The last ep of There Will Be Brawl was originally planned to be up on Christmas day 2009, but the Escapist decided to announce that it would be up on the 18th and Matt nearly killed himself trying to get it edited in a hurry. He ended up with a pinched nerve in his back.
Not sure if the meme lets you post links anonymously, so here's a copy of a post by his girlfriend at the time (it's from the TWBB forums):
That's it... I'm making my boyfriend rest. Post JoEllen on Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:22 am
Seriously Matt (Matthew Mercer) just got home from editing all day at Jordan's (he's been gone for 4 day doing nothing but editing with no sleep) and now his body is literally forcing him to rest . I have not seen my boyfriend in this much stress and disarray since we have been dating in our four years together. His back spazzed on him just sitting in the chair today. When he came home limping he set up his computer up to start editing again and was saying over and over again " I have to finish it". He collapsed on our bedroom floor, I massage is back hoping it would ease his pain. When he tried to get back up he was in excruciating pain. HE CAN NOT EVEN LIFT HIS OWN BODY UP TO THE COMPUTER CHAIR! So I am forcing him to rest. It's impossible for one man to edit a almost feature length film in a few days!! He's killing himself. I put a pillow under his head and hope that his back is better when he wakes up.
Matt is so loyal to you guys that hes not even taking care of his own body in order to make sure you guys are happy with his hard work.
As his girlfriend I'm respectfully telling you guys to chill out and support Matt by letting him rest, he deserves it more than anyone I know. I know that as soon as he gets back up he will be finishing it up.
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Not sure if the meme lets you post links anonymously, so here's a copy of a post by his girlfriend at the time (it's from the TWBB forums):
That's it... I'm making my boyfriend rest.
Post JoEllen on Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:22 am
Seriously Matt (Matthew Mercer) just got home from editing all day at Jordan's (he's been gone for 4 day doing nothing but editing with no sleep) and now his body is literally forcing him to rest . I have not seen my boyfriend in this much stress and disarray since we have been dating in our four years together. His back spazzed on him just sitting in the chair today. When he came home limping he set up his computer up to start editing again and was saying over and over again " I have to finish it". He collapsed on our bedroom floor, I massage is back hoping it would ease his pain. When he tried to get back up he was in excruciating pain.
HE CAN NOT EVEN LIFT HIS OWN BODY UP TO THE COMPUTER CHAIR! So I am forcing him to rest. It's impossible for one man to edit a almost feature length film in a few days!! He's killing himself. I put a pillow under his head and hope that his back is better when he wakes up.
Matt is so loyal to you guys that hes not even taking care of his own body in order to make sure you guys are happy with his hard work.
As his girlfriend I'm respectfully telling you guys to chill out and support Matt by letting him rest, he deserves it more than anyone I know. I know that as soon as he gets back up he will be finishing it up.
Thank you
JoEllen Elam