” moniker from 2020. 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 October 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. The person who made the shirts possible, Jirard from TheCompletionist, also made a guest appearance. Delcake (one of Jerod and Jules' mods, as well as Jules' roommate), fills in a player slot for a one-shot D&D segment. 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.

2022 - Returning to Half-Normalcy
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. All guests and production crew from 2021 were present BESIDES Jirard, who was having personal issues and schedule conflicts at the time (especially after being signed onto the G4 network). The stream was broadcast live from the same house that the 2019 event took place, comprised of the production team (MC and Kampy; Jyggy was remote), 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, Carlos, 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 in South Carolina, but was stranded further north due to inclement weather. Josh and Brooke opted to be remote from their home in Washington state without officially siding to Team West. As far as music segments went, Sab and Carlos took a step back from music segments and instead participated or hosted some of their own non-musical segments. This left Jules, Jack, and Adriana to have their own music segments spread across the three days of the event. 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 naming themselves Colosseum Animated Bunch (TRG CAB) after the event ended, 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 and processed by Jirard’s merch production line.

2023 - The Reunion
The 6th event's dates, March 3rd-5th, 2023, were revealed to the public on the third day of Super MAGFest 2023 (January 7th), alongside a refreshed logo by MC and Eric_PTG. This will be the first event since 2019's edition where EVERY participant, guest, and crew member will be present under the same roof. It has been foretold that if Chaos Cookie were to happen, it would be in a limited scope during in-person events. A new TRG CAB bumper is expected to air, and the release of the TRG ColoZineum fanzine is likely to align with this event.

More info

 * The Runaway Guys
 * TRG Website's Colosseum section (external link)
 * TRG CAB (Colosseum Animated Bunch) for info about previous animated bumpers.