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 raised and donated, 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 marathon performed in the winter, while Summer Games Done Quick is the annual marathon performed in the summer. This year, SGDQ is from Sunday, July 4th to Sunday, July 11th.

Here is the schedule of all the SGDQ'21 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

MAIN STREAM: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Non-English restreams:
Spanish: https://www.twitch.tv/speedrunsespanol
French: https://www.twitch.tv/lefrenchrestream
Japanese: https://www.twitch.tv/japanese_restream
German: https://www.twitch.tv/germench
Russian: https://www.twitch.tv/r_u_s_c
Portuguese: https://www.twitch.tv/speedrunsbrasil

DONATE HERE: https://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/event/SGDQ2021

This year's SGDQ VODs: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/odfopt/sgdq_vod_thread_2021/

This year's AGDQ VODs: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/kpzqbg/agdq_2021_vod_thread/

All GDQ VODs: https://www.youtube.com/user/gamesdonequick/playlists

Please watch, enjoy, and donate!

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45686 Posts

June 25 2021 13:21 GMT

I'll update the OP with additional restream links, the donations link, the eventual Reddit VOD link, etc. as they become available

We're a little over one week away!

Edit: I’m pretty excited for the schedule of games! It ticks off a lot of my boxes (almost everything except for Ocarina of Time). Here’s my list of what I’m most looking forward to:

Sunday: Mega Man X, Spyro, Kirby Super Star

Monday: Pikmin 3, SSB Brawl, Super Mario Odyssey, Paper Mario

Tuesday: Blast Corps, Chameleon Twist, Yoshi’s Story, Battletoads

Wednesday: Mischief Makers, Earthworm Jim, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Crash Bandicoot 4, LoZ: Majora’s Mask, Untitled Goose Game

Thursday: Pokemon Black/White

Friday: Super Mario Bros. 2, LoZ: Breath of the Wild, Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Saturday: Mega Man X2, Rayman, Donkey Kong Country 3, Pokemon Emerald, Bowser’s Fury, Mario Kart 64, Super Metroid, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Bros. 3

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

June 25 2021 13:47 GMT

On June 25 2021 22:21 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I'll update the OP with additional restream links, the donations link, the eventual Reddit VOD link, etc. as they become available

We're a little over one week away!

damn you got me hyped for a second that I could watch it right now!
Instant gratification be damned. but that's more of an aside.

thanks for making the thread <3

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45686 Posts

June 25 2021 13:52 GMT

On June 25 2021 22:47 Artisreal wrote:

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damn you got me hyped for a second that I could watch it right now!
Instant gratification be damned. but that's more of an aside.

thanks for making the thread <3

No problem; I enjoy it!

And thankfully, the event will still be online/remote, for safety purposes!

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45686 Posts

July 01 2021 13:53 GMT

SGDQ is starting in 3 days!

Oukka

Finland1683 Posts

July 02 2021 18:39 GMT

SGDQ HYPE! I'm super excited for the Golden Sun run, Plexa's last one was awesome and now I have very high expectations :D

FaCE_1

Canada6184 Posts

July 02 2021 19:07 GMT

My only hope is that one events, we get a metroid prime 1 or 2 without our of bound

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45686 Posts

July 04 2021 13:50 GMT

Two hours away!

greenelve

Germany1392 Posts

July 04 2021 15:19 GMT

Countdown is running

Die4Ever

United States17729 Posts

July 04 2021 15:20 GMT

#10

HYPE

some good music, I liked this one

Sbrubbles

Brazil5776 Posts

July 05 2021 01:29 GMT

#11

Metal Wolf Chaos XD has some hilarious cutscenes. Also very appropriate for July 4th!

TheEmulator

28100 Posts

July 05 2021 07:11 GMT

#12

On July 03 2021 03:39 Oukka wrote:
SGDQ HYPE! I'm super excited for the Golden Sun run, Plexa's last one was awesome and now I have very high expectations :D

Yea it should be a great run. GS is one of my favorite series of all time

I've caught the run a few times on Plexa's stream, but I never really get the chance to actually watch the entire thing. Think I'll try to catch it all this time around.

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

July 05 2021 15:52 GMT

#13

Definitely going to try to catch the factorio speedrun. Although, too bad they went for any% instead of default settings (obviously understandable why...).

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45686 Posts

July 06 2021 03:17 GMT

#14

If you end up watching a particularly enjoyable speedrun during this week's marathon, please share it with the rest of us so that we can make sure we check it out too!

Die4Ever

United States17729 Posts

July 06 2021 07:01 GMT

#15

the "magic carpet" in Penumbra lmao

Silvanel

Poland4751 Posts

July 06 2021 16:52 GMT

#16

Themexicanrunner has slavic accent (at least it sounds that way to me). Where is he from?

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45686 Posts

July 06 2021 16:54 GMT

#17

On July 07 2021 01:52 Silvanel wrote:
Themexicanrunner has slavic accent (at least it sounds that way to me). Where is he from?

"The Mexican Runner was born to a Mexican father and Polish mother. He grew up in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.[10]"
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mexican_Runner