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Games Done Quick is a series of charity video game marathons. These events feature high-level play by speedrunners raising money for charity. Games Done Quick has teamed up with several charities throughout its history, such as Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Millions of dollars have been donated to great charities, thanks to the GDQ speedrunning marathons, and many prizes have been awarded to those who donate!
Here is the main website for Games Done Quick: https://gamesdonequick.com/
Awesome Games Done Quick is the annual GDQ marathon performed in the winter, while Summer Games Done Quick is the annual GDQ marathon performed in the summer. This year, SGDQ is from Sunday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 30th.
Here is the schedule of all the SGDQ'19 games that will have speedruns, along with the names of the runners, expected run times, the category/ type of speedrun, and donation incentives (prizes you can win by donating during a specific speedrun, additional caveats you can create for the speedrunners, etc.): https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule
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You're very early this year. Let's hope for some epic runs!
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On June 11 2019 05:34 Uldridge wrote:
You're very early this year. Let's hope for some epic runs!
No kidding, I was like, what the what, already? I feel like yesterday was AGDQ but damn 2019 in general has gone so quickly. Thanks for getting this up!
edit: Also looking at the lineup, good mix of games in there. Hope to see some world records.
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Three days away!!!
Schedule isn't as jam-packed with my personal favorites as in the past, but I'm looking forward to watching a bunch of games I wouldn't otherwise watch. Plus, any Punch-Out game with Zallard1 will automatically be great, Banjo-Kazooie should be fun even without Stiv, Octopath and Majora's Mask are two of my favorite Nintendo games, and I'm interested in watching a Let's Go Pikachu/ Eevee speedrun.
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Puwexil on glichless any% Chrono Trigger to finish things out should be nice 
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As usual I'm mostly here for that old N64 stuff and (precision) plattformers. Not too happy about the lineup. Feels like I say this every year by now.
Runs I'll definitely watch though no matter what. Basically my personal Must-sees:
Banjo Kazooie: The first two Banjo games (and SM64) embody everything I love about games
Star Fox 64: Same as BK above. Peppy is the goat.
LoZ MM 100%: One of my favorite games of all time run by one of my favorite runners (MajinPhil) who got me into speedrunning ages ago. A 4 hour run but with like no downtimes or boredom.
Pokemon Crystal Any% Glitchless: You never choose wrong with Pokemon. And Keizaron is just such a great and funny guy. Hopefully Shenanagans is there. His understanding of Pokemon games is insane and him and Keizaron work so well as a duo. Love their banter.
Brood War Protoss Campaign (Bonus Incentive): Don't need to say anything about this. We are on TL and it's run by KingDime
Link to the Past + Super Metroid Combo Randomizer: I have no clue what this is but I want it.
Stuff I'll catch if I have some time at my hands:
All the Legend of Zelda stuff: Never a bad choice.
-Minish Cap
-LoZ Randomizer Race: This just screams fun
-Botw
-OoT Any% (Bonus incentive)
Tony Hawks Underground 2: One of my favourite games growing up
Dark Souls 1 & 2: Feeling like a complete failure watching a run of DS. Sounds like fun, right guys?
Split Second: One of my guilty pleasure games. Racing game with a lot of over the top explosions. Yes please
Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy 2: Just like LoZ just something you never go wrong with
Grand Poo World 2: Insanely hard + Nostalgia + Mitch = Worth a watch
Super Mario Bros 3 four man race (Bonus incentive): Nostalgia paired with a race including great runners/personalities like Poo and Mitch. This sounds awesome
Downsides for me are that I'm really missing some precision plattformers. Stuff like the I wanna be.. series or Super Meat Boy but you can't have everything. If I have overlooked something please tell me. Also I'm really not a fan of Chrono Trigger finishing the Marathon. It's a 6 hour bore for me but that's just my personal opinion of course
Now that I have typed everything out and after I looked at the bonus incentives I've actually realized that I can be really happy with the lineup. Quite a few Must-sees for me and tons of 'If you have time' stuff. This is gonna be a good week full of watching awesome speedruns and probably me playing through some of the N64 games which were just destroyed beforehand on stream. Can't wait.
At times like this it's hard to be a student. No mandatory attendance at University, a lot of Beer that needs to be consumed before it goes bad and a Girlfriend that is on a 1 week trip 
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I'm definitely with you on preferring platformers and N64 games, TheNewEra. Lineup isn't perfect for me, but I'll look at this schedule as a way for me to broaden my horizons
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Ah, nothing better to kill the hype than a subscriber only chat. 
I might tune in for Diablo and Minecraft, random seed sounds fun!
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mainly keen for the first re2 remake run at a gdq.
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Germany3128 Posts
Any great stuff I already missed? Only watched THUG 2 so far
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How come the SGDQ stream is not featured anywhere on the right side this time?
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Hell ya Nuclear Throne.
Breath of the wild is fun too.
Hoping for good runs!
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On June 24 2019 20:16 digmouse wrote:
2 million let's go!
Currently at 171k....IIRC they did hit the 2m mark on the last day last GDQ. They should hit it again. Hard to say if they will beat last year's record though.
Several of my favourites are during when I sleep so it looks like I'll be waiting for the relevant vods later on...
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On June 25 2019 01:55 Half the Sky wrote:Currently at 171k....IIRC they did hit the 2m mark on the last day last GDQ. They should hit it again. Hard to say if they will beat last year's record though. Several of my favourites are during when I sleep so it looks like I'll be waiting for the relevant vods later on...
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/c3tjzg/sgdq_vod_thread_2019/
Adding this to the OP.
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Can't wait for the Metroid Prime block. Definitely worth staying awake for (still convincing myself of this)
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No halo this year?
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Kingdime's run is supposedly going to be this wednesday as bonus game 3 right after the Red Alert 3 Soviet Campaign
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