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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 in its five-year 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 of 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, AGDQ is from Sunday, January 3rd to Sunday, January 10th.
Here is the schedule of all the AGDQ'16 games that will have speedruns, along with the names of the runners, expected run times (conservative overestimates), 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
Here is the Twitch livestream for the weeklong marathon: http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick It's also located on the TL Live Events sidebar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> German restream: http://www.twitch.tv/germenchrestream French restream: http://www.twitch.tv/gaminglive_powerplay Spanish restream: http://www.twitch.tv/speedrunsespanol Russian restream: http://www.twitch.tv/goldensplit PM me with any other restreams and I'll post them here!
How to donate/ view prizes/ view list of donors: https://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/index/agdq2016 Both the AGDQ and SGDQ marathons have been increasing in popularity and charity since their inception, with AGDQs generally having greater results. AGDQ'15 reached nearly $1.6M in donations, while SGDQ'15 reached $1.2M in donations. Hopefully, we can reach $2M for AGDQ'16!
Here is the list of eventual VODs for this week's AGDQ speedruns: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/3z9fyi/agdq_vod_thread_2016/ If you miss out on any part of the marathon, that link will catch you up!
For more information on speedrunning... Speed Demos Archive: http://speeddemosarchive.com/ Speed Runs Live: http://www.speedrunslive.com/ Speed Run Records: http://www.speedrun.com/ TL Speedrunning Thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/games/352536-speedrunning-thread
BlueGlass FTW.
Shoutout donation to TeamLiquid from me here: http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/v/33792939?t=3h27m05s Shoutout donation to TL and Liquipedia from tofucake here: http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/v/34377308?t=19h57m10s
DONATION TOTAL FOR AGDQ 2016: $1,209,258.80.
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I thought nobody would start this thread! I have work tommorow T-T, but when I come home, first thing is stream coming on XD. 3rd or 4th time watching this, time to donate
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It's that time of the year!
Looking forward to Mirror's edge and Half-life 2 the most.
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Watching from my comfy home for once! Should be fun.
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Aww, once again the Ninja Gaiden trilogy will be incomplete.
Hyperion ascending!
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Too bad they don't have I wanna be the fan game anymore
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On January 03 2016 09:14 Reaper9 wrote:I thought nobody would start this thread! I have work tommorow T-T, but when I come home, first thing is stream coming on XD. 3rd or 4th time watching this, time to donate
Yeah it's my 4th year watching these marathons, and I've tried my best to donate a little every year Always such a great cause with great commentary on great video games!
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These are the games I'm looking forward to the most:
Sunday 1/3 Super Monkey Ball- These runs are always insane! Generally a must-watch every year! Kirby 64- Obligatory N64 nostalgia Diddy Kong Racing- Obligatory N64 nostalgia Super Mario 64- Always a classic run, and it's a 3-way race!
Thursday 1/7 Super Punch Out/ Original Punch Out- Absolutely a must-watch, especially because of the blindfolded runs! Saw it last year and it was the most amazing thing ever.
Friday 1/8 Star Fox 64- Classic N64 Banjo-Kazooie- Love this game and love Stiv Diablo and Diablo II- Duh. LoZ: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask- Double Duh.
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oh nice there's an event today to jan 10
looking forward for or would try to watch: Left 4 Dead 2 Transformers: Devastation(i'm curious) Resident Evil HD Remaster hl2 portal 2(wooo) Outlast (should be fun) Battletoads Age of Empires(preferred empire earth but i guess aoe is more popular) Halo 4 Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Final Fantasy IV
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Cant wait! :D Hopefully we can smash 2 million.
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Diablo 1 and 2 should be interesting. Do they use preset seeds for those, or go in blind?
Blindfolded Punch Out race should be great. Here's hoping they beat Mike.
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Awesome! Even though I've seen a lot of games speedrun already, agdq is always fun.
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I'm sooooo hyped. And I have the week off. GG. Really looking forward to MM relay, Mario Kart, Super Mario 64, Star Fox, OoT and Banjo Kazooie. Basically the good old Nintendo stuff. Does anyone know if the Super Mario 64 run is a race again? Or is it relay?
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I'm guessing that SM64 is a true race; it usually is.
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On January 03 2016 10:34 WolfintheSheep wrote: Diablo 1 and 2 should be interesting. Do they use preset seeds for those, or go in blind?
Blindfolded Punch Out race should be great. Here's hoping they beat Mike.
Blind.
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I usually look forward to these runs, but a lot of the runners/games I like won't be there (for various reasons). Probably won't watch it as much this year.
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Thanks for the thread DPB!
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You should probably add http://www.speedrun.com/ to the speedrun links. Leaderboards for pretty much all the games and game series.
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Too many exciting runs to list here, but man those NES blocks on wednesday, thursday and saturday are suh-weeeeet!
Sour about no Wind Waker though, either version would've been excellent. Both were <4'd rather recently, and I haven't seen other super long runs that are as entertaining!
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I'm not sure what will be great... most of the times it were the surprises that left me speechless! So, lets go with: "TASBot vs Humans -- Mystery Game" ... what the hell??? Will be great! But with my luck I will not be able to see it live, because I'm at training
Few hours left now!
@Admins: Do we get this stream in the timeline on the side?
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