There are many different marathon teams we know of, and each have different styles to how they go about their events.  This is an index of all the different teams we know of.  I’ll continue adding teams as I find out about them, but in the meantime, if your team isn’t listed here or your information needs updated, just email us!

Gamemarathons.com Network: These are the teams that are run by or have been directly involved with this site, and are strongly recommended by the staff here:

Hot Blooded Gaming: Run by Kreyg, the owner of this site.  His marathons frequently turn into a one-man show but usually plays games online directly against the people watching.  In addition to marathons, the site also holds another stream a few nights a week and some general game news and commentary.

Ocean City Trinity: Run by Tom, one of the admins of this site.  Notable in the player frequently also does most of the commentary, resulting in a marathon similar to a live Let’s Play.  More recently, they organize the gamemarathons.com versus marathons, an achievement-based competition across multiple teams.

Triple Speed Runners: Run by Matt, who updates our Twitter feed.  They typically run three unrelated game series at once, and occasionally hold tournaments against the rest of their team.

Bonus Stage Marathons:  A team consisting primarily of some Let’s Players.  They tend to play popular-but-not-A-list game series, usually for the benefit of animal charities.

The Returners: A team with a structure similar to Bonus Stage Marathons.  They’re also heavy on team connections, frequently including people from other marathon groups directly participating in their events as players.

Penguins In The Desert Productions:  A newer team whose trademarks include “punishments” on the team for reaching certain donation levels and their wacky, entertaining promotional videos.  They usually play for the benefit of their local Big Brothers Big Sisters branch, frequently including the “little” brothers/sisters directly into their team.

Gamin For Charity:  This team organizes marathons less frequently, but holds them for longer than usual, and tends to simply play a long list of favorites across multiple series and genres.

Zeldathon Team: As the name implies, they run a Legend of Zelda marathon every year, but usually do one or two other events each year as well.

Other teams you’re likely to see include:

The Speed Gamers:  Probably the most well-known and well-publicized team.  Their events typically include several Speed Demos Archive-quality speedruns of their games plus a (usually offsite) commentator.

Desert Bus For Hope:  Run by the cast of LoadingReadyRun, which runs three separate weekly videos on The Escapist.  This once-a-year marathon sees the team playing one of the most boring games in existence on a donate-to-extend-play basis with several prize giveaways and side acts for donation goals.  We credit them as having done the first live game marathon, as well as the most successful with donations.

Mario Marathon Team: Another once-a-year event, featuring some casual fans of the Mario series in a donate-to-extend-play event heavy on interaction.

Extra Lives:  This team’s marathons usually end up as a race to see who can finish each game first.  Also notable for their complete lack of a camera on the players.

The Button Mashers:  A team using a model similar to Gamin For Charity, where they’ll play several favorites for an extremely long period of time.

Hardmode.org: A newer team generally playing harder games than what most others are used to.

STARS Marathon Team: A newer team whose site also includes some general game discussion and videos.

L+R+A+Start: A team consisting of fans and relatives of Extra Lives, with a fairly similar broadcasting style.

Levels For Lives: Another Extra Lives-inspired team.

Penultimate Studios: A self-proclaimed moviemaking, fundraising, game playing group.