50 Hours: World's Longest Gaming Session
I wonder what sort of time off breaks they got for bathroom, food, etc...
We love extended gaming sessions as much as the next guy, but we're not sure that we'd be able to give up sleep for more than two days just to set a record.
The six Dutch gamers, however, chose to forego sleep and played Red Dead Redemption non-stop on a Sony PlayStation 3 using the TwistDock docking station to keep their controllers continuously charged. Those six are owners of the Guinness World Record for the longest non-stop gaming session at 50-hours long, which started July 16th at 12:55 PM Central European Time (CET), in Dixons, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The event started as a competition to see who could last the longest, but as the competition progressed, the Dutch gamers’ solidarity grew and they decided to sit and end the competition together. The gamers made the unanimous decision to end the attempt after 50 hours for a new world record title.
"The contestants entered as rivals but left as friends," said Gaz Deaves, official adjudicator of Guinness World Records
The team of six champion gamers included brothers Edward and Maykel Leest from Boxmeer and Hengelo, Sven de Vries from Lelystad, Renzo Bos from Baarlo, Robbie van Eijkeren from Middelburg and Marcel van Waardenburg from Amsterdam.
The previous official world record for non-stop gaming was set in September 2009 by Chirantan Patnaik from India with a time of 40 hours and 20 minutes.
Now if only Guinness could monitor the sort of gaming that some players of World of Warcraft do in their private homes…
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Something tells me in the future, these same six guys will set the record for the "world's oldest virgins"
LOL! Seriously? I am betting 1/2 the people here have a pulled a drunken, energy drink fueled 72 hour game marathon at least once in their lives.
Wha... I've been playing for 72 hours? Coulda swore it was 2.
Also,
In October of 2002 a 24 year old South Korean man called Kim Kyung-jae collapsed at an internet café. He had been playing an MMORPG called Mu for 86 hours pausing only to buy cigarettes or visit the toilet. He died from a combination of exhaustion and deep vein thrombosis.
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These guys have nothing on that guy...
That is crazy and probably stupid.
Has to be verified to get a record though.
That's just crazy... not stupid though, since they use their brain potentials to play the games...lol
I guess gratz for the achievement. They're Dutch too, Any dutch gamer I've met seems to take things that extra mile, surely tho there's bound to have been some chinese grinder on WoW thats lasted longer?
I bet I could beat that. Seriously 50 hours is only 2 nights without sleep and assuming they were allowed to eat and drink while playing and go to the toilet I do not see how that it can be that difficult. I've gone 2 nights without sleep before and although it's not nice, it's not difficult!
How do I go about getting an official Guinness World Record official to come to my house?!
LOL! Seriously? I am betting 1/2 the people here have a pulled a drunken, energy drink fueled 72 hour game marathon at least once in their lives.Wha... I've been playing for 72 hours? Coulda swore it was 2.
Back in the day, my brother and our school buddies used to rotated where we LAN each week... 50h really goes by VERY fast when you play some intense FPS or RTS'. I don't know if I've ever done 50h strait without a 30min nap, but we've played more than 10 days strait over the summer one year.
76 hour is my record and almost 24 hours sleep session after
Its not really hard to stay awake 2-3 day when you are hyperactive 18 old, but as you getting older its harder and harder.
I'm pretty sure a few WoW junkies have done longer gaming sessions than just 50 hours, especially when a new expansion comes out and it's that race to reach level cap again.
Grats to them for being officially recognized though.
Well back in the days, when i was yunger (around 13-14 years old), we held a LAN lasting from friday afternoon to sunday evening without sleep, and we didnt think much of it..
Back then it was all about Counter-strike, and man did we own that game
50 hours on a PS3?!!?!?? how the heck did those PS3s not die? I was playing with my PS3 for 6 hours and 1 hour break for 2 days and it died!!!
Something tells me in the future, these same six guys will set the record for the "world's oldest virgins"
Yes because all gamers are virgins. Way to revert back to the 90's stereotypes....you almost had to think of a clever response.
The question I would have to ask is " How well do they have to be playing at the end of the 50 hours?"
I could see that because of sleep deprivation ones motor skills and response time would be greatly affected.
There is only so much energy drinks can do for a person before their body gives them a swift kick in the butt.
Not to mention that would add a great twist for getting into GWR.
Yes because all gamers are virgins. Way to revert back to the 90's stereotypes....you almost had to think of a clever response.
Uh oh, nerd rage.
Man i think i accidentally did more than 50h when i got fallout 3 so much explorin
I'm in the same boat as most of the commenters here, I've easily surpassed 50 hours of non-stop gaming, at more than one occasion in my life. I'm pretty sure at any point in time, there is some gamer somewhere working on a 50+ hour gaming session....Particularly the WoW heads.
no big deal...i've done more than 50 a few times and do 30 pretty regularly
No, 50 hours, the world’s longest survivable gaming session. Too bad we lost many nerds finding it.
BTW, Guinness allows 10 minutes per hour as break and the minutes are stackable so you can play for 6 hours and sleep for an hour after that and still be qualified.
Oh please, I used to be a manager at a 24 hour Net Cafe. This customer played MU online 3 days straight and sat next to the vending machine.. Puhhleeze.
Are these guys the biggest nerds then? There is not one girl in the world that finds this impressive. These guys and doomed to a life of virginity and internet porn.
Bunch a Numbnuts! lol
They dont seem like nerds though, probably just bunch of unemployed loosers.
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Yes because all gamers are virgins. Way to revert back to the 90's stereotypes....you almost had to think of a clever response.
they had better chances with the PS3. they may have set a record for world's shortest gaming session with the other system....
I love playing WoW and some other games, and I have been known to play Diablo 2 for up to 14 hours, but I don't think I could tolerate 50 hours.
I have a vague urge to try, now, though. Suicide by MMO. it sounds interesting.
50 hours... i think i've done more thna tha with a few friends in wow lvl grinding, we took 3 days vacation plus a weekend and all did the 70-80 grind over, none of us hit 80 in the 5 days but we all got close, and none of us really slept for more than a few hours a night, and i know some people did it in that timeframe.. while i have probly not done by these standards, some of the people who managed 80 in even less time i can't see them having pulled it off without doing those standards or harsher
pft, this isnt impressive. as others have said im certain everyone here could probably manage that feat. most of us have jobs, responsibilities, and lives that prevent that from happening.
I'm 28 now. Too old to try something like this. But back when I was in middle school, I would regularly play non-stop Friday afternoon until Sunday night. All I needed was a bag of pretzels and a gallon of fruit punch.
these guys are noobs. there was some korean kid that played WoW for 2 weeks straight.
of course he died after those two weeks, but he is the real record holder
I dont see how anyone could play red dead redemption for that long, sure the games great but would be boring by the 20th hour